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NPC
2005
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
A Greedy Algorithm for Capacity-Constrained Surrogate Placement in CDNs
One major factor that heavily affects the performance of a content distribution network (CDN) is placement of the surrogates. Previous works take a network-centric approach and con...
Yifeng Chen, Yanxiang He, Jiannong Cao, Jie Wu
SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Using local precision to compare search engines in consumer health information retrieval
We have conducted a user study to evaluate several generalist and health-specific search engines on health information retrieval. Users evaluated the relevance of the top 30 docum...
Carla Teixeira Lopes, Cristina Ribeiro
BCSHCI
2008
15 years 1 months ago
Effect of fidelity in diagram presentation
The visual fidelity (fidelity) of a design diagram affects perception and design performance. Hand-drawn diagrams are more effective working documents for early design tasks such ...
Louise Yeung, Beryl Plimmer, Brenda Lobb, Douglas ...
IJCV
2007
113views more  IJCV 2007»
14 years 11 months ago
Vision and Rain
The visual effects of rain are complex. Rain produces sharp intensity changes in images and videos that can severely impair the performance of outdoor vision systems. In this paper...
Kshitiz Garg, Shree K. Nayar
ICCV
2009
IEEE
1188views Computer Vision» more  ICCV 2009»
16 years 2 months ago
Actionable Information in Vision
I propose a notion of visual information as the complexity not of the raw images, but of the images after the effects of nuisance factors such as viewpoint and illumination are dis...
Stefano Soatto