The organization of the knowledge on the web is increasingly becoming a social task performed by online communities whose members share a common interest in classifying different t...
Discovering common objects that appear frequently in a number of images is a challenging problem, due to (1) the appearance variations of the same common object and (2) the enormo...
Abstract--We present a novel approach for joint optical network provisioning and Internet protocol (IP) traffic engineering, in which the IP and optical networks collaboratively op...
The issue of ®nding similar 3-D surface segments arises in many recent applications of spatial database systems, such as molecular biology, medical imaging, CAD, and geographic i...
Crowdsourcing is an effective tool to solve hard tasks. By bringing 100,000s of people to work on simple tasks that only humans can do, we can go far beyond traditional models of ...