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CIVR
2010
Springer
246views Image Analysis» more  CIVR 2010»
14 years 12 months ago
Genre-specific semantic video indexing
In many applications, we find large video collections from different genres where the user is often only interested in one or two specific video genres. So, when users are queryin...
Jun Wu, Marcel Worring
SIGMOD
2010
ACM
362views Database» more  SIGMOD 2010»
14 years 8 months ago
Data warehousing and analytics infrastructure at facebook
Scalable analysis on large data sets has been core to the functions of a number of teams at Facebook - both engineering and nonengineering. Apart from ad hoc analysis of data and ...
Ashish Thusoo, Zheng Shao, Suresh Anthony, Dhruba ...
ICPR
2004
IEEE
16 years 3 months ago
Competitive Coding Scheme for Palmprint Verification
There is increasing interest in the development of reliable, rapid and non-intrusive security control systems. Among the many approaches, biometrics such as palmprints provide hig...
Adams Wai-Kin Kong, David Zhang
CHI
2006
ACM
16 years 2 months ago
Verbosity: a game for collecting common-sense facts
We address the problem of collecting a database of "common-sense facts" using a computer game. Informally, a common-sense fact is a true statement about the world that i...
Luis von Ahn, Mihir Kedia, Manuel Blum
ICDE
2010
IEEE
401views Database» more  ICDE 2010»
15 years 11 months ago
Continuous Query Evaluation over Distributed Sensor Networks
— In this paper1 we address the problem of processing continuous multi-join queries, over distributed data streams. Our approach makes use of existing work in the field of publi...
Oana Jurca, Sebastian Michel, Alexandre Herrmann, ...