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CVPR
2010
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
A Spatially Varying PSF-based Prior for Alpha Matting
In this paper we considerably improve on a state-of-theart alpha matting approach by incorporating a new prior which is based on the image formation process. In particular, we mod...
Christoph Rhemann, Carsten Rother, Pushmeet Kohli,...
SC
2009
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Supporting fault-tolerance for time-critical events in distributed environments
In this paper, we consider the problem of supporting fault tolerance for adaptive and time-critical applications in heterogeneous and unreliable grid computing environments. Our g...
Qian Zhu, Gagan Agrawal
EVOW
2009
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Evolving Approximate Image Filters
Image filtering involves taking a digital image and producing a new image from it. In software packages such as Adobe’s Photoshop, image filters are used to produce artistic ve...
Simon Colton, Pedro Torres
ICC
2009
IEEE
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15 years 8 months ago
Biometric Mobile Template Protection: A Composite Feature Based Fingerprint Fuzzy Vault
—Biometric authentication is emerging as the promising solution to conventional cryptography based authentication technologies. However, protecting users’ biometric templates s...
Kai Xi, Jiankun Hu
MOBILITY
2009
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Mobile visual access to legacy voice-based applications
Vocal systems are a well-established reality. Examples of popular voice-based applications include helpdesk services, reservation systems, and vocal mailboxes. These services, tha...
Marco Avvenuti, Alessio Vecchio