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IJCNN
2007
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
Using Artificial Neural Networks and Feature Saliency Techniques for Improved Iris Segmentation
—One of the basic challenges to robust iris recognition is iris segmentation. This paper proposes the use of a feature saliency algorithm and an artificial neural network to perf...
Randy P. Broussard, Lauren R. Kennell, David L. So...
ISCA
2007
IEEE
161views Hardware» more  ISCA 2007»
15 years 6 months ago
Physical simulation for animation and visual effects: parallelization and characterization for chip multiprocessors
We explore the emerging application area of physics-based simulation for computer animation and visual special effects. In particular, we examine its parallelization potential and...
Christopher J. Hughes, Radek Grzeszczuk, Eftychios...
P2P
2007
IEEE
113views Communications» more  P2P 2007»
15 years 6 months ago
Handling Network Partitions and Mergers in Structured Overlay Networks
Structured overlay networks form a major class of peerto-peer systems, which are touted for their abilities to scale, tolerate failures, and self-manage. Any long-lived Internet-s...
Tallat M. Shafaat, Ali Ghodsi, Seif Haridi
SP
2007
IEEE
102views Security Privacy» more  SP 2007»
15 years 6 months ago
Improving the Robustness of Private Information Retrieval
Since 1995, much work has been done creating protocols for private information retrieval (PIR). Many variants of the basic PIR model have been proposed, including such modificati...
Ian Goldberg
CVPR
2007
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
Estimating Cluster Overlap on Manifolds and its Application to Neuropsychiatric Disorders
Although it is usually assumed in many pattern recognition problems that different patterns are distinguishable, some patterns may have inseparable overlap. For example, some faci...
Peng Wang, Christian Köhler, Ragini Verma