The rapid growth of human computation within research and industry has produced many novel ideas aimed at organizing web users to do great things. However, the growth is not adequ...
Distributed programming has become a topic of widespread interest, and many programmers now wrestle with tradeoffs between data consistency, availability and latency. Distributed...
Peter Alvaro, Neil Conway, Joe Hellerstein, Willia...
Previous work has shown that high quality phrasal paraphrases can be extracted from bilingual parallel corpora. However, it is not clear whether bitexts are an appropriate resourc...
Juri Ganitkevitch, Chris Callison-Burch, Courtney ...
The bag-of-words (BoW) model treats images as an unordered set of local regions and represents them by visual word histograms. Implicitly, regions are assumed to be identically an...
Ramazan Gokberk Cinbis, Jakob J. Verbeek, Cordelia...
Most current 3D face recognition algorithms are designed based on the data collected in controlled situations, which leads to the un-guaranteed performance in practical systems. I...