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ECCV
2010
Springer
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Detecting ground shadows in outdoor consumer photographs
Detecting shadows from images can significantly improve the performance of several vision tasks such as object detection and tracking. Recent approaches have mainly used illuminat...
STOC
2010
ACM
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Approximation Schemes for Steiner Forest on Planar Graphs and Graphs of Bounded Treewidth
We give the first polynomial-time approximation scheme (PTAS) for the Steiner forest problem on planar graphs and, more generally, on graphs of bounded genus. As a first step, w...
MohammadHossein Bateni, MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi a...
STOC
2010
ACM
227views Algorithms» more  STOC 2010»
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On the Round Complexity of Covert Computation
In STOC’05, von Ahn, Hopper and Langford introduced the notion of covert computation. In covert computation, a party runs a secure computation protocol over a covert (or stegano...
Vipul Goyal and Abhishek Jain
STOC
2010
ACM
194views Algorithms» more  STOC 2010»
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Multi-parameter mechanism design and sequential posted pricing
We study the classic mathematical economics problem of Bayesian optimal mechanism design where a principal aims to optimize expected revenue when allocating resources to self-inte...
Shuchi Chawla, Jason Hartline, David Malec and Bal...
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
156views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
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Robust mechanisms for risk-averse sellers
The existing literature on optimal auctions focuses on optimizing the expected revenue of the seller, and is appropriate for risk-neutral sellers. In this paper, we identify good ...
Mukund Sundararajan, Qiqi Yan
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