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FGR
2011
IEEE
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Action unit detection using sparse appearance descriptors in space-time video volumes
— Recently developed appearance descriptors offer the opportunity for efficient and robust facial expression recognition. In this paper we investigate the merits of the family o...
Bihan Jiang, Michel François Valstar, Maja ...
FGR
2011
IEEE
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High resolution face sequences from a PTZ network camera
Abstract— We propose here to acquire high resolution sequences of a person’s face using a pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) network camera. This capability should prove helpful in forensic a...
Thang Ba Dinh, Nam Vo, Gérard G. Medioni
FFA
2011
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Exponential sums and polynomial congruences along p-adic submanifolds
In this article, we consider the estimation of exponential sums along the points of the reduction mod pm of a p-adic analytic submanifold of Zn p . More precisely, we extend Igusa...
Dirk Segers, W. A. Zuniga-Galindo
FCSC
2011
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Type-2 fuzzy description logic
Description logics (DLs) are widely employed in recent semantic web application systems. However, classical description logics are limited when dealing with imprecise concepts and ...
Ruixuan Li, Kunmei Wen, Xiwu Gu, Yuhua Li, Xiaolin...
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FCCM
2011
IEEE
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A Scalable Multi-FPGA Platform for Complex Networking Applications
Abstract—Ballooning traffic volumes and increasing linkspeeds require ever high compute power to perform complex real-time processing of network packets. FPGAs have already been...
Sascha Mühlbach, Andreas Koch
FAST
2011
14 years 7 months ago
Just-in-Time Analytics on Large File Systems
As file systems reach the petabytes scale, users and administrators are increasingly interested in acquiring highlevel analytical information for file management and analysis. T...
H. Howie Huang, Nan Zhang 0004, Wei Wang, Gautam D...
FAST
2011
14 years 7 months ago
The SCADS Director: Scaling a Distributed Storage System Under Stringent Performance Requirements
Elasticity of cloud computing environments provides an economic incentive for automatic resource allocation of stateful systems running in the cloud. However, these systems have t...
Beth Trushkowsky, Peter Bodík, Armando Fox,...
FAST
2011
14 years 7 months ago
Cost Effective Storage using Extent Based Dynamic Tiering
Multi-tier systems that combine SSDs with SAS/FC and/or SATA disks mitigate the capital cost burden of SSDs, while benefiting from their superior I/O performance per unit cost an...
Jorge Guerra, Himabindu Pucha, Joseph S. Glider, W...
FAST
2011
14 years 7 months ago
FastScale: Accelerate RAID Scaling by Minimizing Data Migration
Previous approaches to RAID scaling either require a very large amount of data to be migrated, or cannot tolerate multiple disk additions without resulting in disk imbalance. In t...
Weimin Zheng, Guangyan Zhang
FAST
2011
14 years 7 months ago
Emulating Goliath Storage Systems with David
Benchmarking file and storage systems on large filesystem images is important, but difficult and often infeasible. Typically, running benchmarks on such large disk setups is a ...
Nitin Agrawal, Leo Arulraj, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusse...