Overlay networks are used today in a variety of distributed systems ranging from file-sharing and storage systems to communication infrastructures. However, designing, building a...
Boon Thau Loo, Tyson Condie, Joseph M. Hellerstein...
The rise of the software-as-a-service paradigm has led to the development of a new breed of sophisticated, interactive applications often called Web 2.0. While web applications ha...
We present a region-based active contour detection algorithm
for objects that exhibit relatively homogeneous photometric
characteristics (e.g. smooth color or gray levels),
embe...
Ganesh Sundaramoorthi, Stefano Soatto, Anthony Yez...
Web photos in social media sharing websites such as Flickr are generally accompanied by rich but noisy textual descriptions (tags, captions, categories, etc.). In this paper, we p...
Recent proliferation of camera phones, photo sharing and social network services has significantly changed how we process our photos. Instead of going through the traditional dow...