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GIS
2010
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Decentralized querying of topological relations between regions without using localization
This paper proposes an efficient, decentralized algorithm for determining the topological relationship between two regions monitored by a geosensor network. Many centralized algo...
Matt Duckham, Myeong Hun Jeong, Sanjiang Li, Joche...
DCOSS
2011
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
A local average consensus algorithm for wireless sensor networks
—In many application scenarios sensors need to calculate the average of some local values, e.g. of local measurements. A possible solution is to rely on consensus algorithms. In ...
Konstantin Avrachenkov, Mahmoud El Chamie, Giovann...
PPOPP
2012
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Internally deterministic parallel algorithms can be fast
The virtues of deterministic parallelism have been argued for decades and many forms of deterministic parallelism have been described and analyzed. Here we are concerned with one ...
Guy E. Blelloch, Jeremy T. Fineman, Phillip B. Gib...
PAMI
2012
13 years 9 months ago
Fast Joint Estimation of Silhouettes and Dense 3D Geometry from Multiple Images
—We propose a probabilistic formulation of joint silhouette extraction and 3D reconstruction given a series of calibrated 2D images. Instead of segmenting each image separately i...
Kalin Kolev, Thomas Brox, Daniel Cremers
CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Feed me: motivating newcomer contribution in social network sites
Social networking sites (SNS) are only as good as the content their users share. Therefore, designers of SNS seek to improve the overall user experience by encouraging members to ...
Moira Burke, Cameron Marlow, Thomas M. Lento