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ASSETS
2010
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Blind guidance using mobile computer vision: a usability study
We present a study focusing on the usability of a wayfinding and localization system for persons with visual impairment. This system uses special color markers, placed at key loca...
Roberto Manduchi, Sri Kurniawan, Homayoun Bagherin...
CSE
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
A Design Methodology for Self-Management in Distributed Environments
—Autonomic computing is a paradigm that aims at reducing administrative overhead by providing autonomic managers to make applications self-managing. In order to better deal with ...
Ahmad Al-Shishtawy, Vladimir Vlassov, Per Brand, S...
CLUSTER
2008
IEEE
16 years 27 days ago
Empirical-based probabilistic upper bounds for urgent computing applications
—Scientific simulation and modeling often aid in making critical decisions in such diverse fields as city planning, severe weather prediction and influenza modeling. In some o...
Nick Trebon, Peter H. Beckman
PVM
2007
Springer
16 years 16 days ago
Distributed Real-Time Computing with Harness
Abstract. Modern parallel and distributed computing solutions are often built onto a “middleware” software layer providing a higher and common level of service between computat...
Emanuele Di Saverio, Marco Cesati, Christian Di Bi...
MM
2010
ACM
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15 years 6 months ago
KPB-SIFT: a compact local feature descriptor
Invariant feature descriptors such as SIFT and GLOH have been demonstrated to be very robust for image matching and object recognition. However, such descriptors are typically of ...
Gangqiang Zhao, Ling Chen, Gencai Chen, Junsong Yu...