Abstract. Mahalanobis distance has already proved its strength in human skin detection using a set of skin values. We present this work that uses automatic skin detection after an ...
It is widely known that network bandwidth is easily monopolized by distributed multimedia applications due to their greedy UDP traffic. In this paper, we propose TCP-friendly MPEG-...
This paper explores the model of providing a common overlay structure management layer to assist the construction of large-scale wide-area Internet services. To this end, we propo...
Abstract. We present a formalism for modeling replication in a distributed system with concurrent users sharing information. It is based on actions, which represent operations requ...
Marc Shapiro, Karthikeyan Bhargavan, Nishith Krish...
We propose a new approach to reinforcement learning which combines least squares function approximation with policy iteration. Our method is model-free and completely off policy. ...