We report an automatic feature discovery method that achieves results comparable to a manually chosen, larger feature set on a document image content extraction problem: the locat...
Background: Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) are short and error-prone DNA sequences generated from the 5' and 3' ends of randomly selected cDNA clones. They provide an im...
Nunzio D'Agostino, Mario Aversano, Maria Luisa Chi...
Medial axis transform (MAT) is a basic tool for shape analysis. But, in spite of its usefulness, it has some drawbacks, one of which is its instability under the boundary perturba...
Firewalls are the mainstay of enterprise security and the most widely adopted technology for protecting private networks. The quality of protection provided by a firewall directly...
The class of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes is attractive, since such codes can be decoded using practical message-passing algorithms, and their performance is known to app...