More and more HCI researchers and practitioners have realized the urgency of addressing culture as being more than just an interface tuning parameter. Recent publications, project ...
We study a novel shallow information extraction problem that involves extracting sentences of a given set of topic categories from medical forum data. Given a corpus of medical fo...
Clothing is one of the most informative cues of human appearance. In this paper, we propose a novel multi-person clothing segmentation algorithm for highly occluded images. The ke...
This paper describes TimeLine, an efficient archive service for a distributed storage system. TimeLine allows users to take snapshots on demand. The archive is stored online so th...
A novel method for the simultaneous modeling and tracking (SMAT) of a feature set during motion sequence is proposed. The method requires no prior information. Instead the a poste...