We are building Coral, a peer-to-peer content distribution system. Coral creates self-organizing clusters of nodes that fetch information from each other to avoid communicating wi...
Determiningthe convex hull ofa point set isa basic operation for many applications of pattern recognition, image processing, statistics, and data mining. Although the corresponding...
Typically, users submit very simple search queries to digital document data collections. Often these queries can result in extremely broad answers or answers in which document rel...
Abstract. This paper proposes a novel method for speaker identification based on both speech utterances and their transcribed text. The transcribed text of each speaker's utte...
Browsing and finding pictures in large-scale and heterogeneous collections is an important issue, most particularly for online photo sharing applications. Since such services know...