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USS
2010
15 years 4 months ago
The Case for Ubiquitous Transport-Level Encryption
Today, Internet traffic is encrypted only when deemed necessary. Yet modern CPUs could feasibly encrypt most traffic. Moreover, the cost of doing so will only drop over time. Tcpc...
Andrea Bittau, Michael Hamburg, Mark Handley, Davi...
FAST
2009
15 years 4 months ago
Smoke and Mirrors: Reflecting Files at a Geographically Remote Location Without Loss of Performance
The Smoke and Mirrors File System (SMFS) mirrors files at geographically remote datacenter locations with negligible impact on file system performance at the primary site, and min...
Hakim Weatherspoon, Lakshmi Ganesh, Tudor Marian, ...
SIAMDM
2011
15 years 1 months ago
Origins of Nonlinearity in Davenport-Schinzel Sequences
Abstract. A generalized Davenport–Schinzel sequence is one over a finite alphabet that excludes subsequences isomorphic to a fixed forbidden subsequence. The fundamental proble...
Seth Pettie
INTERSPEECH
2010
15 years 1 months ago
On the relation of Bayes risk, word error, and word posteriors in ASR
In automatic speech recognition, we are faced with a wellknown inconsistency: Bayes decision rule is usually used to minimize sentence (word sequence) error, whereas in practice w...
Ralf Schlüter, Markus Nußbaum-Thom, Her...

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14 years 5 months ago
A Statistical Overlap Prior for Variational Image Segmentation
This study investigates variational image segmentation with an original data term, referred to as statistical overlap prior, which measures the conformity of overlap between the no...
Ismail Ben Ayed, Shuo Li and Ian Ross