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FDG
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Games for passengers: accounting for motion in location-based applications
Passengers pay attention to the landscape as they move through the environment. We suggest a new type of applications, which adds to that experience. It consider their motion and ...
Liselott Brunnberg, Oskar Juhlin, Anton Gustafsson
MM
2009
ACM
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16 years 1 months ago
Mirror world navigation for mobile users based on augmented reality
Finding a destination in unfamiliar environments of complex office building or shopping mall has been always bothering us in daily life. Fine-scale directional guidance, a combina...
Patricia P. Wang, Tao Wang, Dayong Ding, Yimin Zha...
MM
2009
ACM
197views Multimedia» more  MM 2009»
16 years 1 months ago
Visual summaries of popular landmarks from community photo collections
We present a novel data-driven algorithm that leverages online image repositories such as Flickr for automatically generating tourist maps. Our hypothesis is that, given a large e...
Wei-Chao Chen, Agathe Battestini, Natasha Gelfand,...
SAC
2010
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Mobile air pollution monitoring network
Current methods of estimating air quality involve assigning a single value called the Air Quality Index (AQI) to a large land area for a 24-hour period based on a very few, sparse...
W. Hedgecock, Péter Völgyesi, Á...
CISIS
2008
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Latency Impact on Spin-Lock Algorithms for Modern Shared Memory Multiprocessors
In 2006, John Mellor-Crummey and Michael Scott received the Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing. This prize was for their 1991 paper on algorithms for scalable synchronization ...
Jan Christian Meyer, Anne C. Elster