This paper explores unexpected results that lie at the intersection of two common themes in the KDD community: large datasets and the goal of building compact models. Experiments ...
Recent work has shown promise in using large, publicly available, hand-contributed commonsense databases as joint models that can be used to infer human state from day-to-day sens...
William Pentney, Matthai Philipose, Jeff A. Bilmes...
In the Database-As-a-Service (DAS) model, clients store their database contents at servers belonging to potentially untrusted service providers. To maintain data confidentiality, ...
A rough texture modelling involves a huge image data-set - the Bidirectional Texture Function (BTF). This 6-dimensional function depends on planar texture coordinates as well as o...
The issue of confidentiality and privacy in general databases has become increasingly prominent in recent years. A key element in preserving privacy and confidentiality of sensi...