Recent advances in wireless and mobile networking technology pose a new set of requirements and challenges that are not previously thought of, when it comes to smart space middlewa...
Near-duplicate video clip (NDVC) detection is an important problem with a wide range of applications such as TV broadcast monitoring, video copyright enforcement, content-based vi...
Heng Tao Shen, Xiaofang Zhou, Zi Huang, Jie Shao, ...
We introduce the concept of a trust network—a decentralized payment infrastructure in which payments are routed as IOUs between trusted entities. The trust network has directed ...
Arpita Ghosh, Mohammad Mahdian, Daniel M. Reeves, ...
We study the problem of hiring a team of selfish agents to perform a task. Each agent is assumed to own one or more elements of a set system, and the auctioneer is trying to purch...
Atsushi Iwasaki, David Kempe, Yasumasa Saito, Mahy...
The performance of many computer vision and machine learning algorithms critically depends on the quality of the similarity measure defined over the feature space. Previous works...