We explore the problem of assigning heterogeneous tasks to workers with different, unknown skill sets in crowdsourcing markets such as Amazon Mechanical Turk. We first formalize ...
The I/O access patterns of many parallel applications consist of accesses to a large number of small, noncontiguous pieces of data. If an application's I/O needs are met by m...
A general geometrical framework for image processing is presented. We consider intensity images as surfaces in the (x I) space. The image is thereby a two dimensional surface in t...
This paper addresses the application of active contours or snakes for location and tracking of facial features. Conventional snake approaches find the position of the snake by fin...
Authorization in SQL is currently at the level of tables or columns. Many applications need a finer level of control. We propose a model for fine-grained authorization based on ad...