This paper describes a new framework for video matting, the process of pulling a high-quality alpha matte and foreground from a video sequence. The framework builds upon technique...
Yung-Yu Chuang, Aseem Agarwala, Brian Curless, Dav...
This paper proposes a system for personalization of web portals. A speci c implementation is discussed in reference to a web portal containing a news feed service. Techniques are ...
Recent work on querying data streams has focused on systems where newly arriving data is processed and continuously streamed to the user in real-time. In many emerging application...
This paper considers the problem of dimensionality reduction by orthogonal projection techniques. The main feature of the proposed techniques is that they attempt to preserve both...
Abstract Existing solutions to the automated physical design problem in database systems attempt to minimize execution costs of input workloads for a given storage constraint. In t...