Background: Sequencing of environmental DNA (often called metagenomics) has shown tremendous potential to uncover the vast number of unknown microbes that cannot be cultured and s...
We describe our first participation in TREC. We only competed in the Question Answering (QA) category and limited our runs to factoids. Our approach was to use our open domain QA ...
Dmitri Roussinov, Yin Ding, Jose Antonio Robles-Fl...
This paper shows that an image can be approximately reconstructed based on the output of a blackbox local description software such as those classically used for image indexing. Ou...
Philippe Weinzaepfel, Hervé Jégou and Patrick Pe...
Abstract. The presence of coverage holes can adversely affect the accurate representation of natural phenomena being monitored by a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). Current WSN resea...
In the classical shading algorithm according to Phong, the normal is interpolated across the scanline, requiring a computationally expensive normalization in the inner loop. In th...