Abstract. Learning ranking functions is crucial for solving many problems, ranging from document retrieval to building recommendation systems based on an individual user’s prefer...
Abstract. An open challenge in information distillation is the evaluation and optimization of the utility of ranked lists with respect to flexible user interactions over multiple ...
The stationary nature of nodes in a mesh network has shifted the main design goal of routing protocols from maintaining connectivity between source and destination nodes to findi...
Human faces are commonly found in video streams and provide useful information for video content analysis. This paper presents a robust face tracking system to extract multiple fa...
We consider the problem of distributing “live” streaming media content to a potentially large and highly dynamic population of hosts. Peer-to-peer content distribution is attr...
Venkata N. Padmanabhan, Helen J. Wang, Philip A. C...