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SAC
2004
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Trust enhanced ubiquitous payment without too much privacy loss
Computational models of trust have been proposed for use in ubicomp environments for deciding whether to allow customers to pay with an e-purse or not. In order to build trust in ...
Jean-Marc Seigneur, Christian Damsgaard Jensen
ICADL
2004
Springer
162views Education» more  ICADL 2004»
14 years 1 months ago
Character Region Identification from Cover Images Using DTT
A robust character region identification approach is proposed here to deal with cover images using a differential top-hat transformation (DTT). The DTT is derived from morphologica...
Lixu Gu
ASAP
2004
IEEE
140views Hardware» more  ASAP 2004»
13 years 11 months ago
Decimal Floating-Point Division Using Newton-Raphson Iteration
Decreasing feature sizes allow additional functionality to be added to future microprocessors to improve the performance of important application domains. As a result of rapid gro...
Liang-Kai Wang, Michael J. Schulte
DIMEA
2008
223views Multimedia» more  DIMEA 2008»
13 years 9 months ago
Toward accessible 3D virtual environments for the blind and visually impaired
3D virtual environments are increasingly used for education, business and recreation but are often inaccessible to users who are visually impaired, effectively creating a digital ...
Gareth R. White, Geraldine Fitzpatrick, Graham McA...
HCI
2007
13 years 9 months ago
RFID Cards: A New Deal for Elderly Accessibility
Elderly adults face two serious challenges bridging the digital divide. First, many suffer from physical or cognitive disabilities, which inhibit computer use. Second, the “tradi...
Robert Pastel, Charles Wallace, Jesse Heines