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WMCSA
2000
IEEE
14 years 29 days ago
Adding some smartness to devices and everyday things
In mobile computing, context-awareness indicates the ability of a system to obtain and use information on aspects of the system environment. To implement contextawareness, mobile ...
Hans-Werner Gellersen, Albrecht Schmidt, Michael B...
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Studying always-on electricity feedback in the home
The recent emphasis on sustainability has made consumers more aware of their responsibility for saving resources, in particular, electricity. Consumers can better understand how t...
Yann Riche, Jonathan Dodge, Ronald A. Metoyer
ESORICS
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Location Privacy in Location-Based Services: Beyond TTP-based Schemes
Location-Based Services (LBS) are gaining importance due to the advances in mobile networks and positioning technologies. Nevertheless, the wide deployment of LBS can jeopardise th...
Agusti Solanas, Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Antoni Mart&...
NSDI
2004
13 years 10 months ago
Session State: Beyond Soft State
The cost and complexity of administration of large systems has come to dominate their total cost of ownership. Stateless and soft-state components, such as Web servers or network ...
Benjamin C. Ling, Emre Kiciman, Armando Fox

Publication
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12 years 2 months ago
Beyond Straight Lines - Object Detection using Curvature
We present an approach that directly uses curvature cues in a discriminative way to perform object recognition. We show that integrating curvature information substantially impr...
Antonio Monroy, Angela Eigenstetter and Björn Omm...