We present a novel method to estimate an approximation of the reflectance characteristics of optically thick, homogeneous translucent materials using only a single photograph as ...
We study a novel problem of social context summarization for Web documents. Traditional summarization research has focused on extracting informative sentences from standard docume...
Zi Yang, Keke Cai, Jie Tang, Li Zhang, Zhong Su, J...
Facebook recently deployed Facebook Messages, its first ever user-facing application built on the Apache Hadoop platform. Apache HBase is a database-like layer built on Hadoop des...
Dhruba Borthakur, Jonathan Gray, Joydeep Sen Sarma...
Correctness of data residing in a database is vital. While integrity constraint enforcement can often ensure data consistency, it is inadequate to protect against updates that inv...
Su Chen, Xin Luna Dong, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan, Div...
By measuring the anisotropic self-diffusion rates of water, Diffusion Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging (DW-MRI) provides a unique noninvasive probe of fibrous tissue. In par...