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JEI
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
New approach for liveness detection in fingerprint scanners based on valley noise analysis
Recent research has shown that it is possible to spoof a variety of fingerprint scanners using some simple techniques with molds made from plastic, clay, Play-Doh, silicon, or gela...
Bozhao Tan, Stephanie A. C. Schuckers
IMC
2010
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Listen to me if you can: tracking user experience of mobile network on social media
Social media sites such as Twitter continue to grow at a fast pace. People of all generations use social media to exchange messages and share experiences of their life in a timely...
Tongqing Qiu, Junlan Feng, Zihui Ge, Jia Wang, Jun...
ASUNAM
2009
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
Automatically Detecting Points of Interest and Social Networks from Tracking Positions of Avatars in a Virtual World
With hundreds of millions of users already today, virtual worlds will become an important factor in tomorrow's media landscape. In a virtual world, users are represented by s...
Frank Kappe, Bilal Zaka, Michael Steurer
INTERNET
2010
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13 years 6 months ago
Peer-to-Peer 3D Streaming
In multi-user networked virtual environments such as Second Life, 3D streaming techniques have been used to progressively download and render 3D objects and terrain, so that a ful...
Shun-Yun Hu, Jehn-Ruey Jiang, Bing-Yu Chen
JCST
2010
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13 years 4 months ago
Efficient Location Updates for Continuous Queries over Moving Objects
Abstract The significant overhead related to frequent location updates from moving objects often results in poor performance. As most of the location updates do not affect the quer...
Yu-Ling Hsueh, Roger Zimmermann, Wei-Shinn Ku