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VCIP
2003
170views Communications» more  VCIP 2003»
13 years 9 months ago
How good are the visual MPEG-7 features?
The study presented in this paper analyses descriptions extracted with MPEG-7-descriptors from visual content from the statistical point of view. Good descriptors should generate ...
Horst Eidenberger
ICMCS
2006
IEEE
182views Multimedia» more  ICMCS 2006»
14 years 2 months ago
Using Semantic Features for Scene Classification: how Good do they Need to Be?
Semantic scene classification is a useful, yet challenging problem in image understanding. Most existing systems are based on low-level features, such as color or texture, and suc...
Matthew R. Boutell, Anustup Choudhury, Jiebo Luo, ...
ICDE
2006
IEEE
149views Database» more  ICDE 2006»
14 years 9 months ago
How to Determine a Good Multi-Programming Level for External Scheduling
Scheduling/prioritization of DBMS transactions is important for many applications that rely on database backends. A convenient way to achieve scheduling is to limit the number of ...
Bianca Schroeder, Mor Harchol-Balter, Arun Iyengar...
SIGSOFT
2004
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
How a good software practice thwarts collaboration: the multiple roles of APIs in software development
The principle of information hiding has been very influential in software engineering since its inception in 1972. This principle prescribes that software modules hide implementat...
Cleidson R. B. de Souza, David F. Redmiles, Li-Te ...
SP
2010
IEEE
192views Security Privacy» more  SP 2010»
13 years 11 months ago
How Good Are Humans at Solving CAPTCHAs? A Large Scale Evaluation
—Captchas are designed to be easy for humans but hard for machines. However, most recent research has focused only on making them hard for machines. In this paper, we present wha...
Elie Bursztein, Steven Bethard, Celine Fabry, John...