Today's transactional memory systems implement the two-phase-locking (2PL) algorithm which aborts transactions every time a conflict happens. 2PL is a simple algorithm that pr...
Active learning strategies can be useful when manual labeling
effort is scarce, as they select the most informative
examples to be annotated first. However, for visual category
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Sudheendra Vijayanarasimhan (University of Texas a...
We present a method to fully automatically fit videos in 16:9 format on 4:3 screens and vice versa. It can be applied to arbitrary aspect ratios and can be used to make videos sui...
In this paper we study face recognition across ages within a real passport photo verification task. First, we propose using the gradient orientation pyramid for this task. Discard...
Capturing surface appearance is important for a large number of applications. Appearance of real world surfaces is dif?cult to model as it varies with the direction of illuminatio...