Perspective distortion always occurs while scanning thick, bound documents, resulting in two problems in the scanned grayscale image ? (i) shade along the `spine' of the book...
Maximum a posteriori (MAP) filtering using the HuberMarkov random field (HMRF) image model has been shown in the past to be an effective method of reducing compression artifacts i...
Structured Problem Report Formats have been key to improving the assessment of usability methods. Once extended to record analysts' rationales, they not only reveal analyst b...
We introduce Hegel and Fichte’s dialectic as a search meta-heuristic for constraint satisfaction and optimization. Dialectic is an appealing mental concept for local search as it...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) based marketplaces have a number of advantages over traditional centralized systems (such as eBay). Peers form a distributed hash table and store sale offers fo...