In this paper we consider the problem of learning hidden independent cascade social networks using exact value injection queries. These queries involve activating and suppressing a...
—The paper addresses the maximal lifetime problem in sensor-target surveillance networks. Given a set of sensors and targets in an Euclidean plane, each sensor can watch all targ...
Hai Liu, Xiaowen Chu, Yiu-Wing Leung, Xiaohua Jia,...
We explore the average-case “Vickrey” cost of structures in a random setting: the Vickrey cost of a shortest path in a complete graph or digraph with random edge weights; the V...
Abstract—Models that can efficiently, compactly, and semantically represent potential users are important tools for human-robot interaction applications. We model a person as a p...
During last years, local image descriptors have received much attention because of their efficiency for several computer vision tasks such as image retrieval, image comparison, fea...