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CVPR
2010
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Discrete minimum ratio curves and surfaces
Graph cuts have proven useful for image segmentation and for volumetric reconstruction in multiple view stereo. However, solutions are biased: the cost function tends to favour ei...
Fred Nicolls, Phil Torr
FOCS
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Polylogarithmic Independence Can Fool DNF Formulas
We show that any k-wise independent probability distribution on {0, 1}n O(m2.22− √ k/10)fools any boolean function computable by an m-clause DNF (or CNF) formula on n variable...
Louay Bazzi
IROS
2006
IEEE
128views Robotics» more  IROS 2006»
14 years 2 months ago
Waalbot: An Agile Small-Scale Wall Climbing Robot Utilizing Pressure Sensitive Adhesives
Abstract— This paper proposes a small-scale agile wall climbing robot able to navigate on smooth surfaces of any orientation, including vertical and inverted surfaces, which uses...
Michael P. Murphy, William Tso, Michael Tanzini, M...
IMC
2006
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
On unbiased sampling for unstructured peer-to-peer networks
This paper addresses the difficult problem of selecting representative samples of peer properties (e.g., degree, link bandwidth, number of files shared) in unstructured peer-to-p...
Daniel Stutzbach, Reza Rejaie, Nick G. Duffield, S...
SIGOPS
2011
210views Hardware» more  SIGOPS 2011»
13 years 3 months ago
Small trusted primitives for dependable systems
Secure, fault-tolerant distributed systems are difficult to build, to validate, and to operate. Conservative design for such systems dictates that their security and fault toleran...
Petros Maniatis, Byung-Gon Chun