Content-aware image retargeting has attracted a lot of interests recently. The key and most challenging issue for this task is how to balance the tradeoff between preserving the i...
In this paper we present a framework for the recognition of collective human activities. A collective activity is defined or reinforced by the existence of coherent behavior of i...
We study in this paper provenance information for queries with aggregation. Provenance information was studied in the context of various query languages that do not allow for aggr...
The analysis of online least squares estimation is at the heart of many stochastic sequential decision-making problems. We employ tools from the self-normalized processes to provi...
A sequence is nonrepetitive if it does not contain two adjacent identical blocks. The remarkable construction of Thue asserts that 3 symbols are enough to build an arbitrarily long...