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FGR
2000
IEEE
386views Biometrics» more  FGR 2000»
14 years 1 months ago
A Virtual 3D Blackboard: 3D Finger Tracking Using a Single Camera
We present a method for tracking the 3D position of a nger, using a single camera placed several meters away from the user. After skin detection, we use motion to identify the ges...
Andrew Wu, Mubarak Shah, Niels da Vitoria Lobo
HPCA
1998
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Comparative Evaluation of Latency Tolerance Techniques for Software Distributed Shared Memory
A key challenge in achieving high performance on software DSM systems is overcoming their relatively large communication latencies. In this paper, we consider two techniques which...
Todd C. Mowy, Charles Q. C. Chan, Adley K. W. Lo
VLDB
1994
ACM
152views Database» more  VLDB 1994»
14 years 27 days ago
The GMAP: A Versatile Tool for Physical Data Independence
Physical data independence is touted as a central feature of modern database systems. Both relational and object-oriented systems, however, force users to frame their queries in t...
Odysseas G. Tsatalos, Marvin H. Solomon, Yannis E....
ESORICS
2006
Springer
14 years 15 days ago
Privacy-Preserving Queries on Encrypted Data
Data confidentiality is a major concern in database systems. Encryption is a useful tool for protecting the confidentiality of sensitive data. However, when data is encrypted, perf...
Zhiqiang Yang, Sheng Zhong, Rebecca N. Wright
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Web-scale named entity recognition
Automatic recognition of named entities such as people, places, organizations, books, and movies across the entire web presents a number of challenges, both of scale and scope. Da...
Casey Whitelaw, Alexander Kehlenbeck, Nemanja Petr...