Active perception refers to a theoretical approach to the study of perception grounded on the idea that perceiving is a way of acting, rather than a process whereby the brain const...
Recent advances in mechanical techniques for systematic testing have increased our ability to automatically find subtle bugs, and hence to deploy more dependable software. This pap...
This paper presents a unified model for image editing in terms of Sparse Matrix-Vector (SpMV) multiplication. In our framework, we cast image editing as a linear energy minimizat...
— Uncertain data is quite common nowadays in a variety of modern database applications. At the same time, the join operation is one of the most important but expensive operations...
— Many data-intensive websites use databases that grow much faster than the rate that users access the data. Such growing datasets lead to ever-increasing space and performance o...