One useful feature that is missing from today’s database systems is an explain capability that enables users to seek clarifications on unexpected query results. There are two t...
This paper tackles a major privacy threat in current location-based services where users have to report their exact locations to the database server in order to obtain their desire...
In this paper, we introduce the Skellam distribution as a sensor noise model for CCD or CMOS cameras. This is derived from the Poisson distribution of photons that determine the s...
A large photo collection downloaded from the internet spans a wide range of scenes, cameras, and photographers. In this paper we introduce several novel priors for statistics of su...
Sujit Kuthirummal, Aseem Agarwala, Dan B. Goldman,...
We describe a new technique that uses active scene illumination to perform foreground-background segmentation and recover partial HDR information. We explore the fact that relativ...