The proliferation of information on the world wide web has made the personalization of this information space a necessity. One possible approach to web personalization is to mine ...
Recently, there has been an increased interest in "lifelong" machine learning methods, that transfer knowledge across multiple learning tasks. Such methods have repeated...
We consider cluster systems with multiple nodes where each server is prone to run tasks at a degraded level of service due to some software or hardware fault. The cluster serves t...
The ability to detect a persons unconstrained hand in a natural video sequence has applications in sign language, gesture recognition and HCI. This paper presents a novel, unsuper...
We present a method for extracting a hierarchical, rigid skeleton from a set of example poses. We then use this skeleton to not only reproduce the example poses, but create new de...