Implementations of map-reduce are being used to perform many operations on very large data. We examine strategies for joining several relations in the map-reduce environment. Our ...
Keyword search on data represented as graphs, is receiving lot of attention in recent years. Initial versions of keyword search systems assumed that the graph is memory resident. ...
Human hair is a very complex visual pattern whose representation is rarely studied in the vision literature despite its important role in human recognition. In this paper, we prop...
Abstract. Foreground and background segmentation is a typical problem in computer vision and medical imaging. In this paper, we propose a new learning based approach for 3D segment...
Abstract We develop a distance metric for clustering and classification algorithms which is invariant to affine transformations and includes priors on the transformation parameters...