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NSDI
2008
13 years 11 months ago
Beyond Pilots: Keeping Rural Wireless Networks Alive
Very few computer systems that have been deployed in rural developing regions manage to stay operationally sustainable over the long term; most systems do not go beyond the pilot ...
Sonesh Surana, Rabin K. Patra, Sergiu Nedevschi, M...
WACV
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Epipolar Constraints for Vision-Aided Inertial Navigation
— This paper describes a new method to improve inertial navigation using feature-based constraints from one or more video cameras. The proposed method lengthens the period of tim...
David D. Diel, Paul DeBitetto, Seth J. Teller
FGR
1998
IEEE
268views Biometrics» more  FGR 1998»
14 years 1 months ago
A Virtual Mirror Interface Using Real-Time Robust Face Tracking
We describe a virtual mirror interface which can react to people using robust, real-time face tracking. Our display can directly combine a user's face with various graphical ...
Trevor Darrell, Gaile G. Gordon, John Woodfill, Mi...
SIGADA
2004
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Enforcing security and safety models with an information flow analysis tool
Existing security models require that information of a given security level be prevented from “leaking” into lower-security information. High-security applications must be dem...
Roderick Chapman, Adrian Hilton
SIGMOD
2010
ACM
214views Database» more  SIGMOD 2010»
14 years 1 months ago
ParaTimer: a progress indicator for MapReduce DAGs
Time-oriented progress estimation for parallel queries is a challenging problem that has received only limited attention. In this paper, we present ParaTimer, a new type of timere...
Kristi Morton, Magdalena Balazinska, Dan Grossman