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ICCV
2007
IEEE
15 years 26 days ago
Fast Crowd Segmentation Using Shape Indexing
This paper presents a fast, accurate, and novel method for the problem of estimating the number of humans and their positions from background differenced images obtained from a si...
Lan Dong, Vasu Parameswaran, Visvanathan Ramesh, I...
IEEESCC
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
JabberWocky: Crowd-Sourcing Metadata for Files
Finding relevant files in a personal file system continues to be a challenge. It is still easier to find stuff on the Web with its exponential growth than in one’s personal ...
Varun Bhagwan, Carlos Maltzahn
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Using the wisdom of the crowds for keyword generation
In the sponsored search model, search engines are paid by businesses that are interested in displaying ads for their site alongside the search results. Businesses bid for keywords...
Ariel Fuxman, Panayiotis Tsaparas, Kannan Achan, R...
CSCW
2008
ACM
14 years 21 days ago
Harnessing the wisdom of crowds in wikipedia: quality through coordination
Wikipedia's success is often attributed to involving large numbers of contributors who improve the accuracy, completeness and clarity of articles while reducing bias. However...
Aniket Kittur, Robert E. Kraut
KDD
2009
ACM
183views Data Mining» more  KDD 2009»
14 years 5 months ago
Financial incentives and the "performance of crowds"
The relationship between financial incentives and performance, long of interest to social scientists, has gained new relevance with the advent of web-based “crowd-sourcing” mo...
Winter A. Mason, Duncan J. Watts