While current matting algorithms work very well for some natural images, their performance is questionable in the presence of sharp discontinuities in the foreground and backgroun...
Kangyu Ni, Sheshadri R. Thiruvenkadam, Tony F. Cha...
Background: Mining gene patterns that are common to multiple genomes is an important biological problem, which can lead us to novel biological insights. When family classification...
Meng Hu, Kwangmin Choi, Wei Su, Sun Kim, Jiong Yan...
—Motivated by questions in lossy data compression and by theoretical considerations, the problem of estimating the rate-distortion function of an unknown (not necessarily discret...
This paper discusses a potential methodological problem with empirical studies assessing project effort prediction systems. Frequently a hold-out strategy is deployed so that the ...
Trust management is a form of access control that uses delegation to achieve scalability beyond a single organization or federation. However, delegation can be difficult to contr...