Web communities are web virtual broadcasting spaces where people can freely discuss anything. While such communities function as discussion boards, they have even greater value as...
In this paper, we propose an automatic learning method for gesture recognition. We combine two different pattern recognition techniques: the SelfOrganizing Map (SOM) and Support Ve...
This paper describes an efficient optimistic concurrency control scheme for use in distributed database systems in which objects are cached and manipulated at client machines whil...
Atul Adya, Robert Gruber, Barbara Liskov, Umesh Ma...
A novel low-computation discriminative feature space is introduced for facial expression recognition capable of robust performance over a rang of image resolutions. Our approach i...
We present an integrated model for visual object localization and continuous state estimation in a discriminative structured prediction framework. While existing discriminative `p...