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ECCV
2010
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Detecting ground shadows in outdoor consumer photographs
Detecting shadows from images can significantly improve the performance of several vision tasks such as object detection and tracking. Recent approaches have mainly used illuminat...
STOC
2010
ACM
228views Algorithms» more  STOC 2010»
15 years 9 months ago
On the searchability of small-world networks with arbitrary underlying structure
Revisiting the “small-world” experiments of the ’60s, Kleinberg observed that individuals are very effective at constructing short chains of acquaintances between any two p...
Pierre Fraigniaud and George Giakkoupis
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
156views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
15 years 9 months ago
Robust mechanisms for risk-averse sellers
The existing literature on optimal auctions focuses on optimizing the expected revenue of the seller, and is appropriate for risk-neutral sellers. In this paper, we identify good ...
Mukund Sundararajan, Qiqi Yan
SIGMOD
2010
ACM
217views Database» more  SIGMOD 2010»
15 years 9 months ago
Mining knowledge from databases: an information network analysis approach
Most people consider a database is merely a data repository that supports data storage and retrieval. Actually, a database contains rich, inter-related, multi-typed data and infor...
Jiawei Han, Yizhou Sun, Xifeng Yan, Philip S. Yu
SIGMOD
2010
ACM
221views Database» more  SIGMOD 2010»
15 years 9 months ago
Low overhead concurrency control for partitioned main memory databases
Database partitioning is a technique for improving the performance of distributed OLTP databases, since “single partition” transactions that access data on one partition do no...
Evan P. C. Jones, Daniel J. Abadi, Samuel Madden