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ECCV
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Approximate Confidence Intervals for Estimation of Matching Error Rates of Biometric Identification Devices
Abstract. Assessing the matching error rates of a biometric identification devices is integral to understanding its performance. Here we propose and evaluate several methods for cr...
Travis J. Atkinson, Michael E. Schuckers
ICNP
1998
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Improving Wireless LAN Performance via Adaptive Local Error Control
Wireless links can exhibit high error rates due to attenuation, fading, or interfering active radiation sources. To make matters worse, error rates can be highly variable due to c...
David A. Eckhardt, Peter Steenkiste
AUTOID
2005
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Statistical Models for Assessing the Individuality of Fingerprints
Following Daubert in 1993, forensic evidence based on fingerprints was first challenged in the 1999 case of USA vs. Byron Mitchell, and subsequently, in 20 other cases involving...
Sarat C. Dass, Yongfang Zhu, Anil K. Jain
EUROPAR
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Characterizing Result Errors in Internet Desktop Grids
Abstract. Desktop grids use the free resources in Intranet and Internet environments for large-scale computation and storage. While desktop grids offer a high return on investment...
Derrick Kondo, Filipe Araujo, Paul Malecot, Patr&i...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Spam filter evaluation with imprecise ground truth
When trained and evaluated on accurately labeled datasets, online email spam filters are remarkably effective, achieving error rates an order of magnitude better than classifie...
Gordon V. Cormack, Aleksander Kolcz
CASES
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Towards scalable reliability frameworks for error prone CMPs
As technology scales and the energy of computation continually approaches thermal equilibrium [1,2], parameter variations and noise levels will lead to larger error rates at vario...
Joseph Sloan, Rakesh Kumar
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
Scaling Up Whole-Book Recognition
We describe the results of large-scale experiments with algorithms for unsupervised improvement of recognition of book-images using fully automatic mutual-entropy-based model adap...
Pingping Xiu, Henry S. Baird
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
Unsupervised pronunciation validation
This paper addresses selecting between candidate pronunciations for out-of-vocabulary words in speech processing tasks. We introduce a simple, unsupervised method that outperforms...
Christopher M. White, Abhinav Sethy, Bhuvana Ramab...
CHI
2008
ACM
15 years 21 days ago
An error model for pointing based on Fitts' law
For decades, Fitts' law (1954) has been used to model pointing time in user interfaces. As with any rapid motor act, faster pointing movements result in increased errors. But...
Jacob O. Wobbrock, Edward Cutrell, Susumu Harada, ...
ICIP
2007
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
Design of an Active Set Top Box in a Wireless Network for Scalable Streaming Services
The popularity of multimedia streaming services via wireless home networks has confronted major challenges in quality improvement for services through a set top box (STB). Even th...
Heung Ki Lee, Varrian Hall, Ki Hwan Yum, Kyoung Il...