Information Retrieval (IR) systems try to identify documents relevant to user queries, which are representations of user information needs. Interaction, context, and document struc...
Lighting is a fundamental and important process in the 3D animation pipeline. Conventional lighting workflow is time-consuming and labor-intensive. A user must fiddle with a rang...
News aggregators are widely used to read RSS feeds but they require the user to be in front of a screen. While moving, people usually do not have any display, or very small ones. M...
Patrick Salamin, Alexandre Wetzel, Daniel Thalmann...
Abstract. An open challenge in information distillation is the evaluation and optimization of the utility of ranked lists with respect to flexible user interactions over multiple ...
We have built a system that engages naive users in an audiovisual interaction with a computer in an unconstrained public space. We combine audio source localization techniques wit...
Sunsern Cheamanunkul, Evan Ettinger, Matt Jacobsen...
Abstract—We present a method for modeling, and automatically inferring, the current interest of a user in search advertising. Our task is complementary to that of predicting ad r...
Qi Guo, Eugene Agichtein, Charles L. A. Clarke, Az...
In P2P VoD streaming systems, user behavior modeling is critical to help optimise user experience as well as system throughput. However, it still remains a challenging task due to ...
A wireless packet network is considered in which each user transmits a stream of packets to its destination. The transmit power of each user interferes with the transmission of al...
In this paper, we propose to replace the national identity card, currently used in many countries, by a personal device that allows its user to prove some binary statements about h...
Mobile devices are becoming an inseparable part of our lives and personalized location-based mobile services are gaining more and more popularity. The scope of this paper is to il...