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Stationary Features and Cat Detection
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Stationary Features and Cat Detection

Most discriminative techniques for detecting instances from object categories in still images consist of looping over a partition of a pose space with dedicated binary classifiers. The efficiency o... read more »

Level: any Dec 29, 2008 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Spam, Phishing, and Online Scams: A View from the Network-Level
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Spam, Phishing, and Online Scams: A V...

The Internet is overrun with spam: Recent estimates suggest that spam constitutes about 95% of all email traffic. Beyond simply being a nuisance, spam exhausts network resources and can also serve ... read more »

Level: any Dec 23, 2008 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Research Scientist – Assaf schuster: A Geometric Approach to Detecting Global Properties over Distributed Data
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Research Scientist – Assaf schuster: ...

A basic construct in many distributed systems is the detection of global properties over distributed data. Examples include a wireless sensor network where we would like to be alerted whenever the ... read more »

Level: any Dec 23, 2008 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Online Maps: A Walk in Space
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Online Maps: A Walk in Space

Spatial orientation is central to peoples senses. Symbols, icons and images in space make up what we look at. Diagrams maps and images can serve different purposes; lots of kinds of maps exist. In ... read more »

Level: any Dec 23, 2008 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Research Scientist – Romain Thibaux
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Research Scientist – Romain Thibaux

Nonparametric Bayesian methods are a generalization of probabilistic models where the prior distribution can be a stochastic process, a distribution over a possibly uncountably infinite number of r... read more »

Level: any Dec 23, 2008 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
CREA – Saving Tropical Ecosystems
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CREA – Saving Tropical Ecosystems

Michael will talk about the work that his organization CREA is carrying out in Panama to conserve endangered tropical forests. Specifically the talk will deal with the link between human poverty an... read more »

Level: any Dec 23, 2008 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Seattle Conference on Scalability: CARMEN: A Scalable Science Cloud
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Seattle Conference on Scalability: CA...

CARMEN is a $9M project building a scalable science cloud. Its focus is on supporting neuroscientists who will use it to store, share and analyze 100s of TBs of data. Understanding how the brain wo... read more »

Level: any Dec 23, 2008 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
NASA and Global Change
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NASA and Global Change

Almost exactly forty years ago, aboard NASA's Apollo VIII spacecraft, the first humans to leave our world took perhaps the most important and influential photographs of all time: The full Earth (ta... read more »

Level: any Dec 18, 2008 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the WiiRemote
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Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays...

Using the infrared camera in the Wii remote and a head mounted sensor bar (two IR LEDs), you can accurately track the location of your head and render view dependent images on the screen. This effe... read more »

Level: any Dec 17, 2008 Votes: 0 Roman Dmytrenko

 
How Cultural Competency and Geoleadership Merge
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How Cultural Competency and Geoleader...

This presentation will highlight the publication of the new book, Global Business Leadership (Elsevier, 2009) by examining the dynamic role of leadership from an intercultural perspective. Learning... read more »

Level: any Dec 18, 2008 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk