The latest effective defense against code reuse attacks is fine-grained, per-process memory randomization. However, such process randomization prevents code sharing since there is no longer any identical code to share between processes. Without shared libraries, however, tremendous memory savings are forfeit. This drawback may hinder the adoption of fine-grained memory randomization. We present...

Given two images, we want to predict which exhibits a particular visual attribute more than the other—even when the two images are quite similar. For example, given two beach scenes, which looks more calm? Given two high-heeled shoes, which is more ornate? Existing relative attribute methods rely on global ranking functions. However, rarely will the visual cues relevant to a comparison be const...

We performed experiments on two fine-grained classification tasks using a state-of-the-art pipeline (descriptor + dictionary + LLC encoding + max pooling + linear SVM). We found that this standard pipeline out-performed a dictionary-free classification technique (stacked evidence trees) that was specifically designed for fine-grained classification. The success of the method depends on two fact...

Monolithic operating systems (OSes) are complex pieces of software that usually offer very little reliability and security guarantees. Faulty user-space applications can generally be restarted without affecting the existing concurrent communications but those involving the faulty processes. On the other hand, in a monolithic OS design, the kernel and all its components share a common address sp...

Most conventional text retrieval methods are designed to search for documents. However, users often do not require documents themselves, but are searching for specific information that may come from a large collection of texts quickly. To satisfy this need, we have developed a model and two methods for fine-grained searching. The unit of search in this model is called an atom, and it can be a s...

Hydroxyapatite (Ca10(PO4)6(OH)2) is one of the implants materials with medical applications due to its higher biocompatibility. The hydroxyapatite found complete utilization after proper preparation of composite. The influence of zirconia (ZrO2) on the phase composition and on mechanical properties of hydroxyapatite-zirconia composites has been previous investigated and reported. Hierarchical c...

The paper presents an emerging issue of fine-grained pedestrian action recognition that induces an advanced pre-crush safety to estimate a pedestrian intention in advance. The fine-grained pedestrian actions include visually slight differences (e.g., walking straight and crossing), which are difficult to distinguish from each other. It is believed that the fine-grained action recognition induce...

The introduction of concurrency complicates the already diicult task of large-scale programming. Concurrent object-oriented languages provide a mechanism, encapsulation, for managing the increased complexity of large-scale concurrent programs, thereby reducing the diiculty of large scale concurrent programming. In particular, ne-grained object-oriented approaches provide modularity through enca...

Databases are increasingly being used to store information covered by heterogeneous policies, which require support for access control with great flexibility. This has led to increasing interest in using fine-grained access control, where different cells in a relation may be governed by different access control rules. Although several proposals have been made to support fine-grained access cont...