Current best local descriptors are learned on a large dataset of matching and non-matching keypoint pairs. However, data of this kind is not always available since detailed keypoint correspondences can be hard to establish. On the other hand, we can often obtain labels for pairs of keypoint bags. For example, keypoint bags extracted from two images of the same object under different views form ...

The mobile wireless environment can be challenging for multimedia applications, with poor performance and handover issues causing service degradation. In this paper, a modified version of the new IETF transport protocol, SCTP, is shown to improve the performance of a voice-like application in an environment where two wireless LAN’s overlap. It does this by monitoring both networks and selecting...

In this paper, we study the task of detecting semantic parts of an object, e.g., a wheel of a car, under partial occlusion. We propose that all models should be trained without seeing occlusions while being able to transfer the learned knowledge to deal with occlusions. This setting alleviates the difficulty in collecting an exponentially large dataset to cover occlusion patterns and is more es...

Weakly supervised object detection (WSOD), which is the problem of learning detectors using only image-level labels, has been attracting more and more interest. However, this problem is quite challenging due to the lack of location supervision. To address this issue, this paper integrates saliency into a deep architecture, in which the location information is explored both explicitly and implic...

Self-stabilizing protocols must begin operating correctly even when started from an arbitrary state. The end-to-end problem is to ensure reliable message delivery across an unreliable network under the weakest possible guarantee from the network { that the sender and receiver are never separated by a cut of permanently failed links. In this paper we present the rst self-stabilizing end-to-end p...

As the field of remote imaging spectrometry grows, interest increases in applications that require the data be “corrected” to surface reflectance. However, the utility of the data for these applications will be limited by the accuracy to which the correction can be performed. Two approaches to atmospheric compensation are reviewed and applied to airbome spectrometer data to study their error ch...

There is a growing need to support voice communication in wireless sensor networks for use in emergency scenarios. In this paper we develop an end-to-end rescue communication voice gateway to provide a stable voice transmission over Bluetooth and Zigbee networks for mountain climber. The performance analyses, in terms of end-to-end throughput, packet loss rate, jitter and delay, show that our i...

In Multihop Wireless Networks, traffic forwarding capability of each node varies according to its level of contention. Each node can yield its channel access opportunity to its neighbouring nodes, so that all the nodes can evenly share the channel and have similar forwarding capability. In this manner the wireless channel is utilized effectively, which is achieved using Contention Window Adapta...

The migration of the Internet from classic computer communication to a platform for multimedia applications with real-time communication requires end-to-end improvements of the network-level service. The proposal known as Differentiated Services is a very promising approach for implementing quality of service in the Internet and is being discussed and developed. The challenge is to deliver end-...