The term metadata is often defined as “data about data” but that circular reference does little to describe what constitutes metadata and how it is used. Here, we will focus on metadata as conceived to support the concepts of a service-oriented architecture and, in particular, as it relates to the DoD NetCentric Data Strategy and the NCES core services; more specifically, what types and structu...

Cross-view video understanding is an important yet underexplored area in computer vision. In this paper, we introduce a joint parsing framework that integrates view-centric proposals into scene-centric parse graphs that represent a coherent scene-centric understanding of cross-view scenes. Our key observations are that overlapping fields of views embed rich appearance and geometry correlations ...

The information-centric nature of today’s main Internet use cases contrasts the node-centric paradigm of the Internet architecture. This results in problems like inefficient information dissemination and limited data availability. To tackle these problems, information-centric networking has become an important research area. In this paper, we present a prototype of an information-centric networ...

A student-centric research education program with the active participation of undergraduate students is initiated. The aim is to imbibe ―responsible citizenship behavior‖ in them so that each member becomes conscious and well trained to take up environmental-related issues and challenges for long-term sustainability of the ecosystem. In this work, we report spectrophotometer-based estimation of...

Typically a user prefers an item (e.g., a movie) because she likes certain features of the item (e.g., director, genre, producer). This observation motivates us to consider a featurecentric recommendation approach to item recommendation: instead of directly predicting the rating on items, we predict the rating on the features of items, and use such ratings to derive the rating on an item. This ...

For the rest of the semester, we will take a closer look at each of the components of the passive SONAR equation. The goal is for each of you to enhance your understanding about each of the components and understand what actions can minimize or maximize the factors as appropriate to your tactical undersea warfare situation. Undersea warfare is a complex process where those with the best underst...