Evaluation of a recommender system algorithm is a challenging task due to the many possible scenarios in which such systems may be deployed. We have designed a new performance plot called the CROC curve with an associated statistic: the area under the curve. Our CROC curve supplements the widely used ROC curve in recommender system evaluation by discovering performance characteristics that stan...

Figure 1: Performance on a GTX 280 GPU of our adaptivemanifold filter (AM) versus the permutohedral lattice (PL), and the guided filter (GF). The vertical axis shows time, in seconds, to filter a 1 Megapixel RGB color image. The shaded areas represent performance changes when σr varies from 1 (bottom curve) to 0.05 (top curve). The guided filter performance curve, in dashed red, is based on per...

Soft storey building is popular due to the functional and aesthetic purpose, despite its weakness in resisting seismic excitation. Nonlinear Static (Pushover) Analysis (POA) is a time saving and simple assessment procedure prosposed in Eurocode 8 (EC8). However, its reliability in designing structure still remains a question. At the first stage, seismic performance of several building models us...