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Technical Perspective: Finding People in Depth

The following article by Shotton et al. describes a landmark computer vision system that takes a single depth image containing a person and automatically estimates...

Real-Time Human Pose Recognition in Parts from Single Depth Images
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Real-Time Human Pose Recognition in Parts from Single Depth Images

We propose a new method to quickly and accurately predict human pose — the 3-D positions of body joints — from a single depth image, without depending on information...

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Technical Perspective: SQL on an Encrypted Database

There is some risk in trusting the cloud providers with sensitive data. Why not encrypt the data stored in cloud services?

CryptDB: Processing Queries on an Encrypted Database
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CryptDB: Processing Queries on an Encrypted Database

An ideal solution to satisfying the dual goals of protecting data confidentiality and running computations is to enable a server to compute over encrypted data,...

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Technical Perspective: Innovative Interaction: From Concept to the Wild

The history of the relationship between writing systems and technology is as long as it is varied. Likewise, the challenge of entering text using portable gadgets...

The Word-Gesture Keyboard
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The Word-Gesture Keyboard: Reimagining Keyboard Interaction

As computing technologies expanded beyond the confines of the desktop, the need for effective text entry methods alternative to the ubiquitous desktop keyboards...

Searching the Village
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Searching the Village: Models and Methods For Social Search

With Aardvark, a social search engine, users ask a question, either by IM, e-mail, Web input, text message, or voice. Aardvark then routes the question to the person...

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Technical Perspective: Who Knows?: Searching For Expertise on the Social Web

It is difficult to remember what people had to do to find the answer to a question before the Web. One option might be to call a friend who might know the answer...

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Technical Perspective: Visual Reconstruction

Nearly 460,000 Flickr pictures were used to create detailed three-dimensional geometry and colors of famous landmarks and...

Building Rome in a Day
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Building Rome in a Day

We present a system that can reconstruct 3D geometry from large, unorganized collections of photographs. Our experimental results demonstrate that it is possible...

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Technical Perspective: Making Browser Extensions Secure

Vulnerabilities in browsers and their extensions have become the primary venue through which cyber criminals compromise the security...

Vetting Browser Extensions For Security Vulnerabilities with VEX
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Vetting Browser Extensions For Security Vulnerabilities with VEX

The browser has become the de facto platform for everyday computation and a popular target for attackers of computer systems. Among the many potential attacks that...

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Technical Perspective: Skintroducing the Future

Two critical goals for mobile devices seem intrinsically in conflict. For carrying, the smaller the better. Yet for...

Skinput
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Skinput: Appropriating the Skin as an Interactive Canvas

Skinput is a technology that appropriates the skin as an input surface by analyzing mechanical vibrations that propagate through the body. Specifically, we resolve...

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Technical Perspective: Sketches Get Sketchier

Are data synopses — such as the hash-based sketches discussed by Li and König — still needed for querying massive...

Theory and Applications of <i>b</i>-Bit Minwise Hashing
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Theory and Applications of b-Bit Minwise Hashing

Efficient (approximate) computation of set similarity in very large datasets is a common task with many applications inminwise hashing...

Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets
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Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets

Dremel is a scalable, interactive ad hoc query system for analysis of read-only nested data. By combining multilevel execution trees and columnar data layout, it...

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Technical Perspective: Data Analysis at Astonishing Speed

The importance of data analysis has never been clearer. Globe-spanning scientific collaborations are exploring...

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Technical Perspective: The Quest For a Logic For Polynomial-Time Computation

The interaction between computation and logic goes back to the beginnings of computer science with the development of computability theory...

From Polynomial Time Queries to Graph Structure Theory
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From Polynomial Time Queries to Graph Structure Theory

We give a logical characterization of the polynomial-time properties of graphs with excluded minors.
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