In this paper, we propose Partition min-Hash (PmH), a novel hashing scheme for discovering partial duplicate images from a large database. Unlike the standard min-Hash algorithm that assumes a bag of words image representation, our approach utilizes the fact that duplicate regions among images are often localized. By theoretical analysis, .. more »

This paper reports our recent exploration of the layer-by-layer learning strategy for training a multi-layer generative model of patches of speech spectrograms. The top layer of the generative model learns binary codes that can be used for efficient compression of speech and could also be used for scalable speech recognition or rapid speech content .. more »

I had occasion to see my doctor this week.  What for is irrelevant, but somewhat the premise of this discussion. When I approached the registration desk of my physicians practice I was asked, in a loud voice: “Name”?  I respond, “Lesley Jordan...(read more).. more »

Account Activity panel, and choose to end any active session. This feature will help protect users from malicious strangers trying to hijack one’s account, as well as the somewhat common practice of mischievous friends editing one’s profile or making unauthorized communications. The account activity panel shows all of a user’s currently active.. more »

to get Facebook to say “no” to using coal-derived electricity at its new Prineville, Ore. data center. We’ve that Facebook would be using both renewable and non-renewable energy at the center. What’s more, the center is already doing a pretty good job of being environmentally-friendly by using naturally cold air to cool servers, an evaporat.. more »

Jack Fruh had success with a tip for fixing slow SMB file sharing in Snow Leopard, and shared an alternative method: Just wanted to say I tried the tip "DNS/Kerberos Setting workaround for slow SMB browsing." Like another reader, it cut approx 25 seconds off my time. (In my case, the delay is easy to measure repeatedly, as I have an Applescript .. more »

We extend our earlier work on deep-structured conditional random field (DCRF) and develop deep-structured hidden conditional random field (DHCRF). We investigate the use of this new sequential deep-learning model for phonetic recognition. DHCRF is a hierarchical model in which the final layer is a hidden conditional random field (HCRF) and the .. more »

The advance of GPS-enabled devices facilitates people to record their location histories with GPS traces, which imply human behaviors and preferences related to travel. In this paper, we perform two types of travel recommendations by mining multiple users’ GPS traces. The first is a generic one that recommends a user with top interesting lo.. more »

The August Cumulative Update (August CU) was released for Project Server 2010 earlier this week and I just wanted to highlight some changes in the packaging of the 2010 server rollups compared to the 2007 server rollups. The full set of server rollup packages is: These all contain any localization updates – but whereas in the 2007 CUs the server ro.. more »

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We’ve just released the The Facebook Global Monitor is our data report tracking Facebook’s audience growth around the world, and now includes an expanded leaderboard where we have begun tracking more than 60 new country markets that are seeing Facebook adoption and growth. The Global Monitor tracks Facebook’s international metrics, and provid.. more »

new security measures to prevent friend request spamming. Some users are being shown a “This Request Can’t Be Sent” pop-up if their request is deemed suspicious. To determine if a request is suspicious, Facebook takes into account how many mutual friends you and the person potentially receiving the request have. It also factors in whether any of you.. more »

For Macs running Snow Leopard, John Brigance recommends Cisco's Anyclient overCisco VPN Client: We quit using Cisco VPN Client for Mac here at UT Austin because it was too unreliable. We now use Cisco AnyConnect VPN Client for all our Macs running on Snow Leopard. You can check it out here. I never have a problem with it...Cross-Platform Web Help .. more »

On this blog we’ve repeatedly discussed enabling the "Same Markup" for Internet Explorer 9. Part of making "Same Markup" a reality involves supporting the right features in IE9 to make the same HTML, JavaScript, and CSS "just work" the same way they do in other browsers. Part of how IE9 contributes to enabling the "Same Markup" is through support fo.. more »

As discussed in previous blog posts, add-ons can have a material impact on browser users can make informed decisions about them. It is important to understand how add-ons arrive on a user’s system to begin with because browser performance is so important to site developers and to consumers. The notification and control that users have around the ad.. more »

While WiFi-based indoor localization is attractive, the need for a significant degree of pre-deployment effort is a key challenge. In this paper, we ask the question: "Can we perform indoor localization with no pre-deployment effort?" Our setting is an indoor space, such as an office building or a mall, with WiFi coverage but where we do not assume .. more »

We introduce a new descriptor for images which allows the construction of efficient and compact classifiers with good accuracy on object category recognition. The descriptor is the output of a large number of weakly trained object category classifiers on the image. The trained categories are selected from an ontology of visual concepts, but the .. more »

The BizSpark startup of the day is Retrevo, based in the US. Below you will find an interview with Manish Rathi, Co-Founder & VP-Marketing of Retrevo. All the best to them and congratulations for being the startup of the day! Tell us who you are and your role in the company: What did you do before creating your company? Before Retrevo, I was a .. more »

, our data service tracking Facebook's business and growth around the world. Please see Inside Facebook Gold to learn more about our complete data and analysis offering.] The United States has fully bounced back from a period of slow growth in June. Following , we’re now seeing a big gain of five million new monthly active users in August for Fa.. more »

in Atlanta, Georgia. Mark spoke about his experience with the MVP Award Program and provided listeners with a high level view who MVPs are and how they impact Dunn started out as a programmer and passionate about sharing information, he became active in user groups, investing into the community and helping wherever he could. He found himself moving .. more »