Summarization, an essential technique for efficiently condensing extensive textual content into concise versions, has become increasingly valuable in the face of the information deluge characterizing the modern digital ...

Egocentric videos are recorded in a hands-free, always-on, under enhanced privacy-sensitive scenario and are often collected from day to weeks. For efficient consumption, such videos require robust video analysis techniques ...

It is common knowledge that encryption is a useful tool for providing confidentiality. Authentication, however, is often overlooked. Authentication provides data integrity; it helps ensure that any tampering with or ...

Enabling support for information exchange has a great impact on the development of different sections of the society. Mobile phones using telecommunication services have enabled such support in several scenarios including ...

Code variants represent alternative implementations of a code snippet, where each alternative provides the same functionality, but has different properties that make some of them better suited to the overall project ...

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable success across various machine learning and computer vision tasks, especially when abundant training samples are available. In Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) research, ...

In buildings, air conditioning consumes a significant proportion of the aggregate electricity bill. Specifically, in residential and small-scale commercial buildings, people prefer to use room-level ACs (AC stands for Air ...

The traditional way of clustering is first extracting the feature vectors according to domain-specific knowledge and then employing a clustering algorithm on the extracted features. Deep learning approaches attempt to ...

The rapidly growing demand for energy poses one of the biggest challenges in our society. This challenge is critical not just for the power utilities but also for the environment as it leads to increased carbon footprint ...

Passwords are the most widely deployed means of human-computer authentication since the early 1960s. The use of passwords, which are usually low in entropy, is delicate in cryptography because of the possibility of launching ...