Crowdsourcing Identification of License Violations

Crowdsourcing Identification of License Violations

Free and open source software (FOSS) has created a large pool of source codes that can be easily copied to create new applications. However, a copy should preserve copyright notice and license of the original file unless the license explicitly permits such a change. Through software evolution, it is challenging to keep original licenses or choose proper licenses. As a result, there are many pot...

Vehicle License Plate Identification & Recognition

__________________________________________________________________________ Existing vehicle license plate identification and recognition systems are potent for either their accuracy or speed but not a combination of both. The algorithm proposed in this dissertation attempts to achieve this fine balance between the accuracy and speed that such a system must posses. The mathematical morphology op...

Identification of Saudi Arabian License Plates

Detecting Creative Commons License Violations on Images on the World Wide Web

Creative Commons is a non-profit organization that has been striving to provide simple, uniform, and understandable licenses that content creators can use to issue their content under. These licenses provide a solution to the problem of copyright on the Web, while ensuring that the culture of reusing existing works to foster creativity is not hindered. There are many online tools in photo shari...

Crowdsourcing Backdoor Identification for Combinatorial Optimization

We will show how human computation insights can be key to identifying so-called backdoor variables in combinatorial optimization problems. Backdoor variables can be used to obtain dramatic speedups in combinatorial search. Our approach leverages the complementary strength of human input, based on a visual identification of problem structure, crowdsourcing, and the power of combinatorial solvers...