Editorial: Lifetime values and valuing customers — Who are you kidding?

Are you kidding, doc?

Vision therapy: are you kidding me? Problems with current studies.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Orthoptic exercises are routinely prescribed to treat symptoms of convergence insufficiency (CI). The type and duration of treatment tends to vary among providers as until recently, few strong randomized control studies have addressed the efficacy of convergence insufficiency management. The aim of this paper is to address these studies and discuss their limitations. ME...

Who are you?

Who Are You?

M any security mechanisms, including authorization, depend on the proper handling of identity, but it’s hard to get right. To understand why, we must examine, fundamentally, what identity is. One traditional answer is that an identity is a name. That’s unsatisfactory, for several reasons. First, a name points to an object—an entity—but is not itself that object. Second, authentication is needed...

Who Are You?

Most automatic recognition systems are focused on recognizing, given a single mug-shot of an individual, any new image of that individual. Most verification systems are designed to authenticate an identity provided by the user. However, the previous work rarely focus on the problem of detecting when a new individual, i.e. an unknown one, is present. The goal of the work presented in this paper ...