Spare-Time Specialist

Spare Time Activity Sheets from Photo Albums

Given arbitrary pictures, we explore the possibility of using new techniques from computer vision and artificial intelligence to create customized visual games on-the-fly. This includes coloring books, link-the-dot and spot-the-difference popular games. The feasibility of these systems is discussed and we describe prototype implementation that work well in practice in an automatic or semi-autom...

Merging Time Series with Specialist Experts

The paper describes an application of specialist experts techniques to prediction with side information. We pick vicinities in the side information domain to create elementary time series, use standard prediction techniques to predict for those elementary series, and then merge the predictions using specialist experts methods. Prediction with expert advice bounds ensure that optimal vicinities ...

How to Attack Biometric Systems in Your Spare Time

Biometric systems were proposed and developed to provide a better and stronger factor of authentication. Such systems authenticate individuals based on physical and behavioral traits such as fingerprints, iris, face, palm print, hand geometry, voice, etc. The use of biometric traits to replace existing passwords or as access keys has proven to be highly secure against physical attacks. It is a ...

On exploiting spare capacity in hard real-time systems

Waiting time for specialist consultation in Tehran.

BACKGROUND Waiting time is an important indicator of patient satisfaction and the quality of care. The aim of this study is to determine the waiting time in physician offices in Tehran, Iran.   METHODS This was a cross-sectional study. The target population of this study consisted of specialist and subspecialist offices in Tehran. We used a census sampling method to study the population. Data...