The Sa Chog

CHoG: Compressed Histogram of Gradients

Establishing visual correspondences is an essential component of many computer vision problems, and is often done with robust, local feature-descriptors. Transmission and storage of these descriptors are of critical importance in the context of mobile distributed camera networks and large indexing problems. We propose a framework for computing low bit-rate feature descriptors with a 20× reducti...

SA combines ' the absurd , the important '

Monday night's SA meeting served up a n in te res t ing combination of the absurd and the important. Among the topics of discussion were budgets , resolut ions, and circuses. The first item of business was the approva l of the C a m p a n i l e budget . Af ter listening to Campanile editor Wiley Sanders give a brief descr ipt ion of where the money was going, the Senate voted to approve the bud...

Improved search heuristics for the sa-tree

The sa-tree is an interesting metric space indexing structure that is inspired by the Voronoi diagram. In essence, the sa-tree records a portion of the Delaunay graph of the data set, a graph whose vertices are the Voronoi cells, with edges between adjacent cells. An improvement is presented on the original search strategy for the sa-tree. This consists of details on the intuition behind the im...

SA election gamers record turnout

Mazel tov! Rice will offer a new minor in Jewish s tud ies beg inn ing this fall. The minor, which was approved by the Faculty Sena te last week, is the start of a long-term effort to bring a ful l-f ledged Jewish s tud ies program to Rice. Professor of Judaic Studies Gregory Kaplan, a long with Professor in Biblical Studies Matthais Henze, both members of the Religious Studies Depar tment , sp...

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