The functioning of a multimodal integration system requires metadata, such as ontologies, that describe media resources and media components. Such metadata are generally application and domain dependent, which causes difficulties when media need to be shared across domains. Thus, there is a need for a mechanism that can relate the key terms and/or media components in data from different sources...

Learning Decompositional Shape Models from Examples Alex Levinshtein Master of Science Graduate Department of Computer Science University of Toronto 2005 We present an algorithm for automatically constructing a decompositional shape model from examples. Unlike current approaches to structural model acquisition, in which one-to-one correspondences among appearance-based features are used to cons...

Software is a class of electronic object which is by its very nature digital, and the preservation of software is often a vital prerequisite to the preservation of other electronic objects. However, software has many characteristics that make preserving it substantially more challenging than for many other types of digital object. Software is inherently complex, normally composed of a very larg...

We show that the full version of the so-called ‘rural hospital theorem’ (Roth, 1986) generalizes to many-to-many matching where agents on both sides of the market have separable and substitutable preferences.

Many applications demand availability. Unfortunately, software failures greatly reduce system availability. Previous approaches for surviving software failures suffer from several limitations, including requiring application restructuring, failing to address deterministic software bugs, unsafely speculating on program execution, and requiring a long recovery time. This paper proposes an innovat...

A multi-modality image fusion can process images of certain organs or issues which were collected from diverse medical imaging equipment. The fusion can extract complementary information and integrate into images with more comprehensive information. The multi-modality image fusion can provide image that was combined with anatomical and physiological information for doctors and bring convenience...