We present a method for detecting common human actions in video, common to athletics and surveillance, using intuitive sketches and motion cues. The framework presented in this paper is an automated end-to-end system which (1) interprets the sketch input, (2) generates a query video based on motion cues, and (3) incorporates a new contentbased action descriptor for matching. We apply our method...

We introduce a neural network with a recurrent attention model over a possibly large external memory. The architecture is a form of Memory Network [23] but unlike the model in that work, it is trained end-to-end, and hence requires significantly less supervision during training, making it more generally applicable in realistic settings. It can also be seen as an extension of RNNsearch [2] to th...

An effort is underway to enable digital cinema distribution with new products and new standards covering a wide range of technology. Exhibitors, studios, equipment manufacturers, and others involved in this effort require a universal, long-term digital cinema standard. Complicating the drive toward a single standard, however, are two issues: 1) not all players have the same priorities in specif...

Software testing research traditionally focuses on module testing rather than integration testing. Thus, many techniques are available to address module testing, but few are available for integration testing. Unfortunately, in practice, integration testing is often more important and more time consuming than module testing. For example, during the recent Department of Defense (DoD) Y2K testing ...

Embedded systems that require high performance hardware for signal processing, optimization, and control have historically relied on optimized fixed-point algorithms deployed on low-power microprocessors and/or digital signal processors. However, the sensing and actuation interfaces in such systems increasingly rely on oversampled, single-bit sigma-deltamodulated (SDM) representations of data i...

Raising software abstraction and re-use levels are key success factors for producing quality software products. Modeldriven architecture (MDA) is an OMG initiative following this trend by mapping a conceptual model of application specified in platform independent model (PIM), to one or more platform specific models (PSM) automatically. Because there is little previous work tackling the developm...

Traditionally, the kernel has provided extremely limited protection of network communications. This is especially nettlesome since network connections are the conduits through which the computer systems are most vulnerable. IPSec is now widely available to protect network connections, encrypting network communications in the kernel. But cryptography alone is insufficient to implement end-to-end...