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Novel Dense Stereo Algorithms For High-Quality Depth Estimation From Images, Liang Wang Jan 2012

Novel Dense Stereo Algorithms For High-Quality Depth Estimation From Images, Liang Wang

Theses and Dissertations--Computer Science

This dissertation addresses the problem of inferring scene depth information from a collection of calibrated images taken from different viewpoints via stereo matching. Although it has been heavily investigated for decades, depth from stereo remains a long-standing challenge and popular research topic for several reasons. First of all, in order to be of practical use for many real-time applications such as autonomous driving, accurate depth estimation in real-time is of great importance and one of the core challenges in stereo. Second, for applications such as 3D reconstruction and view synthesis, high-quality depth estimation is crucial to achieve photo realistic results. …


Checkpointing And Recovery In Distributed And Database Systems, Jiang Wu Jan 2011

Checkpointing And Recovery In Distributed And Database Systems, Jiang Wu

Theses and Dissertations--Computer Science

A transaction-consistent global checkpoint of a database records a state of the database which reflects the effect of only completed transactions and not the re- sults of any partially executed transactions. This thesis establishes the necessary and sufficient conditions for a checkpoint of a data item (or the checkpoints of a set of data items) to be part of a transaction-consistent global checkpoint of the database. This result would be useful for constructing transaction-consistent global checkpoints incrementally from the checkpoints of each individual data item of a database. By applying this condition, we can start from any useful checkpoint of …


A Secure Online Payment System, Shristi Pant Jan 2011

A Secure Online Payment System, Shristi Pant

Theses and Dissertations--Computer Science

An online payment system allows a customer to make a payment to an online merchant or a service provider. Payment gateways, a channel between customers and payment processors, use various security tools to secure a customer’s payment information, usually debit or credit card information, during an online payment. However, the security provided by a payment gateway cannot completely protect a customer’s payment information when a merchant also has the ability to obtain the payment information in some form. Furthermore, not all merchants provide a secure payment environment to their customers and, despite having a standard payment policy, adhere to it. …