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Joint Optimization of Segmentation and Appearance Models

Many interactive image segmentation approaches use an objective function which includes appearance models as an unknown variable. Since the resulting optimization problem is NP-hard the segmentation and appearance are typically optimized separately, in an EM-style fashion. One contribution of this paper is to express the objective function purely in terms...

Tags: Segmentation, Optimization

White papers 2009-07-15

Adaptive Segmentation: HP Neoview Platform Breaks New Ground in Mixed Workload Management

Adaptive segmentation is one of the many advanced capabilities provided by the Neoview EDW platform to meet the rigorous demands of modern data warehousing environments. No other system provides this type of automated functionality capable of supporting a mix of thousands of users requiring fast response times for simple queries...

Tags: Segmentation, Hewlett-Packard Co., Business Intelligence, Data Mining, Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Marketing Research, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Management

White papers 2009-04-01

BET24 Cuts Costs and Improves Data Accuracy With Business Intelligence Solution

BET24 wanted to automate reporting of multiple and complex data sources to allow the Customer Relationship Management CRM team to reduce costs and the associated risks of human error and deploy a cost-effective business intelligence platform and achieve full operation within one month. The challenge was to enhance customer insight...

Tags: Segmentation, Oracle Corp., Dashboard, Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Business Intelligence, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Management, Software, Data Management

Case studies 2009-01-01

Understanding Your Customer: Segmentation Techniques for Gaining Customer Insight and Predicting Risk in the Telecom Industry

The explosion of customer data in the last twenty years has increased the need for data mining aimed at Customer Relationship Management CRM and understanding the customer. It is well known that the telecom sector consists of customers with a wide array of customer behaviors. These customers pose different risks,...

Tags: Segmentation, Technique, Customer, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking

White papers 2008-03-13

Feeling organs via a display screen

Computerized image analysis is used to extract information from images. It can be used in medical applications to determine the size of organs or to build 3-D models of organs before surgery. For example, a PhD candidate at Uppsala University, Sweden, has developed new technology to make easier to diagnose...

Tags: Segmentation, 3D, Organ, Feedback, Visualization, Uppsala University, Image, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-02-10

Reducing the Scope of Your PCI Audit: Innovative Network Segmentation Using Host Intrusion Defense

It has been more than three years since the first version of the Payment Card Industry PCI Data Security Standard DSS was released. Multiple validation deadlines for Level 1 Merchants have passed, but in terms of industry scope, the majority of merchants and card service providers affected by the PCI...

Tags: Segmentation, Payment, Network, Compliance, Third Brigade, PCI, Operational Accounting, Storage, Hardware, Finance

White papers 2007-12-06

Monocular Video Foreground/Background Segmentation by Tracking Spatial-Color Gaussian Mixture Models

This paper presents a new approach to segmenting monocular videos captured by static or hand-held cameras filming large moving non-rigid foreground objects. The foreground and background objects are modeled using Spatial-Color Gaussian Mixture Models SCGMM, and segmented using the graph cut algorithm, which minimizes a Markov random field energy function...

Tags: Segmentation, Algorithm, Modeling, Research & Development, Engineering, Business Operations

White papers 2006-11-30

Using Customer Segmentation to Deliver Targeted IT Solutions

Intel IT uses a consumer marketing technique called customer segmentation to provide the right IT solutions to the customers and increase productivity. Customer segmentation helps to understand needs, attitudes, behaviors, and the differences among Intel employees who use IT products and services. Applying segmentation data to the product planning process...

Tags: Segmentation, Information Technology, Intel Corp., Customer Segmentation, Intel IT, Strategy, Management

White papers 2005-10-01

Customer Segmentation by Using CALL SYMPUT, Arrays and DO Loops

Customer grouping or segmentation is a common task in the financial sector. Some customers might have only one product while others might have multiple products. Identifying customers with correct products will help to improve the business in areas such as cross selling. SAS offers many ways not only to customize...

Tags: Segmentation, Financial, Customer, SAS Institute, Financial Accounting, Finance

White papers 2005-03-09

Better errors in 2005

Preston Gralla has an interesting list of five things Microsoft won't do in 2005, but should. Worth a read, but one of the "should" items for Microsoft is also true of a great deal of open source software as well. Specifically, Gralla's advice to Microsoft to "introduce plain-English error...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, error code, segmentation, Preston Gralla, Microsoft Corp.

Blog posts 2005-01-04

Additional Resources

Download Accelerator Manager 4.1.4 (Windows)

Download Web video and music, accelerate, schedule, resume, recover, and manage Internet downloads. Download Accelerator Manager DAM is made for Internet file and social video, music, and more, downloading, from most media sites, like YouTube, etc. DAM is fast, light, easy to use, free and safe. DAM v4 releases MediaGrabber,...

Tags: Download Accelerator, Microsoft Windows, Tensons, Download Accelerator Manager

Software downloads 2009-11-14

Survey: Cloud confusion among IT could slow enterprise adoption

Security - Connectivity?Can the connectivity be guaranteed, if a glitchoccurs and thousands of customers are lefthanging saving $500 is hardly worth it.Plus, the security holes when dealing with data... Instead of worrying about....whether your are using the cloud or any other "buzz word" technology IT pros need only worry that...

Tags: Marketing research, information technology, good-IT pro, Well HERE, IT Pro, survey

Discussion threads 2009-11-09

MedINRIA 1.9 (Windows)

MedINRIA allows to process and analyze a large variety of magnetic resonance MR images including anatomical MRI, functional MRI fMRI, and diffusion tensor MRI (DT-MRI). MedINRIA was initially developed for medical experts, but may be used by anyone curious about medical images. Practically, MedINRIA is a suite of softwares, each...

Tags: 3D, Inria, Microsoft Windows, MedINRIA

Software downloads 2009-11-06

AnyMem 2.0 (Windows)

AnyMem is a user-friendly translation memory software. AnyMem uses portable translation memory format. It also supports import and export of TMX, standard translation memory exchange file format (TMX 1.1 and TMX 1.4). Convenient translation memory management: translation memory is stored in a single MEM file, for more convenient exchange. Export...

Tags: Window, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., AnyMem, Translation Memory, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Construction, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Software downloads 2009-09-21

Phishers introduce 'Chat-in-the-Middle' fraud tactic

Phishers don't just want to "bank with you", they also want to talk you into revealing the answers to your 'secret' questions, next to more sensitive information that would help them gain access to your online bank account. A new 'Chat-in-the-Middle' fraud tactic was recently discovered by...

Tags: Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-09-16

ActiveX Download Control 3.12 (Windows)

VersalSoft ActiveX Download Control is a client ActiveX control, you can use this downloader in the Web project or application project and easy to realize the batch download batch files from Internet/Intranet. ActiveX Download Control also supports downloads YouTube video and save to your local disc. Don't worry about unreliable,...

Tags: Download, Microsoft Windows, ActiveX, VersalSoft, VersalSoft ActiveX Download Control, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Middleware, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software

Software downloads 2009-09-13

Aktiv Download Manager 1.5 (Windows)

Aktiv Download Manager is a most needed tool for those looking impatiently for the next download. The application is developed to manage downloads, pause and resume downloads, queue downloads, or search for downloads. This software comes with an adaptive download accelerator, dynamic file segmentation, and multipart downloading technology to considerably...

Tags: Download, Microsoft Windows, Goforsharing, Aktiv Download Manager, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Networking, Management

Software downloads 2009-08-17

CRMWeb 2.5 (Windows)

CRMWeb is a flexible, efficient and easy to use CRM software solution for small and medium-sized companies. CRM Web is integrating all success relevant departments of your business: sales, marketing and customer service. Flexibility, integration, adaptability, performance and reduced total costs are the key features of our web-based CRM software...

Tags: Customer Service, Customer, Microsoft Windows, CRM, Misoft Systems, CRMWeb, CRM Web, Sales Strategy, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Product Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Sales Force Management, Marketing Research, Enterprise Software, Sales, Software, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-08-11

Spammers go multilingual, use automatic translation services

For years spammers relied on basic mass marketing concepts in an attempt to target everyone, everywhere, thereby sacrificing quality for quantity. Things changed, at least for some of them. Realizing the advantages of market segmentation, certain spammers started segmenting the databases of harvested or emails based on...

Tags: Spammer, Translation Service, Spam, Cyberthreats, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-07-28

PCI DSS Compliance and the Digi TransPort Router

This paper explains how Digi TransPort routers can be part of a PCI DSS compliant system. They comply with the PCI DSS version 1.2 requirements via these major features: Stateful inspection firewall, network segmentation via VLAN or Ethernet Port Isolation, MAC filtering to prevent unwanted client PCs on the network,...

Tags: Router, Network, Digi International, Authentication, PCI, IPSec, Networking, Security, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2009-07-27