In this project, we investigate how robust and distinctive SIFT descriptors are, when they are projected and binarized using so called Random Projections and a simple sign function. The main goal of ...

We've spent the past several days reiterating and lamenting the onset of the holiday trading doldrums--a time of year that sees vastly lower volumes/liquidity ...

International migration is a recurrent phenomenon that has grown rapidly over the past two decades. This paper examines the role of agricultural distortions in shaping emigration patterns and ...

Abstract: Most of the transfer-based adversarial attack methods suffer from large perceptual distortions, i.e., visible artifacts, when the attack success rate is relatively high. It is worth noting ...

An amusing aspect of all this griping is that, were Democrats in charge, they’d be passing a bill that shared the megabill’s core feature: an extension of nearly all the current tax rates (save the ...

Abstract: Adversarial examples of deep neural networks are receiving ever increasing attention because they help in understanding and reducing the sensitivity to their input. This is natural given the ...

Social Distortion is proof that sometimes, you can go home again. As Mike Ness, frontman for the Orange County punk rock legends revealed, it wasn't always that way, when it came to Fullerton, ...

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr is taking a hard line against broadcast TV stations accused of bias against Republicans and President Trump. To pressure broadcasters, Carr is ...

Cognitive distortions, or thinking errors, can take a toll on our mental health. Here are five such thinking patterns and ways to overcome them. We are all vulnerable to certain “thinking errors,” ...

Traditional psychological counseling, often conducted in person, remains limited to individuals actively seeking help for psychological concerns. In contrast, online automated counseling presents a ...

Alice in Wonderland syndrome (AIWS) is a neurological condition characterized by perceptual distortions, most of which are visual in nature (metamorphopsias). Over the past decade there has been a ...

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) top Republican Brendan Carr claimed the agency is taking a recent formal complaint seriously over CBS’ alleged "distortion" of its "60 Minutes" interview with ...