Technical Reports (Computing Science)

2000

Nascimento, Mario, Chitkara, Vishal, Mastaller, Curt

Technical report TR00-18. Significant research has focused on determining efficient methodologies for retrieving images in large image databases. In this paper, we propose two variations of a new image abstraction technique based on signature bit-strings and an appropriate similarity metric. The...

2004

Oliveira, Stanley, Zaiane, Osmar

Technical report TR04-17. Preserving privacy of individuals when data are shared for clustering is a complex problem. The challenge is how to protect the underlying attribute values subjected to clustering without jeopardizing the similarity between data objects under analysis. To address this...

2002

Zaiane, Osmar, Nascimento, Mario, Oliveira, Stanley

Technical report TR02-01. Research in information hiding has grown explosively. A large number of techniques have been proposed to discourage copyright infringement, tampering and unauthorized distribution of digital media (e.g. video, audio, and images). In this paper, we provide an overview of...

2008

Nikolaidis, Ioanis, Nascimento, Mario, Malhotra, Baljeet

Technical report TR08-02. We consider the problem of vehicle classification using acoustic signals captured within a sensor network. The sensors perform collaborative decision and/or data fusion in a distributed and energy efficient manner. We present a distributed cluster-based algorithm,...

2003

Oliveira, Stanley, Zaiane, Osmar

Technical report TR03-12. Despite its benefit in a wide range of applications, data mining techniques also have raised a number of ethical issues. Some such issues include those of privacy, data security, intellectual property rights, and many others. In this paper, we address the privacy problem...

2009

Harms, Janelle, Vogt, Ryan, Nascimento, Mario

Technical report TR09-07. By eavesdropping on a user's query in a sensor network, an adversary can deduce both the user's location and his/her area of interest. In many domains it is desirable to guarantee privacy of both places. Relying on the principle of k-anonymity, we propose an effective...

2013

Nascimento, Mario, Wang, Zhiyu, MacGregor, Mike

Mobile objects can be equipped with sensors enabling them to collect data, as well as answer queries remotely and in real-time. For that, one needs to be able to effectively route queries from a base station to the queried object in an efficient way, i.e., with minimum energy-cost and/or minimum...

2009

Alencar, Romulo, Nascimento, Mario, Brayner, Angelo

Technical report TR09-05. It is a well known fact that minimizing energy consumption in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is crucial for its usability; and minimizing the flow of data is one way to achieve that. Most WSN models assume the existence of a base station where query results could in...

2005

Nascimento, Mario, Sander, Joerg, Coman, Alexandru

Technical report TR05-23. Wireless sensor networks are made of autonomous devices that are able to collect information, store it, process it and share it with other devices. Such framework can be used to efficiently query spatiotemporal data, e.g., for monitoring humidity and temperature levels...