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48 results for cloud computing

In recent decades, the use of 3D point clouds has been widespread in computer industry. The development of techniques in analyzing point clouds is increasingly important. In particular, mapping of point clouds has been a challenging problem. In this paper, we develop a discrete analogue of the Teichmüller extremal mapp…

2015-11-20abs ↗pdf ↗

SPINN optimizes neural network inference on devices and cloud.

problem Inference on mobile devices is challenging due to high computational demands and dynamic connectivity.
method Synergistic progressive inference with a novel scheduler.
result SPINN achieves up to 2x higher throughput and reduces server cost by up to 6.8x.

Develops a method for conformal parameterization of point clouds without fixed boundaries.

problem Desirable distortion in fixed-boundary parameterizations of point clouds.
method Free-boundary conformal parameterization method involving approximation of point cloud Laplacian and boundary treatment.
result High-quality point cloud meshing achieved through the proposed method.

Serverless cloud computing speeds up double machine learning model estimation.

problem Efficiently estimating double machine learning models with minimal cloud resource management.
method Serverless computing with AWS Lambda for repeated cross-fitting.
result Demonstrates significant reduction in estimation times and costs.

Simple policy outperforms complex ones in cloud auto-scaling.

problem Predicting resource scaling for large-scale cloud applications with limited deployment throughput.
method Probabilistic workload forecast for auto-scaling decisions based on risk aversion.
result The proposed policy outperforms sophisticated and simple benchmark policies in real-world and synthetic data.

Extracts geometric information from point-clouds for multiclass classification.

problem Multiclass Classification with labeled point-clouds.
method Stochastic partial orderings and label embedding trees.
result Computes multiscale geometries for explainable prediction and error-free labeling.

Estimating boundaries from point clouds with improved accuracy and rigorous error estimates.

problem Identifying the boundary of a domain from point cloud samples.
method Developed new estimators for normal vectors, distances, and boundary tests; provided error estimates.
result Efficient and accurate estimators for boundary properties on point clouds.

In cloud computing environments with many virtual machines, containers, and other systems, an epidemic of malware can be highly threatening to business processes. In this vision paper, we introduce a hierarchical approach to performing malware detection and analysis using several recent advances in machine learning on …

2019-12-27abs ↗pdf ↗

A hybrid neural network optimizes AI deployment on edge and cloud for energy efficiency.

problem Energy and resource constraints in edge devices for deep learning models.
method Conditionally deep hybrid neural network with quantized layers at edge and full-precision layers at cloud.
result Early classification at the edge reduces energy consumption by 5.5x on CIFAR-10 dataset.

A new method for computing shape barycenters from point clouds using Procrustes-Wasserstein distance.

problem Computing representative shapes from point clouds with precise alignment and shape preservation.
method Developed a new distance metric (Procrustes-Wasserstein) and algorithms for computing barycenters.
result Superior performance in precise alignment and shape preservation compared to existing OT approaches.

Thanks to the advances in machine learning, data-driven analysis tools have become valuable solutions for various applications. However, there still remain essential challenges to develop effective data-driven methods because of the need to acquire a large amount of data and to have sufficient computing power to handle…

2018-07-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Robustly computes intrinsic coordinates on point clouds using resampling and averaging.

problem Computing intrinsic coordinates on noisy or outlier-prone point clouds.
method Subsample data, vary hyperparameters, cluster candidate embeddings, identify representative embeddings, and average them using Procrustes analysis.
result Robust to noise and outliers, validated on synthetic and real data.

Enhanced 3D shape analysis using information geometry.

problem Challenges in comparing 3D point clouds due to their unstructured nature and complex geometry.
method Information geometric framework for 3D point cloud shape analysis using Gaussian Mixture Models (GMMs) on a statistical manifold. Proposed MSKL divergence with upper and lower bounds.
result MSKL provides stable and monotonically varying values that directly reflect geometric variation, outperforming traditional distances and existing KL approximations.

The concept of a Point Cloud has played an increasingly important role in many areas of Engineering, Science, and Mathematics. Examples are: LIDAR, 3D-Printing, Data Analysis, Computer Graphics, Machine Learning, Mathematical Visualization, Numerical Analysis, and Monte Carlo Methods. Entering point cloud into Google r…

2016-11-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Detects backdoors in outsourced models by replicating training steps across multiple servers.

problem Detecting backdoors in models trained on cloud providers without prior knowledge.
method Replicate training steps across multiple servers to identify deviations and malicious updates.
result 99.6% accuracy in identifying backdoored models out of 50% malicious providers.

New method calibrates probabilistic linear solver for online coverage guarantees.

problem Uncertainty in probabilistic linear solver solutions without coverage guarantees.
method Online conformal prediction-PLS (OCP-PLS) method to calibrate uncertainty thresholds.
result Validates online calibration of uncertainty thresholds via online conformal prediction.

SCENE-Net improves 3D point cloud segmentation with low resource usage and transparency.

problem Lack of resources and transparency in 3D semantic segmentation models.
method SCENE-Net uses signature shapes identified via GENEOs to achieve semantic segmentation with minimal resources.
result SCENE-Net achieves comparable IoU to state-of-the-art methods with less data and computational resources.

Advances in deep neural networks (DNN) greatly bolster real-time detection of anomalous IoT data. However, IoT devices can barely afford complex DNN models due to limited computational power and energy supply. While one can offload anomaly detection tasks to the cloud, it incurs long delay and requires large bandwidth …

2020-01-10abs ↗pdf ↗

In this work, we explore the idea that effective generative models for point clouds under the autoencoding framework must acknowledge the relationship between a continuous surface, a discretized mesh, and a set of points sampled from the surface. This view motivates a generative model that works by progressively deform…

2019-12-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Deep neural networks require large amounts of resources which makes them hard to use on resource constrained devices such as Internet-of-things devices. Offloading the computations to the cloud can circumvent these constraints but introduces a privacy risk since the operator of the cloud is not necessarily trustworthy.…

2018-05-30abs ↗pdf ↗

DEEPLY improves cloud service partitioning across multiple datasets and goals.

problem Finding a generally useful method to partition monolithic enterprise applications into cloud-based microservices.
method DEEPLY extends CO-GCN with a novel loss function and hyper-parameter optimization.
result DEEPLY outperforms prior work across multiple datasets and goals.

The introduction of cheap RGB-D cameras, stereo cameras, and LIDAR devices has given the computer vision community 3D information that conventional RGB cameras cannot provide. This data is often stored as a point cloud. In this paper, we present a novel method to apply the concept of convolutional neural networks to th…

2017-07-20abs ↗pdf ↗

PILNO uses neural operators to solve PDEs efficiently on point clouds.

problem Solving partial differential equations (PDEs) on point cloud data efficiently.
method Physics-informed low-rank neural operator framework combining low-rank kernel approximations and an encoder-decoder architecture.
result PILNO efficiently approximates solution operators of PDEs on point cloud data, satisfying PDE constraints and boundary conditions.

Proposes a robust 3D classification method for sparse point clouds.

problem Invariance to rotation, positional shift, scaling, and robustness to point sparsity in point cloud classification.
method Introduces a graph-based feature learning approach with an end-to-end neural network.
result Significantly improves 3D object classification and retrieval tasks with sparse point clouds.

A JAX toolbox solves optimal transport problems for point clouds and histograms.

problem Optimal transport problems between point clouds and histograms.
method Automatic and custom reverse mode differentiation, vectorization, just-in-time compilation, and accelerators support.
result Solves a wide range of optimal transport problems including regularized OT, barycenters, Gromov-Wasserstein, and low-rank solvers.

In this contribution, we present a novel approach for segmenting laser radar (lidar) imagery into geometric time-height cloud locations with a fully convolutional network (FCN). We describe a semi-supervised learning method to train the FCN by: pre-training the classification layers of the FCN with image-level annotati…

2018-05-02abs ↗pdf ↗