Abstract: This paper presents a dataset-level evaluation of six lossless compression and data transformation techniques applied to visual-cryptographic (VC) shares derived from QR codes. We processed ...

Abstract: Data compression is becoming critical for storing scientific data because many scientific applications need to store large amounts of data and post process this data for scientific discovery ...

Google is changing how you share images. It replaces the older option for downloading images before sharing with the option to share pictures with public links. Whether that improves sharing or causes ...

Do you remember the early days of social media? The promise of connection, of democratic empowerment, of barriers crumbling and gates opening? In those heady days, the co-founder of Twitter said that ...

The cutting edge art that gives viewers a window into the future is now on exhibit at the Toledo Museum of Art. And that future looks a lot like the past. As the Museum Director Adam Levine told those ...

First, I want to thank you for this amazing project, and for all the support you consistently provide to the community. Now, regarding the issue: I have been experiencing unusually long processing ...

FastLanes is a project initiated at CWI, intended as a foundation for next-generation big data formats. In this first paper on FastLanes, we focus on significantly improving data decoding performance ...