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Using Computer Vision to Study Society: Methods and Challenges

32-G449 (KIva/Patel)

  Abstract: Targeted socio-economic policies require an accurate understanding of a country's demographic makeup. To that end, the United States spends more than 1 billion dollars a year gathering census…

Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China’s Great Firewall

32-141

Abstract: As authoritarian governments around the world develop sophisticated technologies for controlling information, many observers have predicted that these controls would be ineffective because they are easily thwarted and evaded…

Local Geometric Analysis and Applications

32-D677

Abstract: Local geometric analysis is a method to define a coordinate system in a small neighborhood in the space of distributions over a given alphabet. It is a powerful technique…


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