Testing properties of sparse images

Proceedings - Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 468-477

  Tsur, Gilad ^a   Ron, Dana ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Images; Property testing; Sublinear algorithms

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS;

DISTANCE MEASURE; IMAGES; LOWER BOUNDS; NATURAL PROPERTIES; PROPERTY-TESTING; SPARSE IMAGES; SUBLINEAR ALGORITHM; TESTING ALGORITHM;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY;

EID: 78751550690     PISSN: 02725428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FOCS.2010.52     Document Type: Conference Paper

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