Please provide feedback to the PBIR demonstration that you
see in class in the following respects:
User interface. Is the interface user-friendly? intuitive?
How would you propose to enhance it?
What real-world applications can be benefited from PBIR?
Other general comments (enumerate three positive and three
negative aspects about the demo).
Problem 2: Media Servers (30 pts)
Suppose you are given 100 videos to place on 10 disks to
support playback of 10,000 simultaneous users. Enumerate
three design challenges of such a system. Propose
your solutions to tackle these challenges. (Please exercise
your creativity, and at the same time, keen engineering
judgements.)
Problem 3: Distance Functions (40 pts)
Read the following paper and answer three questions.
http://www.engr.ucsb.edu/~beitao/Papers/acm_mmj.pdf
What are the shortcomings of using the Minkowski family
functions for measuring image similarity?