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ECCV
2008
Springer
14 years 9 months ago
Constrained Maximum Likelihood Learning of Bayesian Networks for Facial Action Recognition
Probabilistic graphical models such as Bayesian Networks have been increasingly applied to many computer vision problems. Accuracy of inferences in such models depends on the quali...
Cassio Polpo de Campos, Yan Tong, Qiang Ji
SSPR
1998
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Modified Minimum Classification Error Learning and Its Application to Neural Networks
A novel method to improve the generalization performance of the Minimum Classification Error (MCE) / Generalized Probabilistic Descent (GPD) learning is proposed. The MCE/GPD learn...
Hiroshi Shimodaira, Jun Rokui, Mitsuru Nakai
ESWA
2008
124views more  ESWA 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
A hybrid financial analysis model for business failure prediction
Accounting frauds have continuously happened all over the world. This leads to the need of predicting business failures. Statistical methods and machine learning techniques have b...
Shi-Ming Huang, Chih-Fong Tsai, David C. Yen, Yin-...
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
114views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Policy teaching through reward function learning
Policy teaching considers a Markov Decision Process setting in which an interested party aims to influence an agent’s decisions by providing limited incentives. In this paper, ...
Haoqi Zhang, David C. Parkes, Yiling Chen
NIPS
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Structured ranking learning using cumulative distribution networks
Ranking is at the heart of many information retrieval applications. Unlike standard regression or classification in which we predict outputs independently, in ranking we are inter...
Jim C. Huang, Brendan J. Frey