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TVCG
2010
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13 years 7 months ago
Globally Optimized Linear Windowed Tone Mapping
—This paper introduces a new tone mapping operator that performs local linear adjustments on small overlapping windows over the entire input image. While each window applies a lo...
Qi Shan, Jiaya Jia, Michael S. Brown
CASC
2010
Springer
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Supporting Global Numerical Optimization of Rational Functions by Generic Symbolic Convexity Tests
Convexity is an important property in nonlinear optimization since it allows to apply efficient local methods for finding global solutions. We propose to apply symbolic methods t...
Winfried Neun, Thomas Sturm, Stefan Vigerske
WSC
2004
13 years 10 months ago
Simulation Optimization Using Balanced Explorative and Exploitative Search
We present a new random search method for solving simulation optimization problems. Our approach emphasizes the need for maintaining the right balance between exploration and expl...
Andrei A. Prudius, Sigrún Andradótti...
MP
2007
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13 years 8 months ago
Elastic-mode algorithms for mathematical programs with equilibrium constraints: global convergence and stationarity properties
The elastic-mode formulation of the problem of minimizing a nonlinear function subject to equilibrium constraints has appealing local properties in that, for a finite value of the...
Mihai Anitescu, Paul Tseng, Stephen J. Wright
JAIR
2008
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Global Inference for Sentence Compression: An Integer Linear Programming Approach
Sentence compression holds promise for many applications ranging from summarization to subtitle generation. Our work views sentence compression as an optimization problem and uses...
James Clarke, Mirella Lapata