Many vision problems can be cast as optimizing the conditional probability density function p(C|I) where I is an image and C is a vector of model parameters describing the image. ...
Jingdan Zhang, Shaohua Kevin Zhou, Dorin Comaniciu...
Abstract. We explore a new general-purpose heuristic for nding highquality solutions to hard optimization problems. The method, called extremal optimization, is inspired by self-or...
Stefan Boettcher, Allon G. Percus, Michelangelo Gr...
Large databases with uncertain information are becoming more common in many applications including data integration, location tracking, and Web search. In these applications, ranki...
A key problem of interest to biologists and medical researchers is the selection of a subset of queries or treatments that provide maximum utility for a population of targets. For ...
Delbert Dueck, Brendan J. Frey, Nebojsa Jojic, Vla...
This talk has two parts explaining the significance of Rough sets in granular computing in terms of rough set rules and in uncertainty handling in terms of lower and upper approxi...