Multinomial distributions are often used to model text documents. However, they do not capture well the phenomenon that words in a document tend to appear in bursts: if a word app...
Rasmus Elsborg Madsen, David Kauchak, Charles Elka...
Active models are widely used in applications like image segmentation and tracking. Region-based active models are known for robustness to weak edges and high computational comple...
Wei Yu, Franz Franchetti, Yao-Jen Chang, Tsuhan Ch...
In many classification tasks training data have missing feature values that can be acquired at a cost. For building accurate predictive models, acquiring all missing values is of...
Prem Melville, Foster J. Provost, Raymond J. Moone...
: For most applications, data-intensive applications in particular, dialog modeling makes little sense without a domain model. Since domain models usually are developed and used ou...
This paper proposes a novel method of estimating 3-D hand posture from images observed in complex backgrounds. Conventional methods often cause mistakes by mis-matches of local ima...