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GECCO
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2006
Springer
This paper extends the Boltzmann Selection, a method in EDA with theoretical importance, from discrete domain to the continuous one. The difficulty of estimating the exact Boltzma...
CVPR
2012
IEEE
11 years 10 months ago
2012
IEEE
Recent studies on visual tracking have shown significant improvement in accuracy by handling the appearance variations of the target object. Whereas most studies present schemes ...
JMLR
2006
2006
Geometric Variance Reduction in Markov Chains: Application to Value Function and Gradient Estimation
13 years 7 months ago
We study a sequential variance reduction technique for Monte Carlo estimation of functionals in Markov Chains. The method is based on designing sequential control variates using s...
AUTOMATICA
2007
13 years 7 months ago
2007
The sensor scheduling problem can be formulated as a controlled hidden Markov model and this paper solves the problem when the state, observation and action spaces are continuous....
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
12 years 11 months ago
2011
IEEE
The transformation of the voiced segments of a speech recording has many applications such as expressivity synthesis or voice conversion. This paper addresses the pitch transposit...