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ICDAR
2003
IEEE
14 years 23 days ago
A Low-Cost Parallel K-Means VQ Algorithm Using Cluster Computing
In this paper we propose a parallel approach for the Kmeans Vector Quantization (VQ) algorithm used in a twostage Hidden Markov Model (HMM)-based system for recognizing handwritte...
Alceu de Souza Britto Jr., Paulo Sergio Lopes de S...
GECCO
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Predicting healthcare costs using GAs
Predicting prospective healthcare costs is of increasing importance. Genetic search is used to discover attribute sets and associated posterior probability classifiers that predi...
Christopher R. Stephens, Henri Waelbroeck, S. Tall...
ICASSP
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Fast Mode Decision for H.264 Based on Rate-Distortion Cost Estimation
A fast mode decision algorithm for an H.264 encoder is proposed which reduces computation by using a statistical dependency of macroblock rate-distortion (RD) costs. The algorithm...
Yao-Chung Lin, Torsten Fink, Erwin B. Bellers
COMGEO
2006
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Cost prediction for ray shooting in octrees
The ray shooting problem arises in many different contexts and is a bottleneck of ray tracing in computer graphics. Unfortunately, theoretical solutions to the problem are not ver...
Boris Aronov, Hervé Brönnimann, Allen ...
COLT
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Extracting Certainty from Uncertainty: Regret Bounded by Variation in Costs
Prediction from expert advice is a fundamental problem in machine learning. A major pillar of the field is the existence of learning algorithms whose average loss approaches that ...
Elad Hazan, Satyen Kale