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CVPR
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Robust shadow and illumination estimation using a mixture model
Illuminant estimation from shadows typically relies on accurate segmentation of the shadows and knowledge of exact 3D geometry, while shadow estimation is difficult in the presen...
Alexandros Panagopoulos, Dimitris Samaras, Nikos P...
DIS
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
A Hilbert Space Embedding for Distributions
We describe a technique for comparing distributions without the need for density estimation as an intermediate step. Our approach relies on mapping the distributions into a reprodu...
Alexander J. Smola, Arthur Gretton, Le Song, Bernh...
IROS
2008
IEEE
123views Robotics» more  IROS 2008»
14 years 1 months ago
Learning predictive terrain models for legged robot locomotion
— Legged robots require accurate models of their environment in order to plan and execute paths. We present a probabilistic technique based on Gaussian processes that allows terr...
Christian Plagemann, Sebastian Mischke, Sam Prenti...
SIBGRAPI
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Plausible Image Based Soft Shadows Using Occlusion Textures
This paper presents a novel image-based approach to render plausible soft shadows for complex dynamic scenes with rectangular light sources. The algorithm's performance is mo...
Elmar Eisemann, Xavier Décoret
CORR
2007
Springer
128views Education» more  CORR 2007»
13 years 7 months ago
Model Selection Through Sparse Maximum Likelihood Estimation
We consider the problem of estimating the parameters of a Gaussian or binary distribution in such a way that the resulting undirected graphical model is sparse. Our approach is to...
Onureena Banerjee, Laurent El Ghaoui, Alexandre d'...