For a change in prices, the common-scaling social cost-of-living index is the equal scaling of each individual’s expenditure level needed to restore the level of social welfare ...
We propose a new family of latent variable models called max-margin min-entropy (m3e) models, which define a distribution over the output and the hidden variables conditioned on ...
Kevin Miller, M. Pawan Kumar, Benjamin Packer, Dan...
This paper presents the mechanism and evaluation of a Qos-aware Overlay Construction Approach for Layered Streaming, called OCals. The motivation originates from the lack of overl...
Many problems in geometric modeling can be described using variational formulations that define the smoothness of the shape and its behavior w.r.t. the posed modeling constraints....
Alec Jacobson, Elif Tosun, Olga Sorkine, Denis Zor...
Past research on automatic laughter classification / detection has focused mainly on audio-based approaches. Here we present an audiovisual approach to distinguishing laughter fr...