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CGF
1998
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13 years 7 months ago
Subdivision Schemes for Thin Plate Splines
Thin plate splines are a well known entity of geometric design. They are defined as the minimizer of a variational problem whose differential operators approximate a simple notio...
Henrik Weimer, Joe D. Warren
NIPS
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Receding Horizon Differential Dynamic Programming
The control of high-dimensional, continuous, non-linear dynamical systems is a key problem in reinforcement learning and control. Local, trajectory-based methods, using techniques...
Yuval Tassa, Tom Erez, William D. Smart
ICC
1997
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
MESH: Distributed Error Recovery for Multimedia Streams in Wide-Area Multicast Networks
This paper addresses support for nzulti-party multimedia applications delivered across datagram wide-area networks such as the Internet. Our approach is to develop a novel retrans...
Matthew T. Lucas, Bert J. Dempsey, Alfred C. Weave...
WSC
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Fast simulation of equity-linked life insurance contracts with a surrender option
In this paper, we consider equity-linked life insurance contracts that give their holder the possibility to surrender their policy before maturity. Such contracts can be valued us...
Carole Bernard, Christiane Lemieux
ICMCS
2006
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Recognizing Faces in Recorded Meetings via MRC-Boosting
Person-based indices and timelines can enable fast and non-linear access to recorded meetings. This paper focuses on how to automatically construct those indices and timelines by ...
Xun Xu, Yong Rui, Thomas S. Huang