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MANSCI
2008
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Incorporating Asymmetric Distributional Information in Robust Value-at-Risk Optimization
Value-at-Risk (VaR) is one of the most widely accepted risk measures in the financial and insurance industries, yet efficient optimization of VaR remains a very difficult problem....
Karthik Natarajan, Dessislava Pachamanova, Melvyn ...
ML
2006
ACM
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Model-based transductive learning of the kernel matrix
This paper addresses the problem of transductive learning of the kernel matrix from a probabilistic perspective. We define the kernel matrix as a Wishart process prior and construc...
Zhihua Zhang, James T. Kwok, Dit-Yan Yeung
IJCV
2007
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Recovering Surface Layout from an Image
Humans have an amazing ability to instantly grasp the overall 3D structure of a scene – ground orientation, relative positions of major landmarks, etc – even from a single ima...
Derek Hoiem, Alexei A. Efros, Martial Hebert
JCIT
2007
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Experiential Motives for Playing Online Games
Online games represent a burgeoning market sector of increasing economic importance. The distinctive entertainment-oriented features of such games provide various experiential val...
Dong-Mo Koo, Soo-Hyung Lee, Heung-Seub Chang
TMM
2008
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Multimodal News Story Clustering With Pairwise Visual Near-Duplicate Constraint
Story clustering is a critical step for news retrieval, topic mining, and summarization. Nonetheless, the task remains highly challenging owing to the fact that news topics exhibit...
Xiao Wu, Chong-Wah Ngo, Alexander G. Hauptmann