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CVPR
2007
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
A Nonparametric Treatment for Location/Segmentation Based Visual Tracking
In this paper, we address two closely related visual tracking problems: 1) localizing a target's position in low or moderate resolution videos and 2) segmenting a target'...
Le Lu, Gregory D. Hager
FOCS
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
How to Pay, Come What May: Approximation Algorithms for Demand-Robust Covering Problems
Robust optimization has traditionally focused on uncertainty in data and costs in optimization problems to formulate models whose solutions will be optimal in the worstcase among ...
Kedar Dhamdhere, Vineet Goyal, R. Ravi, Mohit Sing...
ECIR
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Learning to Distribute Queries into Web Search Nodes
Web search engines are composed of a large set of search nodes and a broker machine that feeds them with queries. A location cache keeps minimal information in the broker to regist...
Marcelo Mendoza, Mauricio Marín, Flavio Fer...
PERCOM
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Location Fingerprint Analyses Toward Efficient Indoor Positioning
Abstract--Analytical models to evaluate and predict "precision" performance of indoor positioning systems based on location fingerprinting are lacking. Such models can be...
Nattapong Swangmuang, Prashant Krishnamurthy
HUC
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Particle Filters for Location Estimation in Ubiquitous Computing: A Case Study
Location estimation is an important part of many ubiquitous computing systems. Particle filters are simulation-based probabilistic approximations which the robotics community has ...
Jeffrey Hightower, Gaetano Borriello