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ICCV
2011
IEEE
12 years 7 months ago
What Characterizes a Shadow Boundary under the Sun and Sky?
Despite decades of study, robust shadow detection remains difficult, especially within a single color image. We describe a new approach to detect shadow boundaries in images of o...
Xiang Huang, Gang Hua, Jack Tumblin, Lance William...
WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Compare&contrast: using the web to discover comparable cases for news stories
Comparing and contrasting is an important strategy people employ to understand new situations and create solutions for new problems. Similar events can provide hints for problem s...
Jiahui Liu, Earl Wagner, Larry Birnbaum
PAMI
2006
230views more  PAMI 2006»
13 years 7 months ago
Shape Registration in Implicit Spaces Using Information Theory and Free Form Deformations
We present a novel variational and statistical approach for shape registration. Shapes of interest are implicitly embedded in a higher dimensional space of distance transforms. In...
Xiaolei Huang, Nikos Paragios, Dimitris N. Metaxas
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 7 months ago
A probabilistic method for inferring preferences from clicks
Evaluating rankers using implicit feedback, such as clicks on documents in a result list, is an increasingly popular alternative to traditional evaluation methods based on explici...
Katja Hofmann, Shimon Whiteson, Maarten de Rijke
GECCO
2007
Springer
300views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
A NSGA-II, web-enabled, parallel optimization framework for NLP and MINLP
Engineering design increasingly uses computer simulation models coupled with optimization algorithms to find the best design that meets the customer constraints within a time con...
David J. Powell, Joel K. Hollingsworth