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CVPR
2000
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Statistical Shape Influence in Geodesic Active Contours
A novel method of incorporating shape information into the image segmentation process is presented. We introduce a representation for deformable shapes and define a probability di...
Michael E. Leventon, W. Eric L. Grimson, Olivier D...
ACL
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Discriminative Word Alignment with Conditional Random Fields
In this paper we present a novel approach for inducing word alignments from sentence aligned data. We use a Conditional Random Field (CRF), a discriminative model, which is estima...
Phil Blunsom, Trevor Cohn
MOR
2006
81views more  MOR 2006»
13 years 7 months ago
Simulated Annealing for Convex Optimization
We apply the method known as simulated annealing to the following problem in convex optimization: minimize a linear function over an arbitrary convex set, where the convex set is ...
Adam Tauman Kalai, Santosh Vempala
AAMAS
2004
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Multi-Dimensional, MultiStep Negotiation
We present a multi-dimensional, multi-step negotiation mechanism for task allocation among cooperative agents based on distributed search. This mechanism uses marginal utility gai...
Xiaoqin Zhang, Victor R. Lesser, Rodion M. Podoroz...
CONEXT
2009
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Greening the internet with nano data centers
Motivated by increased concern over energy consumption in modern data centers, we propose a new, distributed computing platform called Nano Data Centers (NaDa). NaDa uses ISP-cont...
Vytautas Valancius, Nikolaos Laoutaris, Laurent Ma...