A variety of computer vision problems can be optimally posed as Bayesian labeling in which the solution of a problem is dened as the maximum a posteriori (MAP) probability estimate...
E-business is one important element promoting business competitiveness and is thus closely linked to innovation. However, the potentials of ICT for business processes are not yet ...
The detection of prosodic characteristics is an important aspect of both speech synthesis and speech recognition. Correct placement of pitch accents aids in more natural sounding ...
This paper proposes a framework for training Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) to optimize multivariate evaluation measures, including non-linear measures such as F-score. Our prop...
An autonomous variational inference algorithm for arbitrary graphical models requires the ability to optimize variational approximations over the space of model parameters as well...