Pervasive surveillance implies the continuous tracking of multiple targets as they move about the monitored region. The tasks to be performed by a surveillance system are expresse...
Amit Goradia, Zhiwei Cen, Clayton Haffner, Ning Xi...
Given a set of rectangles with fixed orientations, we want to find an enclosing rectangle of minimum area that contains them all with no overlap. Many simple scheduling tasks ca...
Clustering is a prominent method in the data mining field. It is a discovery process that groups data such that intra cluster similarity is maximized and the inter cluster similar...
Prediction suffix trees (PST) provide a popular and effective tool for tasks such as compression, classification, and language modeling. In this paper we take a decision theoretic...
Estimating insurance premia from data is a difficult regression problem for several reasons: the large number of variables, many of which are discrete, and the very peculiar shape...
Nicolas Chapados, Yoshua Bengio, Pascal Vincent, J...