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IJCV
2012
11 years 10 months ago
Globally Optimal Estimation of Nonrigid Image Distortion
Abstract Image alignment in the presence of non-rigid distortions is a challenging task. Typically, this involves estimating the parameters of a dense deformation field that warps...
Yuandong Tian, Srinivasa G. Narasimhan
ICCV
2009
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
Consensus set maximization with guaranteed global optimality for robust geometry estimation
Finding the largest consensus set is one of the key ideas used by the original RANSAC for removing outliers in robust-estimation. However, because of its random and non-determinis...
Hongdong Li
ICML
2000
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
Reinforcement Learning in POMDP's via Direct Gradient Ascent
This paper discusses theoretical and experimental aspects of gradient-based approaches to the direct optimization of policy performance in controlled ??? ?s. We introduce ??? ?, a...
Jonathan Baxter, Peter L. Bartlett
IPMI
2005
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
3D Active Shape Models Using Gradient Descent Optimization of Description Length
Abstract. Active Shape Models are a popular method for segmenting three-dimensional medical images. To obtain the required landmark correspondences, various automatic approaches ha...
Tobias Heimann, Ivo Wolf, Tomos G. Williams, Hans-...
TON
2010
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13 years 6 months ago
Distributed algorithms for minimum cost multicast with network coding
— We adopt the network coding approach to achieve minimum-cost multicast in interference-limited wireless networks where link capacities are functions of the signal-to-noise-plus...
Yufang Xi, Edmund M. Yeh