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PAMI
2010
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13 years 7 months ago
Learning a Hierarchical Deformable Template for Rapid Deformable Object Parsing
In this paper, we address the tasks of detecting, segmenting, parsing, and matching deformable objects. We use a novel probabilistic object model that we call a hierarchical defor...
Long Zhu, Yuanhao Chen, Alan L. Yuille
INFOCOM
2010
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
Max-Contribution: On Optimal Resource Allocation in Delay Tolerant Networks
—This is by far the first paper considering joint optimization of link scheduling, routing and replication for disruption-tolerant networks (DTNs). The optimization problems for...
Kyunghan Lee, Yung Yi, Jaeseong Jeong, Hyungsuk Wo...
FOCS
2000
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
The Randomness Recycler: A New Technique for Perfect Sampling
For many probability distributions of interest, it is quite difficult to obtain samples efficiently. Often, Markov chains are employed to obtain approximately random samples fro...
James Allen Fill, Mark Huber
ICPADS
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Performance analysis on mobile agent-based parallel information retrieval approaches
—The main concern of the Internet user-base has shifted from what kind of information are available to how to find the desired information on the Internet thanks to the explosiv...
Wenyu Qu, Masaru Kitsuregawa, Keqiu Li
ICRA
1999
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
The Arc-Transversal Median Algorithm: An Approach to Increasing Ultrasonic Sensor Accuracy
This paper describes a new method for improving the accuracy of range information using low resolution ultrasonic sensors mounted on a mobile robot. These sensors emit ultra-sound...
Keiji Nagatani, Howie Choset, Nicole A. Lazar