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ICRA
2010
IEEE
158views Robotics» more  ICRA 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
Coping with imbalanced training data for improved terrain prediction in autonomous outdoor robot navigation
Abstract— Autonomous robot navigation in unstructured outdoor environments is a challenging and largely unsolved area of active research. The navigation task requires identifying...
Michael J. Procopio, Jane Mulligan, Gregory Z. Gru...
CVPR
2010
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Improving web-image search results using query-relative classifiers
Web image search using text queries has received considerable attention. However, current state-of-the-art approaches require training models for every new query, and are therefore...
Josip Krapac, Moray Allan, Jakob Verbeek, Frédér...
WINE
2010
Springer
174views Economy» more  WINE 2010»
13 years 6 months ago
Value of Learning in Sponsored Search Auctions
Abstract. The standard business model in the sponsored search marketplace is to sell click-throughs to the advertisers. This involves running an auction that allocates advertisemen...
Sai-Ming Li, Mohammad Mahdian, Randolph Preston Mc...
SIGIR
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Pseudo test collections for learning web search ranking functions
Test collections are the primary drivers of progress in information retrieval. They provide a yardstick for assessing the effectiveness of ranking functions in an automatic, rapi...
Nima Asadi, Donald Metzler, Tamer Elsayed, Jimmy L...
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Are click-through data adequate for learning web search rankings?
Learning-to-rank algorithms, which can automatically adapt ranking functions in web search, require a large volume of training data. A traditional way of generating training examp...
Zhicheng Dou, Ruihua Song, Xiaojie Yuan, Ji-Rong W...