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ICPR
2010
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2D Shape Recognition Using Information Theoretic Kernels
In this paper, a novel approach for contour-based 2D shape recognition is proposed, using a recently introduced class of information theoretic kernels. This kind of kernels, based...
Manuele Bicego, André Filipe Torres Martins, Vitt...
TIT
2010
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13 years 4 months ago
Information inequalities for joint distributions, with interpretations and applications
Upper and lower bounds are obtained for the joint entropy of a collection of random variables in terms of an arbitrary collection of subset joint entropies. These inequalities gene...
Mokshay M. Madiman, Prasad Tetali
INFOCOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Throughput Anonymity Trade-off in Wireless Networks under Latency Constraints
—Providing anonymity to routes in a wireless ad hoc network from passive eavesdroppers is considered. Using Shannon’s equivocation as an information theoretic measure of anonym...
Parvathinathan Venkitasubramaniam, Lang Tong
TIT
1998
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13 years 9 months ago
The Art of Signaling: Fifty Years of Coding Theory
—In 1948 Shannon developed fundamental limits on the efficiency of communication over noisy channels. The coding theorem asserts that there are block codes with code rates arbit...
A. Robert Calderbank
CSDA
2006
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13 years 9 months ago
Generalized theory of uncertainty (GTU) - principal concepts and ideas
Uncertainty is an attribute of information. The path-breaking work of Shannon has led to a universal acceptance of the thesis that information is statistical in nature. Concomitan...
Lotfi A. Zadeh