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AVBPA
1997
Springer
113views Biometrics» more  AVBPA 1997»
13 years 12 months ago
Generalized Likelihood Ratio-based Face Detection and Extraction of Mouth Features
In this paper we describe a system to reliably localize the position of the speaker’s face and mouth in videophone sequences. A statistical scheme based on a subspace method is p...
Charles Kervrann, Franck Davoine, P. Pérez,...
IPPS
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A Comparative Study of Parallel Metaheuristics for Protein Structure Prediction on the Computational Grid
A comparative study of parallel metaheuristics executed in grid environments is proposed, having as case study a genetic algorithm, a simulated annealing algorithm and a random se...
Alexandru-Adrian Tantar, Nouredine Melab, El-Ghaza...
SEAL
1998
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Automating Space Allocation in Higher Education
The allocation of office space in any large institution is usually a problematical issue, which often demands a substantial amount of time to perform manually. The result of this a...
Edmund K. Burke, D. B. Varley
CVPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Smoothing-based Optimization
We propose an efficient method for complex optimization problems that often arise in computer vision. While our method is general and could be applied to various tasks, it was mai...
Marius Leordeanu, Martial Hebert
GECCO
2010
Springer
207views Optimization» more  GECCO 2010»
14 years 16 days ago
Generalized crowding for genetic algorithms
Crowding is a technique used in genetic algorithms to preserve diversity in the population and to prevent premature convergence to local optima. It consists of pairing each offsp...
Severino F. Galán, Ole J. Mengshoel