Abstract. We propose a hierarchical process for inferring the 3D pose of a person from monocular images. First we infer a learned view-based 2D body model from a single image using...
This paper addresses the issue of query refinement, which involves reformulating ill-formed search queries in order to enhance relevance of search results. Query refinement typica...
In the single rent-to-buy decision problem, without a priori knowledge of the amount of time a resource will be used we need to decide when to buy the resource, given that we can ...
Information filtering has made considerable progress in recent years.The predominant approaches are content-based methods and collaborative methods. Researchers have largely conc...
We study an extension of the "standard" learning models to settings where observing the value of an attribute has an associated cost (which might be different for differ...