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NIPS
2001
13 years 8 months ago
K-Local Hyperplane and Convex Distance Nearest Neighbor Algorithms
Guided by an initial idea of building a complex (non linear) decision surface with maximal local margin in input space, we give a possible geometrical intuition as to why K-Neares...
Pascal Vincent, Yoshua Bengio
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 28 days ago
Question answering passage retrieval using dependency relations
State-of-the-art question answering (QA) systems employ termdensity ranking to retrieve answer passages. Such methods often retrieve incorrect passages as relationships among ques...
Hang Cui, Renxu Sun, Keya Li, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Sen...
CVPR
2009
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
An Empirical Bayes Approach to Contextual Region Classification
This paper presents a nonparametric approach to labeling of local image regions that is inspired by recent developments in information-theoretic denoising. The chief novelty of ...
Svetlana Lazebnik (UNC Chapel Hill), Maxim Raginsk...
JMM2
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
Robust Real-time 3D Detection of Obstructed Head and Hands in Indoors Environments
We address the need for robust detection of obstructed human features in complex environments, with a focus on intelligent surgical UIs. In our setup, real-time detection is used t...
Sébastien Grange, Charles Baur
EOR
2008
87views more  EOR 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Robust surgery loading
We consider the robust surgery loading problem for a hospital's operating theatre department, which concerns assigning surgeries and sufficient planned slack to operating roo...
Erwin W. Hans, Gerhard Wullink, Mark van Houdenhov...