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IJCV
2007
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13 years 7 months ago
Background-Subtraction in Thermal Imagery Using Contour Saliency
We present a new contour-based background-subtraction technique to extract foreground objects in widely varying thermal imagery. Statistical background-subtraction is first used t...
James W. Davis, Vinay Sharma
MP
2002
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13 years 7 months ago
A decomposition procedure based on approximate Newton directions
The efficient solution of large-scale linear and nonlinear optimization problems may require exploiting any special structure in them in an efficient manner. We describe and analy...
Antonio J. Conejo, Francisco J. Nogales, Francisco...
NAACL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Learning Dense Models of Query Similarity from User Click Logs
The goal of this work is to integrate query similarity metrics as features into a dense model that can be trained on large amounts of query log data, in order to rank query rewrit...
Fabio De Bona, Stefan Riezler, Keith Hall, Massimi...
CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 4 months ago
Regression on fixed-rank positive semidefinite matrices: a Riemannian approach
The paper addresses the problem of learning a regression model parameterized by a fixed-rank positive semidefinite matrix. The focus is on the nonlinear nature of the search space...
Gilles Meyer, Silvere Bonnabel, Rodolphe Sepulchre
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
12 years 11 months ago
Bio-inspired cooperative optimization with application to bacteria motility
Inspired by bacterial motility, we propose an algorithm for adaptation over networks with mobile nodes. The nodes have limited abilities and they are allowed to cooperate with the...
Jianshu Chen, Ali H. Sayed