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VLDB
2004
ACM
180views Database» more  VLDB 2004»
14 years 27 days ago
Bloom Histogram: Path Selectivity Estimation for XML Data with Updates
Cost-based XML query optimization calls for accurate estimation of the selectivity of path expressions. Some other interactive and internet applications can also benefit from suc...
Wei Wang 0011, Haifeng Jiang, Hongjun Lu, Jeffrey ...
ECCV
2002
Springer
14 years 9 months ago
Learning Shape from Defocus
We present a novel method for inferring three-dimensional shape from a collection of defocused images. It is based on the observation that defocused images are the null-space of ce...
Paolo Favaro, Stefano Soatto
ICCAD
2006
IEEE
190views Hardware» more  ICCAD 2006»
14 years 4 months ago
Factor cuts
Enumeration of bounded size cuts is an important step in several logic synthesis algorithms such as technology mapping and re-writing. The standard algorithm does not scale beyond...
Satrajit Chatterjee, Alan Mishchenko, Robert K. Br...
ACL2
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
A verifying core for a cryptographic language compiler
A verifying compiler is one that emits both object code and a proof of correspondence between object and source code.1 We report the use of ACL2 in building a verifying compiler f...
Lee Pike, Mark Shields, John Matthews
RSS
2007
176views Robotics» more  RSS 2007»
13 years 9 months ago
Active Policy Learning for Robot Planning and Exploration under Uncertainty
Abstract— This paper proposes a simulation-based active policy learning algorithm for finite-horizon, partially-observed sequential decision processes. The algorithm is tested i...
Ruben Martinez-Cantin, Nando de Freitas, Arnaud Do...