Simulated annealing has been one of the most popular stochastic optimization methods used in the VLSI CAD field in the past two decades for handling NP-hard optimization problems...
Jason Cong, Tianming Kong, Faming Liang, Jun S. Li...
This paper investigates the issues in polyphonic popular song retrieval. The problems that we consider include singing voice extraction, melodic curve representation, and database...
Given a graph with edges colored Red and Blue, we wish to sample and approximately count the number of perfect matchings with exactly k Red edges. We study a Markov chain on the sp...
Nayantara Bhatnagar, Dana Randall, Vijay V. Vazira...
We solve the problem of record linkage between databases where record fields are mixed and permuted in different ways. The solution method uses a conditional random fields model...
It has been shown that the 3D shape of a deformable surface in an image can be recovered by establishing correspondences between that image and a reference one in which the shape ...
Appu Shaji, Aydin Varol, Lorenzo Torresani, Pascal...