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CVPR
2012
IEEE
11 years 10 months ago
Discrete texture traces: Topological representation of geometric context
Modeling representations of image patches that are quasi-invariant to spatial deformations is an important problem in computer vision. In this paper, we propose a novel concept, t...
Jan Ernst, Maneesh Kumar Singh, Visvanathan Ramesh
ECCC
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
Hardness of Directed Routing with Congestion
Given a graph G and a collection of source-sink pairs in G, what is the least integer c such that each source can be connected by a path to its sink, with at most c paths going th...
Julia Chuzhoy, Sanjeev Khanna
KDD
2006
ACM
213views Data Mining» more  KDD 2006»
14 years 8 months ago
Learning sparse metrics via linear programming
Calculation of object similarity, for example through a distance function, is a common part of data mining and machine learning algorithms. This calculation is crucial for efficie...
Glenn Fung, Rómer Rosales
UAI
2003
13 years 9 months ago
An Importance Sampling Algorithm Based on Evidence Pre-propagation
Precision achieved by stochastic sampling algorithms for Bayesian networks typically deteriorates in face of extremely unlikely evidence. To address this problem, we propose the E...
Changhe Yuan, Marek J. Druzdzel
PODS
2008
ACM
174views Database» more  PODS 2008»
14 years 7 months ago
Epistemic privacy
We present a novel definition of privacy in the framework of offline (retroactive) database query auditing. Given information about the database, a description of sensitive data, ...
Alexandre V. Evfimievski, Ronald Fagin, David P. W...