— One of the central issues in Learning to Rank (L2R) for Information Retrieval is to develop algorithms that construct ranking models by directly optimizing evaluation measures ...
For a mobile robot to move in a known environment and operate successfully, first it needs to robustly determine its initial position and orientation relative to the map, and then ...
Ali R. Vahdat, Naser NourAshrafoddin, Saeed Shiry ...
—Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are networks of autonomous nodes used for monitoring an environment. Developers of WSNs face challenges that arise from communication link failur...
Raghavendra V. Kulkarni, Ganesh K. Venayagamoorthy
An adaptive particle swarm optimization (APSO) that features better search efficiency than classical particle swarm optimization (PSO) is presented. More importantly, it can perfor...
Visual tracking usually involves an optimization process for estimating the motion of an object from measured images in a video sequence. In this paper, a new evolutionary approac...
Xiaoqin Zhang, Weiming Hu, Stephen J. Maybank, Xi ...