Shape From Shading is known to be an ill-posed problem. We show in this paper that if we model the problem in a different way than it is usually done, more precisely by taking int...
Abstract. We present a new generic method for vascular segmentation of angiography. Angiography is used for the medical diagnosis of arterial diseases. To facilitate an effective a...
Wilbur C. K. Wong, Albert C. S. Chung, Simon C. H....
Despite popular belief, boosting algorithms and related coordinate descent methods are prone to overfitting. We derive modifications to AdaBoost and related gradient-based coordin...
Ranking a set of retrieved documents according to their relevance to a query is a popular problem in information retrieval. Methods that learn ranking functions are difficult to o...
In this paper we show that many kernel methods can be adapted to deal with indefinite kernels, that is, kernels which are not positive semidefinite. They do not satisfy Mercer...