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AAAI
1997
13 years 11 months ago
Evidence for Invariants in Local Search
It is well known that the performance of a stochastic local search procedure depends upon the setting of its noise parameter, and that the optimal setting varies with the problem ...
David A. McAllester, Bart Selman, Henry A. Kautz
CVPR
2006
IEEE
14 years 12 months ago
Escaping local minima through hierarchical model selection: Automatic object discovery, segmentation, and tracking in video
Recently, the generative modeling approach to video segmentation has been gaining popularity in the computer vision community. For example, the flexible sprites framework has been...
Nebojsa Jojic, John M. Winn, Larry Zitnick
UAI
2004
13 years 11 months ago
"Ideal Parent" Structure Learning for Continuous Variable Networks
In recent years, there is a growing interest in learning Bayesian networks with continuous variables. Learning the structure of such networks is a computationally expensive proced...
Iftach Nachman, Gal Elidan, Nir Friedman
APIN
2007
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13 years 10 months ago
A genetically optimized level set approach to segmentation of thyroid ultrasound images
This paper presents a novel framework for thyroid ultrasound image segmentation that aims to accurately delineate thyroid nodules. This framework, named GA-VBAC incorporates a leve...
Dimitrios K. Iakovidis, Michalis A. Savelonas, Sta...
ICTAI
2002
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Data Mining Using Cultural Algorithms and Regional Schemata
In the paper we demonstrate how evolutionary search for functional optima can be used as a vehicle for data mining. That is, in the process of searching for optima in a multi-dime...
Xidong Jin, Robert G. Reynolds