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ALDT
2011
Springer
200views Algorithms» more  ALDT 2011»
12 years 7 months ago
Vote Elicitation with Probabilistic Preference Models: Empirical Estimation and Cost Tradeoffs
A variety of preference aggregation schemes and voting rules have been developed in social choice to support group decision making. However, the requirement that participants provi...
Tyler Lu, Craig Boutilier
FSKD
2005
Springer
162views Fuzzy Logic» more  FSKD 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
Fuzzy-C-Mean Determines the Principle Component Pairs to Estimate the Degree of Emotion from Facial Expressions
Although many systems exist for automatic classification of faces according to their emotional expression, these systems do not explicitly estimate the strength of given expression...
M. Ashraful Amin, Nitin V. Afzulpurkar, Matthew N....
ICCV
2009
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
Attached shadow coding: Estimating surface normals from shadows under unknown reflectance and lighting conditions
We present a novel technique, termed attached shadow coding, for estimating surface normals from shadows when the reflectance and lighting conditions are unknown. Our key idea is ...
Takahiro Okabe, Imari Sato, Yoichi Sato
GIR
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Retrieval of Similar Travel Routes Using GPS Tracklog Place Names
GPS tracklogs provide a valuable record of routes travelled. In this paper we describe initial experiments exploring the use of text information retrieval techniques for the locat...
Aiden R. Doherty, Cathal Gurrin, Gareth J. F. Jone...
ICDE
2002
IEEE
209views Database» more  ICDE 2002»
14 years 9 months ago
Geometric-Similarity Retrieval in Large Image Bases
We propose a novel approach to shape-based image retrieval that builds upon a similarity criterion which is based on the average point set distance. Compared to traditional techni...
Ioannis Fudos, Leonidas Palios, Evaggelia Pitoura