We present a near-optimal reduction from approximately counting the cardinality of a discrete set to approximately sampling elements of the set. An important application of our wo...
This paper restates the shape from shading problem regarding both surface modeling and optimization. We combine the use of a B-spline as 3D model for the scene surface and the use...
We develop a simulated annealing technique to jointly optimize a distributed quantization structure meant to maximize the asymptotic error exponent of a downstream classifier or d...
Abstract- Simulated annealing (SA) is an effective general heuristic method for solving many combinatorial optimization problems. This paper deals with two problems in SA. One is ...
We propose a new fibre tracking algorithm for cardiac DTMRI that parts with the locally "greedy" paradigm intrinsic to conventional tracking algorithms. We formulate the...