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CVPR
2004
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
On the Distribution of Saliency
The calculation of salient structures is one of the early and basic ideas of perceptual organization in Computer Vision. Saliency algorithms typically mark edge-points with some s...
Alexander Berengolts, Michael Lindenbaum
CVPR
2004
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Globally Optimal Segmentation of Interacting Surfaces with Geometric Constraints
Abstract-- Efficient detection of globally optimal surfaces representing object boundaries in volumetric datasets is important and remains challenging in many medical image analysi...
Kang Li, Xiaodong Wu, Danny Z. Chen, Milan Sonka
ICDE
2005
IEEE
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14 years 9 months ago
Postgres-R(SI): Combining Replica Control with Concurrency Control based on Snapshot Isolation
Replicating data over a cluster of workstations is a powerful tool to increase performance, and provide faulttolerance for demanding database applications. The big challenge in su...
Shuqing Wu, Bettina Kemme
ICML
2005
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
Proto-value functions: developmental reinforcement learning
This paper presents a novel framework called proto-reinforcement learning (PRL), based on a mathematical model of a proto-value function: these are task-independent basis function...
Sridhar Mahadevan
ICML
2004
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
Learning random walk models for inducing word dependency distributions
Many NLP tasks rely on accurately estimating word dependency probabilities P(w1|w2), where the words w1 and w2 have a particular relationship (such as verb-object). Because of the...
Kristina Toutanova, Christopher D. Manning, Andrew...