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TIP
1998
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Variational image segmentation using boundary functions
Abstract—A general variational framework for image approximation and segmentation is introduced. By using a continuous “line-process” to represent edge boundaries, it is poss...
Gary A. Hewer, Charles S. Kenney, B. S. Manjunath
TEC
2002
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The particle swarm - explosion, stability, and convergence in a multidimensional complex space
Abstract--The particle swarm is an algorithm for finding optimal regions of complex search spaces through the interaction of individuals in a population of particles. Even though t...
Maurice Clerc, James Kennedy
TIP
2002
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Dequantizing image orientation
Abstract--We address the problem of computing a local orientation map in a digital image. We show that standard image gray level quantization causes a strong bias in the repartitio...
Agnès Desolneux, Saïd Ladjal, Lionel M...
FS
2010
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13 years 6 months ago
Local time and the pricing of time-dependent barrier options
Abstract A time-dependent double-barrier option is a derivative security that delivers the terminal value φ(ST ) at expiry T if neither of the continuous time-dependent barriers b...
Aleksandar Mijatovic
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Modeling and decision making in spatio-temporal processes for environmental surveillance
Abstract— The need for efficient monitoring of spatiotemporal dynamics in large environmental surveillance applications motivates the use of robotic sensors to achieve sufficie...
Amarjeet Singh 0003, Fabio Ramos, Hugh D. Whyte, W...