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WSC
2004
13 years 10 months ago
Global Likelihood Optimization Via the Cross-Entropy Method, with an Application to Mixture Models
Global likelihood maximization is an important aspect of many statistical analyses. Often the likelihood function is highly multi-extremal. This presents a significant challenge t...
Zdravko I. Botev, Dirk P. Kroese
ADBIS
2010
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Horizontal Partitioning by Predicate Abstraction and Its Application to Data Warehouse Design
al Partitioning by Predicate Abstraction and its Application to Data Warehouse Design Aleksandar Dimovski1 , Goran Velinov2 , and Dragan Sahpaski2 1 Faculty of Information-Communic...
Aleksandar Dimovski, Goran Velinov, Dragan Sahpask...
PAMI
2007
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13 years 8 months ago
Soft Color Segmentation and Its Applications
—We propose an automatic approach to soft color segmentation, which produces soft color segments with an appropriate amount of overlapping and transparency essential to synthesiz...
Yu-Wing Tai, Jiaya Jia, Chi-Keung Tang
ICRA
2010
IEEE
142views Robotics» more  ICRA 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
Toward automated tissue retraction in robot-assisted surgery
—Robotic surgical assistants are enhancing physician performance, enabling physicians to perform more delicate and precise minimally invasive surgery. However, these devices are ...
Sachin Patil, Ron Alterovitz
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Learning to rank relational objects and its application to web search
Learning to rank is a new statistical learning technology on creating a ranking model for sorting objects. The technology has been successfully applied to web search, and is becom...
Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Xu-Dong Zhang, De-Sheng Wang...