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HCI
2009
13 years 6 months ago
An Information Visualization Approach to Hospital Shifts Scheduling
Abstract. Scheduling staff shift work in a hospital ward is a well-known problem in the operation research field but, as such, it is very often studied from the algorithmic point o...
Carmelo Ardito, Paolo Buono, Maria Francesca Costa...
ICIP
2001
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
A directional, shift insensitive, low-redundancy, wavelet transform
Shift variance and poor directional selectivity, two major disadvantages of the discrete wavelet transform, have previously been circumvented either by using highly redundant, non...
Rutger L. van Spaendonck, Felix C. A. Fernandes, S...
SDM
2009
SIAM
193views Data Mining» more  SDM 2009»
14 years 5 months ago
Agglomerative Mean-Shift Clustering via Query Set Compression.
Mean-Shift (MS) is a powerful non-parametric clustering method. Although good accuracy can be achieved, its computational cost is particularly expensive even on moderate data sets...
Xiaotong Yuan, Bao-Gang Hu, Ran He
MM
2003
ACM
148views Multimedia» more  MM 2003»
14 years 1 months ago
Nonparametric color characterization using mean shift
Color is very useful in locating and recognizing objects that occur in artificial environments. The color histogram has shown its efficiency and advantages as a general tool for v...
Ling-Yu Duan, Min Xu, Qi Tian, Changsheng Xu
GRAPHICSINTERFACE
2000
13 years 9 months ago
Dynamic Plane Shifting BSP Traversal
Interactive 3D applications require fast detection of objects colliding with the environment. One popular method for fast collision detection is to offset the geometry of the envi...
Stan Melax