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AAAI
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Grouping Strokes into Shapes in Hand-Drawn Diagrams
Objects in freely-drawn sketches often have no spatial or temporal separation, making object recognition difficult. We present a two-step stroke-grouping algorithm that first clas...
Eric Jeffrey Peterson, Thomas F. Stahovich, Eric D...
STOC
2004
ACM
94views Algorithms» more  STOC 2004»
14 years 8 months ago
Sublinear algorithms for testing monotone and unimodal distributions
The complexity of testing properties of monotone and unimodal distributions, when given access only to samples of the distribution, is investigated. Two kinds of sublineartime alg...
Tugkan Batu, Ravi Kumar, Ronitt Rubinfeld
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Increasing the expressiveness of virtual agents: autonomous generation of speech and gesture for spatial description tasks
Embodied conversational agents are required to be able to express themselves convincingly and autonomously. Based on an empirial study on spatial descriptions of landmarks in dire...
Kirsten Bergmann, Stefan Kopp
EMMCVPR
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Bayesian Inference for Layer Representation with Mixed Markov Random Field
Abstract. This paper presents a Bayesian inference algorithm for image layer representation [26], 2.1D sketch [6], with mixed Markov random field. 2.1D sketch is an very important...
Ru-Xin Gao, Tianfu Wu, Song Chun Zhu, Nong Sang
CIBCB
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
A Novel Graphical Model Approach to Segmenting Cell Images
— Successful biological image analysis usually requires satisfactory segmentations to identify regions of interest as an intermediate step. Here we present a novel graphical mode...
Shann-Ching Chen, Ting Zhao, Geoffrey J. Gordon, R...