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ICML
2004
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
A maximum entropy approach to species distribution modeling
We study the problem of modeling species geographic distributions, a critical problem in conservation biology. We propose the use of maximum-entropy techniques for this problem, s...
Miroslav Dudík, Robert E. Schapire, Steven ...
SIGIR
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Pseudo test collections for learning web search ranking functions
Test collections are the primary drivers of progress in information retrieval. They provide a yardstick for assessing the effectiveness of ranking functions in an automatic, rapi...
Nima Asadi, Donald Metzler, Tamer Elsayed, Jimmy L...
AMR
2007
Springer
120views Multimedia» more  AMR 2007»
14 years 3 months ago
Searching for Music Using Natural Language Queries and Relevance Feedback
We extend an approach to search inside large-scale music collections by enabling the user to give feedback on the retrieved music pieces. In the original approach, a search engine ...
Peter Knees, Gerhard Widmer
ECCV
2000
Springer
14 years 10 months ago
Pedestrian Detection from a Moving Vehicle
Abstract. This paper presents a prototype system for pedestrian detection on-board a moving vehicle. The system uses a generic two-step approach for efficient object detection. In ...
Dariu Gavrila
ML
2006
ACM
121views Machine Learning» more  ML 2006»
13 years 9 months ago
Model-based transductive learning of the kernel matrix
This paper addresses the problem of transductive learning of the kernel matrix from a probabilistic perspective. We define the kernel matrix as a Wishart process prior and construc...
Zhihua Zhang, James T. Kwok, Dit-Yan Yeung