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ICML
2004
IEEE
16 years 4 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 ...
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SIGIR
2011
ACM
14 years 6 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»
15 years 9 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
16 years 5 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
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ML
2006
ACM
121views Machine Learning» more  ML 2006»
15 years 3 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