WSC
2004
14 years 6 months ago
2004
The stochastic root-finding problem (SRFP) is that of solving a system of q equations in q unknowns using only an oracle that provides estimates of the function values. This paper...
WSCG
2001
14 years 6 months ago
2001
We present a technique for efficiently generating photo-realistic pictures of halos and inserting them into existing photographs. First, we describe an algorithm for producing ima...
UAI
2004
14 years 6 months ago
2004
The paper describes an application of Aggregating Algorithm to the problem of regression. It generalizes earlier results concerned with plain linear regression to kernel technique...
VMV
2001
14 years 6 months ago
2001
When using triangle meshes in numerical simulations or other sophisticated downstream applications, we have to guarantee that no degenerate faces are present since they have, e.g....
VIP
2001
14 years 6 months ago
2001
This paper presents an algorithm designed to segment and classify newspaper documents. A notable feature of this algorithm is the ability to detect lines in the document
SODA
2004
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2004
ACM
Simulated tempering and swapping are two families of sampling algorithms in which a parameter representing temperature varies during the simulation. The hope is that this will ove...
UAI
2001
14 years 6 months ago
2001
We present an iterative Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm for computing reference priors and minimax risk for general parametric families. Our approach uses MCMC techniques based...
IJCAI
2003
14 years 6 months ago
2003
We present a novel, laser range finder based algorithm for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) for mobile robots. SLAM addresses the problem of constructing an accurate ...
IJCAI
2003
14 years 6 months ago
2003
Local search algorithms have been very successful for solving constraint satisfaction problems (CSP). However, a major weakness has been that local search is unable to detect unso...
IJCAI
2003
14 years 6 months ago
2003
Hyperlink analysis is a successful approach to define algorithms which compute the relevance of a document on the basis of the citation graph. In this paper we propose a technique...