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ICAI
2009
13 years 10 months ago
On the Construction of Initial Basis Function for Efficient Value Function Approximation
- We address the issues of improving the feature generation methods for the value-function approximation and the state space approximation. We focus the improvement of feature gene...
Chung-Cheng Chiu, Kuan-Ta Chen
TOG
2002
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14 years 2 days ago
CHARMS: a simple framework for adaptive simulation
Finite element solvers are a basic component of simulation applications; they are common in computer graphics, engineering, and medical simulations. Although adaptive solvers can ...
Eitan Grinspun, Petr Krysl, Peter Schröder
ML
2002
ACM
168views Machine Learning» more  ML 2002»
14 years 3 days ago
On Average Versus Discounted Reward Temporal-Difference Learning
We provide an analytical comparison between discounted and average reward temporal-difference (TD) learning with linearly parameterized approximations. We first consider the asympt...
John N. Tsitsiklis, Benjamin Van Roy
TVCG
2008
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14 years 10 days ago
Spherical Piecewise Constant Basis Functions for All-Frequency Precomputed Radiance Transfer
This paper presents a novel basis function, called spherical piecewise constant basis function (SPCBF), for precomputed radiance transfer. SPCBFs have several desirable properties:...
Kun Xu, Yun-Tao Jia, Hongbo Fu, Shi-Min Hu, Chiew-...
GEOINFO
2003
14 years 1 months ago
A Strategy for the Interpolation of Surfaces through the Use of Basis Functions
For the construction of digital terrain models based on surface interpolation, it is defined a bivariate function ¡£¢¥¤§¦©¨ that interpolates a finite set of  sample ...
Edson Ricardo de Andrade Silva, Creto Augusto Vida...
AAAI
2006
14 years 1 months ago
Learning Representation and Control in Continuous Markov Decision Processes
This paper presents a novel framework for simultaneously learning representation and control in continuous Markov decision processes. Our approach builds on the framework of proto...
Sridhar Mahadevan, Mauro Maggioni, Kimberly Fergus...
HVEI
2010
14 years 1 months ago
Perceptual quality assessment of color images using adaptive signal representation
Perceptual image distortion measures can play a fundamental role in evaluating and optimizing imaging systems and image processing algorithms. Many existing measures are formulate...
Umesh Rajashekar, Zhou Wang, Eero P. Simoncelli
SIGGRAPH
1996
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
A Cellular Texture Basis Function
Solid texturing is a powerful way to add detail to the surface of rendered objects. Perlin's "noise" is a 3D basis function used in some of the most dramatic and us...
Steven Worley
AUSAI
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A Dynamic Allocation Method of Basis Functions in Reinforcement Learning
In this paper, we propose a dynamic allocation method of basis functions, an Allocation/Elimination Gaussian Softmax Basis Function Network (AE-GSBFN), that is used in reinforcemen...
Shingo Iida, Kiyotake Kuwayama, Masayoshi Kanoh, S...
SCALESPACE
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Vortex and Source Particles for Fluid Motion Estimation
In this paper we propose a new motion estimator for image sequences depicting fluid flows. The proposed estimator is based on the Helmholtz decomposition of vector fields. This ...
Anne Cuzol, Étienne Mémin