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TOMACS
2002
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Simulating heavy tailed processes using delayed hazard rate twisting
Consider the problem of estimating the small probability that the maximum of a random walk exceeds a large threshold, when the process has a negative drift and the underlying rand...
Sandeep Juneja, Perwez Shahabuddin
JMLR
2008
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A New Algorithm for Estimating the Effective Dimension-Reduction Subspace
The statistical problem of estimating the effective dimension-reduction (EDR) subspace in the multi-index regression model with deterministic design and additive noise is consider...
Arnak S. Dalalyan, Anatoly Juditsky, Vladimir Spok...
JCP
2008
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Vocal Tract Area Function Estimation Using Particle Swarm
-- The problem of estimating the Vocal Tract Area Functions (VTAF) from speech signals arise in many applications. However, the existing methods for solving this problem were desig...
Mahmoud A. Ismail
CORR
2010
Springer
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Efficient Sketches for the Set Query Problem
We develop an algorithm for estimating the values of a vector x Rn over a support S of size k from a randomized sparse binary linear sketch Ax of size O(k). Given Ax and S, we ca...
Eric Price
WSC
2000
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Simulating GI/GI/1 queues and insurance risk processes with subexponential distributions
This paper deals with estimating small tail probabilities of the steady-state waiting time in a GI/GI/1 queue with heavy-tailed (subexponential) service times. The problem of esti...
Nam Kyoo Boots, Perwez Shahabuddin
CLEAR
2006
Springer
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14 years 3 months ago
Head Pose Estimation on Low Resolution Images
This paper addresses the problem of estimating head pose over a wide range of angles from low-resolution images. Faces are detected using chrominance-based features. Grey-level nor...
Nicolas Gourier, Jérôme Maisonnasse, ...
DAGM
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Learning Depth from Stereo
We compare two approaches to the problem of estimating the depth of a point in space from observing its image position in two
Fabian H. Sinz, Joaquin Quiñonero Candela, ...
ESCAPE
2007
Springer
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CR-precis: A Deterministic Summary Structure for Update Data Streams
We present deterministic sub-linear space algorithms for a number of problems over update data streams, including, estimating frequencies of items and ranges, finding approximate ...
Sumit Ganguly, Anirban Majumder
FOCS
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
The Data Stream Space Complexity of Cascaded Norms
Abstract— We consider the problem of estimating cascaded aggregates over a matrix presented as a sequence of updates in a data stream. A cascaded aggregate P ◦Q is defined by ...
T. S. Jayram, David P. Woodruff