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AAAI
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Model Learning and Real-Time Tracking Using Multi-Resolution Surfel Maps
For interaction with its environment, a robot is required to learn models of objects and to perceive these models in the livestreams from its sensors. In this paper, we propose a ...
Jörg Stückler, Sven Behnke
EDBT
2012
ACM
214views Database» more  EDBT 2012»
12 years 2 months ago
An optimization framework for map-reduce queries
We present an effective optimization framework for general SQLlike map-reduce queries, which is based on a novel query algebra and uses a small number of higher-order physical ope...
Leonidas Fegaras, Chengkai Li, Upa Gupta
SDM
2012
SIAM
252views Data Mining» more  SDM 2012»
12 years 2 months ago
Learning from Heterogeneous Sources via Gradient Boosting Consensus
Multiple data sources containing different types of features may be available for a given task. For instance, users’ profiles can be used to build recommendation systems. In a...
Xiaoxiao Shi, Jean-François Paiement, David...
KDD
2012
ACM
263views Data Mining» more  KDD 2012»
12 years 2 months ago
Integrating community matching and outlier detection for mining evolutionary community outliers
Temporal datasets, in which data evolves continuously, exist in a wide variety of applications, and identifying anomalous or outlying objects from temporal datasets is an importan...
Manish Gupta, Jing Gao, Yizhou Sun, Jiawei Han
TOG
2012
298views Communications» more  TOG 2012»
12 years 2 months ago
Tensor displays: compressive light field synthesis using multilayer displays with directional backlighting
We introduce tensor displays: a family of compressive light field displays comprising all architectures employing a stack of timemultiplexed, light-attenuating layers illuminated...
Gordon Wetzstein, Douglas Lanman, Matthew Hirsch, ...
INFOCOM
2012
IEEE
12 years 2 months ago
Squeezing the most out of interference: An optimization framework for joint interference exploitation and avoidance
—There is a growing interest in exploiting interference (rather than avoiding it) to increase network throughput. In particular, the so-called successive interference cancellatio...
Canming Jiang, Yi Shi, Y. Thomas Hou, Wenjing Lou,...
JMLR
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Distance Metric Learning with Eigenvalue Optimization
The main theme of this paper is to develop a novel eigenvalue optimization framework for learning a Mahalanobis metric. Within this context, we introduce a novel metric learning a...
Yiming Ying, Peng Li
CAD
2012
Springer
12 years 8 months ago
Flexible shape control for automatic resizing of apparel products
We provide a flexible shape control technique in this paper for the automatic resizing of apparel products. The automatic resizing function has become an essential part of the 3D...
Yuwei Meng, Charlie C. L. Wang, Xiaogang Jin
AAAI
2011
13 years 13 days ago
A Feasible Nonconvex Relaxation Approach to Feature Selection
Variable selection problems are typically addressed under a penalized optimization framework. Nonconvex penalties such as the minimax concave plus (MCP) and smoothly clipped absol...
Cuixia Gao, Naiyan Wang, Qi Yu, Zhihua Zhang
SIGMOD
2011
ACM
276views Database» more  SIGMOD 2011»
13 years 3 months ago
Schedule optimization for data processing flows on the cloud
Scheduling data processing workflows (dataflows) on the cloud is a very complex and challenging task. It is essentially an optimization problem, very similar to query optimizati...
Herald Kllapi, Eva Sitaridi, Manolis M. Tsangaris,...