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JMLR
2006
2006
Geometric Variance Reduction in Markov Chains: Application to Value Function and Gradient Estimation
13 years 4 months ago
We study a sequential variance reduction technique for Monte Carlo estimation of functionals in Markov Chains. The method is based on designing sequential control variates using s...
WEA
2010
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2010
Springer
Abstract. A new technique for combinational logic optimization is described. The technique is a two-step process. In the first step, the nonlinearity of a circuit – as measured ...
COMCOM
2006
13 years 4 months ago
2006
Due to the application-specific nature of wireless sensor networks, application-aware algorithm and protocol design paradigms are highly required in order to optimize the overall ...
IPMI
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2005
Springer
This paper presents a general graph-theoretic technique for simultaneously segmenting multiple closed surfaces in volumetric images, which employs a novel graph-construction scheme...
CVPR
2001
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2001
IEEE
To utilize CT or MRI images for computer aided diagnosis applications, robust features that represent 3-D image data need to be constructed and subsequently used by a classificati...