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ICMCS
2009
IEEE
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13 years 3 months ago
Sort-Merge feature selection and fusion methods for classification of unstructured video
We explore the problem of rapid automatic semantic tagging of video frames of unstructured (unedited) videos. We apply the Sort-Merge algorithm for feature selection on a large (&...
Mitchell J. Morris, John R. Kender
CORR
2007
Springer
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13 years 6 months ago
Sorting and Selection in Posets
Classical problems of sorting and searching assume an underlying linear ordering of the objects being compared. In this paper, we study a more general setting, in which some pairs...
Constantinos Daskalakis, Richard M. Karp, Elchanan...
ICALP
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Sorting and Selection with Imprecise Comparisons
Abstract. In experimental psychology, the method of paired comparisons was proposed as a means for ranking preferences amongst n elements of a human subject. The method requires pe...
Avinatan Hassidim, Jelani Nelson, Miklós Aj...
COCOON
2005
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Randomized Quicksort and the Entropy of the Random Source
Abstract. The worst-case complexity of an implementation of Quicksort depends on the random number generator that is used to select the pivot elements. In this paper we estimate th...
Beatrice List, Markus Maucher, Uwe Schöning, ...
IPPS
1998
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Random Sampling Techniques in Parallel Computation
Abstract. Random sampling is an important tool in the design of parallel algorithms. Using random sampling it is possible to obtain simple parallel algorithms which are e cient in ...
Rajeev Raman