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STOC
1997
ACM
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An Interruptible Algorithm for Perfect Sampling via Markov Chains
For a large class of examples arising in statistical physics known as attractive spin systems (e.g., the Ising model), one seeks to sample from a probability distribution π on an...
James Allen Fill
ICCV
1999
IEEE
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Bayesian Structure from Motion
:We formulate structure from motion as a Bayesian inference problem, and use a Markov chain Monte Carlo sampler to sample the posterior on this problem. This results in a method th...
David A. Forsyth, Sergey Ioffe, John A. Haddon
SIGGRAPH
2000
ACM
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Sampling plausible solutions to multi-body constraint problems
Traditional collision intensive multi-body simulations are difficult to control due to extreme sensitivity to initial conditions or model parameters. Furthermore, there may be mu...
Stephen Chenney, David A. Forsyth
IJCNN
2000
IEEE
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On MCMC Sampling in Bayesian MLP Neural Networks
Bayesian MLP neural networks are a flexible tool in complex nonlinear problems. The approach is complicated by need to evaluate integrals over high-dimensional probability distri...
Aki Vehtari, Simo Särkkä, Jouko Lampinen
DATE
2010
IEEE
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Statistical static timing analysis using Markov chain Monte Carlo
—We present a new technique for statistical static timing analysis (SSTA) based on Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC), that allows fast and accurate estimation of the right-hand tai...
Yashodhan Kanoria, Subhasish Mitra, Andrea Montana...
ICPR
2010
IEEE
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A Neurobiologically Motivated Stochastic Method for Analysis of Human Activities in Video
In this paper, we develop a neurobiologicallymotivated statistical method for video analysis that simultaneously searches the combined motion and form space in a concerted and ef...
Ricky Sethi, Amit Roy-Chowdhury
ICML
2003
IEEE
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Evolutionary MCMC Sampling and Optimization in Discrete Spaces
The links between genetic algorithms and population-based Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods are explored. Genetic algorithms (GAs) are well-known for their capability to opt...
Malcolm J. A. Strens
CVPR
2003
IEEE
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Bayesian Human Segmentation in Crowded Situations
Problem of segmenting individual humans in crowded situations from stationary video camera sequences is exacerbated by object inter-occlusion. We pose this problem as a “model-b...
Tao Zhao, Ramakant Nevatia
SSPR
2004
Springer
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An MCMC Feature Selection Technique for Characterizing and Classifying Spatial Region Data
We focus on characterizing spatial region data when distinct classes of structural patterns are present. We propose a novel statistical approach based on a supervised framework for...
Despina Kontos, Vasileios Megalooikonomou, Marc J....
KDD
2004
ACM
170views Data Mining» more  KDD 2004»
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Estimating the size of the telephone universe: a Bayesian Mark-recapture approach
Mark-recapture models have for many years been used to estimate the unknown sizes of animal and bird populations. In this article we adapt a finite mixture mark-recapture model i...
David Poole