TOG
2008
13 years 2 months ago
2008
We introduce a layered, heterogeneous spectral reflectance model for human skin. The model captures the inter-scattering of light among layers, each of which may have an independe...
IWEC
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
Abstract—We describe and analyze emergent behavior and its effect for a class of preypredators’ simulation models. The simulation uses rule-based agent behavior and follows a p...
SCHOLARPEDIA
2008
13 years 2 months ago
2008
We present a novel method for clustering using the support vector machine approach. Data points are mapped to a high dimensional feature space, where support vectors are used to d...
INFORMATICALT
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
In the previous papers (Pupeikis, 2000; Genov et al., 2006; Atanasov and Pupeikis, 2009), a direct approach for estimating the parameters of a discrete-time linear time-invariant (...
IJAR
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
Bayesian networks with mixtures of truncated exponentials (MTEs) support efficient inference algorithms and provide a flexible way of modeling hybrid domains (domains containing ...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
2010
IEEE
— We describe a simple and intuitive policy gradient method for improving parametrized quadrocopter multi-flips by combining iterative experiments with information from a first...
ICFEM
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
2010
Springer
Abstract. Verifying that a parameterized system satisfies certain desired properties amounts to verifying an infinite family of the system instances. This problem is undecidable ...
PAMI
2007
13 years 3 months ago
2007
—This paper presents a novel approach for estimating the parameters for MRF-based stereo algorithms. This approach is based on a new formulation of stereo as a maximum a posterio...
VLDB
2002
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2002
ACM
The cost of a query plan depends on many parameters, such as predicate selectivities and available memory, whose values may not be known at optimization time. Parametric query opt...
TSMC
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
Abstract--Most genetic algorithm (GA) users adjust the main parameters of the design of a GA (crossover and mutation probability, population size, number of generations, crossover,...