Breakpoint phylogenies methods have been shown to be an effective way to extract phylogenetic information from gene order data. Currently, the only practical breakpoint phylogeny a...
Abstract. In this paper, we consider the problem of calculating fast and accurate approximations to the personalized PageRank score of a webpage. We focus on techniques to improve ...
Recently, an optimization approach for fast visual tracking of articulated structures based on Stochastic Meta-Descent (SMD) [7] has been presented. SMD is a gradient descent with...
Matthieu Bray, Esther Koller-Meier, Nicol N. Schra...
Fitting statistical 2D and 3D shape models to images is necessary for a variety of tasks, such as video editing and face recognition. Much progress has been made on local fitting...
Given a number of available layers of source data and a transmission bit budget, we propose an algorithm that determines how many layers should be sent and how many protection bit...