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EDUTAINMENT
2006
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Energy Matting
In this paper, we formulate the image matting as one of solving energy minimization problems. Our approach has the following advantages. First, the matte estimation is modeled usin...
Yu Guan, Xiao Liang, Zi'ang Ding, Yinan Fan, Wei C...
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AAAI
2008
15 years 6 months ago
Efficient Optimization of Information-Theoretic Exploration in SLAM
We present a novel method for information-theoretic exploration, leveraging recent work on mapping and localization. We describe exploration as the constrained optimization proble...
Thomas Kollar, Nicholas Roy
EVOW
2009
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Finding Balanced Incomplete Block Designs with Metaheuristics
This paper deals with the generation of balanced incomplete block designs (BIBD), a hard constrained combinatorial problem with multiple applications. This problem is here formulat...
David Rodríguez Rueda, Carlos Cotta, Antoni...
CORR
2006
Springer
94views Education» more  CORR 2006»
15 years 4 months ago
Fitness Uniform Optimization
Abstract-- In evolutionary algorithms, the fitness of a population increases with time by mutating and recombining individuals and by a biased selection of more fit individuals. Th...
Marcus Hutter, Shane Legg
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ISCC
2009
IEEE
129views Communications» more  ISCC 2009»
15 years 10 months ago
Handling dynamics in gossip-based aggregation schemes
A problem in large and dynamic networks consists in making available at each node global information about the state of the network. Gossip-based aggregation schemes are a simple ...
Nicola Bicocchi, Marco Mamei, Franco Zambonelli