We compare different statistical characterizations of a set of strings, for three different histogram-based distances. Given a distance, a set of strings may be characterized by it...
Abstract— Thorup and Zwick, in their seminal work, introduced the approximate distance oracle, which is a data structure that answers distance queries in a graph. For any integer...
Abstract. We introduce the use of appearance-based features, and tangent distance or the image distortion model to account for image variability within the hidden Markov model emis...
Philippe Dreuw, Daniel Keysers, Thomas Deselaers, ...
To seamlessly integrate into the human physical and social environment, robots must display appropriate proxemic behavior—that is, follow societal norms in establishing their ph...
Round-trips between home and work represent, for the majority of people, most of their daily
commuting time; also, setting home and work places involves more constraints for two- ...