In this paper we propose an approach to variable selection that uses a neural-network model as the tool to determine which variables are to be discarded. The method performs a bac...
Use of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) products is becoming a popular software development method. Current methods of selecting COTS products involve using the intuition of softwa...
We present an active learning framework to simultaneously learn appearance and contextual models for scene understanding tasks (multi-class classification). Existing multi-class a...
Abstract. Texture synthesis aims to define and reproduce discriminating image features. These features are used to associate with and differentiate between two textures. Often tex...
Traditionally, direct marketing companies have relied on pre-testing to select the best offers to send to their audiences. Companies systematically dispatch the offers under consid...
Sebastiano Battiato, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Gio...