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JACM
2006
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15 years 3 months ago
Distribution sort with randomized cycling
Parallel independent disks can enhance the performance of external memory (EM) algorithms, but the programming task is often di cult. In this paper we develop randomized variants ...
Jeffrey Scott Vitter, David A. Hutchinson
BCS
2008
15 years 4 months ago
A Hardware Relaxation Paradigm for Solving NP-Hard Problems
Digital circuits with feedback loops can solve some instances of NP-hard problems by relaxation: the circuit will either oscillate or settle down to a stable state that represents...
Paul Cockshott, Andreas Koltes, John O'Donnell, Pa...
ICIP
2005
IEEE
16 years 4 months ago
Segmenting small regions in the presence of noise
Binary segmentation, a problem of extracting foreground objects from the background, often arises in medical imaging and document processing. Popular existing solutions include Ex...
Rashi Samur, Vitali Zagorodnov
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ACCV
2009
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Evolving Mean Shift with Adaptive Bandwidth: A Fast and Noise Robust Approach
Abstract. This paper presents a novel nonparametric clustering algorithm called evolving mean shift (EMS) algorithm. The algorithm iteratively shrinks a dataset and generates well ...
Qi Zhao, Zhi Yang, Hai Tao, Wentai Liu
AAAI
2006
15 years 4 months ago
Optimal Scheduling of Contract Algorithms for Anytime Problems
A contract algorithm is an algorithm which is given, as part of the input, a specified amount of allowable computation time. The algorithm must then compute a solution within the ...
Alejandro López-Ortiz, Spyros Angelopoulos,...