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PCM
2010
Springer
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15 years 5 months ago
Adaptive Particle Filter Based on Energy Field for Robust Object Tracking in Complex Scenes
Particle filter (PF) based object tracking methods have been widely used in computer vision. However, traditional particle filter trackers cannot effectively distinguish the target...
Xin Sun, Hongxun Yao, Shengping Zhang, Shaohui Liu
SIGDIAL
2010
15 years 5 months ago
Investigating Clarification Strategies in a Hybrid POMDP Dialog Manager
We investigate the clarification strategies exhibited by a hybrid POMDP dialog manager based on data obtained from a phone-based user study. The dialog manager combines task struc...
Sebastian Varges, Silvia Quarteroni, Giuseppe Ricc...
SIGDIAL
2010
15 years 5 months ago
Probabilistic Ontology Trees for Belief Tracking in Dialog Systems
We introduce a novel approach for robust belief tracking of user intention within a spoken dialog system. The space of user intentions is modeled by a probabilistic extension of t...
Neville Mehta, Rakesh Gupta, Antoine Raux, Deepak ...
DA
2010
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15 years 4 months ago
Eliciting Patients' Revealed Preferences: An Inverse Markov Decision Process Approach
. Direct approaches, which involve asking patients various abstract questions, have significant drawbacks. We propose a new approach that infers patient preferences based on observ...
Zeynep Erkin, Matthew D. Bailey, Lisa M. Maillart,...
ICONFERENCE
2011
15 years 2 months ago
eBirding: technology adoption and the transformation of leisure into science
The decreasing cost of technology and Internet access has resulted in increasingly large-scale scientific research projects that rely on technology-mediated public participation....
Andrea Wiggins