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TIT
2002
57views more  TIT 2002»
15 years 1 months ago
Writing sequences on the plane
The problem of arranging two-dimensional arrays of data into one-dimensional sequences comes up in image processing, color quantization, and optical and magnetic data recording. A ...
Emina Soljanin
PE
2007
Springer
164views Optimization» more  PE 2007»
15 years 1 months ago
Analysis of join-the-shortest-queue routing for web server farms
Join the Shortest Queue (JSQ) is a popular routing policy for server farms. However, until now all analysis of JSQ has been limited to First-Come-First-Serve (FCFS) server farms, ...
Varun Gupta, Mor Harchol-Balter, Karl Sigman, Ward...
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SAC
2008
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Particle methods for maximum likelihood estimation in latent variable models
Standard methods for maximum likelihood parameter estimation in latent variable models rely on the Expectation-Maximization algorithm and its Monte Carlo variants. Our approach is ...
Adam M. Johansen, Arnaud Doucet, Manuel Davy
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CVPR
2009
IEEE
1216views Computer Vision» more  CVPR 2009»
16 years 8 months ago
Marked Point Processes for Crowd Counting
A Bayesian marked point process (MPP) model is developed to detect and count people in crowded scenes. The model couples a spatial stochastic process governing number and placem...
Robert T. Collins, Weina Ge
CORR
2008
Springer
111views Education» more  CORR 2008»
15 years 7 days ago
Concave Programming Upper Bounds on the Capacity of 2-D Constraints
The capacity of 1-D constraints is given by the entropy of a corresponding stationary maxentropic Markov chain. Namely, the entropy is maximized over a set of probability distribut...
Ido Tal, Ron M. Roth