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CVPR
2008
IEEE
16 years 3 months ago
Image de-fencing
We introduce a novel image segmentation algorithm that uses translational symmetry as the primary foreground/background separation cue. We investigate the process of identifying a...
Yanxi Liu, Tamara Belkina, James Hays, Roberto Lub...
FOCS
2008
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
On the Hardness of Being Truthful
The central problem in computational mechanism design is the tension between incentive compatibility and computational ef ciency. We establish the rst significant approximability ...
Christos H. Papadimitriou, Michael Schapira, Yaron...
AAAI
2007
15 years 3 months ago
Nonmyopic Informative Path Planning in Spatio-Temporal Models
In many sensing applications we must continuously gather information to provide a good estimate of the state of the environment at every point in time. A robot may tour an environ...
Alexandra Meliou, Andreas Krause, Carlos Guestrin,...
ATAL
2010
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
On the limits of dictatorial classification
In the strategyproof classification setting, a set of labeled examples is partitioned among multiple agents. Given the reported labels, an optimal classification mechanism returns...
Reshef Meir, Ariel D. Procaccia, Jeffrey S. Rosens...
ICDE
2010
IEEE
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15 years 1 months ago
Cleansing uncertain databases leveraging aggregate constraints
— Emerging uncertain database applications often involve the cleansing (conditioning) of uncertain databases using additional information as new evidence for reducing the uncerta...
Haiquan Chen, Wei-Shinn Ku, Haixun Wang