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IBPRIA
2007
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Bayesian Oil Spill Segmentation of SAR Images Via Graph Cuts
Abstract. This paper extends and generalizes the Bayesian semisupervised segmentation algorithm [1] for oil spill detection using SAR images. In the base algorithm on which we buil...
Sónia Pelizzari, José M. Bioucas-Dia...
ICIC
2005
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Sequential Stratified Sampling Belief Propagation for Multiple Targets Tracking
Rather than the difficulties of highly non-linear and non-Gaussian observation process and the state distribution in single target tracking, the presence of a large, varying number...
Jianru Xue, Nanning Zheng, Xiaopin Zhong
MMMACNS
2005
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Unique User-Generated Digital Pseudonyms
Abstract. This paper presents a method to generate unique and nevertheless highly random pseudonyms in a distributed environment. More precisely, each user can now generate his pse...
Peter Schartner, Martin Schaffer
SIGIR
2004
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
GaP: a factor model for discrete data
We present a probabilistic model for a document corpus that combines many of the desirable features of previous models. The model is called “GaP” for Gamma-Poisson, the distri...
John F. Canny
CIKM
2004
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Approximating the top-m passages in a parallel question answering system
We examine the problem of retrieving the top-m ranked items from a large collection, randomly distributed across an n-node system. In order to retrieve the top m overall, we must ...
Charles L. A. Clarke, Egidio L. Terra