Model- and simulation-designers are often interested not in the optimum output of their system, but in understanding how the output is sensitive to different parameters. This can...
Sean Luke, Deepankar Sharma, Gabriel Catalin Balan
In many image or video retrieval systems, the search of similar objects in the database includes a spatial access method to a multidimensional feature space. This step is generall...
This paper describes our practical query-by-humming system, SoundCompass, which is being used as a karaoke song selection system in Japan. First, we describe the fundamental techn...
: User’s perception of product, by essence subjective, is a major topic in marketing and industrial design. Many methods, based on users’ tests, are used so as to characterise ...
This paper presents a general variance reduction method that is a quasi-optimal combination of correlated and importance sampling. The weights of the combination are selected auto...