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ECCV
2010
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Geometry Construction from Caustic Images
In this work we investigate an inverse geometry problem. Given a light source, a diffuse plane and a caustic image, how must a geometric object look like (transmissive or reflect...
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WSC
2004
15 years 2 months ago
On Using Monte Carlo Methods for Scheduling
Monte Carlo techniques have long been used (since Buffon's experiment to approximate the value of by tossing a needle onto striped paper) to analyze phenomena which, due to ...
Samarn Chantaravarapan, Ali K. Gunal, Edward J. Wi...
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JMLR
2010
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14 years 7 months ago
On the Convergence Properties of Contrastive Divergence
Contrastive Divergence (CD) is a popular method for estimating the parameters of Markov Random Fields (MRFs) by rapidly approximating an intractable term in the gradient of the lo...
Ilya Sutskever, Tijmen Tieleman
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ICDE
2007
IEEE
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16 years 2 months ago
Evaluating Proximity Relations Under Uncertainty
For location-based services it is often essential to efficiently process proximity relations among mobile objects, such as to establish whether a group of friends or family member...
Zhengdao Xu, Hans-Arno Jacobsen
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ICPR
2008
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Generative models for fingerprint individuality using ridge models
Generative models of pattern individuality attempt to learn the distribution of observed quantitative features to determine the probability of two random patterns being the same. ...
Chang Su, Sargur N. Srihari