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AUSAI
2005
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Understanding the Pheromone System Within Ant Colony Optimization
Abstract. Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a collection of metaheuristics inspired by foraging in ant colonies, whose aim is to solve combinatorial optimization problems. We identi...
Stephen Gilmour, Mark Dras
CVPR
2004
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Face Localization via Hierarchical CONDENSATION with Fisher Boosting Feature Selection
We formulate face localization as a Maximum A Posteriori Probability(MAP) problem of finding the best estimation of human face configuration in a given image. The a prior distribu...
Jilin Tu, ZhenQiu Zhang, Zhihong Zeng, Thomas S. H...
DAGM
2010
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Uncertainty Driven Multi-scale Optimization
This paper proposes a new multi-scale energy minimization algorithm which can be used to efficiently solve large scale labelling problems in computer vision. The basic modus operan...
Pushmeet Kohli, Victor S. Lempitsky, Carsten Rothe...
AEI
2005
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15 years 6 months ago
Comparison among five evolutionary-based optimization algorithms
Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are stochastic search methods that mimic the natural biological evolution and/or the social behavior of species. Such algorithms have been developed ...
Emad Elbeltagi, Tarek Hegazy, Donald E. Grierson
CORR
2010
Springer
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15 years 6 months ago
Quantization of Discrete Probability Distributions
We study the problem of quantization of discrete probability distributions, arising in universal coding, as well as other applications. We show, that in many situations this probl...
Yuriy A. Reznik