We develop a variant of the Nelder-Mead (NM) simplex search procedure for stochastic simulation optimization that is designed to avoid many of the weaknesses encumbering such dire...
The performance of web search engines may often deteriorate due to the diversity and noisy information contained within web pages. User click-through data can be used to introduce...
The problem of automatically extracting the most interesting and relevant keyword phrases in a document has been studied extensively as it is crucial for a number of applications. ...
We propose a new method for detecting objects such as bags carried by pedestrians depicted in short video sequences. In common with earlier work on the same problem, the method sta...
Capturing multiple photos at different focus settings is a powerful approach for reducing optical blur, but how many photos should we capture within a fixed time budget? We develop...
Samuel W. Hasinoff, Kiriakos N. Kutulakos, Frédo ...