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CVPR
2005
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
Shape Regularized Active Contour Using Iterative Global Search and Local Optimization
Recently, nonlinear shape models have been shown to improve the robustness and flexibility of segmentation. In this paper, we propose Shape Regularized Active Contour (ShRAC) that...
Tianli Yu, Jiebo Luo, Narendra Ahuja
TKDE
2008
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13 years 6 months ago
A Niching Memetic Algorithm for Simultaneous Clustering and Feature Selection
Clustering is inherently a difficult task and is made even more difficult when the selection of relevant features is also an issue. In this paper, we propose an approach for simult...
Weiguo Sheng, Xiaohui Liu, Michael C. Fairhurst
JCST
2008
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13 years 6 months ago
Orthogonal Methods Based Ant Colony Search for Solving Continuous Optimization Problems
Research into ant colony algorithms for solving continuous optimization problems forms one of the most significant and promising areas in swarm computation. Although traditional an...
Xiaomin Hu, Jun Zhang, Yun Li
EVOW
2006
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Divide-and-Evolve: A New Memetic Scheme for Domain-Independent Temporal Planning
An original approach, termed Divide-and-Evolve is proposed to hybridize Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) with Operational Research (OR) methods in the domain of Temporal Planning Prob...
Marc Schoenauer, Pierre Savéant, Vincent Vi...
BMCBI
2010
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13 years 6 months ago
A global optimization algorithm for protein surface alignment
Background: A relevant problem in drug design is the comparison and recognition of protein binding sites. Binding sites recognition is generally based on geometry often combined w...
Paola Bertolazzi, Concettina Guerra, Giampaolo Liu...