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NIPS
2001
15 years 1 months ago
K-Local Hyperplane and Convex Distance Nearest Neighbor Algorithms
Guided by an initial idea of building a complex (non linear) decision surface with maximal local margin in input space, we give a possible geometrical intuition as to why K-Neares...
Pascal Vincent, Yoshua Bengio
SIGIR
2005
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Question answering passage retrieval using dependency relations
State-of-the-art question answering (QA) systems employ termdensity ranking to retrieve answer passages. Such methods often retrieve incorrect passages as relationships among ques...
Hang Cui, Renxu Sun, Keya Li, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Sen...
CVPR
2009
IEEE
16 years 6 months ago
An Empirical Bayes Approach to Contextual Region Classification
This paper presents a nonparametric approach to labeling of local image regions that is inspired by recent developments in information-theoretic denoising. The chief novelty of ...
Svetlana Lazebnik (UNC Chapel Hill), Maxim Raginsk...
JMM2
2006
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14 years 11 months ago
Robust Real-time 3D Detection of Obstructed Head and Hands in Indoors Environments
We address the need for robust detection of obstructed human features in complex environments, with a focus on intelligent surgical UIs. In our setup, real-time detection is used t...
Sébastien Grange, Charles Baur
EOR
2008
87views more  EOR 2008»
14 years 11 months ago
Robust surgery loading
We consider the robust surgery loading problem for a hospital's operating theatre department, which concerns assigning surgeries and sufficient planned slack to operating roo...
Erwin W. Hans, Gerhard Wullink, Mark van Houdenhov...