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IPPS
2003
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
Effective Utilization and Reconfiguration of Distributed Hardware Resources Using Job Management Systems
Reconfigurable hardware resources are very expensive, and yet can be underutilized. This paper describes a middleware capable of discovering underutilized computing nodes with FPG...
Kris Gaj, Tarek A. El-Ghazawi, Nikitas A. Alexandr...
CVPR
2007
IEEE
16 years 6 months ago
Utilizing Variational Optimization to Learn Markov Random Fields
Markov Random Field, or MRF, models are a powerful tool for modeling images. While much progress has been made in algorithms for inference in MRFs, learning the parameters of an M...
Marshall F. Tappen
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ICIP
1998
IEEE
16 years 6 months ago
Joint Utilization of Fixed and Variable-Length Codes for Improving Synchronization Immunity for Image Transmission
Robust transmission of images is achieved by using xed and variable-length coding together without much loss in compression e ciency. The probability distribution function of a DC...
A. Aydin Alatan, John W. Woods
IROS
2006
IEEE
128views Robotics» more  IROS 2006»
15 years 10 months ago
Waalbot: An Agile Small-Scale Wall Climbing Robot Utilizing Pressure Sensitive Adhesives
Abstract— This paper proposes a small-scale agile wall climbing robot able to navigate on smooth surfaces of any orientation, including vertical and inverted surfaces, which uses...
Michael P. Murphy, William Tso, Michael Tanzini, M...
IJCAI
2007
15 years 6 months ago
Utile Distinctions for Relational Reinforcement Learning
We introduce an approach to autonomously creating state space abstractions for an online reinforcement learning agent using a relational representation. Our approach uses a tree-b...
William Dabney, Amy McGovern