— Many deterministic algorithms in the context of constrained optimization require the first-order derivatives, or the gradient vectors, of the objective and constraint function...
Stephanus Daniel Handoko, Chee Keong Kwoh, Yew-Soo...
—This paper reviews the different gradient-based schemes and the sources of gradient, their availability, precision and computational complexity, and explores the benefits of usi...
Boyang Li, Yew-Soon Ong, Minh Nghia Le, Chi Keong ...
— This paper presents Natural Evolution Strategies (NES), a novel algorithm for performing real-valued ‘black box’ function optimization: optimizing an unknown objective func...
—Much of the computational complexity in employing evolutionary algorithms as optimization tool is due to the fitness function evaluation that may either not exist or be computat...
Mohsen Davarynejad, Mohammad R. Akbarzadeh-Totonch...
This paper presents a novel algorithm for estimating complex human motion from 3D video. We base our algorithm on a model-based approach which uses a complete surface mesh of a 3D...