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NIPS
1993
15 years 6 months ago
Using Local Trajectory Optimizers to Speed Up Global Optimization in Dynamic Programming
Dynamic programming provides a methodology to develop planners and controllers for nonlinear systems. However, general dynamic programming is computationally intractable. We have ...
Christopher G. Atkeson
SSDBM
2009
IEEE
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15 years 11 months ago
Constraint-Based Learning of Distance Functions for Object Trajectories
Abstract. With the drastic increase of object trajectory data, the analysis and exploration of trajectories has become a major research focus with many applications. In particular,...
Wei Yu, Michael Gertz
CORR
2010
Springer
153views Education» more  CORR 2010»
15 years 5 months ago
The Automatic Synthesis of Linear Ranking Functions: The Complete Unabridged Version
The classical technique for proving termination of a generic sequential computer program involves the synthesis of a ranking function for each loop of the program. Linear ranking ...
Roberto Bagnara, Fred Mesnard, Andrea Pescetti, En...
DESRIST
2009
Springer
100views Education» more  DESRIST 2009»
15 years 9 months ago
A theory-based alternative for the design of instruction: functional design
An approach to instructional design is described which avoids some of the problems traditionally associated with process design models, sometimes referred to as waterfall models. ...
Andrew S. Gibbons
CVGIP
2007
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15 years 4 months ago
Facial motion cloning with radial basis functions in MPEG-4 FBA
Facial Motion Cloning (FMC) is the technique employed to transfer the motion of a virtual face (namely the source) to a mesh representing another face (the target), generally havi...
Marco Fratarcangeli, Marco Schaerf, Robert Forchhe...