One of the major drawbacks in block-based discrete cosine transform (BDCT) is the blocking artifacts at low bit rates. In this paper, an adaptive deblocking algorithm based on Mar...
—Soft errors due to cosmic rays cause reliability problems during lifetime operation of digital systems, which increase exponentially with Moore’s law. The first step in develo...
Abstract. Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is a new evolutionary computation technique. Although PSO algorithm possesses many attractive properties, the methods of selecting inert...
We discuss issues in designing virtual humans for applications which require long-term voluntary use, and the problem of maintaining engagement with users over time. Concepts and t...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Daniel Schulman, Langxuan Yin
Maximum likelihood estimators are often of limited practical use due to the intensive computation they require. We propose a family of alternative estimators that maximize a stoch...