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ICTAI
2005
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
An Adaptive De-Blocking Algorithm Based on MRF
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...
Shengli Xie, Zhiliang Xu
ISCAS
2005
IEEE
129views Hardware» more  ISCAS 2005»
15 years 3 months ago
An analytical approach for soft error rate estimation in digital circuits
—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...
Ghazanfar Asadi, Mehdi Baradaran Tahoori
GECCO
2003
Springer
130views Optimization» more  GECCO 2003»
15 years 3 months ago
A New Approach to Improve Particle Swarm Optimization
Abstract. Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is a new evolutionary computation technique. Although PSO algorithm possesses many attractive properties, the methods of selecting inert...
Liping Zhang, Huanjun Yu, Shangxu Hu
AAI
2010
147views more  AAI 2010»
14 years 10 months ago
Maintaining engagement in Long-Term Interventions with Relational Agents
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
CORR
2010
Springer
127views Education» more  CORR 2010»
14 years 10 months ago
Statistical and Computational Tradeoffs in Stochastic Composite Likelihood
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...
Joshua Dillon, Guy Lebanon