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ISVD
2010
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
Alpha Shape Topology of the Cosmic Web
—We study the topology of the Megaparsec Cosmic Web on the basis of the Alpha Shapes of the galaxy distribution. The simplicial complexes of the alpha shapes are used to determin...
Rien van de Weygaert, Erwin Platen, Gert Vegter, B...
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JMLR
2010
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A Quasi-Newton Approach to Nonsmooth Convex Optimization Problems in Machine Learning
We extend the well-known BFGS quasi-Newton method and its memory-limited variant LBFGS to the optimization of nonsmooth convex objectives. This is done in a rigorous fashion by ge...
Jin Yu, S. V. N. Vishwanathan, Simon Günter, ...
MSS
2010
IEEE
91views Hardware» more  MSS 2010»
15 years 1 months ago
The almost surely shrinking yolk
The yolk, defined by McKelvey as the smallest ball intersecting all median hyperplanes, is a key concept in the Euclidean spatial model of voting. Koehler conjectured that the yo...
Craig A. Tovey
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NGC
2010
Springer
116views Communications» more  NGC 2010»
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Speech Structure and Its Application to Robust Speech Processing
Speech communication consists of three steps: production, transmission, and hearing. Every step inevitably involves acoustic distortions due to gender differences, age, microphone...
Nobuaki Minematsu, Satoshi Asakawa, Masayuki Suzuk...
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PCM
2010
Springer
183views Multimedia» more  PCM 2010»
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Fast H.264 Encoding Based on Statistical Learning
Abstract. In this paper, we propose an efficient video coding system that applies statistical learning methods to reduce the computational cost in H.264 encoder. The proposed metho...
Chen-Kuo Chiang, Shang-Hong Lai