An increasing number of providers are offering utility computing services which require users to pay only when they use. Most of these providers currently charge users for metere...
The H.264/AVC video coding standard performs inter prediction using variable block sizes to improve coding efficiency. Since we predict not only the motion of the homogeneous regio...
Quantization is intrinsic to several data acquisition systems. This process is especially important in distributed settings, where observations must rst be compressed before they ...
Dependency networks approximate a joint probability distribution over multiple random variables as a product of conditional distributions. Relational Dependency Networks (RDNs) are...
Sriraam Natarajan, Tushar Khot, Kristian Kersting,...
The expectation maximization (EM) algorithm is a popular algorithm for parameter estimation in models with hidden variables. However, the algorithm has several non-trivial limitat...