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WSC
2007
15 years 9 months ago
Ant-based approach for determining the change of measure in importance sampling
Importance Sampling is a potentially powerful variance reduction technique to speed up simulations where the objective depends on the occurrence of rare events. However, it is cru...
Poul E. Heegaard, Werner Sandmann
ICCV
2009
IEEE
17 years 6 days ago
Joint optimization of segmentation and appearance models
Many interactive image segmentation approaches use an objective function which includes appearance models as an unknown variable. Since the resulting optimization problem is NP-har...
Sara Vicente, Vladimir Kolmogorov, Carsten Rother
AMC
2007
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15 years 7 months ago
Locating multiple optima using particle swarm optimization
Many scientific and engineering applications require optimization methods to find more than one solution to multimodal optimization problems. This paper presents a new particle ...
R. Brits, Andries Petrus Engelbrecht, F. Van den B...
CORR
1998
Springer
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15 years 7 months ago
Training Reinforcement Neurocontrollers Using the Polytope Algorithm
A new training algorithm is presented for delayed reinforcement learning problems that does not assume the existence of a critic model and employs the polytope optimization algorit...
Aristidis Likas, Isaac E. Lagaris
ICCV
2001
IEEE
16 years 9 months ago
Stereo Matching by Compact Windows via Minimum Ratio Cycle
Window size and shape selection is a difficult problem in area based stereo. We propose an algorithm which chooses an appropriate window shape by optimizing over a large class of ...
Olga Veksler