An individual is asked to assess a real-valued variable y based on certain characteristics x=(x1 ,..., xm ), and on a database consisting of n observations of (x1 ,..., xm , y). A...
— Robots acting in populated environments must be capable of safe but also time efficient navigation. Trying to completely avoid regions resulting from worst case predictions of...
With the advent of e-Commerce, enterprises can no longer rely on static business strategies. They have to be able to cope in dynamic and uncertain electronic environments, especia...
Anticipation and prediction have been identified as key functions of many brain areas facilitating recognition, perception, and planning. In this chapter we present a hierarchical ...
A large variety of image features has been invented for detection of objects of a known class. We propose a framework to optimize the discrimination-efficiency tradeoff in integra...