The privacy concerns associated with data analysis over social networks have spurred recent research on privacypreserving social network analysis, particularly on privacypreservin...
Abstract. The concept of Ensemble Learning has been shown to increase predictive power over single base learners. Given the bias-variancecovariance decomposition, diversity is char...
We describe semi-Markov conditional random fields (semi-CRFs), a conditionally trained version of semi-Markov chains. Intuitively, a semiCRF on an input sequence x outputs a "...
Abstract. We propose a novel restoration method for defects and missing regions in video sequences, particularly in application to archive film restoration. Our statistical framew...
Virtual evidence (VE), first introduced by (Pearl, 1988), provides a convenient way of incorporating prior knowledge into Bayesian networks. This work generalizes the use of VE to...