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CVPR
2008
IEEE
16 years 9 months ago
Progressive search space reduction for human pose estimation
The objective of this paper is to estimate 2D human pose as a spatial configuration of body parts in TV and movie video shots. Such video material is uncontrolled and extremely ch...
Andrew Zisserman, Manuel J. Marín-Jim&eacut...
ECCV
2008
Springer
16 years 9 months ago
An Efficient Dense and Scale-Invariant Spatio-Temporal Interest Point Detector
Over the years, several spatio-temporal interest point detectors have been proposed. While some detectors can only extract a sparse set of scaleinvariant features, others allow for...
Geert Willems, Tinne Tuytelaars, Luc J. Van Gool
ECCV
2008
Springer
16 years 9 months ago
Statistical Analysis of Global Motion Chains
Abstract. Multiple elements such as lighting, colors, dialogue, and camera motion contribute to the style of a movie. Among them, camera motion is commonly overlooked yet a crucial...
Jenny Yuen, Yasuyuki Matsushita
ICML
2007
IEEE
16 years 8 months ago
Learning state-action basis functions for hierarchical MDPs
This paper introduces a new approach to actionvalue function approximation by learning basis functions from a spectral decomposition of the state-action manifold. This paper exten...
Sarah Osentoski, Sridhar Mahadevan
ICML
2008
IEEE
16 years 8 months ago
Reinforcement learning in the presence of rare events
We consider the task of reinforcement learning in an environment in which rare significant events occur independently of the actions selected by the controlling agent. If these ev...
Jordan Frank, Shie Mannor, Doina Precup