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ICASSP
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Shrinkage estimation of high dimensional covariance matrices
We address covariance estimation under mean-squared loss in the Gaussian setting. Specifically, we consider shrinkage methods which are suitable for high dimensional problems wit...
Yilun Chen, Ami Wiesel, Alfred O. Hero
CAAN
2007
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Improving the Efficiency of Helsgaun's Lin-Kernighan Heuristic for the Symmetric TSP
Abstract. Helsgaun has introduced and implemented the lower tolerances (-values) for an approximation of Held-Karp's 1-tree with the purpose to improve the Lin-Kernighan Heuri...
Dirk Richter, Boris Goldengorin, Gerold Jäger...
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
How to Improve a Handwriting Recognition System
The recognition of handwritten characters, words, and text arouses great interest today. To develop the best working system is subject of many papers published. With this paper, m...
Haikal El Abed, Volker Märgner
ICMCS
2006
IEEE
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16 years 15 days ago
Improved Similarity-Based Online Feature Selection in Region-Based Image Retrieval
To bridge the gap between high level semantic concepts and low level visual features in content-based image retrieval (CBIR), online feature selection is really required. An effec...
Fei Li, Qionghai Dai, Wenli Xu
INFORMS
2010
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15 years 3 months ago
Improving the Efficiency and Efficacy of Controlled Sequential Bifurcation for Simulation Factor Screening
Controlled Sequential Bifurcation (CSB) is a factor-screening method for discrete-event simulations. It combines a multi-stage hypothesis testing procedure with the original Seque...
Hong Wan, Bruce E. Ankenman, Barry L. Nelson