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ICCV
2009
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Analysis of orientation and scale in smoothly varying textures
We present a novel representation for modeling textured regions subject to smooth variations in orientation and scale. Utilizing the steerable pyramid of Simoncelli and Freeman as...
Jason Chang, John W. Fisher III
SIGGRAPH
1996
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Flow and Changes in Appearance
An important, largely unexplored area of computer image generation is the simulation of weathering and its effects on appearance. Weathering results from the interaction of the en...
Julie Dorsey, Hans Køhling Pedersen, Pat Ha...
HRI
2006
ACM
16 years 19 days ago
Using context and sensory data to learn first and second person pronouns
We present a method of grounded word learning that is powerful enough to learn the meanings of first and second person pronouns. The model uses the understood words in an utteran...
Kevin Gold, Brian Scassellati
STOC
2007
ACM
140views Algorithms» more  STOC 2007»
16 years 7 months ago
On the submodularity of influence in social networks
We prove and extend a conjecture of Kempe, Kleinberg, and Tardos (KKT) on the spread of influence in social networks. A social network can be represented by a directed graph where...
Elchanan Mossel, Sébastien Roch
COMBINATORICA
2008
92views more  COMBINATORICA 2008»
15 years 6 months ago
A separation theorem in property testing
Consider the following seemingly rhetorical question: Is it crucial for a property-tester to know the error parameter in advance? Previous papers dealing with various testing prob...
Noga Alon, Asaf Shapira