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We study the problem of optimal sampling in an edge-based video analytics system (VAS), where sensor samples collected at a terminal device are offloaded to a back-end server that processes them and generates feedback for a user. Sampling…
Recent end-to-end deep neural networks for disparity regression have achieved the state-of-the-art performance. However, many well-acknowledged specific properties of disparity estimation are omitted in these deep learning algorithms.…
We investigate the optimal design of experimental studies that have pre-treatment outcome data available. The average treatment effect is estimated as the difference between the weighted average outcomes of the treated and control units. A…