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Thompson sampling provides a solution to bandit problems in which new observations are allocated to arms with the posterior probability that an arm is optimal. While sometimes easy to implement and asymptotically optimal, Thompson sampling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-10-16 Dean Eckles , Maurits Kaptein

Tracking specific targets, such as pedestrians and vehicles, has been the focus of recent vision-based multitarget tracking studies. However, in some real-world scenarios, unseen categories often challenge existing methods due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Zewei Wu , Longhao Wang , Cui Wang , César Teixeira , Wei Ke , Zhang Xiong

The rapid rise of online social networks underscores the need to understand the heterogeneous strengths of online relationships. Yet, efforts to assess tie strength (TS) are hindered by the lack of ground-truth labels, differing research…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Xueqi Cheng , Catherine Yang , Yuying Zhao , Yu Wang , Hamid Karimi , Tyler Derr

Measuring similarity between two objects is the core operation in existing clustering algorithms in grouping similar objects into clusters. This paper introduces a new similarity measure called point-set kernel which computes the similarity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Kai Ming Ting , Jonathan R. Wells , Ye Zhu

This paper addresses an important problem in Example-Based Machine Translation (EBMT), namely how to measure similarity between a sentence fragment and a set of stored examples. A new method is proposed that measures similarity according to…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Lambros Cranias , Harris Papageorgiou , Stelios Piperidis

Consider the problem of tracking a set of moving targets. Apart from the tracking result, it is often important to know where the tracking fails, either to steer sensors to that part of the state-space, or to inform a human operator about…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-11-10 Hedvig Sidenbladh , Pontus Svenson , Johan Schubert

In this paper we study the problem of content-based image retrieval. In this problem, the most popular performance measure is the top precision measure, and the most important component of a retrieval system is the similarity function used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-23 Ru-Ze Liang , Lihui Shi , Haoxiang Wang , Jiandong Meng , Jim Jing-Yan Wang , Qingquan Sun , Yi Gu

In most computer vision and image analysis problems, it is necessary to define a similarity measure between two or more different objects or images. Template matching is a classic and fundamental method used to score similarities between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Nazanin Sadat Hashemi , Roya Babaie Aghdam , Atieh Sadat Bayat Ghiasi , Parastoo Fatemi

Many RGBT tracking researches primarily focus on modal fusion design, while overlooking the effective handling of target appearance changes. While some approaches have introduced historical frames or fuse and replace initial templates to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Dengdi Sun , Yajie Pan , Andong Lu , Chenglong Li , Bin Luo

Online controlled experiments have emerged as industry gold standard for assessing new web features. As new web algorithms proliferate, experimentation platform faces an increasing demand on the velocity of online experiments, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Zezhong Zhang , Ted Yuan

Object tracking is a long standing problem in vision. While great efforts have been spent to improve tracking performance, a simple yet reliable prior knowledge is left unexploited: the target object in tracking must be an object other than…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-29 Pengpeng Liang , Chunyuan Liao , Xue Mei , Haibin Ling

Point matching refers to the process of finding spatial transformation and correspondences between two sets of points. In this paper, we focus on the case that there is only partial overlap between two point sets. Following the approach of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-05 Wei Lian , Lei Zhang

Most of existing correlation filter-based tracking approaches only estimate simple axis-aligned bounding boxes, and very few of them is capable of recovering the underlying similarity transformation. To tackle this challenging problem, in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Yang Li , Jianke Zhu , Steven C. H. Hoi , Wenjie Song , Zhefeng Wang , Hantang Liu

Template-matching methods for visual tracking have gained popularity recently due to their good performance and fast speed. However, they lack effective ways to adapt to changes in the target object's appearance, making their tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Tianyu Yang , Antoni B. Chan

The Burrows-Wheeler transform (BWT) is a well studied text transformation widely used in data compression and text indexing. The BWT of two strings can also provide similarity measures between them, based on the observation that the more…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Felipe A. Louza , Guilherme P. Telles , Simon Gog , Liang Zhao

Correlation acts as a critical role in the tracking field, especially in recent popular Siamese-based trackers. The correlation operation is a simple fusion manner to consider the similarity between the template and the search region.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Xin Chen , Bin Yan , Jiawen Zhu , Dong Wang , Xiaoyun Yang , Huchuan Lu

Social media and other platforms rely on automated detection of abusive content to help combat disinformation, harassment, and abuse. One common approach is to check user content for similarity against a server-side database of problematic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Yiqing Hua , Armin Namavari , Kaishuo Cheng , Mor Naaman , Thomas Ristenpart

For visual object tracking, it is difficult to realize an almighty online tracker due to the huge variations of target appearance depending on an image sequence. This paper proposes an online tracking method that adaptively aggregates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Heon Song , Daiki Suehiro , Seiichi Uchida

Template matching is a basic method in image analysis to extract useful information from images. In this paper, we suggest a new method for pattern matching. Our method transform the template image from two dimensional image into one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-09-11 Y. M. Fouda

Efficient and accurate particle tracking is crucial for measuring Standard Model parameters and searching for new physics. This task consists of two major computational steps: track finding, the identification of a subset of all hits that…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-09-16 Ryan Miller , Alexander Shmakov , Kyuho Oh , Jiwon Lee , Pierre Baldi , Levi Condren , Makayla Vessella , Daniel Whiteson