Optimum weighting functions are derived for least-mean-square reconstruction of N-dimensional stochastic fields from discrete sample measurements of amplitude and gradient. Exact interpolation can be achieved when the intensity spectrum of the field is wave-number-limited and the sampling lattice is periodic, provided that the spectral images induced by sampling overlap nowhere more than (N -+1...

Term weighting strongly influences the performance of text mining and information retrieval approaches. Usually term weights are determined through statistical estimates based on static weighting schemes. Such static approaches lack the capability to generalize to different domains and different data sets. In this paper, we introduce an on-line learning method for adapting term weights in a sup...

This paper proposes two newweighting schemes that average forecasts based on different estimation windows in order to account for possible structural change. The first scheme weights the forecasts according to the values of reversed ordered CUSUM (ROC) test statistics, while the second weighting method simply assigns heavier weights to forecasts that use more recent information. Simulation resu...

As wellactual clustering algorithms have to deal with explosive growth of documents of various sizes and terms of various frequencies, an appropriate term-weighting scheme has a crucial impact on the overall performance of such systems. Term-weighting is one of the critical process for document retrieval and ranking in most search result clustering systems. In this paper we introduce a new tech...

In this paper, the role of rare or infrequent terms in enhancing the accuracy of English Text Categorization using Polynomial Networks (PNs) is investigated. To study the impact of rare terms in enhancing the accuracy of PNs-based text categorization, different term reduction criteria as well as different term weighting schemes were experimented on the Reuters Corpus using PNs. Each term weight...

The term ‘digital divide’ refers to the gap between individuals, households, businesses and geographic areas with regard to both their opportunities to access Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and to their use of Internet. Composite indicators are regularly used for measuring the divide and in benchmarking the country’s performance. But often it creates controversies regarding th...

When trying to overcome the significant performance drops of ASR systems in the presence of noise, one road to follow is the integration of the information present in the lips movement of the speaker. Comparisons showed that integration of audio and video data on the decision level yields best recognition results. This raises the question how to weight the two modalities in different noise cond...

In the past few years, a plethora of methods for rare variant association with phenotype have been proposed. These methods aggregate information from multiple rare variants across genomic region(s), but there is little consensus as to which method is most effective. The weighting scheme adopted when aggregating information across variants is one of the primary determinants of effectiveness. Her...

BACKGROUND There is a lack of consensus regarding the use of quality scores in diagnostic systematic reviews. The objective of this study was to use different methods of weighting items included in a quality assessment tool for diagnostic accuracy studies (QUADAS) to produce an overall quality score, and to examine the effects of incorporating these into a systematic review. METHODS We develo...

Please cite this article in press as: Y.-G. Jia Vis. Image Understand. (2008), doi:10.101 Bag-of-visual-words (BoW) has recently become a popular representation to describe video and image content. Most existing approaches, nevertheless, neglect inter-word relatedness and measure similarity by bin-to-bin comparison of visual words in histograms. In this paper, we explore the linguistic and onto...