In this paper we tackle the problem of clothing parsing: Our goal is to segment and classify different garments a person is wearing. We frame the problem as the one of inference in a pose-aware Conditional Random Field (CRF) which exploits appearance, figure/ground segmentation, shape and location priors for each garment as well as similarities between segments, and symmetries between different...

This paper presents our approach to dialog state tracking for the Dialog State Tracking Challenge task. In our approach we use discriminative general structured conditional random fields, instead of traditional generative directed graphic models, to incorporate arbitrary overlapping features. Our approach outperforms the simple 1-best tracking approach.

The use of hierarchical Conditional Random Field model deal with the problem of labeling images . At the time of labeling a new image, selection of the nearest cluster and using the related CRF model to label this image. When one give input image, one first use the CRF model to get initial pixel labels then finding the cluster with most similar images. Then at last relabeling the input image by...

The paper proposes a method for constructing an informative neighborhood for modeling texture images. To describe the characteristic features of textures used assumptions underlying model representation texture images described by using a Markov random field. The results of the conducted experimental researches confirm that application of the developed approach allows to reduce the dimensionali...

The present study performs an investigation on several issues concerning the automatic detection of prominences. Its aim is to offer a better understanding of the prominence phenomenon in order to be able to improve existent prominence detection systems. The study is threefold: first, the presence of hidden dynamics in the sequence of prominent and non-prominent syllables is tested by comparing...

We consider the Merton problem of optimal portfolio choice when the traded instruments are the set of zero-coupon bonds. Working within a Markovian Heath–Jarrow–Morton model of the interest rate term structure driven by an infinite-dimensional Wiener process, we give sufficient conditions for the existence and uniqueness of an optimal trading strategy. When there is uniqueness, we provide a cha...

We describe our entry to SemEval 2016 Task 10: Detecting Minimal Semantic Units and their Meanings. Our approach uses a discriminative first-order sequence model similar to Schneider and Smith (2015). The chief novelty in our approach is a factorization of the labels into multiword expression and supersense labels, and restricting first-order dependencies within these two parts. Our submitted m...