• Ensemble methods in large vocabulary continuous speech recognition 

    Chen, Xin, 1983- (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
    Combining a group of classifiers and therefore improving the overall classification performance is a young and promising direction in Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition (LVCSR). Previous works on acoustic ...
  • Full similarity-based page ranking 

    Xu, Jingqian (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
    The World Wide Web creates many new challenges to information retrieval. The sheer mass and almost anarchic structure of the Web makes effective search difficult. Some good search engine alleviate the problem to some extent ...
  • A new adaptive framework for collaborative filtering prediction 

    Almosallam, Ibrahim Ahmad (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
    Collaborative filtering is one of the most successful techniques for recommendation systems and has been used in many commercial services provided by major companies including Amazon, TiVo and Netflix. In this project we ...
  • On the relationship between generalized covariance union and the minimal enclosing ellipsoid problem 

    Calhoun, Ryan J. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Examination of the behavior of Generalized Covariance Union (GCU) reveals a previously unsuspected superficial relationship to the problem of finding ...
  • Optimization of a software-only H.264 encoder 

    Chen, Wenxia (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] With the booming of semiconductor and information technology, digital video have become more popular than ever. The large volume nature of video data ...