Look, no hands! Spectral biomarkers from genetic association studies

Look Ma , No Hands ! Aspects of Autonomous Vehicle Control

"Look Ma, No Hands!" A Parameter-Free Topic Model

It has always been a burden to the users of statistical topic models to predetermine the right number of topics, which is a key parameter of most topic models. Conventionally, automatic selection of this parameter is done through either statistical model selection (e.g., cross-validation, AIC, or BIC) or Bayesian nonparametric models (e.g., hierarchical Dirichlet process). These methods either ...

“Look, Ma – No Hands!” Hands-Free Cursor Control with Real-Time 3D Face Tracking

This paper presents a real-time, non-invasive, vision system which performs hands-free cursor control by having users point their nose where they wish to place the cursor on a monitor screen. The vision system robustly tracks 3D face position and orientation in real time using a framework called Incremental Focus of Attention (IFA). IFA integrates tracking based on multiple cues (including colo...

Genetic association studies.

To the Editor: I am delighted to see that Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology has taken the lead in initiating an open discussion about genetic association studies in such a prominent manner. As correctly pointed out in the editorial by Dr Hegele,1 the number of publications has exponentially increased in the last decade. Despite the intrinsic problems with this approach, this ex...

Genetic association studies.

With the completion of the HapMap project1 and the development of technology that allows the examination of 1 million genetic polymorphisms at once, genetic association studies are becoming more comprehensive. This article first provides a brief overview of the rationale for genetic association studies; it then discusses the primary features differentiating genetic from standard association stu...