The seemingly overnight emergence of a form of promotion known as ‘book trailers’ shortly after the turn of the millennium suggests a shift in the marketing and promotional strategies employed within the publishing industry. This article follows the historical development of the audio-visual form known as the ‘book trailer’ across its history with a view to understanding the form itself. This a...

A neurointerface is a nonlinear filtering system based on neural networks (NNs) that serves as a coupler between a human operator and a nonlinear system or plant that is to be controlled or directed. The purpose of the coupler is to ease the task of the human controller. The equations of the plant are assumed to be known. If the plant is unstable, it must first be stabilized by feedback. Using ...

The rst part of the study is centered on control design and analysis for nonlinear systems which can be converted to chained-form systems. Solutions to various control problems (open-loop steering, partial or complete state feedback stabilization) are either recalled, generalized, or developped by extending an approach followed by the author in previous papers on mobile robot control. In partic...

In this paper, we explore a technique for automatic classiication of video sequences, (such as a TV broadcast, movies). This technique analyses the incoming video sequences and classiies them into categories. It can be viewed as an on-line parser for video signals. We present two techniques for automatic classiication. In the rst technique, the incoming video sequence is analyzed to extract the...

This paper provides a practical framework for planning and control of formations of multiple unmanned ground vehicles with trailers to traverse between goal points in a dynamic environment. This framework allows on-line planning of the formation paths using A* search algorithm based on the current sensor data. The formation is allowed to dynamically change in order to avoid obstacles in the env...