Real-time vision for the control of actions, real-time control of vision processing, learning, and high-and low-level perception continue to be central themes at Rochester. e. We continue to integrate vision into behaving robotic systems. The main developments this year have been in software: the RCCL robot control program has been successfully ported to the Solaris environment, so that it can ...

Most research in computer vision has been directed towards minimalistic approaches, in which problems are addressed on how properties of the environment can be computed from as little information as possible. Although such approaches may be scientifically well motivated they have only resulted in limited progress towards our understanding of seeing systems. Ballard, Bajcsy and others have point...

Geophonography is a practice of sonifying the geological record, of tracing what Friedrich Kittler referred to as "signatures of the real". The aesthetic efficacy of techniques for audifying and visualising data derived from geological materials is discussed within the context of Ur-writings, a piece by the author first exhibited in 2013. Tracing a line through the work of Freud, Adorno, Kittle...

The present study tested two hypotheses about apraxia of speech (AOS), framed in the DIVA model (Guenther, Ghosh, & Tourville, 2006). The DIVA model assumes that speech targets are regions in auditory space, and combines two mechanisms to reach those targets: feedback control and feedforward control. The Feedforward System Deficit (FF) hypothesis states that feedforward control is impaired in A...

The prevalence of dementia continues to grow worldwide due to an aging population and is projected to affect 65.7 million people by 2030 (World Health Organization, 2012). Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD), including agitation, anxiety, aggression, depression, and psychosis, can occur in as much as 80% of the affected population, frequently necessitating psychiatric admis...

PATIENTS WITH CANCER REPRESENT A POPULATION with unique health literacy needs. The complexity of managing cancer combined with rapidly growing treatment options requires patients to make difficult decisions that can be physically and emotionally distressing (Amalraj, Starkweather, Nguyen, & Naeim, 2009; Ballard & Hill, 2016). This may affect a patient’s ability to access healthcare services, us...

Ecrit en 1975 par James G. Ballard, le roman High-Rise met scene la reconfiguration d’une tour d’habitation moderne, de style brutaliste, un ecosysteme au sein duquel les residents adoptent des comportements tribaux archaiques. Cette permet l’emergence d’un etre humain nouveau, dote capacites sensorielles adaptees a son environnement postmoderne. Cet article explore formes que prend cette emerg...

Cl. II Ballard, skeletal hyperdivergence. Cl. II, div 1 Angle, arch length discrepancy. This patient has serious functional problems having been a thumb sucker until a late age. As a result she retained a primitive swallowing pattern, was a mouth breather, and kept her tongue in a low position. Because of this patient’s numerous functional problems that could have a negative influence on the de...

In 1991, Ballard [2] described the implications of having a visual system that could actively position the camera in response to physical stimuli. In humanoid robotic systems, or in any animate vision system that interacts with people, social dynamics provide additional levels of constraint and provide additional opportunities for processing economy. In this paper, we describe an integrated vis...