This paper presents a method for automated pointcloud-to-map registration using a plane matching technique. The registration is based on estimating a transformation between a set of planes inferred from the map and their corresponding planes extracted from the pointcloud. A plane matching algorithm is developed to search for corresponding planes in the pointcloud and map coordinate systems, and...

Focus fusion methods combine a set of images focused at different depths into a single image where all parts are in focus. The quality of the fusion result strongly depends on a decision map that determines the in-focus areas. Most approaches in the literature achieve this by local decisions without explicitly enforcing smoothness of the depth map. The goal of our paper is to introduce a modern...

In the present study, we experimentally tested the role of hand motor circuits in simple-arithmetic strategies. Educated adults solved simple additions (e.g., 8 + 3) or simple subtractions (e.g., 11 - 3) while they were required to retrieve the answer from long-term memory (e.g., knowing that 8 + 3 = 11), to transform the problem by making an intermediate step (e.g., 8 + 3 = 8 + 2 + 1 = 10 + 1 ...

OBJECTIVE We explored two strategies for query expansion utilizing medical subject headings (MeSH) ontology to improve the effectiveness of medical image retrieval systems. In order to achieve greater effectiveness in the expansion, the search text was analyzed to identify which terms were most amenable to being expanded. DESIGN To perform the expansions we utilized the hierarchical structure...

It is necessary for a robot to have environmental information in order to move autonomously. Although we can usually give a map to the robot, making such a map is quite a tedious work for the user. So we propose a navigation strategy which requires the minimum user assistance. In the method, we rst guide a mobile robot to a destination by a remote control. During this movement, the robot observ...