We propose a method for hand pose estimation based on a deep regressor trained on two different kinds of input. Raw depth data is fused with an intermediate representation in the form of a segmentation of the hand into parts. This intermediate representation contains important topological information and provides useful cues for reasoning about joint locations. The mapping from raw depth to seg...

Design-for-Test and Test Optimization Techniques for TSV-based 3D Stacked ICs

Narratives abound concerning the religious and political positioning of Jerusalem in the past as well as the present and have been used in a variety of ways to serve various ideologies or political ends. One such narrative (which can be found even in some academic treatises of the history of Jerusalem) states that following the Muslim re-conquest of the city after the Crusades Muslim rulers neg...

0026-2714/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Ltd. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.microrel.2012.06.021 ⇑ Corresponding author at: STMicroelectronics, 8 Crolles, France. Tel.: +33 4 38 92 27 30. E-mail address: [email protected] (T. Frank). In this paper, reliability of Through Silicon via (TSV) interconnects is analyzed for two technologies. First part presents an exhaustive analysis of Cu TSV-la...

We show how body-centric sensing can be integrated in musical interface to enable more flexible gestural control. We present a barehanded body-centric interaction paradigm where users are able to interact in a spontaneous way through performing gestures. The paradigm employs a wearable camera and see-through display to enable flexible interaction in the 3D space. We designed and implemented a p...

Silicon carbide (SiC) has found a variety of engineering applications due to its superior properties. However, it is still desirable to study cost-effective processes to machine silicon carbide. This paper presents the results of a designed experimental investigation into Rotary Ultrasonic Machining (RUM) of silicon carbide. A four-variable two-level full factorial design was employed to reveal...

Semi-supervised learning algorithms are an indispensable tool when labeled examples are scarce and there are many unlabeled examples [Blum and Chawla 2001, Zhu et. al. 2003]. With graph-based methods, entities (examples) correspond to nodes in a graph and edges correspond to related entities. The graph structure is used to infer implicit pairwise affinity values (kernel) which are used to compu...

We present a way to make environmental recordings controllable again by the use of continuous annotations of the high-level semantic parameter one wishes to control, e.g. wind strength or crowd excitation level. A partial annotation can be propagated to cover the entire recording via cross-modal analysis between gesture and sound by canonical time warping (CTW). The annotations serve as a descr...

In this paper, we outline the methodology we adopted to develop a FrameNet for Italian. The main element of novelty with respect to the original FrameNet is represented by the fact that the creation and annotation of Lexical Units is strictly grounded in distributional information (statistical distribution of verbal subcategorization frames, lexical and semantic preferences of each frame) autom...

The objective of this paper is to introduce the notion of semi-compatible maps in D-metric spaces and deduce fixed point theorems through semi-compatibility using orbital concept, which improve extend and generalize the results of Ume and Kim [8], Rhoades [7] and Dhage et. al [6]. All the results of this paper are new. AMS Mathematics Subject Classification (1991): 54H25, 47H10