Previous Work: Several prior algorithms attempt to provide a deformation-invariant distance measure. Tangent distance [2] uses a planar approximation to a local image manifold, allowing small spatial transformations to be modeled in pixel space. Because of the planar approximation, tangent distance does not work well for large deformations. The “shape context” method [1] is good at obtaining de...

1. Principle The programme of projects now under development under the title 'Warp Factory' aim to revisit one of the most fundamental issues in graphics, namely the representation of images. Partners already involved in Warp Factory projects include the Universities of Bath and Sussex and possibly shortly the University of Burgundy (the Le2i Imaging Lab in Dijon). The idea is to re-cast sample...

Alcubierre recently exhibited a spacetime which, within the framework of general relativity, allows travel at superluminal speeds if matter with a negative energy density can exist, and conjectured that it should be possible to use similar techniques to construct a theory containing closed causal loops and, thus, travel backwards in time. We verify this conjecture by exhibiting a simple modific...

Transputer Time Warp Environment

This technical report details a family of time warp distances on the set of discrete time series. This family is constructed as an editing distance whose elementary operations apply on linear segments. A specific parameter allows controlling the stiffness of the elastic matching. It is well suited for the processing of event data for which each data sample is associated with a timestamp, not ne...

This paper introduces a class of passive interconnected suspensions, defined mathematically in terms of their mechanical admittance matrices, with the purpose of providing greater freedom to specify independently bounce, pitch, roll, and warp dynamics than conventional (passive) suspension arrangements. Two alternative realization schemes are described that are capable of implementing this clas...