Advances in digital imaging have made it possible to put cameras almost everywhere, from cellular phones to satellites. These cameras enable us to generate large numbers of pictures of almost anything in the world. Harnessing this imaging capability in applications, such as computer graphics, monitoring, or computer vision, will require flexible models of images and the scenes that generate the...

There are different ways of automating the assessment of the intent of a target. However, the most effective way is one that can offer the most accurate estimates compared to human-defined benchmarks. To allow various intent assessment technologies to be evaluated against the benchmarks, a reconfigurable simulation environment has been designed. In order to cope with future tests and different ...

Water Quality Models for Supporting Shellfish Harvesting Area Management by Andrew David Gronewold Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy Duke University

Although vocal production in non-human primates is highly constrained, individuals appear to have some control over whether to call or remain silent. We investigated how contextual factors affect the production of grunts given by wild female chacma baboons, Papio ursinus, during social interactions. Females grunted as they approached other adult females 28% of the time. Supporting previous rese...

Interaction between automated planners and intent inferencers is a difficult problem that is not always well understood. This problem can be framed in terms of a number of key issues: shared ontology, human interaction, and display of proposals. Shared ontology is a key issue from both practical and theoretical perspectives. Without sharing, intent inference outputs must be interpreted by the p...