In this paper we want to start the discussion on whether image based 3-D modelling techniques and especially multi-view stereo can possibly be used to replace LIDAR systems for outdoor 3D data acquisition. Two main issues have to be addressed in this context: (i) camera self-calibration and (ii) dense multi-view depth estimation. To investigate both, we have acquired test data from outdoor scen...

Starting in 2009, MTU began combining the properties of its existing successful submarine solutions for all customers’ submarine designs with new market requests from submarine building shipyards. The resulting product specification was then augmented with the modern submarine requirements (partly described on the following pages). In 2011, the detailed concept study for these functional and pe...

This paper tackles a particular shape matching problem: given a data base of shapes (described as triangular meshes), we search for all shapes which describe a human. We do so by applying a 3D face detection approach on the mesh which consists of three steps: first, a local symmetry value is computed for each vertex. Then, the symmetry values in a certain neighborhood of each vertex are analyze...

A fast method of GP-based model building for time series prediction is proposed. The method involves two newly-devised techniques. One is regarding determination of model parameters: only functional forms are inherited from their parents with genetic programming, but model parameters are not inherited. They are optimized by back-propagation-like algorithm when a child (model) is newborn. The ot...

lmbench is a micro-benchmark suite designed to focus attention on the basic building blocks of many common system applications, such as databases, simulations, software development, and networking. In almost all cases, the individual tests are the result of analysis and isolation of a customer’s actual performance problem. These tools can be, and currently are, used to compare different system ...

This paper presents Granola, a transaction coordination infrastructure for building reliable distributed storage applications. Granola provides a strong consistency model, while significantly reducing transaction coordination overhead. We introduce specific support for a new type of independent distributed transaction, which we can serialize with no locking overhead and no aborts due to write c...

The 20 workflow patterns proposed by van der Aalst et al. provide a comprehensive benchmark for comparing process modelling languages. In this article, we discuss workflow pattern support of Event-Driven Process Chains (EPCs). Building on this analysis, we propose three extensions to EPCs in order to provide for workflow pattern support. These are the introduction of the so-called empty connect...

Publish/subscribe is becoming increasingly popular as communication paradigm for loosely-coupled message exchange. It is used as a building block in major new software architectures and technology domains such as Enterprise Service Bus, Enterprise Application Integration, Service-Oriented Architecture and Event-Driven Architecture. The growing adoption of these technologies leads to a strong ne...

Genetic Algorithms are biologically-inspired computational methods commonly used for many different optimization problems in various domains. They are also known to require significant computational time to produce optimal solutions. This paper presents a genetic algorithm library that encompasses the main genetic operations such as selection, recombination and mutation. The library can be run ...