Learning a model of an environment that is correctly able to distinguish occupied and unoccupied areas is important for maneuvering robots in unstructured environments. A common technique to tackle such problems is to train a classifier with hand-crafted features that encode occupancy information. However, finding good features quickly becomes computationally prohibitive and impractical for com...

In this paper a system that transforms speech waveforms to animated faces are proposed. The system relies on continuous state space models to perform the mapping, this makes it possible to ensure video with no sudden jumps and allows continuous control of the parameters in ’face space’. The performance of the system is critically dependent on the number of hidden variables, with too few variabl...

Assessments of Soil physical properties and estimation their associated variability are essential for making site-specific decisions on soil crop management This study examined the spatial hydro-physical variance structure at Sector F1 Jibia Irrigation project Katsina State, Nigeria. Grid sampling technique was used to obtain one hundred forty-four (144) samples from 206 ha land using Google ea...