This paper addresses the problem of recovering 3D geometry using an active stereo vision system. Calibration procedures can be adapted to the active stereo conguration, however, considerable e ort is required to accurately model and calibrate the kinematics to avoid poor reconstruction. In the active stereo case there will also be errors due to uncertainty in the kinematics of the system. In ad...

Dynamical systems approach for clustering categorical data have been studied by some authors [1]. However, the proposed dynamic algorithm cannot guarantee convergence, so that the execution may get into an in nite loop even for very simple data. We de ne a new conguration updating algorithm for clustering categorical data sets. Let us consider a relational table with k elds, each of which can a...

When we consider large/expensive technical prod-ucts/systems, it is often the case (after some time) that repair is required to replace modules that are not working and no longer commercially available or the func-tionality of the system needs improving. The problem is to make these changes at minimal cost. In this paper, we outline a reconnguration approach within our constraint-based model fo...

SHAPE DETECTION BY PACKING CONTOURS Qihui Zhu Jianbo Shi Humans have an amazing ability to localize and recognize object shapes from natural images with various complexities, such as low contrast, overwhelming background clutter, large shape deformation and signicant occlusion. We typically recognize object shape as a whole the entire geometric conguration of image tokens and the context they a...

We present a manipulation path planner under development for providing high-level software control for humanoid robots. Using a graphical simulation environment, the software is designed to facilitate the automation of object grasping and manipulation tasks. Given a robot's internal model of the environment and a desired posture, we use a randomized path planner to search directly the congurati...

An engineering inviscid-boundary layer method has been modi ed for application to slender threedimensional (3-D) forebodies which are characteristic of transatmospheric vehicles. An improved shock description in the nose region has been added to the inviscid technique which allows the calculation of a wider range of body geometries. The modi ed engineering method is applied to the perfect gas s...

Nowadays wireless networks are becoming important in personal and public communication andgrowing very rapidly. Similarly, Software Dened Network (SDN) is an emerging approach to over-come challenges of traditional networks. In this paper, a new SDN-based framework is proposedto ne-grained control of 802.11 Wireless LANs. This work describes the benets of programmableAcc...

Performing experiments that involve a large amount of resources or a complex conguration, proves to be a hard task. We present Expo, which is a tool for conducting experiments on distributed platforms. First, the tool is described along with the concepts of resource and task sets, which abstracts away some of the complexity in the manage of resources and software execution. Next, the tool is co...

following our previous presentation of a new three-fold symmetry for derivation of the magic numbers of nuclei based upon a quark state model of nuclei, here the nuclear binding energy is obtained from such new perspective. from this point of view, since each nucleon is made of three quarks, the binding energy of nuclei contains a volume term proportional to 3a (a is mass number). by considerin...