This paper presents the results of two recent pilot experiments conducted to investigate the performance of a realtime physical violin model using bowing parameters generated by a real player. In each of these two experiments, the calibrated bowing parameters of bow force, bow speed, and bow position (bow-bridge distance) are mapped to the calibrated inputs of the physical model in order to exa...

Hybrid central catadioptric and perspective cameras are desired in practice, because the hybrid camera system can capture large field of view as well as high-resolution images. However, the calibration of the system is challenging due to heavy distortions in catadioptric cameras. In addition, previous calibration methods are only suitable for the camera system consisting of perspective cameras ...

In this paper we investigate the geometry of Calibrated submanifolds and study relations between their moduli-space and geometry of the ambient manifold. In particular for a Calabi-Yau manifold we define Special Lagrangian submanifolds for any Kahler metric on it. We show that for a choice of Kahler metric the Borcea-Voisin threefold has a fibration structure with generic fiber being a Special ...

Prequential testing of a forecaster is known to be manipulable if the test must pass an informed forecaster for all possible true distributions. Stewart (2011) provides a non-manipulable prequential likelihood test that only fails an informed forecaster on a small, category I, set of distributions. We present a prequential test based on calibration that also fails the informed forecaster on at ...

Water and solute flux from the subsurface drains of macroporous agricultural fields are simulated using two-dimensional single-porosity and dual-porosity models. Field-averaged (i.e. effective) parameters are calibrated from drainage outflow and validated for water flow and the transport of non-reactive solutes applied at discrete locations on the field. Both the singleporosity and the dual-por...

We define a binary relation (qualitative uncertainty assessment (QUA)) to describe a decision-maker’s subjective assessment of likelihoods on a collection of events. To model ambiguity, we permit incompleteness. Our axioms yield a representation according to which A is more likely than B if an only if a capacity, called uncertainty measure (UM) assigns a higher value to A than to B and a higher...

Closed-loop kinematic calibration has been experimentally implemented on the Sarcos Dextrous Arm. The elbow joint is made mobile by adding an unsensed hinge joint at the endpoint attachment to ground. The calibrated parameters include the joint angle oosets and the hinge-related parameters.