This paper presents FAETHON, a distributed information system that offers enhanced search and retrieval capabilities to users interacting with digital audiovisual (a/v) archives. Its novelty primarily originates in the unified intelligent access to heterogeneous a/v content. The paper emphasizes the features that provide enhanced search and retrieval capabilities to users, as well as intelligen...

The images captured by a digital camera do not depend only on the characteristics of the objects in the scene but also on the colour of the scene illumination. To account for this confounding influence various colour invariants have been introduced whose aim is to provide descriptors that do not change with a change in light. In this paper we evaluate the usefulness of these invariants for gene...

This paper reports our ongoing work on a microassembly workstation developed for efficient and robust 3D automated assembly of microobjects. The workstation consists of multiple view imaging system, two 3-DOF high precision micromanipulators, and a 3-DOF positioning stage with high resolution rotation control, force sensing probe and gripper, and the control software system. A hybrid control sc...