Dimension Reduction is one popular approach to tackle large and redundant feature spaces as seen in most practical problems, either by selecting a subset of features or by projecting the features onto a smaller space. Most of these approaches suffer from the drawback that the dimensionality reduction objective and the objective for classifier training are decoupled. Recently, there have been so...

18 propellers is investigated, using the cusp (scallop) height as the objective function. This technique allow one to end mill a surface, while the tool is not necessarily oriented along the surface normal, stressing the need for better techniques to solve the accessibility problem in 5-axis modes. References 1] J. E. Bobrow. NC machine tool path generation from CSG part representations.

We present an algorithm and pruning techniques for efficiently finding optimal solutions to over-constrained instances of the Disjunctive Temporal Problem with Preferences (DTPP). Our goal is to remove the burden from the knowledge engineer who normally must reason about an inherent trade-off: including more events and tighter constraints in a DTP leads to higher-quality solutions, but decrease...

We present an easy fisheye camera calibration technique based on a square in the scene plane in this paper. Firstly, aiming at a generic quadrangle including two parallel line segments with the known length ratio, the planar homography between the scene planar including the generic quadrangle and its image is estimated by images of two parallel line segments, then constraints on fisheye camera ...

An online auxiliary control was designed for Static Var Compensator (SVC) to improve the poorly damped oscillations in multi-machine power system subjected to small and large disturbances. This paper presents auxiliary control based on Adaptive NeuroFuzzy (ANF) control using triangular membership function. Such a model free based control does not require any prior information about the system a...

This paper presents a ray tracing technique to predict path loss and delay spread in buildings. A computer program to predict radio propagation in buildings based on site-specific information such as wall locations and building materials is described. Using geometrical optics-based assumptions, rays are traced in three dimensions from a transmitter location. Line-of-sight, specularly transmitte...

The aim of this study was to investigate auditory pathway function and speech perception ability in individuals with Friedreich ataxia (FRDA). Ten subjects confirmed by genetic testing as being homozygous for a GAA expansion in intron 1 of the FXN gene were included. While each of the subjects demonstrated normal, or near normal sound detection, 3 of the 10 showed electrophysiological evidence ...

We propose a new local search platform that splits a CNF formula into three sub-components: i) a minimal dependency lattice (representing the core connections between logic gates), ii) a conjunction of equivalence clauses, and iii) the remaining clauses. We also adopt a new hierarchical cost function that focuses on solving the core components of the problem first. We then show experimentally t...

We present surface normal estimation using a single near infrared (NIR) image. We are focusing on fine-scale surface geometry captured with an uncalibrated light source. To tackle this ill-posed problem, we adopt a generative adversarial network which is effective in recovering a sharp output, which is also essential for fine-scale surface normal estimation. We incorporate angular error and int...

\1ode (also called \1AP\ estimation. mean esumation and median estimation are examined here to determine when they can be 'afely used to derive (posterior) cost mmimwng estimates. !These are all Bayes procedures. using the mode. mean. or median of the posterior distnbu· lion.) [t is found that modal estimation only returns cost m1mmizmg estimates when the cost function is 0L. [f the cost funcuo...