presence-only data Trevor J. Hefley* , BrianM. Brost andMevin B. Hooten Department of Statistics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA; Marine Mammal Laboratory, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Seattle, WA, USA; and U.S. Geological Survey, Colorado Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation...

B. Meyer, D. L. Kraitchman, A. Brost, L. Yatziv, N. Strobel, W. Gilson, J. S. Lewin, and F. K. Wacker Radiology, Charite, Berlin, Germany, The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, Informatics Pattern Recognition, Universitaet Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ, United State...

Many robotic tasks require compliant motions, but planning such motions poses special challenges not present in collision-free motion planning. One challenge is how to achieve exactness, that is, (DOFs) and, thus, uncertainties (Mason 1982; Whitney 1985). Contact motion occurs on the boundary of configuration space obstacles (C-obstacles) (Lozano-Pérez 1983), but computing C-obstacles remains a...

In online learning to rank we are faced with a tradeoff between exploring new, potentially superior rankers, and exploiting our preexisting knowledge of what rankers have performed well in the past. Multileaving methods offer an attractive approach to this problem since they can efficiently use online feedback to simultaneously evaluate a potentially arbitrary number of rankers. In this talk we...

Audrey Poinsot Fan Yang Vincent Brost University of Burgundy Q1 Le2i Laboratory Batiment Mirande, Aile de l’Ingenieur, 9 BP 400, Dijon, 21000 France E-mail: audrey.poinsot@u-bourgogne.fr Abstract. Including multiple sources of information in personal identity recognition and verification gives the opportunity to greatly improve performance. We propose a contactless biometric system that combine...

A fixture is a device that locates and holds parts during machining or assembly. A modular fixture employs reusable components on a regular lattice. Given a part, machinists combine intuition with trial-and-error to design an appropriate fixture. When a machinist is unable to find a design, it may be the case that (1) a feasible design was overlooked or (2) no feasible design exists. Complete a...

Contributors: S. Alioli, B. Alvarez-Gonzalez, D. Amidei, T. Andeen, A. Arce, B. Auerbach, A. Avetisyan, M. Backovic, Y. Bai, M. Begel, S. Berge, C. Bernard, C. Bernius, S. Bhattacharya, K. Black, A. Blondel, K. Bloom, T. Bose, J. Boudreau, J. Brau, A. Broggio, G. Brooijmans, E. Brost, R. Calkins, D. Chakraborty, T. Childress, G. Choudalakis, V. Coco, J.S. Conway, C. Degrande, A. Delannoy, F. De...

0167-8655/$ see front matter 2008 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.patrec.2008.04.005 * Corresponding author. Address: Computer Visio bridge, United Kingdom. Fax: +44 1223 332662. E-mail address: brostow@cc.gatech.edu (G.J. Brost URL: http://mi.eng.cam.ac.uk/research/projects/Vid Visual object analysis researchers are increasingly experimenting with video, because it is expected that motion cues s...

The carbon isotopic composition of marine phytoplankton varies significantly with growth conditions. Aqueous CO2 concentration [CO2] and algal growth rate (m) have been suggested to be important factors determining isotope fractionation («p). Here we examine «p of the coccolithophorid Emiliania huxleyi in relation to CO2 concentration and light conditions in dilute batch cultures. Cells were in...

This paper discusses two processes for rapidly prototyping micromechanical systems: first microassembly, and second, laser cutting of thin sheets and folding. Sub-millimeter rigid blocks can be dextrously manipulated using two 1 DOF fingers and an XYZ micro-positioning stage. Algorithms for micro-part manipulation use open-loop compliant grasps combined with slip to align microparts, which can ...