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AVSS
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Camera auto-calibration from articulated motion
This paper presents a novel auto-calibration method from unconstrained human body motion. It relies on the underlying biomechanical constraints associated with human bipedal locom...
Paul Kuo, Jean-Christophe Nebel, Dimitrios Makris
ECAL
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Hysteresis and the Limits of Homeostasis: From Daisyworld to Phototaxis
All biological organisms must be able to regulate certain essential internal variables, e.g. core body temperature in mammals, in order to survive. Almost by definition, those that...
James Dyke, Inman Harvey
ICRA
2008
IEEE
182views Robotics» more  ICRA 2008»
14 years 2 months ago
A body joint improves vertical to horizontal transitions of a wall-climbing robot
— Several recently-designed robots are able to scale steep surfaces using animal-inspired strategies for foot attachment and leg kinematics. These designs could be valuable for r...
Kathryn A. Daltorio, Timothy C. Witushynsky, Grego...
ROBOCUP
2005
Springer
119views Robotics» more  ROBOCUP 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
SimRobot - A General Physical Robot Simulator and Its Application in RoboCup
This paper describes SimRobot, a robot simulator which is able to simulate arbitrary user-defined robots in three-dimensional space. It includes a physical model which is based on...
Tim Laue, Kai Spiess, Thomas Röfer
ECCV
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Human Pose Tracking Using Multi-level Structured Models
Tracking body poses of multiple persons in monocular video is a challenging problem due to the high dimensionality of the state space and issues such as inter-occlusion of the pers...
Mun Wai Lee, Ramakant Nevatia