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SASO
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Optimising Sensor Layouts for Direct Measurement of Discrete Variables
An optimal sensor layout is attained when a limited number of sensors are placed in an area such that the cost of the placement is minimised while the value of the obtained inform...
X. Rosalind Wang, George Mathews, Don Price, Mikha...
IROS
2009
IEEE
154views Robotics» more  IROS 2009»
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Consideration on robotic giant-swing motion generated by reinforcement learning
—This study attempts to make a compact humanoid robot acquire a giant-swing motion without any robotic models by using reinforcement learning; only the interaction with environme...
Masayuki Hara, Naoto Kawabe, Naoki Sakai, Jian Hua...
IROS
2009
IEEE
129views Robotics» more  IROS 2009»
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Using symmetrical regions of interest to improve visual SLAM
— Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) based on visual information is a challenging problem. One of the main problems with visual SLAM is to find good quality landmarks,...
Gert Kootstra, Lambert Schomaker
ACCV
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Crowd Flow Characterization with Optimal Control Theory
Abstract. Analyzing the crowd dynamics from video sequences is an open challenge in computer vision. Under a high crowd density assumption, we characterize the dynamics of the crow...
Pierre Allain, Nicolas Courty, Thomas Corpetti
ATVA
2009
Springer
142views Hardware» more  ATVA 2009»
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Synthesis of Fault-Tolerant Distributed Systems
Abstract. A distributed system is fault-tolerant if it continues to perform correctly even when a subset of the processes becomes faulty. Faulttolerance is highly desirable but oft...
Rayna Dimitrova, Bernd Finkbeiner