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PUC
2010
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13 years 6 months ago
Digital plumbing: the mundane work of deploying UbiComp in the home
Deploying UbiComp in real homes is central to realizing Weiserʼs grand vision of ʻinvisibleʼ computing. It is essential to moving design out of the lab and making it into an unr...
Peter Tolmie, Andy Crabtree, Stefan Rennick Eggles...
ACCV
2010
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Spatiotemporal Contour Grouping Using Abstract Part Models
Part Models Pablo Sala1 , Diego Macrini2 , and Sven Dickinson1 1 University of Toronto, 2 Queen's University Abstract. In recent work [1], we introduced a framework for modelr...
Pablo Sala, Diego Macrini, Sven J. Dickinson
CGI
2000
IEEE
14 years 17 days ago
To Gesture or Not to Gesture: What is the Question?
Computer synthesized characters are expected to make appropriate face, limb, and body gestures during communicative acts. We focus on non-facial movements and try to elucidate wha...
Norman I. Badler, Monica Costa, Liwei Zhao, Diane ...
ECCV
2010
Springer
14 years 20 days ago
Geometric Constraints for Human Detection in Aerial Imagery
In this paper, we propose a method for detecting humans in imagery taken from a UAV. This is a challenging problem due to small number of pixels on target, which makes it more diï¬...
TROB
2010
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13 years 6 months ago
Localization: Approximation and Performance Bounds to Minimize Travel Distance
Abstract—Localization, which is the determination of one’s location in a known terrain, is a fundamental task for autonomous robots. This paper presents several new basic theor...
Craig A. Tovey, Sven Koenig