Humans have a remarkable ability to navigate using only vision, but mobile robots have not been nearly as successful. We propose a new approach to vision-guided local navigation, ...
Wesley H. Huang, Brett R. Fajen, Jonathan R. Fink,...
—In this paper we extend the class of MAP queueing networks to include blocking models, which are useful to describe the performance of service instances which have a limited con...
Vittoria de Nitto Persone, Giuliano Casale, Evgeni...
We address the problem of temporal unusual event detection. Unusual events are characterized by a number of features (rarity, unexpectedness, and relevance) that limit the applica...
Dong Zhang, Daniel Gatica-Perez, Samy Bengio, Iain...
The extraction of contours using deformable models, such as snakes, is a problem of great interest in computer vision, particular in areas of medical imaging and tracking. Snakes ...
Akshaya Kumar Mishra, Paul W. Fieguth, David A. Cl...
Abstract Due to complexity and intractability reasons, most of the analytical studies on the reliability of communication paths in mobile ad hoc networks are based on the assumptio...