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ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Describing texture directions with Von Mises distributions
In this work we describe a new approach for texture characterization. Starting from the autocorrelation matrix an elegant description through a mixture of Von Mises distributions ...
Costantino Grana, Daniele Borghesani, Rita Cucchia...
MOBIHOC
2003
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
A MAC protocol for full exploitation of directional antennas in ad-hoc wireless networks
Directional antennas in ad hoc networks offer many benefits compared with classical omnidirectional antennas. The most important include significant increase of spatial reuse, cov...
Thanasis Korakis, Gentian Jakllari, Leandros Tassi...
ICDAR
2003
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Directional Pattern Matching for Character Recognition Revisited
Directional features have been successfully used for the recognition of both machine-printed and handwritten Kanji characters for the last decade. This paper attempts to explain w...
Hiromichi Fujisawa, Cheng-Lin Liu
WCNC
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
On Collision-Tolerant Transmission with Directional Antennas
—The application of directional antennas in wireless networks brings numerous benefits, such as increased spatial reuse and mitigated interferences. Most MAC protocols with dire...
Hongning Dai, Kam-Wing Ng, Min-You Wu
ICRA
2006
IEEE
61views Robotics» more  ICRA 2006»
14 years 2 months ago
Simulated Odor Tracking in a Plane Normal to the Wind Direction
— A new strategy is developed for tracking an odor plume in an environment where wind is present. The strategy is inspired by the mechanisms that animals use to orient to stimuli...
Adam J. Rutkowski, Mark A. Willis, Roger D. Quinn