Recent work on Semantic Role Labeling (SRL) has shown that syntactic information is critical to detect and extract predicate argument structures. As syntax is expressed by means of...
Many problems in laparoscopic surgery are due to the poor degrees of freedom of movement (DOF) in controlling forceps and laparoscopes. The Multi-DOF forceps manipulator we have ne...
Ryoichi Nakamura, Etsuko Kobayashi, Ken Masamune, ...
This paper proposes a novel approach to segment three dimensional curvilinear structures, particularly vessels in angiography, by inspecting the symmetry of image gradients. The pr...
In the everyday exercise of controlling their locomotion, humans rely on their optic flow of the perceived environment to achieve collision-free navigation. In crowds, in spite o...
Jan Ondrej, Julien Pettré, Anne-Hélène Olivier,...
Finding opinionated blog posts is still an open problem in information retrieval, as exemplified by the recent TREC blog tracks. Most of the current solutions involve the use of e...