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ICARCV
2008
IEEE
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Looking at the surprise: Bottom-up attentional control of an active camera system
—Inspired by the expectation-based perception of humans, a surprise-driven active vision system is proposed. This vision system not only considers spatial saliency of objects in ...
Tingting Xu, Quirin Mühlbauer, Stefan Sosnows...
ICARCV
2008
IEEE
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Gaining colour stability in live image capturing
Digital colour cameras are dramatically falling in price, making them affordable for ubiquitous appliances in many applications. An attempt to use colour information reveals a si...
Guy K. Kloss, Napoleon H. Reyes, Martin J. Johnson...
ICARCV
2008
IEEE
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Dynamics analysis of a redundant parallel manipulator driven by elastic cables
—In this paper the dynamic analysis of a cable drive parallel manipulator is described in detail. The manipulator architecture is a simplified planer version adopted from the str...
Yousef Babazadeh Bedoustani, Hamid D. Taghirad, Mo...
ICARCV
2008
IEEE
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Force/moment sensing during sliding motion using a micro sensor embedded in a soft fingertip
—We have investigated the deformation of a soft fingertip when it slides. This process was first simulated using ANSYS software with non-linear Finite Element Analysis (FEA). B...
Van Anh Ho, Dzung Viet Dao, Susumu Sugiyama, Shini...
ICARCV
2008
IEEE
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Fusing laser and vision data with a genetic ICP algorithm
—Knowledge about the environment is essential for humanoid and mobile robots to move and act safely. The most intuitive way to perceive information about the environment is throu...
Quirin Mühlbauer, Kolja Kühnlenz, Martin...
ICARCV
2008
IEEE
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Teaching a robot to operate a lift
—This paper discusses a vision problem for the detection of lift operation panel which is a plane subject to deformation due to viewing angle change. The key problem in this proj...
Han Wang, Y. Ying, V. P. Dinh, B. Y. Xie, Danwei W...
ICARCV
2008
IEEE
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Achievable safety of driverless ground vehicles
—Safety is an important issue of driverless car. Yet, most current approaches fail to ensure safety even in a fully informed situation. In this paper we discuss how the safety cr...
Rodrigo Benenson, Thierry Fraichard, Michel Parent
ICARCV
2008
IEEE
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Detecting spurious features using parity space
—Detection of spurious features is instrumental in many computer vision applications. The standard approach is feature based, where extracted features are matched between the ima...
David Törnqvist, Thomas B. Schön, Fredri...
ICARCV
2008
IEEE
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An active ball handling mechanism for RoboCup
—This paper describes a new active ball handling method for the RoboCup mid-size league as used by team Tech United at Eindhoven University of Technology. A theoretical model is ...
Jeroen de Best, René van de Molengraft