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ICRA
2006
IEEE
90views Robotics» more  ICRA 2006»
16 years 16 days ago
A Kinematic Thumb Model for the ACT Hand
- The thumb is essential to the hand’s function in grasping and manipulating objects. Previous anthropomorphic robot hands have thumbs that are biologically-inspired but kinemati...
Lillian Y. Chang, Yoky Matsuoka
ACCV
2006
Springer
16 years 15 days ago
Waterfall Segmentation of Complex Scenes
Abstract. We present an image segmentation technique using the morphological Waterfall algorithm. Improvements in the segmentation are brought about by using improved gradients. Th...
Allan Hanbury, Beatriz Marcotegui
CDC
2009
IEEE
137views Control Systems» more  CDC 2009»
15 years 11 months ago
Asynchronous gossip algorithms for stochastic optimization
Abstract— We consider a distributed multi-agent network system where the goal is to minimize an objective function that can be written as the sum of component functions, each of ...
Sundhar Srinivasan Ram, Angelia Nedic, Venugopal V...
DICTA
2007
15 years 8 months ago
Fuzzy Model Based Recognition of Handwritten Hindi Characters
This paper presents the recognition of handwritten Hindi Characters based on the modified exponential membership function fitted to the fuzzy sets derived from features consisting...
Madasu Hanmandlu, O. V. Ramana Murthy, Vamsi Krish...
NIPS
2008
15 years 8 months ago
Efficient Sampling for Gaussian Process Inference using Control Variables
Sampling functions in Gaussian process (GP) models is challenging because of the highly correlated posterior distribution. We describe an efficient Markov chain Monte Carlo algori...
Michalis Titsias, Neil D. Lawrence, Magnus Rattray