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ICRA
2009
IEEE
137views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
16 years 1 months ago
Multiple-model RANSAC for ego-motion estimation in highly dynamic environments
Abstract— Robust ego-motion estimation in urban environments is a key prerequisite for making a robot truly autonomous, but is not easily achievable as there are two motions invo...
Shao-Wen Yang, Chieh-Chih Wang
SI3D
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Egocentric affordance fields in pedestrian steering
In this paper we propose a general framework for local pathplanning and steering that can be easily extended to perform highlevel behaviors. Our framework is based on the concept ...
Mubbasir Kapadia, Shawn Singh, William Hewlett, Pe...
SBACPAD
2005
IEEE
110views Hardware» more  SBACPAD 2005»
16 years 1 days ago
Portable checkpointing and communication for BSP applications on dynamic heterogeneous Grid environments
Executing long-running parallel applications in Opportunistic Grid environments composed of heterogeneous, shared user workstations, is a daunting task. Machines may fail, become ...
Raphael Y. de Camargo, Fabio Kon, Alfredo Goldman
PRESENCE
2010
181views more  PRESENCE 2010»
15 years 1 months ago
The Effect of Viewing a Self-Avatar on Distance Judgments in an HMD-Based Virtual Environment
Few HMD-based virtual environment systems display a rendering of the user's own body. Subjectively, this often leads to a sense of disembodiment in the virtual world. We expl...
Betty J. Mohler, Sarah H. Creem-Regehr, William B....
CLUSTER
2005
IEEE
16 years 3 days ago
Minimizing the Network Overhead of Checkpointing in Cycle-harvesting Cluster Environments
Cycle-harvesting systems such as Condor have been developed to make desktop machines in a local area (which are often similar to clusters in hardware configuration) available as ...
Daniel Nurmi, John Brevik, Richard Wolski