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ICC
2009
IEEE
177views Communications» more  ICC 2009»
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Reducing Power Consumption in Backbone Networks
—According to several studies, the power consumption of the Internet accounts for up to 10% of the worldwide energy consumption, and several initiatives are being put into place ...
Luca Chiaraviglio, Marco Mellia, Fabio Neri
ICRA
2009
IEEE
122views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
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Torsional kinematic model for concentric tube robots
— A recent approach to steerable needle design is based on combining pre-curved tubes concentrically. By rotating and extending the tubes with respect to each other, the position...
Pierre E. Dupont, Jesse Lock, Evan Butler
ICRA
2009
IEEE
125views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
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On computing robust n-finger force-closure grasps of 3D objects
Abstract— The paper deals with computing frictional forceclosure grasps of 3D objects problem. The key idea of the presented work is the demonstration that wrenches associated to...
Sahar El-Khoury, Anis Sahbani
IDEAS
2009
IEEE
176views Database» more  IDEAS 2009»
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Evaluation of skyline algorithms in PostgreSQL
In this paper, we present our work on evaluating the skyline algorithms BNL, SFS, and a variant of LESS in PostgreSQL. It is well known that the performance of skyline queries is ...
Hannes Eder, Fang Wei
ACCV
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Levels of Details for Gaussian Mixture Models
Mixtures of Gaussians are a crucial statistical modeling tool at the heart of many challenging applications in computer vision and machine learning. In this paper, we first descri...
Vincent Garcia, Frank Nielsen, Richard Nock