Video information retrieval requires a system to find information relevant to a query which may be represented simultaneously in different ways through a text description, audio...
The emergence of grid and a new class of data-driven applications is making a new form of parallelism desirable, which we refer to as coarse-grained pipelined parallelism. This pa...
Distributed search systems are an emerging phenomenon in Web search, in which independent topic-specific search engines provide search services, and metasearchers distribute user...
Force feedback is widely assumed to enhance performance in robotic surgery, but its benefits have not yet been systematically assessed. In this study we examine the effects of for...
Christopher R. Wagner, Nicholas Stylopoulos, Rober...
In this paper simultaneous localization and map building is performed with a hybrid, metric - topological, approach. A global topological map connects local metric maps, allowing ...
Nicola Tomatis, Illah R. Nourbakhsh, Roland Siegwa...