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ICPR
2008
IEEE
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Graph cut based deformable model with statistical shape priors
This paper presents a novel graph cut based segmentation approach with shape priors. The model incorporates statistical shape prior information with the active contour without edg...
Noha Youssry El-Zehiry, Adel Elmaghraby
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Learning from human teachers with Socially Guided Exploration
— We present a learning mechanism, Socially Guided Exploration, in which a robot learns new tasks through a combination of self-exploration and social interaction. The system’s...
Cynthia Breazeal, Andrea Lockerd Thomaz
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Modeling of biomimetic robotic fish propelled by an ionic polymer-metal composite actuator
— In this paper a physics-based model is proposed for a biomimetic robotic fish propelled by an ionic polymermetal composite (IPMC) actuator. The model incorporates both IPMC ac...
Ernest Mbemmo, Zheng Chen, Stephan Shatara, Xiaobo...
ICTAI
2008
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Automatic Design of Robot Behaviors through Constraint Network Acquisition
Control architectures, such as the LAAS architecture [1], CLARATY [12] and HARPIC [9], have been developped to provide autonomy to robots. To achieve a robot’s task, these contr...
Mathias Paulin, Christian Bessiere, Jean Sallantin
ICTAI
2008
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
GeoDialogue: A Software Agent Enabling Collaborative Dialogues between a User and a Conversational GIS
A fundamental challenge that must be met to achieve a usable conversational interface to Geographic Information System (GIS) is how to enable a more natural interaction between th...
Hongmei Wang, Guoray Cai, Alan M. MacEachren