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Firschein, Oscar
SRI International
Menlo Park, California
 
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   Turing’s cathedral: the origins of the digital universe
Dyson G., Pantheon Books, New York, NY, 2012. 464 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-400075-99-7)

This book by George Dyson, son of the noted Nobel Prize-winner Freeman Dyson, purports to be a history of the computer. Because of his father’s connection to the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Dyson had access ...

Feb 26 2013  
  RoboCup-2003 new scientific and technical advances
Pagello E., Menegatti E., Bredenfel A., Costa P., Christaller T., Jacoff A., Polani D., Riedmiller M., Saffiotti A., Sklar E., Tomoichi T. AI Magazine 25(2): 81-98, 2004.  Type: Article

RoboCup-2003, a ten-day event that took place in Padua, Italy in July 2003, is the subject of this paper. RoboCup is an international research and education initiative that fosters artificial intelligence (AI) and intelligent robotics ...

Mar 24 2005  
  Image mosaicing and super-resolution (CPHC/BCS distinguished dissertations.)
Capel D., Springer-Verlag, 2004.  Type: Book (9781852337711)

The problem of how information contained in multiple overlapping images of the same scene can be combined to produce images of superior quality is investigated in this book. This area, generically titled frame fusion, offers the possib...

Apr 8 2004  
  The bug
Ullman E., Doubleday, New York, NY, 2003. 368 pp.  Type: Book (9780385508605), Reviews: (2 of 2)

In this sometimes-earthy novel, Roberta Walton, returning from an overseas trip, fumes at being delayed at the immigration station. Looking at the agents computer terminal, she recognizes the Telligentsia transaction interface, an anci...

Jan 23 2004  
  Self-consistency and MDL: a paradigm for evaluating point-correspondence algorithms, and its application to detecting changes in surface elevation
Leclerc Y., Luong Q., Fua P. International Journal of Computer Vision 51(1): 63-83, 2003.  Type: Article

The self-consistency methodology, a new paradigm for evaluating certain vision problems without relying extensively on ground truth, is introduced in this paper. The idea is inspired by a remarkable property of the human visual system:...

Nov 17 2003  
  Weak intelligence: through the principle and paradox of multiple knowledge
Gams M., Nova Science Publishers, Inc., Commack, NY, 2001. 245 pp.  Type: Book (9781560728986)

English is obviously not the native language of the author, and the publisher has done a disservice to both him and the reader by not subjecting the manuscript to an editing and review process. Factual, spelling, and grammatical errors...

Jun 13 2002  
  Topological recognition of polyhedral objects from multiple views
Laurentini A. Artificial Intelligence 127(1): 31-55, 2001.  Type: Article

The author presents a theoretical investigation of the use of the aspect graph (AG) for topological recognition of polyhedral objects from multiple views. The idea of the AG is to cluster the infinite possible views of an object into a...

Apr 17 2002  
  Automatic Construction of 2D Shape Models
Duta N., Jain A., Dubuisson-Jolly M. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 23(5): 433-446, 2001.  Type: Article

Given a number of 2D shapes defined by the coordinates of their contour points, a model consists of a shape prototype along with statistical information about shape variation around the prototype. Shape models are especially useful whe...

May 1 2001  
  Geometric constraints for object detection and delineation
Shufelt J., Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA, 2000. 265 pp.  Type: Book (9780792386810)

The problem of detecting and extracting buildings from aerial images is important in cartographic database compilation and autonomous navigation. Though the task is simple, but time-consuming, for a person, it is a difficult problem fo...

Apr 1 2000  
  RANSAC-Based DARCES: A New Approach to Fast Automatic Registration of Partially Overlapping Range Images
Chen C., Hung Y., Cheng J. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 21(11): 1229-1234, 1999.  Type: Article

The problem of registering two partially overlapping range images taken from different views is dealt with in this paper. The authors describe the RANSAC-based DARCES method, which can solve this problem without any initial estimation....

Feb 1 2000  
 
 
 
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