Our main objective was to improve the diagnosis of melanoma by optimizing the ABCD formula, used by dermatologists in melanoma identification. In our previous research, an attempt to optimize the ABCD formula using th...
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Melanoma is a very dangerous skin cancer. In this paper we present results of experiments on three melanoma data sets. Two data mining tools were used, a new system called IRIM (Interesting Rule Induction Module) and ...
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Melanoma is a very dangerous skin cancer. In this paper we present results of experiments on three melanoma data sets. Two data mining tools were used, a new system called IRIM (Interesting Rule Induction Module) and well established LEM2 (Learning from Examples Module, version 2), both are components of the same data mining system LERS (Learning from Examples based on Rough Sets). Typically IRIM induces the strongest rules that are possible for a data set. IRIM does not need any preliminary discretization or preprocessing of missing attribute values. Though performance of IRIM and LEM2 is fully comparable, IRIM provides an additional opportunity to induce unexpected and strong rules supplying an important insight helpful for diagnosis of melanoma.
We introduce a multi-spectral MRI segmentation technique based on approximate reducts derived from the data mining paradigm of the theory of rough sets. We use genetic algorithms to tune the parameterized attributes a...
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We introduce a multi-spectral MRI segmentation technique based on approximate reducts derived from the data mining paradigm of the theory of rough sets. We use genetic algorithms to tune the parameterized attributes and search for the best segmentation models based on approximate reducts.
Distributed Partially Observable Markov Decision Problems (POMDPs) are emerging as a popular approach for modeling multiagent teamwork where a group of agents work together to jointly maximize a reward function. Since...
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Distributed Partially Observable Markov Decision Problems (POMDPs) are emerging as a popular approach for modeling multiagent teamwork where a group of agents work together to jointly maximize a reward function. Since the problem of finding the optimal joint policy for a distributed POMDP has been shown to be NEXP-Complete if no assumptions are made about the domain conditions, several locally optimal approaches have emerged as a viable solution. However, the use of communicative actions as part of these locally optimal algorithms has been largely ignored or has been applied only under restrictive assumptions about the domain. In this paper, we show how communicative acts can be explicitly introduced in order to find locally optimal joint policies that allow agents to coordinate better through synchronization achieved via communication. Furthermore, the introduction of communication allows us to develop a novel compact policy representation that results in savings of both space and time which are verified empirically. Finally, through the imposition of constraints on communication such as not going without communicating for more than K steps, even greater space and time savings can be obtained.
This paper proposes a technique for planar trajectory following for an autonomous aerial robot. A trajectory is modeled as a planar spline. A behavior-based control system which stabilizes the robot and enforces traje...
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We describe a sensor network deployment method using autonomous flying robots. Such networks are suitable for tasks such as large-scale environmental monitoring or for command and control in emergency situations. We d...
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We describe a sensor network deployment method using autonomous flying robots. Such networks are suitable for tasks such as large-scale environmental monitoring or for command and control in emergency situations. We describe in detail the algorithms used for deployment and for measuring network connectivity and provide experimental data we collected from field trials. A particular focus is on determining gaps in connectivity of the deployed network and generating a plan for a second, repair, pass to complete the connectivity. This project is the result of a collaboration between three robotics labs (CSIRO, USC, and Dartmouth.).
This article reports on the Sixth Robot World Cup Competition and Conference (RoboCup-2002) Fukuoka/Busan, which took place from 19 to 25 June in Fukuoka, Japan. It was the largest RoboCup since 1997 and held the firs...
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This article reports on the Sixth Robot World Cup Competition and Conference (RoboCup-2002) Fukuoka/Busan, which took place from 19 to 25 June in Fukuoka, Japan. It was the largest RoboCup since 1997 and held the first humanoid league competition in the world. Further, the first ROBOTREX (robot trade and exhibitions) was held with about 50 companies, universities, and institutes represented. A total of 117,000 spectators witnessed this marvelous event, To the best of our knowledge, this was the largest robotic event in history.
We present a combined real-time face region tracking and highly accurate face recognition technique for an intelligent surveillance system. High-resolution face images are very important to achieving accurate identifi...
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We present a combined real-time face region tracking and highly accurate face recognition technique for an intelligent surveillance system. High-resolution face images are very important to achieving accurate identification of a human face. Conventional surveillance or security systems, however, usually provide poor image quality because they use only fixed cameras to record scenes passively. We have implemented a real-time surveillance system that tracks a moving face using four pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras. While tracking, the region-of-interest (ROI) can be obtained by using a low-pass filter and background subtraction with the PTZ. Color information in the ROI is updated to extract features for optimal tracking and zooming. FaceIt/sup /spl reg//, which is one of the most popular face recognition software packages, is evaluated and then used to recognize the faces from the video signal. Experimentation with real human faces showed highly acceptable results in the sense of both accuracy and computational efficiency.
This paper presents an attempt to integrate attention and navigation skills in 3D embodied agents (virtual humanoids). The neural model presented has been divided in two main phases. Firstly the environment-categoriza...
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This paper presents an attempt to integrate attention and navigation skills in 3D embodied agents (virtual humanoids). The neural model presented has been divided in two main phases. Firstly the environment-categorization phase, where an online pattern recognition and categorization of the agent current sensory input data is carried out by an adaptive resonance driven self organizing neural network, which will finally simulate the agent's short term memory (STM). Secondly, the model must also learn how and when to map its current STM state into the navigation and attention motor layers of the 3D agent. We also review the world modelling and the agent vision system, and finally we present the first results extracted from two of the subsystems which conforms the complete neural model, such as, the environment categorization subsystem and the base navigation neural model.
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