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.
Over the last two decades, artificial neural networks (ANN) have been applied to solve a variety of problems such as pattern classification and function approximation. In many applications, it is desirable to extract ...
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Over the last two decades, artificial neural networks (ANN) have been applied to solve a variety of problems such as pattern classification and function approximation. In many applications, it is desirable to extract knowledge from trained neural networks for the users to gain a better understanding of the network's solution. In this paper, we apply REFANN (rule extraction from function approximating neural networks) in dividend events study. Based on our study of 1530 dividend initiations and 692 resumptions events from April 1965 to December 2000, we find that the positive relation between the short-term price reaction and the ratio of annualized dividend amount to stock price is primarily limited to 96 firms that have high dividend ratio and small firm size. The results suggest that the degree of short-term stock price underreaction to dividend events may not be as dramatic as previously believed. The results also show that the relations between the stock price response and firm size is also different across different types of firms. It is suggested that drawing the conclusions from the whole dividend events data may leave some important information unexamined. Our rule extraction method may shed some lights on further empirical research in corporate events studies because more information can be drawn from the data.
The ability to detect shadows is a critical feature of any intelligent transportation system (ITS). The improper handling of shadows can be the cause of erroneous conclusions in traffic analysis. As vision-based ITS a...
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The ability to detect shadows is a critical feature of any intelligent transportation system (ITS). The improper handling of shadows can be the cause of erroneous conclusions in traffic analysis. As vision-based ITS applications are becoming more popular, it is important to minimize the effects of shadows. Here, we present a novel method for shadow handling in a sequence of images. Following recent work motivated by studies of the statistics of natural images, we show that this new method is a reliable detector of shadows and can be easily implemented in real-time.
The goal of tills project Is to develop a passive vision-based sensing system. The system will be capable of monitoring an intersection by observing the vehicle and pedestrian flow, and predicting situations that migh...
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The goal of tills project Is to develop a passive vision-based sensing system. The system will be capable of monitoring an intersection by observing the vehicle and pedestrian flow, and predicting situations that might give rise to accidents. A single camera looking at all intersection from an arbitrary position is used. However, for extended applications, multiple cameras will be needed. Some of the key elements are camera calibration, motion tracking, vehicle classification, and situations giving rise to collisions. In this paper, we focus on motion tracking. Motion segmentation is performed using an adaptive background model that models each pixel as a mixture of Gaussians. The method used is similar to the method of Stauffer et at. for motion segmentation. Tracking of objects is performed by computing the overlap between oriented bounding boxes. The oriented boxes are computed by vector quantization of the blobs in the scene. The principal angles computed during vector quantization along with other cues of the object are used for classification of detected entities into vehicles and pedestrians.
We present the adaptive manifold self-organising map (AMSOM) for a face retrieval system. Our experimental results show that it has an excellent potential for face retrieval applications. As compared to the more tradi...
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(纸本)9628576623
We present the adaptive manifold self-organising map (AMSOM) for a face retrieval system. Our experimental results show that it has an excellent potential for face retrieval applications. As compared to the more traditional sub-space self-organising map, the results in many cases are better.
This paper introduces a broadly applicable technique for visibly improving the digitized, grey-level outputs produced by a host of iterative geometric diffusion methods. By replacing standard, central-difference estim...
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This paper describes a system for monitoring bicycle activity in sequences of gray scale images acquired by a stationary camera. The system is suitable for use in applications that aim to increase the efficiency and s...
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This paper describes a system for monitoring bicycle activity in sequences of gray scale images acquired by a stationary camera. The system is suitable for use in applications that aim to increase the efficiency and safety of existing traffic systems. One such application is to determine usage and congestion of bicycle path. The output of the system is a count of the number of bicycles detected in the image sequence. The system is model-based in the sense that it uses a simple model of two circular objects separated by a relatively known distance. Our system uses four levels of abstraction: raw images, blobs, edge images, and the bicycle model. The system was implemented on a dual Pentium computer equipped with a Matrox imaging board and achieved a peak performance of 8 frames per second. Experimental results based on outdoor scenes have shown promising results for a variety of weather conditions.
This paper introduces a broadly applicable technique for visibly improving the digitized, grey-level outputs produced by a host of iterative geometric diffusion methods. By replacing standard, central-difference estim...
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(纸本)0769507506
This paper introduces a broadly applicable technique for visibly improving the digitized, grey-level outputs produced by a host of iterative geometric diffusion methods. By replacing standard, central-difference estimates of discrete spatial gradients with alternating image derivative estimates that are offset by known, complementary biases, errors accumulated during iteration are reduced and the quality of geometric diffusions is improved. This unexpected synergy occurs at no added computational cost over central difference methods. Very simple to implement, the innovation is introduced at the level of spatial derivatives; hence, for a given process, any derived higher level mathematical properties-for example, group invariance or scale-space properties-can be preserved.
A new approach to automatically generate polyhedral convex cones from contact graphs for identification of assembly process states is presented. The state of contact between subassemblies is changing as operation proc...
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A new approach to automatically generate polyhedral convex cones from contact graphs for identification of assembly process states is presented. The state of contact between subassemblies is changing as operation proceeds in manipulative tasks such as part-mating. Measured contact forces and the resulting torques provide information about the contact geometry which is used to guide the assembly operation. In this paper, we present a method to calculate contact graphs for polyhedral subassemblies. The nodes of the contact graph represent contact formations of the subassemblies and the arcs represent neighborhoods of contact formations. This information is used to generate polyhedral convex cones for each contact formation considering friction. These polyhedral convex cones describe static equilibrium for each contact formation and are used to identify the contact state by measuring forces and torques during a part-mating.
This paper proposes a framework with essential components and processes for object-based image retrieval based on semantically meaningful classes of objects in images. An instantiation of the framework is presented to...
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