Recent research in cognitive systems aims to uncover important aspects of biological cognitive processes and additionally formulate design principles for implementing artificially intelligent systems. Despite the incr...
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Recent research in cognitive systems aims to uncover important aspects of biological cognitive processes and additionally formulate design principles for implementing artificially intelligent systems. Despite the increasing amount of research efforts addressing cognitive phenomena, the issue of time perception and how it is linked to other cognitive processes remains largely unexplored. In the current paper, we make a first attempt for studying artificial time perception by means of simulated robotic experiments. Specifically, we investigate a behavioral rule switching task consisting of repeating trials with dynamic temporal duration. An evolutionary process is used to search for neuronal mechanisms accomplishing the rule switching task taking also into account its particular temporal characteristics. Our repeated simulation experiments showed that (i) time perception and ordinary cognitive processes may co-exist in the system sharing the same neural resources, and (ii) time perception dynamics bias the functionality of neural mechanisms with other cognitive responsibilities. Finally, in the current paper we make contact of the obtained results with previous brain imaging studies on time perception, and we make predictions for possible time-related dynamics in the real brain.
In this paper, we exploit a fuzzy controller on a flexible bevel-tip needle to manipulate the needle's base in order to steer its tip in a preset obstacle-free and target-tracking path. Although the needle tends t...
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In this paper, we exploit a fuzzy controller on a flexible bevel-tip needle to manipulate the needle's base in order to steer its tip in a preset obstacle-free and target-tracking path. Although the needle tends to follow a curvature path, spinning the needle with an extremely high rotational velocity makes it symmetric with respect to the tissue to follow a straight path. The fuzzy controller determines an appropriate spinning to generate the planned trajectory and, the closed-loop system tries to match the needle body with that trajectory. The swine's brain tissue model, extracted from an in-vitro experimental setup, is a non-homogenous, uncertain and fast-updatable network to model real tissues, needle and their interactions providing the essential visual feedback for the control system. The simulation results illustrate a precise path tracking of the bevel-tip needle based on the fuzzy controller's commands with two degrees of freedom.
We present an algorithm that allows swarms of robots to navigate in environments containing unknown obstacles, moving towards and spreading along 2D shapes given by implicit functions. Basically, a gradient descent ap...
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Background modeling is an essential and important part of many high-level video processing applications. Recently, the Support Vector Data Description (SVDD) has been introduced for novelty detection when only one cla...
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We propose the use of imaging polarimetry for general photography, which is a relatively young technique allowing the determination of polarized components of the light coming from extended objects or scenes. In this ...
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This paper presents an adaptive framework for live video analysis. The activities of surveillance subjects are described using a spatio-temporal vocabulary learned from recurrent motion patterns. The repetitive nature...
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This paper presents a general framework for live video analysis. The activities of surveillance subjects are described using a spatio-temporal vocabulary learned from recurrent motion patterns. The repetitive nature o...
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On account of having real-time behavior and being easy to implement, spring meshes have been used for modeling deformable objects. Determining spring stiffness parameters for simulation of soft objects with high accur...
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Background modeling is an essential and important part of many high-level video processing applications. Recently, the Support Vector Data Description (SVDD) has been introduced for novelty detection when only one cla...
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Background modeling is an essential and important part of many high-level video processing applications. Recently, the Support Vector Data Description (SVDD) has been introduced for novelty detection when only one class of data is available, i.e. background pixels. This paper proposes a method to efficiently train an SVDD and compares the performance of this training algorithm with the traditional SVDD training techniques. We compare the performance of our method with traditional SVDD and other classification algorithms on various data sets including real video sequences.
Articulated human body modeling and tracking from vision data is an attractive research area with many potential applications. There has been a tremendous amount of related research works in this area. Therefore, havi...
Articulated human body modeling and tracking from vision data is an attractive research area with many potential applications. There has been a tremendous amount of related research works in this area. Therefore, having a comprehensive insight into high quality existing works and awareness of the research frontier in the area is essential for follow-up research studies. With that objective, this paper provides a review of the subarea of model based methods for human body modeling and tracking using volumetric (voxel) data. We will focus on analyzing and comparing some recent techniques, especially which are in the past two years, in order to highlight trends in the domain as well as to point out limitations of the current state of the art. Based on this analysis, we will discuss our idea of combining Laplacian Eigenspace (LE) based voxel segmentation [20] and Kinematically Constrained Gaussian mixture model (KC-GMM) method [3] to have a more powerful human body pose estimation system as well as discuss other possibilities for future work.
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