The utilization of reusable software components can help to reduce the complexity of developing and maintaining parallel programs, but can lead to inefficiencies. The potential inefficiencies are addressed by providin...
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The utilization of reusable software components can help to reduce the complexity of developing and maintaining parallel programs, but can lead to inefficiencies. The potential inefficiencies are addressed by providing a model of parallel execution (asynchronous remote procedure call, or ARPC) that not only speeds up programs, but also encourages the development of layered software by increasing parallelism in correspondence to increases in layering. The paper presents an efficient algorithm for assigning the reusable modules of a program to the processing elements of a parallel computer that supports ARPC. The objectives of the assignment algorithm are to permit maximum inter-module parallelism with the fewest possible PEs, and to prevent deadlock. The algorithm differs from previous solutions to the assignment problem in that the modules to be assigned are generic abstract data type modules, not procedures, tasks, or processes.< >
An approach for tracing, representation, and recognition of a handwritten numeral in an offline environment is presented. A 2D spatial representation of a numeral is first transformed into a 3D spatiotemporal represen...
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An approach for tracing, representation, and recognition of a handwritten numeral in an offline environment is presented. A 2D spatial representation of a numeral is first transformed into a 3D spatiotemporal representation by identifying the tracing sequence based on a set of heuristic rules acting as transformation operators. Given the dynamic information of the tracing sequence, a multiresolution critical-point segmentation method is proposed to extract local feature points, at varying degrees of scale and coarseness. A neural network architecture, the hierarchically self-organizing learning (HSOL) network (S. Lee, J.C. Pan, 1989), especially for handwritten numeral recognition, is presented. Experimental results based on a bidirectional HSOL network indicated that the method is robust in terms of variations, deformations, and corruption, achieving about 99% recognition rate for the test patterns.< >
The authors present some results on a theoretical semantic device called the checklist paradigm which gives the theoretical bounds on the performance of particular many-valued implication operators and other connectiv...
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The authors present some results on a theoretical semantic device called the checklist paradigm which gives the theoretical bounds on the performance of particular many-valued implication operators and other connectives. In its most general form, the checklist paradigm pairs the distinct connectives of the same logical type to provide the bounds for interval-valued approximate inference. The global structure imposed on the many-valued connectives by the certain type of checklist paradigm contracting measures is shown to be the S/sub 2*2*2/ group.< >
A technique for the calibration of an active camera system is presented. The calibration of manipulator, camera-to-manipulator, camera, and base-to-world is treated in a unified and elegant way. In this approach, the ...
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A technique for the calibration of an active camera system is presented. The calibration of manipulator, camera-to-manipulator, camera, and base-to-world is treated in a unified and elegant way. In this approach, the camera frames and manipulator link frames are all related to the world frame, therefore the camera-to-manipulator and base-to-world calibration is very straightforward. The approach is simple, since it uses the form of one equation solving one parameter. Two experiments that verify the accuracy of the technique are reported.< >
A novel approach to obstacle detection using optical flow without recovering range information has been developed. This method can be used for ground vehicles to navigate through man-made roadways or natural outdoor t...
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A novel approach to obstacle detection using optical flow without recovering range information has been developed. This method can be used for ground vehicles to navigate through man-made roadways or natural outdoor terrain or for air vehicles to land on known or unknown terrain. A linear relationship, plotted as a line and called a reference flow line, has been found. This reference flow line can be used to detect discrete obstacles above or below the reference terrain. Slopes of surface regions are also computed. The approach is simple, fast, and robust because: (1) the only required information is one component of the optical flow, (2) each image line can be processed in parallel, and (3) the error sources involved are reduced to a minimum. An initial experiment using noisy synthetic data is also included to demonstrate the applicability and robustness of the method.< >
Model-based diagnosis of industrial applications (i.e., complex systems) has to face a lot of problems inherent in complexity. Most applications involve thousands of components and are dynamic. The approach outlined i...
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Model-based diagnosis of industrial applications (i.e., complex systems) has to face a lot of problems inherent in complexity. Most applications involve thousands of components and are dynamic. The approach outlined i...
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Model-based diagnosis of industrial applications (i.e., complex systems) has to face a lot of problems inherent in complexity. Most applications involve thousands of components and are dynamic. The approach outlined in this paper is based on semantic nets representing causal and temporal knowledge to be used for fault diagnosis. A view and a hierarchy-concept serve for structured modelling and focused diagnosis. An efficient diagnostic inference mechanism is based on a pre-computation phase, where diagnostic knowledge is restructured to grant efficient access operations during a diagnostic session phase.
A hierarchical stereo system is described that uses structural descriptions up to the surface level. Surface descriptions are computed from monocular images, by using a perceptual grouping technique. Occlusion can be ...
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A hierarchical stereo system is described that uses structural descriptions up to the surface level. Surface descriptions are computed from monocular images, by using a perceptual grouping technique. Occlusion can be a major problem in stereo analysis and is often not treated explicitly. An analysis is presented of occlusion effects in stereo, and it is shown how structural descriptions can be used to deal with them. Experimental results are given for scenes with curved objects and significant occlusions.< >
An Extended Object Model (XOM) is p resented for the design and development of knowledge based systems. A set of operations is defined on the object model. The model is used in designing the conceptual schema of an ex...
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