As information visualization matures as an academic research field, commercial spinoffs are proliferating, but success stories are harder to find. This is the normal process of emergence for new technologies, but the ...
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As information visualization matures as an academic research field, commercial spinoffs are proliferating, but success stories are harder to find. This is the normal process of emergence for new technologies, but the panel organizers believe that there are certain strategies that facilitate success. To teach these lessons, we have invited several key figures who are seeking to commercialize information visualization tools. The panelists make short presentations, engage in a moderated discussion, and respond to audience questions.
We introduce an annotation-based rescue assistance system for a teleoperated unmanned helicopter with an wearable augmented reality (AR) environment. In this system, an operator controls the helicopter remotely while ...
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We introduce an annotation-based rescue assistance system for a teleoperated unmanned helicopter with an wearable augmented reality (AR) environment. In this system, an operator controls the helicopter remotely while watching an annotated view from the helicopter through a head mounted display (HMD) with a laptop PC in a backpack. Virtual buildings and textual annotations assist the rescue operation indicating the position to search rapidly and intensively. The position and the attitude of the helicopter is measured by a GPS and a gyroscope, and sent to the operator's PC via a wireless LAN. Using this system, we conducted experiments to find persons and verified the feasibility.
This paper examines MPEG-4 coding efficiency for interlaced and progressively scanned video data recorded during remote patient monitoring. Experiments are performed using both interlaced and progressive coding method...
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This paper examines MPEG-4 coding efficiency for interlaced and progressively scanned video data recorded during remote patient monitoring. Experiments are performed using both interlaced and progressive coding methods to compress interlaced, deinterlaced and progressively scanned video sequences at different bit rates. Our results show that progressively scanned video outperforms interlaced video in both coding efficiency and video quality. We also found that the use of a deinterlacing algorithm improves video coding performance. In addition, we found that interlaced or progressively scanned video data can be compressed using either progressive or interlaced coding algorithms without significant difference in performance.
Advanced driver assistance systems are designed to make driving easier that is, to alleviate the driver's workload, and to increase traffic safety. However, traffic safety is affected by negative behavioral adapta...
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Advanced driver assistance systems are designed to make driving easier that is, to alleviate the driver's workload, and to increase traffic safety. However, traffic safety is affected by negative behavioral adaptation, meaning that drivers tend to increase speed and pay less attention to driving when supported by an advanced assistance system. We relate behavioral adaptation to reinforcement learning at a subconscious level, and propose that driver assistance is dynamically varied within predetermined safety limits. The aim of employing a dynamic assistance policy is to prevent the driver from noticing a constant improvement in vehicle handling. We conclude by describing ongoing work for empirically evaluating an improved lane departure warning system that uses a dynamic assistance policy.
Background: Proteomic peptide profiling is an emerging technology harbouring great expectations to enable early detection, enhance diagnosis and more clearly define prognosis of many diseases. Although previous resear...
Background: Proteomic peptide profiling is an emerging technology harbouring great expectations to enable early detection, enhance diagnosis and more clearly define prognosis of many diseases. Although previous research work has illustrated the ability of proteomic data to discriminate between cases and controls, significantly less attention has been paid to the analysis of feature selection strategies that enable learning of such predictive models. Feature selection, in addition to classification, plays an important role in successful identification of proteomic biomarker panels. Methods: We present a new, efficient, multivariate feature selection strategy that extracts useful feature panels directly from the high-throughput spectra. The strategy takes advantage of the characteristics of surface-enhanced laser desorption/ionisation time-of-flight mass spectrometry (SELDI-TOF-MS) profiles and enhances widely used univariate feature selection strategies with a heuristic based on multivariate de-correlation filtering. We analyse and compare two versions of the method: one in which all feature pairs must adhere to a maximum allowed correlation (MAC) threshold, and another in which the feature panel is built greedily by deciding among best univariate features at different MAC levels. Results: The analysis and comparison of feature selection strategies was carried out experimentally on the pancreatic cancer dataset with 57 cancers and 59 controls from the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. The analysis was conducted in both the whole-profile and peak-only modes. The results clearly show the benefit of the new strategy over univariate feature selection methods in terms of improved classification performance. Conclusion: Understanding the characteristics of the spectra allows us to better assess the relative importance of potential features in the diagnosis of cancer. Incorporation of these characteristics into feature selection strat
Artificial neural networks have been traditionally employed to learn and compute the inverse kinematics of a robotic arm. However, the inverse kinematics model of a typical robotic arm with joint limits is a multi-val...
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Artificial neural networks have been traditionally employed to learn and compute the inverse kinematics of a robotic arm. However, the inverse kinematics model of a typical robotic arm with joint limits is a multi-valued and discontinuous function. Because it is difficult for a multilayer neural network to approximate this type of function, an accurate inverse kinematics model cannot be obtained by using a single neural network. In order to overcome the difficulties of inverse kinematics learning, we propose a novel modular neural network system that consists of a number of expert modules, where each expert approximates a continuous part of the inverse kinematics function. The proposed system selects one appropriate expert whose output minimizes the expected position/orientation error of the end-effector of the arm. The system can learn a precise inverse kinematics model of a robotic arm with equal or more degrees of freedom than that of its end-effector. However, there are robotic arms with fewer degrees of freedom, where the system cannot learn their precise inverse kinematics model. We have adopted a modified Gauss-Newton method for finding the least-squares solution to address this issue. Through the modifications presented in this paper, the improved modular neural network system can obtain a precise inverse kinematics model of a general robotic arm.
This study examined the effects of synchrony and the number of cues on the person perception process in computer-mediated communication. One hundred and forty-two participants in groups of three or four engaged in col...
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