In this paper, we present an approach towards autonomous grasping of objects according to their category and a given task. Recent advances in the field of object segmentation and categorization as well as task-based g...
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This work proposes a way to align statistical modeling with decision making. We provide a method that propagates the uncertainty in predictive modeling to the uncertainty in operational cost, where operational cost is...
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This work proposes a way to align statistical modeling with decision making. We provide a method that propagates the uncertainty in predictive modeling to the uncertainty in operational cost, where operational cost is the amount spent by the practitioner in solving the problem. The method allows us to explore the range of operational costs associated with the set of reasonable statistical models, so as to provide a useful way for practitioners to understand uncertainty. To do this, the operational cost is cast as a regularization term in a learning algorithm's objective function, allowing either an optimistic or pessimistic view of possible costs, depending on the regularization parameter. From another perspective, if we have prior knowledge about the operational cost, for instance that it should be low, this knowledge can help to restrict the hypothesis space, and can help with generalization. We provide a theoretical generalization bound for this scenario. We also show that learning with operational costs is related to robust optimization.
This paper presents a method for optimally combining pixel information from an infra-red thermal imaging camera, and a conventional visible spectrum colour camera, for tracking a moving target. The tracking algorithm ...
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This paper presents a method for optimally combining pixel information from an infra-red thermal imaging camera, and a conventional visible spectrum colour camera, for tracking a moving target. The tracking algorithm rapidly re-learns its background models for each camera modality from scratch at every frame. This enables, firstly, automatic adjustment of the relative importance of thermal and visible information in decision making, and, secondly, a degree of “camouflage target” tracking by continuously re-weighting the importance of those parts of the target model that are most distinct from the present background at each frame. Furthermore, this very rapid background adaptation ensures robustness to large, sudden and arbitrary camera motion, and thus makes this method a useful tool for robotics, for example visual servoing of a pan-tilt turret mounted on a moving robot vehicle. The method can be used to track any kind of arbitrarily shaped or deforming object, however the combination of thermal and visible information proves particularly useful for enabling robots to track people. The method is also important in that it can be readily extended for data fusion of an arbitrary number of statistically independent features from one or arbitrarily many imaging modalities.
As we grow old, our desire for being independence does not decrease while our health needs to be monitored more frequently. Accidents such as falling can be a serious problem for the elderly. An accurate automatic fal...
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As we grow old, our desire for being independence does not decrease while our health needs to be monitored more frequently. Accidents such as falling can be a serious problem for the elderly. An accurate automatic fall detection system can help elderly people be safe in every situation. In this paper a waist worn fall detection system has been proposed. A tri-axial accelerometer (ADXL345) was used to capture the movement signals of human body and detect events such as walking and falling to a reasonable degree of accuracy. A set of laboratory-based falls and activities of daily living (ADL) were performed by healthy volunteers with different physical characteristics. This paper presents the comparison of different machine learning classification algorithms using Waikato Environment for Knowledge Analysis (WEKA) platform for classifying falling patterns from ADL patterns. The aim of this paper is to investigate the performance of different classification algorithms for a set of recorded acceleration data. The algorithms are Multilayer Perceptron, Naive Bayes, Decision tree, Support Vector Machine, ZeroR and OneR. The acceleration data with a total data of 6962 instances and 29 attributes were used to evaluate the performance of the different classification algorithm. Results show that the Multilayer Perceptron algorithm is the best option among other mentioned algorithms, due to its high accuracy in fall detection.
In recent years there have been intensive efforts in robotics researches from the earliest stages of education. Subject of this paper is a powerful mobile robot communication and control framework for USARSim simulato...
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In recent years there have been intensive efforts in robotics researches from the earliest stages of education. Subject of this paper is a powerful mobile robot communication and control framework for USARSim simulator that can be used both for research and education. Mobile Robots Communication and Control Framework (MCCF) is developed in order to offer faster and easier communication process with the USARSim server within Matlab that differentiates it from most existing basic open source control interfaces. Most notably, it takes the advantages of easy integration with other analysis and control methods that have been provided in Matlab tool-boxes. MCCF enables communication and control of a wide range of robots platforms including but not limited to wheeled-robots, legged-robots, submarine robots and aerial robots. In this paper we describe its general architecture, features and examples of utilization for researchers who are interested in mobile robot simulations for education and research.
During conversations, speakers employ a number of verbal and nonverbal mechanisms to establish who participates in the conversation, when, and in what capacity. Gaze cues and mechanisms are particularly instrumental i...
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Philosophers, psychologists and neuroscientists have proposed various forms of a «self» in humans and animals. All of these selves seem to have a basis in some form of consciousness. The Global Workspace The...
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The large volume principle proposed by Vladimir Vapnik, which advocates that hypotheses lying in an equivalence class with a larger volume are more preferable, is a useful alternative to the large margin principle. In...
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The large volume principle proposed by Vladimir Vapnik, which advocates that hypotheses lying in an equivalence class with a larger volume are more preferable, is a useful alternative to the large margin principle. In this paper, we introduce a new discriminative clustering model based on the large volume principle called maximum volume clustering (MVC), and then propose two approximation schemes to solve this MVC model: A soft-label MVC method using sequential quadratic programming and a hard-label MVC method using semi-definite programming, respectively. The proposed MVC is theoretically advantageous for three reasons. The optimization involved in hard-label MVC is convex, and under mild conditions, the optimization involved in soft-label MVC is akin to a convex one in terms of the resulting clusters. Secondly, the soft-label MVC method possesses a clustering error bound. Thirdly, MVC includes the optimization problems of a spectral clustering, two relaxed k-means clustering and an information-maximization clustering as special limit cases when its regularization parameter goes to infinity. Experiments on several artificial and benchmark data sets demonstrate that the proposed MVC compares favorably with state-of-the-art clustering methods.
This paper presents a method for optimally combining pixel information from thermal imaging and visible spectrum colour cameras, for tracking an arbitrarily shaped deformable moving target. The tracking algorithm rapi...
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This paper presents a method for optimally combining pixel information from thermal imaging and visible spectrum colour cameras, for tracking an arbitrarily shaped deformable moving target. The tracking algorithm rapidly relearns its background models for each camera modality from scratch at every frame. This enables, firstly, automatic adjustment of the relative importance of thermal and visible information in decision making, and, secondly, a degree of "camouflage target" tracking by continuously re-weighting the importance of those parts of the target model that are most distinct from the present background at each frame. Furthermore, this very rapid background adaptation ensures robustness to rapid camera motion. The combination of thermal and visible information is applicable to any target, but particularly useful for people tracking. The method is also important in that it can be readily extended for fusion of data from arbitrarily many imaging modalities.
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