This paper presents a modification with further experiments of a segmentation algorithm based on feature selection in wavelet space of ours [9]. The aim is to automatically separate in postal envelopes the regions rel...
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This paper presents a modification with further experiments of a segmentation algorithm based on feature selection in wavelet space of ours [9]. The aim is to automatically separate in postal envelopes the regions related to background, stamps, rubber stamps, and the address blocks. First, a typical image of a postal envelope is decomposed using Mallat algorithm and Haar basis. High frequency channel outputs are analyzed to locate salient points in order to separate the background. A statistical hypothesis test is taken to decide upon more consistent regions in order to clean out some noise left. The selected points are projected back to the original gray level image, where the evidence from the wavelet space is used to start a growing process to include the pixels more likely to belong to the regions of stamps, rubber stamps, and written area. We have modified the growing process controlled by the salient points and the results were greatly improved reaching success rate of over 97%. Experiments are run using original postal envelopes from the Brazilian Post Office Agency, and here we report results on 440 images with many different layouts and backgrounds.
Being expected as the utilities in the future, humanoid robots should be given much higher mobility. A seamless transition between contact and aerial phase is essential to behave robustly against disturbance in the re...
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Being expected as the utilities in the future, humanoid robots should be given much higher mobility. A seamless transition between contact and aerial phase is essential to behave robustly against disturbance in the real environment, and to expand the range of their activities and perform a variety of motion. Manipulation of both the contact condition and the external force is the key issue to enhance the mobility of humanoids since they are driven by the external force converted from the inner force through the interaction with the environment. The difficulty lies on the complexity of their dynamics so that they consist of number of degrees of freedom and their structures vary in accordance with contact phase transition. We propose variable impedant inverted pendulum (VIIP) model control, which allows one to handle the external force rather easily. The advantage of the proposed is that it is invariant on contact phase so that both cases in contact and in aerial are treated in the unified way. It also reduces the amount of computation. Thus, quick responsive motion of the robot can be practically achieved. We verified the effect of the controller in computer simulation, using a small humanoid robot model.
This paper describes an experimental stereo vision based motion planning system for humanoid robots. The goal is to automatically generate arm trajectories that avoid obstacles in unknown environments from high-level ...
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This paper describes an experimental stereo vision based motion planning system for humanoid robots. The goal is to automatically generate arm trajectories that avoid obstacles in unknown environments from high-level task commands. Our system consists of three components: 1) environment sensing using stereo vision with disparity map generation and online consistency checking, 2) probabilistic mesh modeling in order to accumulate continuous vision input, and 3) motion planning for the robot arm using RRTs (Rapidly exploring Random Trees). We demonstrate results from experiments using an implementation designed for the humanoid robot H7.
Spatial information is an essential key to the classification of remote sensing images. In this paper, a filtering approach, which tries to exploit the spatial component of the remote sensing data, is described and it...
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Spatial information is an essential key to the classification of remote sensing images. In this paper, a filtering approach, which tries to exploit the spatial component of the remote sensing data, is described and its contribution to the classification performance is discussed.
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Miller, PAHaynes, RBPA Miller
PT MHSc is Assistant Clinical Professor School of Rehabilitation Science McMaster University Hamilton Ontario Canada and Chief of Physiotherapy Practice Hamilton Health Sciences Hamilton Ontario Canada. When this article was written she was a graduate student in the Health Research Methodology Program at McMaster University. KA McKibbon
BSc MLS is currently on leave from the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics McMaster University for PhD studies at the Centre for Biomedical Informatics University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Pa RB Haynes
MD PhD is Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Medicine McMaster University. He is Editor of ACP Journal Club
Background and *** physical therapists depend on their professional journals for high-quality evidence. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the rigor of research and review articles in 4 national physical therap...
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Background and *** physical therapists depend on their professional journals for high-quality evidence. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the rigor of research and review articles in 4 national physical therapy *** and *** articles in 6 consecutive issues of theAustralian Journal of Physiotherapy,Physical Therapy,Physiotherapy, andPhysiotherapy Canada, published between January 2000 and June 2001 (N=179), were reviewed. One trained reviewer identified the type and purpose of each article and assessed the rigor of treatment and review articles according to explicit *** majority of articles reviewed were original studies (56%). The majority of the research articles that dealt with human health care (66%) addressed topics that were not directly applicable to the provision of patient care such as measurement topics and studies on subjects without identified pathologies or impairments. Of the 179 journal articles, 19 met the standards for rigor (11%). The majority of these articles dealt with treatment. The pass rate per journal was as follows:Australian Journal of Physiotherapy, 10% (4/42);Physical Therapy, 15% (7/47);Physiotherapy, 12% (4/34); andPhysiotherapy Canada, 7% (4/56).*** such a small percentage of articles in these professional journals were identified as having direct application to patient care, physical therapists should attempt to access other sources of information to find additional high-quality evidence. A larger sample with a greater number of issues per journal may have yielded different results and indicated different trends, and further research appears to be warranted.
This paper describes an experimental stereo vision based motion planning system for humanoid robots. The goal is to automatically generate arm trajectories that avoid obstacles in unknown environments from high-level ...
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This paper describes an experimental stereo vision based motion planning system for humanoid robots. The goal is to automatically generate arm trajectories that avoid obstacles in unknown environments from high-level task commands. Our system consists of three components: 1) environment sensing using stereo vision with disparity map generation and on-line consistency checking, 2) probabilistic mesh modeling in order to accumulate continuous vision input, and 3) motion planning for the robot arm using RRTs (rapidly exploring random trees). We demonstrate results from experiments using an implementation designed for the humanoid robot H7.
A computer-based analysis system was developed to display and analyze heart rate variability (HRV). ECG, oxygen saturation and respiratory signals (airflow, abdominal and thoracic movements), were used as raw data. Th...
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A computer-based analysis system was developed to display and analyze heart rate variability (HRV). ECG, oxygen saturation and respiratory signals (airflow, abdominal and thoracic movements), were used as raw data. The heart rate variability signal was derived from ECG by applying a Hilbert transform-based algorithm for reliable QRS complex detection. Following the guidelines suggested by the Task Force of the European Society of Cardiology and the North American Society for Pacing and Electrophysiology, appropriate time-domain and frequency-domain methods were used for HRV signal analysis. Autoregressive modeling of the HRV power spectrum was achieved by implementing the Burg algorithm. Three main spectral features were clearly distinguished in the heart rate variability signal spectrum from polysomnographic recordings of different sleep stages and were correlated with respiratory parameters. The integrated graphical user interface was developed using LabView and the signal processing algorithms were implemented using Matlab application programs. In this paper we present an overview of the system and analyze pilot data for two children undergoing nocturnal polysomnography. The pilot data demonstrated that the HRV analysis system may potentially distinguish between periods of normal and sleep disordered breathing (SDB) in children.
Prober is a functional and performance analysis tool for parallel programs, developed during an undergraduate research project. In this paper we show the new expanded version of Prober, in which some features from dif...
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Prober is a functional and performance analysis tool for parallel programs, developed during an undergraduate research project. In this paper we show the new expanded version of Prober, in which some features from different software tools are aggregated. It can be used as a single tool to aid the developer in the performance analysis of parallel programs. Our main goal is to provide a new version of Prober, with additional features. Among them we can highlight: the interpretation of user scripts, a user-level support library the generation of speedup and efficiency graphics, batch execution and a new user interface. In order to show, verify and analyze the use of the new version of Prober, we did performance tests in a parallel image convolution program. We added performance measuring routines to collect performance data within different internal code segments;built a set of scripts to specify the performance tests;ran the set of scripts in batch mode;used Prober to generate graphics and statistics based on the collected performance data;and analyzed the results rising Prober as an aid tool.
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