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... Research and the University, and University ` Hospital of Liege in helping to make the conference and this book possible and hope that our joint efforts will ultimately improve the care and understanding ... Death is an immutable and objective biological fact and is not a social contrivance The focus of analyzing the definition and criterion of death is the ontology of death and not its normative ... between VS and MCS, and, in effect, the discrimination between states of conscious and unconscious being, depends upon such commu­ nication Quite obviously, this approach is ser­ iously flawed and represents...

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... treatment, and relapse, with a focus on behavioral analysis Where appropriate, the chapters are multidisciplinary and include lines of research that will broaden our understanding and knowledge and ... opium, morphine hydrochloride, and heroin are similar: only the routes of administration and pharmacokinetics differ and lead to heroin being so harmful In the 1940s and 1950s, a withdrawal syndrome ... (289), Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21228 Marian W Fischman (181), Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons...

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... detection of the nameplate handles this limitation The system is able to read and understand the symbolic content of the landmarks This allows an exact “topological localization”, and also confirms the ... before discarding the landmark and starting a new search In Fig 1.25.a a real situation is presented Nine artificial landmarks are placed inside room and four natural landmarks are situated along ... scene), stops, stores detected landmarks, makes a new search, and so on Symbolic content of landmarks having it is extracted and also stored The result is a detected landmark sequence, with relative...

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... signs and so on The system has been developed and tested using real indoor and outdoor images, and several example objects have been learned and detected Field experiments Learning Visual Landmarks ... new landmark detection and reading systems in topological navigation tasks The ability of using a wide spread of natural landmarks gives great flexibility and robustness Furthermore, the landmark ... function f (z ) , where and Z are complex variables, is conformal at the point Z if it is analytic at point z and its derivative at z is non-zero 62 M Yeasin and R Sharma and p, q and a are constants...

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... G Sandini, F Panerai and F.A Miles, “The role of inertial and visual mechanisms in the stabilization of gaze in natural and artificial systems, From: Motion Vision Computational, Neural, and ... Images and Understanding:/Thoughts about images; Ideas about Understanding, H Burlow, C Blackmore and M Weston-Smith eds., pp 122-137, Cambridge Univ Press, New York, 1990 83 B.K.P Horn and B.G ... wheels and the handle A nonholonomic cart can travel along its central line and perform turning movement about point C; in this case, the mobile manipulator applies a force and a torque on the handle...

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... such as Watching, Orientation, Go To Goal and Right and Left Contour Following and finally to execute the complex sensorimotor skills Visual Approaching and Go To Goal Avoiding Obstacles from the ... Sutton, and C W Anderson, “Neurolike elements that can solve difficult learning control problems”, in IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 1983, vol 13, pp 835–846 33 C J C H Watkins and ... systems are needed in traffic and highway monitoring, in law enforcement and security applications by banks, stores, and parking lots Algorithms for extracting and tracking over time moving objects...

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... set of vertices of a polygon), F and H are the nonlinear vector functions describing the system dynamics and the output respectively, V and W are noise processes, and Y represents the output of ... narrowband technique which solves the PDE only in a band around the zero level set is utilized [45] Here, v is computed on the zero level set and extended to other levels of the narrowband Most ... sequence shown in Figure 5.4 demonstrate the tracking performance with and without prediction respectively in (rows and 4) and (rows and 2) This example clearly shows that the prediction step is crucial...

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... Besl and McKay [8], and it has become the principle technique for registration of 3D data sets The algorithm takes two 3D data sets as input Let P and Q be two input data sets containing Np and ... computationally most demanding, is avoided, and the process does not require large memory to store all the data The author claimed that his method, while being faster and less demanding on memory, ... resulting model The total number of points and triangles in the 40 range images were 1,601,563 and 3,053,907, respectively, and these were reduced to 148,311 and 296,211 in the integrated model Figure...

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... becomes 90◦ , and the geometrical attenuation factor is as long as both θi and θr are within 45◦ Thus, assuming that θi is less than 90◦ and θi and θr are less than 45◦ , Csl and Ksl can be ... cosn α (35) where Ia and Il are the intensities of ambient light and light source respectively, and Ka , Kd and Ks are constants that represent the strengths of ambient, diffuse and specular components ... of zero and standard deviation of σα : − P (α) = ce α2 2σα (26) where c is a constant The standard deviation σα represents the roughness of surface – the larger σα , the rougher surface, and vice...

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... λ2 , and L1 = L2 = With those constraints, λ1 and λ2 represent the squared length of the semi-major and semi-minor axes of the iso-probability contour ellipse defined by Σs The vectors L1 and ... µs : i and j The spatial extent of each blob is represented by the three free parameters in the covariance 282 C R Wren Fig 7.9: Left: The hand as an iso-probability ellipse Right: The hand as ... forward in time, and B(·) maps control signals into state influences Φt and Bt from Equation are linearizations of Φ(·) and B(·) respectively, at the current operating point The right-hand term, (Lt...

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... Understanding 303 No Feedback No Feedback 20 15 15 handY hand Y 20 10 10 5 5 0 −5 handZ −10 −5 time hand −10 Z Feedback Feedback 20 15 15 handY Y 20 hand time 10 10 5 5 0 −5 −5 handZ −10 time hand ... Observed and predicted Y position of the hand and the corresponding innovation trace before, during and after expression of a un-modeled constraint: collision with a table results in overshoot, and ... problem[41, 6, 20] Gavrila and Davis[18] and Rehg and Kanade[40] have demonstrated that this approach has the potential to deal with limited occlusions, and thus to handle a greater range of body...

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