An active contour is used to track a target in a sequence recorded by a walking robot in an unstructured scene . The deformations of the contour are analysed in order to extract t...
—Inspired by the expectation-based perception of humans, a surprise-driven active vision system is proposed. This vision system not only considers spatial saliency of objects in ...
— Proposed new actuation mechanism realizes active or semi-active mobility for flexible long cables such as fiberscopes and scope cameras. A ciliary vibration mechanism was dev...
– The Science Activity Planner (SAP) is the primary science operations tool for the Mars Exploration Rover mission and NASA’s Software of the Year for 2004. SAP utilizes a vari...
Jeffrey S. Norris, Mark W. Powell, Marsette Vona, ...
Abstract--The traditional framework for discrete-event control is extended to include the case of control with active events, in which both the user and the environment have events...
Michael Heymann, Feng Lin, George Meyer, Satya Ran...