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ICRA
2008
IEEE
140views Robotics» more  ICRA 2008»
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An optimization approach to planning for mobile manipulation
— We present an optimization-based approach to grasping and path planning for mobile manipulators. We focus on pick-and-place operations, where a given object must be moved from ...
Dmitry Berenson, James Kuffner, Howie Choset
ICRA
2008
IEEE
229views Robotics» more  ICRA 2008»
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Learning of moving cast shadows for dynamic environments
Abstract— We propose a novel online framework for detecting moving shadows in video sequences using statistical learning techniques. In this framework, Support Vector Machines ar...
Ajay J. Joshi, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos
SISAP
2008
IEEE
115views Data Mining» more  SISAP 2008»
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A Dynamic Pivot Selection Technique for Similarity Search
All pivot-based algorithms for similarity search use a set of reference points called pivots. The pivot-based search algorithm precomputes some distances to these reference points...
Benjamin Bustos, Oscar Pedreira, Nieves R. Brisabo...
CEC
2007
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Parameter calibration using meta-algorithms
— Calibrating an evolutionary algorithm (EA) means finding the right values of algorithm parameters for a given problem. This issue is highly relevant, because it has a high imp...
W. A. de Landgraaf, A. E. Eiben, Volker Nannen
ICC
2007
IEEE
177views Communications» more  ICC 2007»
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Intelligent Gateways Placement for Reduced Data Latency in Wireless Sensor Networks
— Many applications of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have emerged over the last few years. In such networks resource-constrained sensor nodes are deployed to probe their surrou...
Waleed A. Youssef, Mohamed F. Younis