This article presents GraphSLAM, a unifying algorithm for the offline SLAM problem. GraphSLAM is closely related to a recent sequence of research papers on applying optimization t...
Recent work on modeling the web graph has dwelt on capturing the degree distributions observed on the web. Pointing out that this represents a heavy reliance on "local" p...
: Constructing stories is a type of playing that involves mobilizing the storyteller's imagination and finding original ways to convey narrative intentions. When a child inven...
A decomposition is described, which parameterizes the geometry and appearance of contours and regions of gray-scale images with the goal of fast categorization. To express the con...
We present a method to automatically quantify the local asymmetries of bilateral structures in point clouds. The method relies on the robust computation of the approximate symmetr...