Abstract— Robot imitation is a useful and promising alternative to robot programming. Robot imitation involves two crucial issues. The first is how a robot can imitate a human w...
Ryunosuke Yokoya, Tetsuya Ogata, Jun Tani, Kazunor...
In signal restoration by Bayesian inference, one typically uses a parametric model of the prior distribution of the signal. Here, we consider how the parameters of a prior model s...
In this paper, we introduce techniques for animating explosions and their effects. The primary effect of an explosion is a disturbance that causes a shock wave to propagate thro...
Gary D. Yngve, James F. O'Brien, Jessica K. Hodgin...
The problem of tracking a varying number of non-rigid objects has two major difficulties. First, the observation models and target distributions can be highly non-linear and non-Ga...
Kenji Okuma, Ali Taleghani, Nando de Freitas, Jame...
We present an approach to tracking human activities in a monocular video. We model the human body by decomposing it into torso and limbs and use simple 3D shapes to approximate th...