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MICCAI
2000
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
A Wide-Angle View Endoscope System Using Wedge Prisms
We describe a novel robotic endoscope system. It can be used to observe a wide area without moving or bending the endoscope. The system consists of a laparoscope with zoom facility...
Etsuko Kobayashi, Ken Masamune, Ichiro Sakuma, Tak...
ICIA
2007
15 years 6 days ago
Integrating Multiple Representations of Spatial Knowledge for Mapping, Navigation, and Communication
A robotic chauffeur should reason about spatial information with a variety of scales, dimensions, and ontologies. Rich representations of both the quantitative and qualitative cha...
Patrick Beeson, Matt MacMahon, Joseph Modayil, Ani...
EUC
2008
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Human Universality in Ubiquitous Computing: Maslow, Where Are You?
Too narrow, the productivity-oriented vision guiding ubiquitous computing should be replaced or enriched with humanistic aspects. We discuss the role of Maslow's hierarchy of...
Sébastien Duval, Christian Hoareau, Hiromic...
DICTA
2007
14 years 11 months ago
On the Induction of Topological Maps from Sequences of Colour Histograms
This paper presents an appearance–based method to automatically determine places from vision data for topological mapping. The approach exploits the continuity of the visual app...
Felix Werner, Joaquin Sitte, Frédéri...
AAAI
2004
14 years 11 months ago
A Correspondence Metric for Imitation
Abstract-- Learning by imitation and learning from demonstration have received considerable attention in robotics. However, very little research has been in the direction of provid...
R. Amit, Maja J. Mataric