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CVPR
1999
IEEE
16 years 6 months ago
Non-Metric Calibration of Wide-Angle Lenses and Polycameras
Images taken with wide-angle cameras tend to have severe distortions which pull points towards the optical center: This paper proposes a method for recovering the disrortion param...
Rahul Swaminathan, Shree K. Nayar
IROS
2007
IEEE
120views Robotics» more  IROS 2007»
15 years 11 months ago
Differentiable and piecewise differentiable gaits for snake robots
—This paper describes a series of gaits which we developed for a free crawling snake robot. Snake robots, a class of hyper-redundant mechanisms, can use their many degrees of fre...
Kevin Lipkin, Isaac Brown, Aaron Peck, Howie Chose...
IOT
2010
15 years 2 months ago
A resource oriented architecture for the Web of Things
Abstract--Many efforts are centered around creating largescale networks of "smart things" found in the physical world (e.g., wireless sensor and actuator networks, embedd...
Dominique Guinard, Vlad Trifa, Erik Wilde
FQAS
2009
Springer
113views Database» more  FQAS 2009»
15 years 2 months ago
On Reaching Consensus by a Group of Collaborating Agents
In this paper, an agent is defined as a triple (S, RS, LS), where S is a multi-hierarchical decision system, RS is a set of rules extracted from S defining values of its decision a...
Zbigniew W. Ras, Agnieszka Dardzinska
SIGMOD
2003
ACM
118views Database» more  SIGMOD 2003»
16 years 5 months ago
Improving the Efficiency of Database-System Teaching
The education industry has a very poor record of productivity gains. In this brief article, I outline some of the ways the teaching of a college course in database systems could b...
Jeffrey D. Ullman