In this paper, we present an approach to incorporating partial geometric information into a local feature-based The distance-supported shape index is proposed for the representatio...
In this paper we introduce a new data gathering method “Web/URL Citation” and use it and Google Scholar as a basis to compare traditional and Web-based citation patterns acros...
Urban Search And Rescue (USAR) is a time critical task. Rescue teams have to explore a large terrain within a short amount of time in order to locate survivors after a disaster. O...
Recently, boosting has come to be used widely in object-detection applications because of its impressive performance in both speed and accuracy. However, learning weak classifier...
In this paper we develop a theory for characterizing how deformable a shape is given a sequence of its observations. We define a term called ‘‘deformability index’’ (DI) ...