Robot vision : second international workshop, RobVis 2008, Auckland, New Zealand, February 18-20, 2008 : proceedings / / edited by Gerald Sommer, Reinhard Klette

• Record Nr.: UNISA996466251503316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, Germany : , : Springer, , [2008]; ©2008
• ISBN: 3-540-78157-9
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2008.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XI, 472 p.)
• Collana: Image Processing, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, and Graphics ; ; 4931
• Disciplina: 629.892637
• Soggetti: Robot vision
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Motion Analysis -- Dynamic Multiresolution Optical Flow Computation -- Particle-Based Belief Propagation for Structure from Motion and Dense Stereo Vision with Unknown Camera Constraints -- Stereo Vision -- Integrating Disparity Images by Incorporating Disparity Rate -- Towards Optimal Stereo Analysis of Image Sequences -- Fast Line-Segment Extraction for Semi-dense Stereo Matching -- High Resolution Stereo in Real Time -- Robot Vision -- Stochastically Optimal Epipole Estimation in Omnidirectional Images with Geometric Algebra -- Modeling and Tracking Line-Constrained Mechanical Systems -- Stereo Vision Local Map Alignment for Robot Environment Mapping -- Markerless Augmented Reality for Robotic Helicoptor Applications -- Facial Expression Recognition for Human-Robot Interaction – A Prototype -- Computer Vision -- Iterative Low Complexity Factorization for Projective Reconstruction -- Accurate Image Matching in Scenes Including Repetitive Patterns -- Camera Self-calibration under the Constraint of Distant Plane -- Visual Inspection -- An Approximate Algorithm for Solving the Watchman Route Problem -- Bird’s-Eye View Vision System for Vehicle Surrounding Monitoring -- Road-Signs Recognition System for Intelligent Vehicles -- Situation Analysis and Atypical Event Detection with Multiple Cameras and Multi-Object Tracking -- Urban Vision -- Team AnnieWAY’s Autonomous System -- ; The Area Processing Unit of Caroline - Finding the Way through DARPA’s Urban Challenge -- Sensor Architecture and Data Fusion for Robotic Perception in Urban Environments at the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge -- Poster Session -- Belief-Propagation on Edge Images for Stereo Analysis of Image Sequences -- Real-Time Hand and Eye Coordination for Flexible Impedance Control of Robot Manipulator -- MFC - A Modular Line Camera for 3D World Modulling -- 3D Person Tracking with a Color-Based Particle Filter -- Terrain-Based Sensor Selection for Autonomous Trail Following -- Generic Object Recognition Using Boosted Combined Features -- Stereo Vision Based Self-localization of Autonomous Mobile Robots -- Robust Ellipsoidal Model Fitting of Human Heads -- Hierarchical Fuzzy State Controller for Robot Vision -- A New Camera Calibration Algorithm Based on Rotating Object -- Visual Navigation of Mobile Robot Using Optical Flow and Visual Potential Field -- Behavior Based Robot Localisation Using Stereo Vision -- Direct Pose Estimation with a Monocular Camera -- Differential Geometry of Monogenic Signal Representations.
• Sommario/riassunto: In 1986, B.K.P. Horn published a book entitled Robot Vision, which actually discussed a wider ?eld of subjects, basically addressing the ?eld of computer vision, but introducing “robot vision” as a technical term. Since then, the - teraction between computer vision and research on mobile systems (often called “robots”, e.g., in an industrial context, but also including vehicles, such as cars, wheelchairs, tower cranes, and so forth) established a diverse area of research, today known as robot vision. Robot vision (or, more general, robotics) is a fast-growing discipline, already taught as a dedicated teaching program at university level. The term “robot vision” addresses any autonomous behavior of a technical system supported by visual sensoric information. While robot vision focusses on the vision process, visual robotics is more directed toward control and automatization. In practice, however, both ?elds strongly interact. Robot Vision 2008 was the second international workshop, counting a 2001 workshop with identical name as the ?rst in this series. Both workshops were organized in close cooperation between researchers from New Zealand and Germany, and took place at The University of Auckland, New Zealand. Participants of the 2008 workshop came from Europe, USA, South America, the Middle East, the Far East, Australia, and of course from New Zealand.

Educating mathematical scientists : doctoral study and the postdoctoral experience in the United States / / Committee on Doctoral and Postdoctoral Study in the United States, Board on Mathematical Sciences, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications, National Research Council

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910960968203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1992
• ISBN: 9786610203079; 9781280203077; 1280203072; 9780309566025; 0309566029; 9780585144139; 0585144133
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (76 p.)
• Disciplina: 510/.71/173
• Soggetti: Mathematics - Study and teaching (Graduate) - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 52-53).
• Nota di contenuto: Educating Mathematical Scientists: DOCTORAL STUDY AND THE POSTDOCTORAL EXPERIENCE IN THE UNITED STATES -- Copyright -- PREFACE -- Contents -- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- PURPOSE AND SCOPE OF THIS REPORT -- CONTENTS OF THIS REPORT -- 2 HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE -- THE EARLY YEARS -- THE ERA OF GROWTH -- THE ERA OF CONTRACTION -- THE RECENT PAST -- 3 THE PRESENT SYSTEM AND SUCCESSFUL PROGRAMS -- CHARACTERISTICS OF SUCCESSFUL PROGRAMS -- 4 HUMAN RESOURCE ISSUES -- RECRUITMENT -- ADMISSION -- DOMESTIC STUDENTS -- WOMEN AND UNDERREPRESENTED MINORITIES -- FOREIGN STUDENTS -- PLACEMENT -- 5 FOCUSED, REALISTIC MISSION -- STANDARD MODEL -- SPECIALIZED MODELS -- Subdisciplinary Model -- Interdisciplinary Model -- Problem-based Model -- College-Teachers Model -- Common Features of Specialized Models -- 6 POSITIVE LEARNING ; ENVIRONMENT -- COMMUNICATION AND COOPERATION -- EFFECTIVE ADVISING -- COURSE WORK AND SPECIALIZED STUDY -- EARLY RESEARCH EXPERIENCE -- MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAMS -- QUALIFYING EXAMINATIONS -- RESEARCH AND THESIS -- POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS -- A POSITIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT FOR ALL PROGRAMS -- 7 RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT -- TEACHING SKILLS -- COMMUNICATION SKILLS -- TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIPS -- THE NON-ACADEMIC MARKET -- THE POSTDOCTORAL EXPERIENCE -- 8 TOWARD MORE SUCCESSFUL PROGRAMS -- FACULTY AND DEPARTMENTS -- PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES -- FEDERAL AGENCIES -- THE KEY TO ACTION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- APPENDICES -- APPENDIX A DOCTORAL AND POSTDOCTORAL PROGRAM SELF-EVALUATION -- APPENDIX B ADVICE TO POTENTIAL GRADUATE STUDENTS IN THE MATHEMATICALSCIENCES -- APPENDIX C PROFESSIONAL MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAMS IN THE MATHEMATICALSCIENCES.
• Sommario/riassunto: The goal of this book is to determine what makes certain doctoral/postdoctoral programs in mathematical sciences successful in producing large numbers of domestic Ph.D.s, including women and underrepresented minorities with sufficient professional experience and versatility to meet the research, teaching, and industrial needs of our technology-based society. Educating Mathematical Scientists describes the characteristics of successful doctoral/postdoctoral programs, based on the diverse set of 10 universities at which site visits were made.