L’invention des routines

Visual routines and attention

The human visual system solves an amazing range of problems in the course of everyday activities. Without conscious effort, the human visual system finds a place on the table to put down a cup, selects the shortest checkout queue in a grocery store, looks for moving vehicles before we cross a road, and checks to see if the stoplight has turned green. Inspired by the human visual system, I have ...

Efficient Multidimensional Searching Routines

The problem of Music Information Retrieval can often be formalized as “searching for multidimensional trajectories”. It is well known that string-matching techniques provide robust and effective theoretic solutions to this problem. However, for low dimensional searches, especially queries concerning a single vector as opposed to a series of vectors, there are a wide variety of other methods ava...

Simple Routines for Optimization

Content Enhancement Routines

The understanding and use of historical concepts specified in national history standards pose many challenges to students. These challenges include both the acquisition of content knowledge and the use of that knowledge in ways that require higher order thinking. All students, including adolescents with learning disabilities (LD), are expected to understand and use concepts of history to pass h...

Evolving Visual Routines

Traditional machine vision assumes that the vision system recovers a complete, labeled description of the world [Marr, 1982]. Recently, several researchers have criticized this model and proposed an alternative model which considers visual perception as a distributed collection of task-specific, context-driven visual routines [Aloimonos, 1993, Ullman, 1984]. Some of these researchers have argue...