The Bugle Call: Addendum

Grøstl Addendum

This document is an addendum to the submission document of Grøstl, which was selected for the second round of NIST’s SHA-3 competition [18]. We stress that we do not change the specification of Grøstl. In other words, Grøstl is defined exactly as specified in the original submission document [8]. In this document we mention a few alternative descriptions of our SHA-3 candidate Grøstl and descri...

Addendum 2

Regression Addendum

Linear algebra is used to demonstrate two important assertions in the main text: (1) that the expectation value of the chi-square statistic χ is equal to the degrees of freedom—the number of data points less the number of fit parameters and (2) the “∆χ = 1” rule—which states that if any fit parameter is offset one standard deviation from its best-fit value, the minimum χ (with that parameter fi...

Integral Channel Features – Addendum

This document is meant to serve as an addendum to [1], published at BMVC 2009. The purpose of this addendum is twofold: (1) to respond to feedback we’ve received since publication and (2) to describe a number of changes, especially to the non-maximal suppression, that further improve performance. The performance of our updated detection increases 5% to over 91% detection rate at 1 false positiv...

Pigtail: A Pig Addendum

The object of the jeopardy dice game Pig is to be the first player to reach 100 points. Each turn, a player repeatedly rolls a die until either a 1 is rolled or the player holds and scores the sum of the rolls (i.e., the turn total). At any time during a player’s turn, the player is faced with two choices: roll or hold. If the player rolls a 1, the player scores nothing and it becomes the oppon...