Access to complex graphical information is essential when connecting blind and visually impaired (BVI) people with the world. Tactile graphics readers enable access data through audio-tactile user interfaces (UIs), but these have yet mature. A challenging task for locating specific elements–areas in detailed tactile graphics. To this end, we developed three audio navigation UIs that dynamically...

The purpose of this study was to compare two clinical immobilization systems for intracranial frameless stereotactic radiosurgery (fSRS) under the same clinical procedure using cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) for setup and video-based optical surface imaging (OSI) for initial head alignment and intrafractional motion monitoring. A previously established fSRS procedure was applied using two...

Laminar-turbulent breakdown in a swept-wing boundary layer is typically caused by secondary instabilities of steady crossflow vortices (CFVs). So far, boundary-layer suction for laminar flow control in three-dimensional boundary layers has been applied to reduce the crossflow and thus the growth of the primary vortices only. We investigate the influence of strong, localized suction (pinpoint su...

Location-based service has a great potential in the indoor environment, making it important to develop accurate indoor localization techniques. In this paper, we consider AOA based indoor localization, which can generally achieve higher accuracy of localization than other approaches. We propose to use cooperative APs with antenna arrays for accurate indoor localization. With the proposed Cooper...

The identification of rare coding or splice site variants remains the most straightforward strategy to link genes with human phenotypes. Here, we analyzed the association between 137,086 rare (minor allele frequency (MAF) <1%) coding or splice site variants and 15 hematological traits in up to 308,572 participants. We found 56 such rare coding or splice site variants at P<5x10-8, including 31 t...

Building an instrument detector usually requires temporally accurate ground truth that is expensive to create. However, song-wise information on the presence of instruments is often easily available. In this work, we investigate how well we can train a singing voice detection system merely from song-wise annotations of vocal presence. Using convolutional neural networks, multipleinstance learni...

Hypersonic entry guidance technology is being developed to support a broad range of future Mars missions. The goal is to develop guidance technology that, in conjunction with other entry, descent, and landing (EDL) technologies, will allow greater landing accuracy, as well as access to higher elevation landing sites, than currently achievable. The guidance technology should be applicable to cap...