Frequently one has to search within a finite population for a single particular individual or item with a rare characteristic. Whether an item possesses the characteristic can only be determined by close inspection. The availability of additional information about the items in the population opens the way to a more effective search strategy than just random sampling or complete inspection of th...

1. Using gauges and instruments, lean, six sigma opportunities 2. Sampling issues further explored 3. Quality characteristics, important features and certification 4. Evaluating gauges, measurement error 5. Gauge R & R, traceability and the broader quality system 6. Traditional versus new approaches--supervisors, operators and others 7. 100% inspection and sampling influences on quality charact...

Using fuzzy c-means as the data-mining tool, this study evaluates the effectiveness of sampling methods in producing the knowledge of interest. The effectiveness is shown in terms of the representative-ness of sampling data and both the accuracy and errors of sampled data sets when subjected to the fuzzy clustering algorithm. Two population data in the weld inspection domain were used for the e...

We describe an automatic classroom capture system that detects and records significant (stable) points in lectures by sampling and analyzing a sequence of screen capture frames from a PC used for presentations, application demonstrations, etc. The system uses visual inspection techniques to scan the screen capture stream to identify points to store. Unlike systems that only detect and store sli...

A. Additional Applications and Experimental Results In this section, we present the application of our generic framework to one-bit matrix completion as well as additional experimental results for matrix sensing. A.1. One-bit Matrix Completion Compared with matrix completion, we only observe the sign of each noisy entries of the unknown low-rank matrix X⇤ in one-bit matrix completion (Davenport...

In the domain of inspecting particularly the casting industry there is currently a great deal of subjectivity in the visual inspection of castings. This subjectivity results in high rates of miss and false alarm outcomes among workers inspecting castings. These events lead to costly rework and end user rejection of product. Due to this, there is much interest in improving the inspection methods...