One way to perform registration and alignment for machine assembly is with respect to precisely located landmarks, called fiducials. that are located by machine vision means. For applications such as elearonics assembly, where densities are high and tolerances must be low. the precision by which the fiducials are located affects everything aligned relative to them. Because of s~a t ia l sam~l i...

A long-standing linguistic hypothesis asserts that the meanings of words are related to the contexts in which they appear (Miller and Charles 1991). This paper explores this hypothesis by showing that co-occurrences of discourse markers reflect the meanings of the discourse markers themselves. An experiment in classifying discourse markers by their semantic class, e.g. temporal or causal, was c...

The need to determine the distribution of a given cellular or molecular marker within the brain is common to a wide range of neuroscience investigations. Localization is an essential parameter both for the interpretation of findings in an anatomical and functional context, as well as for comparing findings across specimens. Knowledge of temporal and spatial gene expression patterns in the brain...

Abstract: Most data of which a statistician comes into contact has been rounded off in some manner, i.e., we do not observe X = x but a < X ≤ b. In this paper we investigate theoretical properties of the generalized fiducial distribution introduced in Hannig (2009) for such discretized data. Results are provided for both fixed sample size with increasing precision, and increasing sample size wi...

Since introducing a hybrid vision-inertial tracker using passive fiducial markers, we have encountered several applications in which the use of encoded LEDs would be preferable to paper fiducials. This includes small-scale applications requiring higher precision, and applications where the size of the target, or the range of viewing angles, or operation in the dark is important. We present a no...

The occurrence of hesitation markers is generally considered to be part of the verbal planning process. It is also a feature which is of potential importance to the forensic application of phonetics if hesitation behaviour could be linked to individual speakers. This study examines a total of eight female speakers on three different days. It can be demonstrated that, even though results vary ac...

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is the world’s largest high energy neutrino telescope, using the Antarctic ice cap as a Cherenkov detector medium. DeepCore, the low energy extension to IceCube, is an infill array with a fiducial volume of around 30 MTon in the deepest, clearest ice, aiming for an energy threshold as low as 10 GeV and extending IceCube’s sensitivity to indirect dark matter sear...

In this paper a fully automatic face verification system is presented. A face is characterized by a vector (jet) of coefficients determined applying a bank of Gabor filters in correspondence to 19 facial fiducial points automatically localized. The identity claimed by a subject is accepted or rejected depending on a similarity measure computed among the jet characterizing the subject, and the o...

We review our ongoing theoretical and phenomenological study of the discovery potential for instanton-induced DIS events at HERA. Constraints from recent lattice simulations will be exploited and translated into a “fiducial” kinematical region for our predictions of the instanton-induced DIS cross-section. ∗Plenary talk at the 3rd UK Phenomenology Workshop on HERA Physics, Sep 20-25, 1998, Durh...