Graspless (or nonprehensile) manipulation is a method to manipulate objects without grasping. It includes pushing, tumbling and pivoting. Graspless manipulation is important as a complement of conventional pick-and-place for the dexterity of robots. In this paper, we propose a method of planning of general graspless manipulation by multifingered robot hands; the method can automatically generat...

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Personal service robots will need to understand semantic object relationships and task context in order to assist humans in their everyday lives. This paper will demonstrate a technique using keywords, spatial relationships, colors, and other contextual information to assist in the mobile manipulation and object recognition tasks. Preliminary results using a mobile manipulation platform are als...

Spectral clustering is a family of methods to find K clusters using the eigenvectors of a matrix. Typically, this matrix is derived from a set of pairwise similarities Sij between the points to be clustered. This task is called similarity based clustering, graph clustering, or clustering of diadic data. One remarkable advantage of spectral clustering is its ability to cluster “points” which are...

INTRODUCTION Inflammation of the sacroiliac joints (SIJ) is a fundamental clinical feature of axial spondyloarthritis (SpA). The anatomy of the irregularly shaped SIJ is complex with an antero-inferior cartilaginous compartment containing central hyaline and peripheral fibrocartilage, and a dorso-superior ligamentous compartment. Several scoring modules to systematically assess SIJ magnetic res...

Keywords Deepfakes, media manipulation, YouTube , bilibili, digital de-aging, post-racial, face swap, visual effects

BACKGROUND To search for association between ultrasound (US) enthesis abnormalities and disease activity, spine and sacro-iliac joints (SIJ) MRI inflammatory lesions and spine structural changes in a cohort of patients suspected for axial spondyloarthritis (SpA). METHODS Patients: Of 708 patients included in the DESIR(Devenir des Spondyloarthrites Indifférenciées Récentes) cohort, 402 had an ...

BACKGROUND Functional status and spinal mobility in patients with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) are known to be determined both by disease activity and by structural damage in the spine. The impact of structural damage in the sacroiliac joints (SIJ) on physical function and spinal mobility in axSpA has not been studied so far. The objective of the study was to analyze the impact of radiograph...

Sacroiliac joint fusions (SIJF) have been the subject of many research studies. The technical success of an SIJF is in part determined by whether osseous bridging occurs across the sacroiliac joint (SIJ). However, no validated SIJF assessment method has been described. Our objective was to document previously described SIJF assessment methods and define and validate a detailed assessment system...