We present a system that detects 3D mirror-symmetric objects in images and then reconstructs their visible symmetric parts. Our detection stage is based on matching mirror symmetric feature points and descriptors and then estimating the symmetry direction using RANSAC. We enhance this step by augmenting feature descriptors with their affinedeformed versions and matching these extended sets of d...

A model for tracking articulated objects is proposed using a novel 2D revolute-prismatic joint. An extension of the RANSAC and MLESAC algorithms incorporating feature weights is used to perform robust tracking. The models are suitable for tracking certain human body structures. Limbs are modelled as constrained planar patches. A patch can rotate about a joint point that is displaced relative to...

Future extreme-scale high-performance computing systems will be required to work under frequent component failures. The MPI Forum’s User Level Failure Mitigation proposal has introduced an operation, MPI Comm shrink, to synchronize the alive processes on the list of failed processes, so that applications can continue to execute even in the presence of failures by adopting algorithm-based fault ...

RANSAC (Random Sample Consensus) is a popular and effective technique for estimating model parameters in the presence of outliers. Efficient algorithms are necessary for both frame-rate vision tasks and offline tasks with difficult data. We present a deterministic scheme for selecting samples to generate hypotheses, applied to data from feature matching. This method combines matching scores, am...

Previous work in generating explanations from advicegiving systems has demonstrated that a cooperative system can and should infer the immediate goals and plans of an utterance (or discourse segment) and formulate a response in light of these goals and plans. The claim of this paper is that a cooperative response may also have to address a user's overall goals, plans, and preferences among thos...

In this work we propose an automatic method aimed at classifying five legume species and varieties using leaf venation features. Firstly, we segment the leaf veins and measure several multiscale morphological features on the vein segments and the areoles. Next, we build a hybrid consensus of experts formed by five different automatic classifiers to perform the classification using the extracted...

The aim of this contribution is to propose and analyze some computational means to approximate solving mathematical problems appearing in some recent studies devoted to biological and chemical networks.

A person-computer ensemble system is one of time-concerned cooperative systems, which performs secondo (the second part) in an ensemble played by a computer-controlled piano cooperating with primo (the leading part) played by a person performer. In the realtime performance, to determine which key is touched, or played, by the person performer, the matching algorithm between the score and the re...

MOTIVATION We present an algorithm to identify allelic variation given a Whole Genome Shotgun (WGS) assembly of haploid sequences, and to produce a set of haploid consensus sequences rather than a single consensus sequence. Existing WGS assemblers take a column-by-column approach to consensus generation, and produce a single consensus sequence which can be inconsistent with the underlying haplo...