Psychophysical data have demonstrated that our visual system must integrate multiple, spatially local and non-local cues to construct the visual scene. In this paper we describe a probabilistic network model which integrates visual cues to infer intermediate-level visual representations. We demonstrate the network model for two example problems: inferring “direction of figure” (DOF) [15] and es...

Dof (DNA-binding One Zinc Finger) transcription factor family is unique to plants and has diverse roles associated with plant-specific phenomena, such as light, phytohormone and defense responses as well as seed development and germination. Although, genome-wide analysis of this family has been performed in many species, information regarding Dof genes in the pepper, Capsicum annuum L., is extr...

OBJECTIVE Myoelectric activity volitionally generated by the user is often used for controlling hand prostheses in order to replicate the synergistic actions of muscles in healthy humans during grasping. Muscle synergies in healthy humans are based on the integration of visual perception, heuristics and proprioception. Here, we demonstrate how sensor fusion that combines artificial vision and p...

Spectrum sharing is known as a key solution to accommodate the increasing number of users and the growing demand for throughput in wireless networks. Interference is the primary barrier to enhancing the overall throughput of the network, especially in the medium and high signal to noise ratios (SNRs). Managing interference to overcome this barrier has emerged as a crucial step in developing eff...

Objectives were to determine the effects of chromium propionate supplementation on growth performance, insulin and glucose metabolism, and carcass characteristics of beef cattle. Steers ( = 34) were stratified by BW and assigned to 1 of 2 treatments: 1) no supplemental Cr (Cont) or 2) 3 mg supplemental Cr·steer·d (CrP). Both supplements, Cont and CrP, were delivered via 0.454 kg ground corn top...

We demonstrate how two Novint Falcons, inexpensive commercially available haptic devices, can be modified to a create a reconfigurable five-degreeof-freedom (5-DOF) haptic device for less than $500 (including the two Falcons). The device is intended as an educational tool to allow a broader range of students to experience force and torque feedback, rather than the 3-DOF force feedback typical o...

We provide the characterization of the degrees of freedom (DOF) region for a 2-user fading MIMO broadcast channel when perfect channel knowledge is available to the receivers and no channel knowledge is available to the transmitters. The results are applied to find the DOF region for some special cases of a 2-user MIMO interference channel. We also extend the outerbound of the DOF region to fin...

In this paper, we present how moment invariants can be used to design a decoupled 2D visual servoing scheme and to minimize the nonlinearity of the interaction matrix related to the selected visual features. Experimental results using a 6 dof eye-in-hand system to position a camera parallel to planar objects of complex shape are presented to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed method.

Solution of inverse kinematic equations is complex problem, the complexity comes from the nonlinearity of joint space and Cartesian space mapping and having multiple solution. In this work, four adaptive neurofuzzy networks ANFIS are implemented to solve the inverse kinematics of 4-DOF SCARA manipulator. The implementation of ANFIS is easy, and the simulation of it shows that it is very fast an...

In this paper, we determine the analytical form of the interaction matrix related to any moments that can be computed from binary or segmented images. We then apply this theoretical result to image-based visual servoing by selecting six combinations of moments able to control the six dof of the system. The experimental results we present show that a correct behavior of the system is obtained if...