We describe the design and implementation of a videobased augmented reality system capable of overlaying threedimensional graphical objects on live video of dynamic environments. The key feature of the system is that it is completely uncalibrated: it does not use any metric information about the calibration parameters of the camera or the 3D locations and dimensions of the environment’s objects...

We present a generic detection/localization algorithm capable of searching for a visual object of interest without training. The proposed method operates using a single example of an object of interest to find similar matches; does not require prior knowledge (learning) about objects being sought; and does not require any pre-processing step or segmentation of a target image. Our method is base...

We address the problem of representing and recognizing 3D free-form objects when 1) the object viewpoint is arbitrary, 2) the objects may vary in shape and complexity, and 3) no restrictive assumptions are made about the types of surfaces on the object. We assume that a range image of a scene is available, containing a view of a rigid 3D object without occlusion. We propose a new and general su...

We review models for the nucleation of magnetisation reversal, i.e. the formation of a region of reversed magnetisation in an initially magnetically saturated system. For small particles models for collective reversal, either uniform (Stoner-Wohlfarth model) or non-uniform like curling give good agreement between theory and experiment. For microscopic objects and thin films, we consider two mod...

HyperContext is a new model for adaptive hypertext. HyperContext achieves adaptation of the information and hyperlinks through explicit context. Objects of information in the hypertext obtain their context from their parent objects and in-links. When objects of information are accessed, they are interpreted according to the appropriate context of the parent object and link pair, prior to being ...

Object manipulation techniques in robotics can be categorized in two major groups including manipulation with and without grasp. The aim of this paper is to develop an object manipulation method where in addition to being grasp-less, the manipulation task is done in a passive approach. In this method, linear and angular positions of the object are changed and its manipulation path is controlled...

This paper is concerned with two related types of directed polymers in a random medium. The first one is a d-dimensional Brownian motion living in a random environment which is Brownian in time and homogeneous in space. The second is a continuous-time random walk on Zd, in a random environment with similar properties as in continuous space, albeit defined only on R+ ×Zd. The case of a space-tim...

The generating function method for counting species of combinatorial objects is applied to the construction of the objects in order. The species considered are those described using context-free grammars with additional group-invariant operators. Some species constructible with this method are integer partitions, rooted trees of specified or unbounded degree including binary and ordered trees, ...

In this paper, a novel planning method is proposed to solve initial velocities of the free sliding object for given initial and final configurations. Finding the desired initial velocities for free sliding objects is a key step for implementing impulse manipulation and multi-agent dynamic cooperative manipulation. The motion of free sliding objects on a plane is governed by friction forces and ...