SHAH, KUNAL DEEPAK. Image Processing for Cognitive Models in Dynamic Gaming Environments. (Under the direction of Dr. Robert St. Amant). Cognitive models have typically dealt with environments that are either artificial or real but too simplistic. This stems from the fact that the process of describing the environment to the cognitive model is a complex vision problem. In order to realize the f...

1 0-7803-5846-5/00/$10.00 © 2000 IEEE 2 Updated August 31, 1999 Abstract—The Beowulf parallel-processing architecture is a public-domain software technology developed by NASA to link commercial off the shelf (COTS) processors yielding super-computer performance (10 Gflops) very economically (under $150K). It has been used for applications as diverse as scalable hierarchical particle algorithms ...

In recent years formal semantic theories based on the principle of compositionality have been criticized of not being able to explain how meaning is computed in the brain (Baggio and Hagoort 2011). For example, although neither John squeezed an orange nor John squeezed an apple contain a semantic anomaly, they are processed differently in the brain, because orange is more expected as the direct...

The human face is capable of a wide variety of facial expressions that manifest themselves as usually highly non-rigid deformations of the face. On the one hand, this presents the visual system with a problem: Recognizing someone requires determining what information in the face remains constant despite the various facial deformations. Extraction of such invariant features will allow me, for ex...

Harmonic fields have been shown to provide effective guidance for a number of geometry processing problems. In this paper, we propose a method for fast updating of harmonic fields defined on polygonal meshes, enabling real-time insertion and deletion of constraints. Our approach utilizes the penalty method to enforce constraints in harmonic field computation. It maintains the symmetry of the La...

This paper discusses a dynamic method of edge detection which works from a sequence of frames. Most edge detection algorithms process image information statically, regardless of whether the application is static i.e. whether the input is a singular, unique image or a dynamic sequence of frames used for tracking or optic flow extraction. As many applications are dynamic, such as robotics, autono...

A new approach to the measurement of three-dimensional movement of particles is introduced. A single TV camera with an apparatus to rotate the image enables us to record the three-dimensional movement of particles as spiral streaks on a single image. Every shape of the spiral streak on the image plane is related to the position and the velocity of the individual particle. The information about ...

Human speech has a dual nature: the goal of speech is to convey discrete linguistic symbols corresponding to the intended message while the actual speech signal is produced by the continuous and smooth movement of the articulators with rich temporal structures. Such a dual nature has been amazingly utilized by humans in a beneficial way but has presented a big challenge for both speech science ...

The process of gustatory coding consists of neural responses that provide information about the quantity and quality of food, its generalized sensation, its hedonic value, and whether it should be swallowed. Many of the models presently used to analyze gustatory signals are static in that they use the average neural firing rate as a measure of activity and are unimodal in the sense they are tho...

We propose a new inference system which operates on underspecified semantic representations of scope and anaphora. This system exploits anaphoric accessibility conditions from dynamic semantics to disambiguate scope ambiguities if possible. The main feature of the system is that it deals with underspecified descriptions directly, i.e. without enumerating readings.