Recently, there has been much interest in enhancing purely combinatorial formalisms with numerical information. For example, planning formalisms can be enriched by taking resource constraints and probabilistic information into account. The Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) paradigm from Operations Research provides a natural tool for solving optimization problems that combine such numeric and non...

Fractal growth patterns can be observed during the formation of the liquid crystalline B2 phase of a bent-core molecule from the isotropic melt. The time development of the box dimension Db, the information dimension Di and the mass dimension Dm was determined during the phase ordering process, as the cell gap, quench depth and quench rate was varied. The fractal dimensions obtained for various...

evaluation of changes present in soil and water resources due to operation implement of floodwater spreading is necessary to assess their positive or negative resultant effect. rate of the internal sediment to diversion spreader channels, surface sedimentation and aggregation of the spreading field depth are most important effective attributes on the yield of floodwater spreading systems. these...

Data depth is a statistical analysis method that assigns a numeric value to a point based on its centrality relative to a data set. Examples include the half-space depth (also known as Tukey depth), convex-hull peeling depth and L1 depth. Data depth has significant potential as a data analysis tool. The lack of efficient computational tools for depth based analysis of large high-dimensional dat...

In this work, we propose a novel approach to prioritize the depth map computation of multi-view stereo (MVS) to obtain compact 3D point clouds of high quality and completeness at low computational cost. Our prioritization approach operates before the MVS algorithm is executed and consists of two steps. In the first step, we aim to find a good set of matching partners for each view. In the secon...

Following another person’s gaze in order to achieve joint attention is an important skill in human social interactions. This paper analyzes the gaze following problem and proposes a learning-based computational model for the emergence of gaze following skills in infants. The model acquires advanced gaze following skills by learning associations between caregiver head poses and positions in spac...

A lot of work has been done extracting depth from image sequences, and relatively less has been done using only single images. Very little has been done merging these together. This paper describes the fusing of depth estimation from two images, with monocular cues. The paper will provide an overview of the stereo algorithm, and the details of fusing the stereo range data with monocular image f...

The provision of stereo images to facilitate depth perception by stereopsis is one key aspect of many Virtual Reality installations and there are many technical approaches to do so. However, differences in visual capabilities of the user and technical limitations of a specific set-up might restrict the spatial range in which stereopsis can be facilitated. In this paper, we transfer an existent ...