Two commonly used approaches for building a virtual reality (VR) world are the model-based approach and the image-based approach. Recently, the image-based approach has received much attention for its advantages of being easier to build a VR model and of being able to provide photo-realistic views. However, traditional image-based VR systems can not produce the stereo views that can give the us...

Stal and Hollier [5] described the nasal support structure as a tripod with lateral displacement in the unilateral cleft lip and loss of tip definition. The cleft side tip defining point is inferiorly displaced with a wide intra alar distance. Early repair with an intra dermal suspension suture with limited alar dissection is advised through an infra cartilagenous incision. The repair has the a...

We propose a cavity-QED scheme that can deterministically generate EinsteinPodosky-Rosen polarization-entangled photon pairs. A four-level tripod atom successively couples to two high-Q optical cavities possessing polarization degeneracy, assisted by a classical π-polarized pump field. The stimulated Raman adiabatic passage process in the atom-cavity system is used to produce the polarization-e...

S. Rebić,* D. Vitali, C. Ottaviani, P. Tombesi, M. Artoni, F. Cataliotti, and R. Corbalán INFM and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Camerino, I-62032 Camerino, Italy INFM and Dipartimento di Chimica e Fisica dei Materiali, Università di Brescia, I-25133 Brescia, Italy European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy, via N. Carrara, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy INFM and Dipartimento di F...

TRIPOD is free and open source software for rapidly developing computer vision applications. With such software, robot vision systems can be developed, tested and validated. This paper presents a step-by-step tutorial where live video is thresheld to display the corresponding binary image. This simple exercise serves to illustrate the realization of a robot vision system. A LEGO Mindstorms Visi...

In this study, the local scour around tripods in random waves is numerically investigated. The seabed-tripod-fluid numerical model with an RNG k−ε turbulence built and validated. Following that, characteristics flow velocity distribution are analyzed using present model. Finally, a revised stochastic proposed to predict equilibrium depth, Seq, waves. results indicate that capable of depicting p...

To investigate the organization of multi-fingered grasping, we asked subjects to grasp an object using three digits: the thumb, the index finger, and the middle or ring finger. The object had three coarse flat contact surfaces, whose locations and orientations were varied systematically. Subjects were asked to grasp and lift the object and then to hold it statically. We analyzed the grasp force...