I have finished implementation of some traditional texture synthesis algorithms: pixel-based [EL99] and patch-based [EF01]. The first one, as well known is quite slow. I tested some perspective texture samples with these algorithms, as shown in Fig 1 and Fig 2. It is obvious that the textures of different scales are mixed together. This is just a shortcoming of traditional algorithms. I have ne...

Our aim is to develop a comprehensive set of principles for task-specific information extraction and information exploitation that can be used to design the next generation of autonomous and adaptive sensing systems. The significance of this research is that it addresses the widespread and longstanding problem of defining, assessing, and exploiting the value of information in active sensing sys...

the information in the two components is duplicated In fact, he can omit the generative component entirely and put everything in the cognitive component, though at some cost in resource consumption At run time, no f i rm commitment is made by the cognitive component to a particular choice of surface structure of an ambiguous sentence, allowing the generative component to pick and choose when th...

The purpose of this progress report is to describe the aims of the thesis project and to outline the project plan. The report will discuss the originality of the project through a review of current research. The literature review will present current technologies in the research area and the relevance to the thesis project will be assessed. Current commercial products will also be discussed. Fi...

This progress report is about equation-based modelling languages. In particular, the report discusses work [4] on formalising semantic aspects of Functional Hybrid Modelling (FHM) [12] – a hybrid, structurally dynamic, non-causal modelling language – in the dependently-typed programming language Agda [13]. Section 2 gives a preliminary outline of equation-based languages and FHM. Section 3 give...

This research proposal is being submitted to the Department of Energy for continuation of grant no. DOE DE-FG03-96ER40965. Support is requested for myself and one graduate student for the purpose of carrying out fundamental research in theoretical nuclear physics. The main areas where I have achieved signiicant progress during the last year are: 1 Light-Front quantization and the transverse lat...

We consider a model introduced by Craciun, Pantea and Rempala [2] for identifying biochemical reaction networks. A motivation for the model can be found in [2]; we will focus only on its properties. Suppose we are given x1, . . . , xm ∈ R in convex position such that there is some hypersurface containing all of the xi. Then every subset σ ⊂ [d], |σ| = d defines a polyhedral cone Cσ ⊂ R. We will...

The MiniGRAIL detector was improved. The sphere was replaced by a slightly larger one, having a diameter of 68 cm (instead of 65 cm), reducing the resonant frequency by about 200 Hz to around 2.9 kHz. The last four masses of the attenuation system were machined to increase their resonant frequency and improve the attenuation around the resonant frequency of the sphere. In the new sphere, six ho...