We discuss two new observational techniques that use observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) to place constraints upon the mass, distance, and size distribution of small objects in the Kuiper Belt and inner Oort Cloud, collectively known as Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs). The first new technique considers the spectral distortion of the isotropic, or monopole, CMB by TNOs that have...

We discuss two new observational techniques that use observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) to place constraints on the mass, distance, and size distribution of small objects in the Kuiper Belt and inner Oort Cloud, collectively known as trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs). The first new technique considers the spectral distortion of the isotropic, ormonopole, CMBbyTNOs that have been...

Despite of the ongoing interest in the fusion of multi-band images for surveillance applications and a steady stream of publications in this area, there is only a very small number of static registered multi-band test images (and a total lack of dynamic image sequences) publicly available for the development and evaluation of image fusion algorithms. To fill this gap, the TNO Multiband Image Co...

Briefly, what approach or combination of approaches did you test in each of your submitted runs? • all runs: video decoding using ffmpeg library, sampling every 25th frame. • F_X_NO_TNO_1: standard SURF keypoint detection, bag-of-words using 4096 prototypes from videos, indexing and querying using Lemur. • F_X_NO_TNO_2: standard SURF keypoint detection, bag-of-words using 256 prototypes from qu...

1 The Applied Cognition & Cognitive Engineering Research Group, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK, 2 Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Ocala, FL, USA, 3 Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), Porton Down, UK, 4 TNO Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research, Soesterberg, Netherlands, 5 Trimetis Ltd., Bristol, UK, 6 College of Human Medicine, ...

-Kick-off presentation summaryCore team Merijn Bruijnes (University of Twente) Aduén Darriba Frederiks (Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences) Gijs Huisman (University of Twente) Merel Jung (University of Twente) Part-time members Jan Kolkmeier (University of Twente) Yves Rybarczyk (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) Advisors Jan van Erp (TNO) Ronald Poppe (University of Twente) Dennis Reidsma (Un...

*The DuPont Co., Haskell Laboratory, Newark, Delaware; †ILSI Health and Environmental Sciences Institute, Washington, DC; ‡Monsanto Co., Product Safety Center, St. Louis, Missouri; §Syngenta Central Toxicology Laboratory, Cheshire, United Kingdom; ¶TNO Nutrition and Food Research, Zeist, The Netherlands; ||University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Arkansas Children’s Hospital Research Instit...

In this paper we describe the TNO approach to large-scale polarity classification of the Blog TREC 2008 dataset. Our participation consists of the submission of the 5 baseline runs provided by NIST, for which we applied a multinomial kernel machine operating on character n-gram representations.1

Spores of thermophilic spore-forming bacteria are a common cause of contamination in dairy products. We isolated the thermophilic strain Anoxybacillus flavithermus TNO-09.006 from a milk-processing plant, and we report the complete genome of this isolate consisting of a single chromosome of 2.65 Mb.