In this paper, we compare the results of five 3D interest point detection techniques to the interest points marked by human subjects. This comparison is used to quantitatively evaluate the interest point detection algorithms. We asked human subjects to look at a number of 3D models, and mark interest points on the models via a web-based interface. We propose a voting-based method to construct g...

In 2012, three new optical flow reference datasets have been published, two of them containing ground truth [1,2,3]. None of them contains ground truth for real-world, large-scale outdoor scenes with dynamically and independently moving objects. The reason is that no measurement devices exists to record such data with sufficiently high accuracy. Yet, ground truth is needed to assess the safety ...

Michael Dummett’s realism debate is a semantic dispute about the kind of truth conditions had by a given class of sentences. According to his semantic realist, the truth conditions are potentially verification-transcendent in that they may obtain (or not) despite the fact that we may be forever unable to recognize whether they obtain. According to Dummett’s semantic anti-realist, the truth cond...

the kernel of religion and religiousness« is a philosophical and theological issue that emerged in the west during renaissance. two theories of “religious experience” and “philosophia perennis” are very important in this realm. the kernel of religion, on the basis of the former, is an experience that causes the owner of it to be considered as a religious man, and the husk of religion consist of...

During the period from 2001 to 2010 police officials in India were lured by a team of pseudo-scientists, from the Forensic Laboratories in Bangalore and Ahmadabad to make use of narcoanalysis, polygraph test and brain fingerprinting to extract confessions from accused persons. All the three tests, preceded by a pre-test interview and interrogation, were conducted by the one and the same expert ...

The article is primarily concerned with the notion of a truth-maker. An explication for this notion is offered, which relates it to other notions of making something such-andsuch. In particular, it is shown that the notion of a truth-maker is a close relative of a concept employed by van Inwagen in the formulation of his Consequence Argument. This circumstance helps understanding the general me...