In this paper we show (a) how the shape of a 2D-landmark configuration can be encoded based on qualitative 1Dordering information, (b) how relevant geometric shape properties of a landmark configuration (strictly based on ordering information) can be detected by a sequence of view-based snapshots. Furthermore we show how shape of landmark configurations supports view-based localization tasks sp...

Kinematic motion planning often requires a notion of “distance” between configurations. Euclidean distances on a parameter space are easy to compute, but can drastically distort the effort required to change configuration. Here, we present a framework for characterizing this distortion, based on principles adopted from the cartographic community, and a method for transforming configuration coor...

For any classical field configuration or mechanical system with a finite number of degrees of freedom we introduce the concept of topological spectrum. It is based upon the assumption that for any classical configuration there exists a principle fiber bundle that contains all the physical and geometric information of the configuration. The topological spectrum follows from the investigation of ...

We study the geometric properties of the energy landscape of coarse-grained, off-lattice models of polymers by endowing the configuration space with a suitable metric, depending on the potential energy function, such that the dynamical trajectories are the geodesics of the metric. Using numerical simulations, we show that the fluctuations of the curvature clearly mark the folding transition, an...

in this paper, construction of triplet atmospheric plasma jet using argon, air, oxygen and nitrogen gases is reported. bactericidal effect of the plasma jet is also investigated. to that end, longitudinal geometric configuration for the electrodes was chosen because it would increase the jet length. electrical characteristics, jet length dependencies on the applied voltage and gas flow rate wer...

we design a two-stage scheme to consider trajectory planning problem of two mobile manipulators for cooperative transportation of a rigid body in presence of static obstacles. within the first stage, regarding the static obstacles we develop a method that searches the workspace for the shortest possible path between start and goal configurations by constructing a graph on a portion of the confi...

The main goal of this paper is to illustrate a geometric analysis of 3D facial shapes in presence of varying facial expressions. This approach consists of the following two main steps: (i) Each facial surface is automatically denoised and preprocessed to result in an indexed collection of facial curves. During this step one detects the tip of the nose and defines a surface distance function wit...

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is difficult in environments such as multiparty meetings because of adverse acoustic conditions: background noise, reverberation and cross-talk. Microphone arrays can increase ASR accuracy dramatically in such situations. However, most existing beamforming techniques use time-domain signal processing theory and are based on a geometric analysis of the relation...

This paper proposes a new Computational Auditory Scene Analysis (CASA) approach based on a 2D spectro-temporal analysis and harmonic separation. The 2D processing, socalled Grating Compression Transform (GCT), analyzes the spectro-temporal content of the spectrogram, mimicking the processing of the primary auditory cortex. The estimated pitches from the GCT analysis are used for separation usin...