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Three-Dimensional Correspondence
(1998-12-01)
This paper describes the problem of three-dimensional object correspondence and presents an algorithm for matching two three-dimensional colored surfaces using polygon reduction and the minimization of an energy function. ...
Towards Intelligent Structures: Active Control of Buckling
(1994-05-01)
The buckling of compressively-loaded members is one of the most important factors limiting the overall strength and stability of a structure. I have developed novel techniques for using active control to wiggle a ...
An Analog VLSI Chip for Estimating the Focus of Expansion
(1996-08-21)
For applications involving the control of moving vehicles, the recovery of relative motion between a camera and its environment is of high utility. This thesis describes the design and testing of a real-time analog ...
Pose-Invariant Face Recognition Using Real and Virtual Views
(1996-03-28)
The problem of automatic face recognition is to visually identify a person in an input image. This task is performed by matching the input face against the faces of known people in a database of faces. Most existing ...
SketchIT: A Sketch Interpretation Tool for Conceptual Mechanical Design
(1996-03-13)
We describe a program called SketchIT capable of producing multiple families of designs from a single sketch. The program is given a rough sketch (drawn using line segments for part faces and icons for springs and ...
The Role of Fixation and Visual Attention in Object Recognition
(1995-07-21)
This research project is a study of the role of fixation and visual attention in object recognition. In this project, we build an active vision system which can recognize a target object in a cluttered scene efficiently ...
A Trainable System for Object Detection in Images and Video Sequences
(2000-05-01)
This thesis presents a general, trainable system for object detection in static images and video sequences. The core system finds a certain class of objects in static images of completely unconstrained, cluttered scenes ...
Proceedings of the Fourth PHANTOM Users Group Workshop
(1999-11-04)
This Report contains the proceedings of the Fourth Phantom Users Group Workshop contains 17 papers presented October 9-12, 1999 at MIT Endicott House in Dedham Massachusetts. The workshop included sessions on, Tools ...
Automatically Recovering Geometry and Texture from Large Sets of Calibrated Images
(1999-10-22)
Three-dimensional models which contain both geometry and texture have numerous applications such as urban planning, physical simulation, and virtual environments. A major focus of computer vision (and recently graphics) ...
Series Elastic Actuators
(1995-09-07)
This thesis presents the design, construction, control and evaluation of a novel force controlled actuator. Traditional force controlled actuators are designed from the premise that "Stiffer is better''. This approach ...