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Design and Control of an Anthropomorphic Robotic Finger with Multi-point Tactile Sensation
(2001-05-01)
The goal of this research is to develop the prototype of a tactile sensing platform for anthropomorphic manipulation research. We investigate this problem through the fabrication and simple control of a planar 2-DOF robotic ...
Improving Multi-class Text Classification with Naive Bayes
(2001-09-01)
There are numerous text documents available in electronic form. More and more are becoming available every day. Such documents represent a massive amount of information that is easily accessible. Seeking value in this huge ...
Predicate Dispatching in the Common Lisp Object System
(2001-05-01)
I have added support for predicate dispatching, a powerful generalization of other dispatching mechanisms, to the Common Lisp Object System (CLOS). To demonstrate its utility, I used predicate dispatching to enhance Weyl, ...
Rotation Invariant Real-time Face Detection and Recognition System
(2001-05-31)
In this report, a face recognition system that is capable of detecting and recognizing frontal and rotated faces was developed. Two face recognition methods focusing on the aspect of pose invariance are presented and ...
Generalization over contrast and mirror reversal, but not figure-ground reversal, in an "edge-based
(2001-12-10)
Baylis & Driver (Nature Neuroscience, 2001) have recently presented data on the response of neurons in macaque inferotemporal cortex (IT) to various stimulus transformations. They report that neurons can generalize over ...
Global Depth Perception from Familiar Scene Structure
(2001-12-01)
In the absence of cues for absolute depth measurements as binocular disparity, motion, or defocus, the absolute distance between the observer and a scene cannot be measured. The interpretation of shading, edges and junctions ...
Role of color in face recognition
(2001-12-13)
One of the key challenges in face perception lies in determining the contribution of different cues to face identification. In this study, we focus on the role of color cues. Although color appears to be a salient attribute ...
Importance Sampling for Reinforcement Learning with Multiple Objectives
(2001-08-01)
This thesis considers three complications that arise from applying reinforcement learning to a real-world application. In the process of using reinforcement learning to build an adaptive electronic market-maker, we find ...
An Algorithm for Bootstrapping Communications
(2001-08-13)
I present an algorithm which allows two agents to generate a simple language based only on observations of a shared environment. Vocabulary and roles for the language are learned in linear time. Communication is robust and ...
Programmable Self-Assembly: Constructing Global Shape using Biologically-inspire
(2001-06-01)
In this thesis I present a language for instructing a sheet of identically-programmed, flexible, autonomous agents (``cells'') to assemble themselves into a predetermined global shape, using local interactions. The ...