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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 ...
Internet Fish
(1996-08-01)
I have invented "Internet Fish," a novel class of resource-discovery tools designed to help users extract useful information from the Internet. Internet Fish (IFish) are semi-autonomous, persistent information brokers; ...
Learning and Example Selection for Object and Pattern Detection
(1996-03-13)
This thesis presents a learning based approach for detecting classes of objects and patterns with variable image appearance but highly predictable image boundaries. It consists of two parts. In part one, we introduce our ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Proceedings of the First PHANToM User's Group Workshop
(1996-12-01)
These proceedings summarize the results of the First PHANToM User's Group Workshop held September 27-30, 1996 MIT. The goal of the workshop was to bring together a group of active users of the PHANToM Haptic Interface ...
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 ...
The Unsupervised Acquisition of a Lexicon from Continuous Speech
(1996-01-18)
We present an unsupervised learning algorithm that acquires a natural-language lexicon from raw speech. The algorithm is based on the optimal encoding of symbol sequences in an MDL framework, and uses a hierarchical ...