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Showing 1 to 20 of 599 for “"contours"”.
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Perceptual similarity of closed contours
… the perceptual similarities of closed contours, utilizing a Fourier analysis on the cumulative angular bend of the curve. The model is tested in four experiments, using both ratings of similarity and accuracy of discrimination. The results indicate that in cases where the underlying …
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Robotic navigation of smooth contours
… a method for robotic navigation of smooth contours depending on the current and desired locations and orientations. Efficient trajectory generation is an essential capability for many autonomous mobile robots, operating in a variety of situations such as military, medical, and home …
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Factors influencing equal-loudness level contours
Equal-loudness level contours (ELLCs) are subject of repeated attempts to standardize the results of thorough measurements of several laboratories world-wide. However, numerous findings indicate considerable deviations from the 'old' contours in ISO 226. In addition there are considerable …
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Modeling Surfaces from Volume Data Using Nonparallel Contours
… or physician marks a series of parallel contours that outline the structures of interest. Recent advances in surface reconstruction algorithms have led to methods for reconstructing surfaces from nonparallel contours that could greatly reduce the manual component of this process. Despite …
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Understanding the Contours of Non-International Armed Conflict
The focus of this study is on the concept and contours of NIAC under IHL. Its purpose is to provide further clarity to the process of identifying NIACs under international law. At its most basic, conflict identification is the real-time objective assessment of prevailing factual circumstances in …
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Cortical representations of a class of subjective contours
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, 1996.
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The Contours of Secularism in South Asian Minority Writing
<p>My dissertation explores the intricate relationship between secularism and identity in South Asian minority writing. Though India and Sri Lanka were founded as secular states in the 1940s, they have consistently failed to protect the rights of religious and ethnic minorities since the 1980s. …
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Post-Industrialism and the Changing Contours of Public Policy
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-13T19:06:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 8009146.pdf: 8548205 bytes, checksum: 601a6d0bce96fe8b1d509ee8df9e0c37 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1979
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Image bandwidth compression by detection and coding of contours.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering. Thesis. 1970. Ph.D.
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Perceiving Shape from Surface Contours via Artificial Neural Networks
… shape and curvature information; and such contours drawn on a 2D surface can give the illusion of curvature where there is none. Machines have no such visual intuition, and therefore are not particularly well-equipped to interpret things designed to leverage this human ability. We approach …
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Locating Sex: the Rhetorical Contours of Transgender Anti-Discrimination Law
Legislation and litigation aimed at ending discrimination against transgender people has been both critiqued as eliding the structural roots of discrimination and celebrated as an important visibility project that helps to highlight the struggles trans people face. Approaching law as an ongoing …
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Contour Extraction of Drosophila Embryos Using Active Contours in Scale Space
… model is applied on the images to refine embryo contours. Data cleaning methods are applied to smooth the jaggy contours caused by blurred embryo boundaries. The scale space theory is applied to improve the performance of the result. The active contour adjusts better to the object for finer …
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A Contemporary Analysis of Shifting Contours of Jewish and Christian Identities
<p>This dissertation argues that the boundaries between ostensibly separable “Jewish” and “Christian” religious traditions were fluid in the past and remain so today through examination of four contemporary case studies evidencing two general phenomena. One phenomenon explored is how varieties of …
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Isohedonic Contours in the Sucrose - Sodium-Chloride Area of Gustatory Stimulation
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-03T23:51:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6100104.pdf: 1255739 bytes, checksum: 62fe9fe23398bf0013ceecf4a330ecf2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1960
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The Perception of Ordinal Depth Relationship from Static and Deforming Boundary Contours
… perception of 3-D shape from deforming boundary contours have focused on judgments of global shape (Cortese & Anderson, 1991), judgments of rigid vs. nonrigid motion (Norman & Todd, 1994), and object recognition (Norman, Dawson, & Raines, 2000). Raines and Norman (1999) provided the first study …
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High-level perceptual contours from a variety of low-level physical features
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1995.
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A model for conversting SI engine flame arrival signals into flame contours
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1995.
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Multi-Parameter Algorithms For Smoothing Data As Applied to Curves, Contours, and Images
… appearance of data sets represented by curves, contours, and surfaces. The algorithms discussed here result in a smooth curve without losing as much information as observed with some traditional algorithms. </p>
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