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A Visibility and Spatial Constraint-Based Approach for Geopositioning
Over the past decade, automated systems dedicated to geopositioning have been the object of considerable development. Despite the success of these systems for many applications, they cannot be directly applied to qualitative descriptions of space. The research presented in this paper introduces a visibility and constraintbased approach whose objective is to locate an observer from the verbal description of his/her surroundings. The geopositioning process is formally supported by a constraint-satisfaction algorithm. Preliminary experiments are applied to the description of environmental scenes
A Visibility and Spatial Constraint-Based Approach for Geopositioning
Over the past decade, automated systems dedicated to geopositioning have been the object of considerable development. Despite the success of these systems for many applications, they cannot be directly applied to qualitative descriptions of space. The research presented in this paper introduces a visibility and constraintbased approach whose objective is to locate an observer from the verbal description of his/her surroundings. The geopositioning process is formally supported by a constraint-satisfaction algorithm. Preliminary experiments are applied to the description of environmental scenes
A Causal And-Or Graph Model for Visibility Fluent Reasoning in Tracking Interacting Objects
Tracking humans that are interacting with the other subjects or environment
remains unsolved in visual tracking, because the visibility of the human of
interests in videos is unknown and might vary over time. In particular, it is
still difficult for state-of-the-art human trackers to recover complete human
trajectories in crowded scenes with frequent human interactions. In this work,
we consider the visibility status of a subject as a fluent variable, whose
change is mostly attributed to the subject's interaction with the surrounding,
e.g., crossing behind another object, entering a building, or getting into a
vehicle, etc. We introduce a Causal And-Or Graph (C-AOG) to represent the
causal-effect relations between an object's visibility fluent and its
activities, and develop a probabilistic graph model to jointly reason the
visibility fluent change (e.g., from visible to invisible) and track humans in
videos. We formulate this joint task as an iterative search of a feasible
causal graph structure that enables fast search algorithm, e.g., dynamic
programming method. We apply the proposed method on challenging video sequences
to evaluate its capabilities of estimating visibility fluent changes of
subjects and tracking subjects of interests over time. Results with comparisons
demonstrate that our method outperforms the alternative trackers and can
recover complete trajectories of humans in complicated scenarios with frequent
human interactions.Comment: accepted by CVPR 201
Participatory, Visible and Sustainable. Designing a Community Website for a Minority Group
This paper tackles three aspects of community-based technological initiatives aimed to support minority groupsâ public expression and communication: participation, visibility and sustainability. Participation requires\ud
the active involvement of the community members in various project phases (from design to evaluation), sharing decisional power with project leaders. Visibility\ud
refers to the capacity of community messages to reach a relevant audience outside the boundaries of the community itself. Sustainability indicates the capacity of a project to continue, under the control and management of the local community, beyond its âsupportedâ lifetime. The mutual influence of these three dimensions is examined in general and also in the light of a specific case study: an initiative involving a Romani community in rural Romania, having as main outcome the development of a community website (www.romanivoices.com/podoleni)
Solution of a model for the two-channel electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer
We develop the theory of electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometers built from
quantum Hall edge states at Landau level filling factor \nu = 2, which have
been investigated in a series of recent experiments and theoretical studies. We
show that a detailed treatment of dephasing and non-equlibrium transport is
made possible by using bosonization combined with refermionization to study a
model in which interactions between electrons are short-range. In particular,
this approach allows a non-perturbative treatment of electron tunneling at the
quantum point contacts that act as beam-splitters. We find an exact analytic
expression at arbitrary tunneling strength for the differential conductance of
an interferometer with arms of equal length, and obtain numerically exact
results for an interferometer with unequal arms. We compare these results with
previous perturbative and approximate ones, and with observations.Comment: 13 pages, 9 figures, final version as publishe
Entanglement and statistics in Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometry
Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometry allows one to detect the presence of
entanglement in two-photon input states. The same result holds for
two-particles input states which obey to Fermionic statistics. In the latter
case however anti-bouncing introduces qualitative differences in the
interferometer response. This effect is analyzed in a Gedankenexperiment where
the particles entering the interferometer are assumed to belong to a
one-parameter family of quons which continuously interpolate between the
Bosonic and Fermionic statistics.Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures; minor editorial changes and new references adde
Complementarity and the nature of uncertainty relations in Einstein-Bohr recoiling slit experiment
A model of the Einstein-Bohr double-slit experiment is formulated in a fully
quantum theoretical setting. In this model, the state and dynamics of a movable
wall that has the double slits in it, as well as the state of a particle
incoming to the double slits, are described by quantum mechanics. Using this
model, we analyzed complementarity between exhibiting the interference pattern
and distinguishing the particle path. Comparing the Kennard-Robertson type and
the Ozawa-type uncertainty relations, we conclude that the uncertainty relation
involved in the double-slit experiment is not the Ozawa-type uncertainty
relation but the Kennard-type uncertainty relation of the position and the
momentum of the double-slit wall. A possible experiment to test the
complementarity relation is suggested. It is also argued that various phenomena
which occur at the interface of a quantum system and a classical system,
including distinguishability, interference, decoherence, quantum eraser, and
weak value, can be understood as aspects of entanglement.Comment: 13 pages, 2 figures. The title is changed. Some references are adde
A Project Portfolio Management model adapted to non-profit organizations
As they strive towards greater professionalism in carrying out their activities, non-profit organizations (NPOs) have begun paying attention to project management. The non-profit sector (NPS) has also begun to adopt strategic planning techniques, thus making the acceptance of project portfolio management (PPM) methodology a natural consequence. This article aims to propose a project portfolio management model adapted to the context of NPOs
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