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“Religion as an Engine of Civil Policy”: A Comment on the First Amendment Limitations on the Church-State Partnership in the Social Welfare Field
Torts--Intervening Negligent and Intentional Acts as Relieving a Negligent Actor From Liability
We\u27re Only Fooling Ourselves: A Critical Analysis of the Biases Inherent in the Legal System\u27s Treatment of Rape Victims (Or Learning from Our Mistakes: Abandoning a Fundamentally Prejudiced System & Moving Toward a Rational Jurisprudence of Rape)
State of the Art(s): Protecting Publishers or Promoting Progress?
The Framers guarded against the future accumulation of monopoly power in booksellers and publishers by authorizing Congress to vest copyrights only in ‘Authors
Copyright, Congress, and Constitutionality: How the Digital Millennium Copyright Act Goes Too Far
Copyright, Congress, and Constitutionality: How the Digital Millennium Copyright Act Goes Too Far
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Machine vision techniques for inspection of dry-fibre composite preforms in the aerospace industry
This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.This thesis presents the results of a three year investigation into machine vision techniques for in-process automated inspection of dry-fibre composite preforms. Efficient texture analysis based techniques have been developed, tested, and implemented in a prototype robotic assembly cell. Industrial constraints have been considered in the development of all the algorithms described. A single channel texture analysis model is described which can successfully segment images containing only a few textures. The model is based on convolution of the image with small kernels optimised for the task, and is elegant in the sense that it is computationally simple and easily
realisable in low cost hardware. A new convolution kernel optimisation algorithm is described. It is demonstrated that convolution kernels can also be optimised to perform as edge operators in simple textured images. A novel boundary refinement algorithm is described which reduces the inspection errors inherent in texture based boundary estimates. The algorithm takes the
form of a local search, using the texture estimate as a guiding template, and
selects edge points by maximising a merit function. Optimum parameters for the merit function are obtained using multiple training images in conjunction with simple function optimisation algorithms.This study is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Dowty Aerospace Propellers Ltd
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