All Outputs (201)

Feasibility study of an image slicer for future space application (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Calcines, A., & Ichimoto, K. (2014). Feasibility study of an image slicer for future space application. In J. M. Oschmann Jr., M. Clampin, G. G. Fazio, & H. A. MacEwen (Eds.), Proceedings Volume 9143, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2014: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2053580

This communication presents the feasibility study of an image slicer for future space missions, especially for the integral field unit (IFU) of the SUVIT (Solar UV-Visible-IR telescope) spectro-polarimeter on board the Japanese-led solar space missio... Read More about Feasibility study of an image slicer for future space application.

Fiber optical cable and connector system (FOCCoS) for PFS/ Subaru (2014)
Conference Proceeding
de Oliveira, A., de Oliveira, L., de Arruda, M., Souza Marrara, L., dos Santos, L., Ferreira, D., …Reiley, D. (2014). Fiber optical cable and connector system (FOCCoS) for PFS/ Subaru. . https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2056888

Studying focal ratio degradation of optical fibers for Subaru's Prime Focus Spectrograph. (2014)
Conference Proceeding
dos Santos, J., de Oliveira, A., Gunn, J., de Oliveira, L., Vital de Arruda, M., Castilho, B., …de Oliveira, C. (2014). Studying focal ratio degradation of optical fibers for Subaru's Prime Focus Spectrograph. In R. Navarro, C. R. Cunningham, & A. A. Barto (Eds.), Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2056460

Focal Ration Degradation (FRD) is a change in light’s angular distribution caused by fiber optics. FRD is important to fiber-fed, spectroscopic astronomical systems because it can cause loss of signal, degradation in spectral resolution, or increased... Read More about Studying focal ratio degradation of optical fibers for Subaru's Prime Focus Spectrograph..

Science case and requirements for the MOSAIC concept for a multi-object spectrograph for the European Extremely Large Telescope (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Evans, C., Puech, M., Barbuy, B., Bonifacio, P., Cuby, J., Guenther, E., …Ziegler, B. (2014). Science case and requirements for the MOSAIC concept for a multi-object spectrograph for the European Extremely Large Telescope. . https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055857

Context-aware material selective rendering for mobile graphics (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Koulieris, G. A., Drettakis, G., Cunningham, D., Sidorakis, N., & Mania, K. (2014). Context-aware material selective rendering for mobile graphics. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2014 Posters (SIGGRAPH '14). https://doi.org/10.1145/2614217.2614246

Attention-aware rendering, mobile graphics and games (2014)
Conference Proceeding
McNamara, A., Mania, K., Koulieris, G. A., & Itti, L. (2014). Attention-aware rendering, mobile graphics and games. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2014 Courses (SIGGRAPH '14). https://doi.org/10.1145/2614028.2615416

High level saliency prediction for smart game balancing (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Koulieris, G. A., Drettakis, G., Cunningham, D., & Mania, K. (2014). High level saliency prediction for smart game balancing. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2014 Talks (SIGGRAPH '14). https://doi.org/10.1145/2614106.2614157

Fibre system of DESI (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Allington-Smith, J., Poppett, C., Bramall, D., Edelstein, J., Lafever, R., Schmoll, J., …Talbot, G. (2014). Fibre system of DESI. . https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2057474

Multinomial logistic regression on Markov chains for crop rotation modelling (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Paton, L., Troffaes, M. C., Boatman, N., Hussein, M., & Hart, A. (2014). Multinomial logistic regression on Markov chains for crop rotation modelling. In Information processing and management of uncertainty in knowledge-based systems : 15th International Conference, IPMU 2014, Montpellier, France, July 15-19, 2014 ; proceedings, part III (476-485). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08852-5_49

Often, in dynamical systems such as farmer’s crop choices, the dynamics are driven by external non-stationary factors, such as rainfall, temperature and agricultural input and output prices. Such dynamics can be modelled by a non-stationary Markov ch... Read More about Multinomial logistic regression on Markov chains for crop rotation modelling.

A Note on Learning Dependence Under Severe Uncertainty (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Troffaes, M. C., Coolen, F. P., & Destercke, S. (2014). A Note on Learning Dependence Under Severe Uncertainty. In Information processing and management of uncertainty in knowledge-based systems : 15th International Conference, IPMU 2014, Montpellier, France, July 15-19, 2014 ; proceedings, part III (498-507). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08852-5_51

We propose two models, one continuous and one categorical, to learn about dependence between two random variables, given only limited joint observations, but assuming that the marginals are precisely known. The continuous model focuses on the Gaussia... Read More about A Note on Learning Dependence Under Severe Uncertainty.

Bivariate Estimation of Distribution Algorithms for Protein Structure Prediction (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Bonetti, D., Delbem, A., & Einbeck, J. (2014). Bivariate Estimation of Distribution Algorithms for Protein Structure Prediction. In T. Kneib, F. Sobotka, J. Fahrenholz, & H. Irmer (Eds.), 29th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, 14-18 July 2014, Göttingen, Germany ; proceedings (15-18)

A real-valued bivariate ‘Estimation of Distribution Algorithm’ specific for the ab initio and full-atom Protein Structure Prediction problem is proposed. It is known that this is a multidimensional and multimodal problem. In order to deal with the mu... Read More about Bivariate Estimation of Distribution Algorithms for Protein Structure Prediction.

Bayesian shape modelling of cross-sectional geological data (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Tsiftsi, T., Jermyn, I., & Einbeck, J. (2014). Bayesian shape modelling of cross-sectional geological data. In K. Thomas, S. Fabian, F. Jan, & I. Henriette (Eds.), 29th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, 14-18 July 2014, Göttingen, Germany ; proceedings (161-164)

Shape information is of great importance in many applications. For example, the oil-bearing capacity of sand bodies, the subterranean remnants of ancient rivers, is related to their cross-sectional shapes. The analysis of these shapes is therefore of... Read More about Bayesian shape modelling of cross-sectional geological data.

A study of online and blockwise updating of the EM algorithm for Gaussian mixtures (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Einbeck, J., & Bonetti, D. (2014). A study of online and blockwise updating of the EM algorithm for Gaussian mixtures. In T. Kneib, F. Sobotka, J. Fahrenholz, & H. Irmer (Eds.), 29th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, 14-18 July 2014, Göttingen, Germany ; proceedings (35-38)

A variant of the EM algorithm for the estimation of multivariate Gaussian mixtures, which allows for online as well as blockwise updating of sequentially obtained parameter estimates, is investigated. Several dierent update schemes are considered and... Read More about A study of online and blockwise updating of the EM algorithm for Gaussian mixtures.

Enriched BEM for fracture in anisotropic materials (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Hattori, G., Sáez, A., Trevelyan, J., & García-Sánchez, F. (2014). Enriched BEM for fracture in anisotropic materials. In V. Mallardo, & M. H. Aliabadi (Eds.), Advances in boundary element and meshless techniques XV (309-314)

Holographic Lithography (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Purvis, A., Toriz-Garcia, H., Cowling, J., Williams, G., Seed, N., McWilliam, R., …Ivey, P. (2014). Holographic Lithography. In Digital holography and three-dimensional imaging part of Imaging and applied optics 2014 ; 13-17 July 2014, Seattle, Washington, United States. https://doi.org/10.1364/dh.2014.dw1b.1

This review summarises the work of the Durham-Sheffield, UK team working on Holographic Lithography over the last decade. It collates progress in 3D resolution and overall scale of the substrate wiring patterns designed and considers a range of appro... Read More about Holographic Lithography.

Speeding Up Active Mesh Segmentation by Local Termination of Nodes (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Nelson, C. J., Dixon, M., Laissue, P. P., Obara, B., Reyes-Aldasoro, C. C., & Slabaugh, G. (2014). Speeding Up Active Mesh Segmentation by Local Termination of Nodes. In Medical image understanding and analysis 2014 (179-184)

This article outlines a procedure for speeding up segmentation of images using active mesh systems. Active meshes and other deformable models are very popular in image segmentation due to their ability to capture weak or missing boundary information;... Read More about Speeding Up Active Mesh Segmentation by Local Termination of Nodes.

Further Results on the Probability Theory of Capacity Value of Additional Generation (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Dent, C., & Zachary, S. (2014). Further Results on the Probability Theory of Capacity Value of Additional Generation. In Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems (PMAPS), 2014 International Conference on (531-536). https://doi.org/10.1109/pmaps.2014.6960667

New theoretical results regarding the capacity value of additional generation are presented, the motivation being explanation of results from applied renewables integration studies. Of particular note are the dependence of calculated values on underl... Read More about Further Results on the Probability Theory of Capacity Value of Additional Generation.

Die Narratio Zosimi (CAVT 166): ein Vorbericht. (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Dochhorn, J. (2014). Die Narratio Zosimi (CAVT 166): ein Vorbericht. In E. Tigchelaar (Ed.), Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and the Scriptures (389-448)

Daytime site characterisation of La Palma, and its relation to night-time conditions (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Townson, M., Kellerer, A., Osborn, J., Butterley, T., Morris, T., & Wilson, R. (2014). Daytime site characterisation of La Palma, and its relation to night-time conditions. In K. . R. Suzanne, I. S. McLean, & H. Takami (Eds.), Ground-based and airborne instrumentation for astronomy V. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2056451

This paper presents preliminary daytime profiles taken using a Wide-Field Shack-Hartmann Sensor at the Swedish Solar Telescope (SST), La Palma. These are contrasted against Stereo-SCIDAR data from corresponding nights to assess the validity of the as... Read More about Daytime site characterisation of La Palma, and its relation to night-time conditions.

MOSAIC at the E-ELT: A multi-object spectrograph for astrophysics, IGM and cosmology. (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Hammer, F., Barbuy, B., Cuby, J., Kaper, L., Morris, S., Evans, C., …Disseau, K. (2014). MOSAIC at the E-ELT: A multi-object spectrograph for astrophysics, IGM and cosmology. . https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055148

The Universe is comprised of hundreds of billions of galaxies, each populated by hundreds of billions of stars. Astrophysics aims to understand the complexity of this almost incommensurable number of stars, stellar clusters and galaxies, including th... Read More about MOSAIC at the E-ELT: A multi-object spectrograph for astrophysics, IGM and cosmology..