Rapid and on-scene chemical identification of intact explosives with portable near-infrared spectroscopy and multivariate data analysis

There is an ongoing forensic and security need for rapid, on-scene, easy-to-use, non-invasive chemical identification of intact energetic materials at pre-explosion crime scenes. Recent technological advances in instrument miniaturization, wireless transfer and cloud storage of digital data, and multivariate data analysis have created new and...

The cocktail-party problem revisited: Early processing and selection of multi-talker speech

How do we recognize what one person is saying when others are speaking at the same time? This review summarizes widespread research in psychoacoustics, auditory scene analysis, and attention, all dealing with early processing and selection of speech, which has been stimulated by this question. Important effects occurring at the peripheral and...

Single Spin Image-ICP matching for Efficient 3D Object Recognition

A robust and efficient method is presented for recognizing objects in unstructured 3D point clouds acquired from photos. The method first finds the locations of target objects using single spin image matching and then retrieves the orientation and quality of the match using the iterative closest point (ICP) algorithm. In contrast to classic use...