Search Results - "Brooks, M.J."
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An assessment of the solar resource for Durban, South Africa
Published in Renewable energy (01-12-2011)“…Renewable energy’s role as an alternative to fossil-based power is growing in the developing world. The city of Durban, South Africa, is an example of a…”
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The Impact of Decreasing Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Prevalence on a Local Aneurysm Screening Programme
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The Impact of Decreasing Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Prevalence on a Local Aneurysm Screening Programme
Published in European journal of vascular and endovascular surgery (01-07-2012)“…Abstract Objectives The NHS Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Screening Programme (NAAASP), based on the Multicentre Aneurysm Screening Study (MASS) trial (2002), is…”
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Fast Global Kernel Density Mode Seeking: Applications to Localization and Tracking
Published in IEEE transactions on image processing (01-05-2007)“…Tracking objects in video using the mean shift (MS) technique has been the subject of considerable attention. In this work, we aim to remedy one of its…”
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On the fitting of surfaces to data with covariances
Published in IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence (01-11-2000)“…We consider the problem of estimating parameters of a model described by an equation of special form. Specific models arise in the analysis of a wide class of…”
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Pseudoanuerysm of the Thoracic Aorta as a Complication of Pancreatic Pseudocyst
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Revisiting Hartley's normalized eight-point algorithm
Published in IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence (01-09-2003)“…Hartley's eight-point algorithm has maintained an important place in computer vision, notably as a means of providing an initial value of the fundamental…”
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Assessing the Impact of Renal Impairment on Outcome after Arterial Intervention: A Prospective Review of 1559 Patients
Published in European journal of vascular and endovascular surgery (01-09-2006)“…To investigate the impact of pre and peri-operative renal impairment on outcome, and the need for renal replacement therapy, in a multicenter study of patients…”
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From FNS to HEIV: a link between two vision parameter estimation methods
Published in IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence (01-02-2004)“…Problems requiring accurate determination of parameters from image-based quantities arise often in computer vision. Two recent, independently developed…”
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Thermal performance of a solar oven with augmented sunlight concentration
Published in Journal of energy in Southern Africa (01-05-2007)“…This paper describes the thermal performance of a novel solar oven that incorporates a compact reflec-tive lens, or ring array, to augment sunlight…”
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Pseudoanuerysm of the Thoracic Aorta as a Complication of Pancreatic Pseudocyst
Published in European journal of vascular and endovascular surgery extra (01-10-2011)“…Abstract Pseudocyst formation is a recognised complication of acute pancreatitis. Rarely, they result in pseudoaneurysm formation of neighbouring vessels which…”
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THE EFFECT OF MULTI-TRAILER SYSTEMS ON THE EFFICIENCY OF CONTAINER MOVEMENTS BETWEEN THE SHIP AND THE STACKS AT THE DURBAN CONTAINER TERMINAL
Published in South African journal of industrial engineering (01-12-2017)“…Tractor-trailer units are the primary horizontal transport medium between the ship and the stacking area in container ports, and their efficient operation has…”
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Published in British journal of surgery (2002)“…Aims: Comparative surgical audit is increasingly important, although fraught due to the difficulty of risk adjusted analysis. The surgical risk score was…”
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Fast global kernel density mode seeking with application to localization and tracking
Published in Tenth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV'05) Volume 1 (2005)“…We address the problem of seeking the global mode of a density function using the mean shift algorithm. Mean shift, like other gradient ascent optimization…”
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Immunogenic and isotype-specific responses to russian and US cold-adapted influenza a vaccine donor strains A/Leningrad/134/17/57, A/Leningrad/134/47/57, and A/Ann Arbor/6/60 (H2N2) in mice
Published in Journal of medical virology (01-09-2001)“…The immunogenicity of the Russian cold‐adapted (ca) donor stains, A/Leningrad (Len)/134/17/57 and A/Leningrad/134/47/57, and the US strain A/Ann Arbor…”
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An efficient recursive factorization method for determining structure from motion
Published in Proceedings. 1999 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (Cat. No PR00149) (1999)“…A recursive method is presented for recovering 3D object shape and camera motion under orthography from an extended sequence of video images. This may be…”
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Augmented particle filtering for efficient visual tracking
Published in IEEE International Conference on Image Processing 2005 (2005)“…Visual tracking is one of the key tasks in computer vision. The particle filter algorithm has been extensively used to tackle this problem due to its…”
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Visual tracking via efficient kernel discriminant subspace learning
Published in IEEE International Conference on Image Processing 2005 (2005)“…Robustly tracking moving objects in video sequences is one of the key problems in computer vision. In this paper we introduce a computationally efficient…”
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Cardiac Investigation and Intervention Prior to Thoraco-abdominal Aneurysm Repair: Coronary Angiography in 35 Patients
Published in European journal of vascular and endovascular surgery (01-05-2001)“…Objective: retrospective studies indicate a high risk of cardiac events in patients undergoing thoraco-abdominal aneurysm repair. We aimed to determine the…”
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A voting scheme for estimating the synchrony of moving-camera videos
Published in Proceedings 2003 International Conference on Image Processing (Cat. No.03CH37429) (2003)“…Recovery of dynamic scene properties from multiple videos usually requires the manipulation of synchronous (simultaneously captured) frames. This paper is…”
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