Letter to Rev. Epaphras "Kibbe[sic]". 10/07/1803

Handwritten letter from Timothy Merritt to Rev. Epaphras "Kibbe[sic]" regarding religious developments in Boston as well as the death of Merritt's son. Dated 10/07/1803

A Sermon on the occasion of the death of Mrs. Mary Chapman Halsey

Memorial Sermon

Bible work in Bible lands, or, Events in the history of the Syria mission / by Isaac Bird.

http://www.archive.org/details/bibleworkinbible00birduoft

Index Trees for Efficient Deformable Shape-based Retrieval

An improved method for deformable shape-based image indexing and retrieval is described. A pre-computed index tree is used to improve the speed of our previously reported on-line model fitting method; simple shape features are used as keys in a pre-generated index tree of model instances. In addition, a coarse to fine indexing scheme is used at different levels of the tree to further improve speed while maintaining matching accuracy. Experimental results show that the speedup is significant, while accuracy of shape-based indexing is maintained. A method for shape population-based retrieval is also described. The method allows query formulation based on the population distributions of shapes in each image. Results of population-based image queries for a database of blood cell micrographs are shown.

Extending snBench to Support a Video-Based Intrusion Detection and Alerting System with a Centralized Hash Table

In this project we design and implement a centralized hashing table in the snBench sensor network environment. We discuss the feasibility of this approach and compare and contrast with the distributed hashing architecture, with particular discussion regarding the conditions under which a centralized architecture makes sense. There are numerous computational tasks that require persistence of data in a sensor network environment. To help motivate the need for data storage in snBench we demonstrate a practical application of the technology whereby a video camera can monitor a room to detect the presence of a person and send an alert to the appropriate authorities.