Vida admirable, apostolicos ministerios, y heroicas virtudes del venerable Padre Joseph Vidal, professo de la Compañia de Jesus en la provincia de Nueva-España /

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Arguments of the defendants' counsel, and judgment of the Supreme court, U.S. in the case of Vidal and another, complainants and appellants, versus the mayor, &c. of Philadelphia, the executors of S. Girard, [et al.], defendants & appellees. January term, 1844. To which is added the will of Stephen Girard. Printed by order of the Commissioners of the Girard estates.

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Ungedruckte provenzalische lieder von Peire Vidal, Bernard v. Ventadorn, Folquet v. Marseille und Peirol v. Aubergne.

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Peire Vidal's Lieder /

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Enchanted Circle and Valle Vidal Loop tours : Carson National Forest /

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Adrian Vidal,

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Argument of Horace Binney, Esq., in the case of Vidal v. the city of Philadelphia : in the Supreme Court of the United States, February, 1844.

Cover title: Charitable uses; argument of Horace Binney.

El derecho público en Iberoamérica. Libro homenaje al profesor Jaime Vidal Perdomo. Tomos I y II

La obra que se entrega hoy es un gran ejemplo de la riqueza académica con la que todos cuentan en Iberoamérica, motor de una nueva integración, que mueve y motiva por encima de intereses políticos y partidarios. Para una mejor lectura de las evoluciones y las expectativas en derecho público en Iberoamérica, así como del balance del derecho administrativo colombiano, en sus primeros cien años de justicia contencioso-administrativa, en este orden de ideas se ha dividido la publicación en dos tomos. El primero de ellos se divide en tres partes: derecho constitucional, teoría general del derecho administrativo, y acto y procedimiento administrativo. El segundo tomo viene distribuido en cinco partes: la primera parte se ha denominado contratos administrativos, la segunda parte régimen local, la tercera parte, denominada bienes del Estado, la cuarta parte, contencioso-administrativo y la última parte, se ha descrito como temas varios. En ella se encuentran reflexiones sobre la evolución de la teoría del daño especial en Colombia. Con lo anterior, se espera haber cumplido con un buen balance bicentenario del derecho público en Iberoamérica y del derecho administrativo colombiano en estos cien primeros años de justicia contencioso-administrativa, en homenaje al maestro Jaime Vidal Perdomo, eximio jurista colombiano consagrado al estudio y análisis del derecho público y exponente calificado y reconocido de la academia en Colombia y en los países iberoamericanos.

Face authentication test on the BANCA database

This work details the results of a face authentication test (FAT2004) (http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/banca/icpr2004) held in conjunction with the 17th International Conference on Pattern Recognition. The contest was held on the publicly available BANCA database (http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/banca) according to a defined protocol (E. Bailly-Bailliere et al., June 2003). The competition also had a sequestered part in which institutions had to submit their algorithms for independent testing. 13 different verification algorithms from 10 institutions submitted results. Also, a standard set of face recognition software packages from the Internet (http://www.cs.colostate.edu/evalfacerec) were used to provide a baseline performance measure.

Selective combination of visual and thermal imaging for resilient localization in adverse conditions : day and night, smoke and fire

Long-term autonomy in robotics requires perception systems that are resilient to unusual but realistic conditions that will eventually occur during extended missions. For example, unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) need to be capable of operating safely in adverse and low-visibility conditions, such as at night or in the presence of smoke. The key to a resilient UGV perception system lies in the use of multiple sensor modalities, e.g., operating at different frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum, to compensate for the limitations of a single sensor type. In this paper, visual and infrared imaging are combined in a Visual-SLAM algorithm to achieve localization. We propose to evaluate the quality of data provided by each sensor modality prior to data combination. This evaluation is used to discard low-quality data, i.e., data most likely to induce large localization errors. In this way, perceptual failures are anticipated and mitigated. An extensive experimental evaluation is conducted on data sets collected with a UGV in a range of environments and adverse conditions, including the presence of smoke (obstructing the visual camera), fire, extreme heat (saturating the infrared camera), low-light conditions (dusk), and at night with sudden variations of artificial light. A total of 240 trajectory estimates are obtained using five different variations of data sources and data combination strategies in the localization method. In particular, the proposed approach for selective data combination is compared to methods using a single sensor type or combining both modalities without preselection. We show that the proposed framework allows for camera-based localization resilient to a large range of low-visibility conditions.

Visual metrics for the evaluation of sensor data quality in outdoor perception

This paper proposes an experimental study of quality metrics that can be applied to visual and infrared images acquired from cameras onboard an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV). The relevance of existing metrics in this context is discussed and a novel metric is introduced. Selected metrics are evaluated on data collected by a UGV in clear and challenging environmental conditions, represented in this paper by the presence of airborne dust or smoke. An example of application is given with monocular SLAM estimating the pose of the UGV while smoke is present in the environment. It is shown that the proposed novel quality metric can be used to anticipate situations where the quality of the pose estimate will be significantly degraded due to the input image data. This leads to decisions of advantageously switching between data sources (e.g. using infrared images instead of visual images).

Combining multiple sensor modalities for a localisation robust to smoke

This paper proposes an approach to obtain a localisation that is robust to smoke by exploiting multiple sensing modalities: visual and infrared (IR) cameras. This localisation is based on a state-of-the-art visual SLAM algorithm. First, we show that a reasonably accurate localisation can be obtained in the presence of smoke by using only an IR camera, a sensor that is hardly affected by smoke, contrary to a visual camera (operating in the visible spectrum). Second, we demonstrate that improved results can be obtained by combining the information from the two sensor modalities (visual and IR cameras). Third, we show that by detecting the impact of smoke on the visual images using a data quality metric, we can anticipate and mitigate the degradation in performance of the localisation by discarding the most affected data. The experimental validation presents multiple trajectories estimated by the various methods considered, all thoroughly compared to an accurate dGPS/INS reference.