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W E Grimson1, E C Hildreth

  • 1Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
|August 27, 2011
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