This paper describes a visual processing technique for automatic frog (Xenopus Laevis sp.) localization and identification. The problem of frog identification is to process and classify an unknown frog image to determ...
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(纸本)9781450315883
This paper describes a visual processing technique for automatic frog (Xenopus Laevis sp.) localization and identification. The problem of frog identification is to process and classify an unknown frog image to determine the identity which is recorded previously on an image database. The frog skin pattern (i.e. texture) provides a unique feature for identification. Hence, the study investigates three different kind of features (i.e. Gabor filters, granulometry, threshold set compactness) to extract texture information. The classifier is built on nearest neighbor principle;it assigns the query feature to the database feature which has the minimum distance. Hence, the study investigates different distance measures and compares their performance. The detailed results show that the most successful feature and distance measure is granulometry and weighted L1 norm for the frog identification using skin texture features. Copyright 2012 ACM.
Online shopping has developed to a stage where catalogs have become very large and diverse. Thus, it is a challenge to present relevant items to potential customers within a very few interactions. This is even more so...
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Online shopping has developed to a stage where catalogs have become very large and diverse. Thus, it is a challenge to present relevant items to potential customers within a very few interactions. This is even more so when users have no defined shopping objectives but operate in an opportunistic mindset. This problem is often tackled by recommender systems. However, these systems rely on consistent user interaction patterns to predict items of interest. In contrast, we propose to adapt the classical information retrieval (IR) paradigm for the purpose of accessing catalog items in a context of un-predictable user interaction. Accordingly, we present a novel information access strategy based on the notion of interest rather than relevance. We detail the design of a scalable browsing system including learning capabilities joint with a limited-memory model. Our approach enables locating interesting items within a few steps while not requiring good quality descriptions. Our system allows customer to seamlessly change browsing objectives without having to start explicitly a new session. An evaluation of our approach based on both artificial and real-life datasets demonstrates its efficiency in learning and adaptation.
In this article we discuss whether robots need "interiority" in order to competently participate in emotional and empathic dynamics with human partners. We draw on original research on emotions, mind, neurop...
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Dynamic mapping heuristics can cope with dynamic application scenarios by allocating tasks to cores of an MPSoC during runtime. In this paper, we compare eight heuristics in terms of the response time of application t...
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Dynamic mapping heuristics can cope with dynamic application scenarios by allocating tasks to cores of an MPSoC during runtime. In this paper, we compare eight heuristics in terms of the response time of application tasks - that is, the time between the issuing of a task and the time when it completes executing and communicating. By taking into account the task execution, communication and waiting times, we could better evaluate the quality of the different heuristics and show that there is room for improvement when it comes to heterogeneous platforms under high utilization.
We analyze Japanese inter-firm network data showing scale-free properties as an example of a real complex network. The data contains information on money flow (annual transaction volume) between about 7000 pairs of fi...
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We analyze Japanese inter-firm network data showing scale-free properties as an example of a real complex network. The data contains information on money flow (annual transaction volume) between about 7000 pairs of firms. We focus on this money-flow data and investigate the correlation between various quantities such as sales or link numbers. We find that the flux from a buyer to a supplier is given by the product of the fractional powers of both sales with different exponents. This result indicates that the principle of detailed balance does not hold in the real transport of money; therefore, random walk type transport models such as PageRank are not suitable.
Multiword Expressions (MWEs) appear frequently and ungrammatically in natural languages. Identifying MWEs in free texts is a very challenging problem. This paper proposes a knowledge-free, unsupervised, and language...
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Multiword Expressions (MWEs) appear frequently and ungrammatically in natural languages. Identifying MWEs in free texts is a very challenging problem. This paper proposes a knowledge-free, unsupervised, and languageindependent Multiword Expression Distance (MED). The new metric is derived from an accepted physical principle, measures the distance from an n-gram to its semantics, and outperforms other state-of-the-art methods on MWEs in two applications: question answering and named entity extraction.
Quantum mechanics is potentially advantageous for certain information-processing tasks, but its probabilistic nature and requirement of measurement backaction often limit the precision of conventional classical inform...
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Quantum mechanics is potentially advantageous for certain information-processing tasks, but its probabilistic nature and requirement of measurement backaction often limit the precision of conventional classical information-processing devices, such as sensors and atomic clocks. Here we show that, by engineering the dynamics of coupled quantum systems, it is possible to construct a subsystem that evades the measurement backaction of quantum mechanics, at all times of interest, and obeys any classical dynamics, linear or nonlinear, that we choose. We call such a system a quantum-mechanics-free subsystem (QMFS). All of the observables of a QMFS are quantum-nondemolition (QND) observables; moreover, they are dynamical QND observables, thus demolishing the widely held belief that QND observables are constants of motion. QMFSs point to a new strategy for designing classical information-processing devices in regimes where quantum noise is detrimental, unifying previous approaches that employ QND observables, backaction evasion, and quantum noise cancellation. Potential applications include gravitational-wave detection, optomechanical-force sensing, atomic magnetometry, and classical computing. Demonstrations of dynamical QMFSs include the generation of broadband squeezed light for use in interferometric gravitational-wave detection, experiments using entangled atomic-spin ensembles, and implementations of the quantum Toffoli gate.
We propose three novel methods to evaluate a distance function for robotic motion planning based on semi-infinite programming (SIP) framework;these methods include golden section search (GSS), conservative advancement...
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(纸本)9781467317375
We propose three novel methods to evaluate a distance function for robotic motion planning based on semi-infinite programming (SIP) framework;these methods include golden section search (GSS), conservative advancement (CA) and a hybrid of GSS and CA. The distance function can have a positive and a negative value, each of which corresponds to the Euclidean distance and penetration depth, respectively. In our approach, each robot's link is approximated and bounded by a capsule shape, and the distance between some selected link pairs is continuously evaluated along the joint's trajectory, provided by the SIP solver, and the global minimum distance is found. This distance is fed into the SIP solver, which subsequently suggests a new trajectory. This process is iterated until no negative distance is found anywhere in the links of the robot. We have implemented the three distance evaluation methods, and experimentally validated that the proposed methods effectively and accurately find the global minimum distances to generate a self-collision-free motion for the HRP-2 humanoid robot. Moreover, we demonstrate that the hybrid method outperforms other two methods in terms of computational speed and reliability.
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