We present an automatic method for road extraction from satellite imagery. The core of the proposed method is locally excitatory globally inhibitory oscillator networks (LEGION). We decompose the road extraction task ...
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We present an automatic method for road extraction from satellite imagery. The core of the proposed method is locally excitatory globally inhibitory oscillator networks (LEGION). We decompose the road extraction task into three stages. The first stage is image segmentation by LEGION. In the second stage, we compute the medial axis of each segment and select the segments with narrow widths. The third is the road grouping stage. With the medial axes, alignment-dependent connections between medial axis points are established and LEGION is utilized to group the well-aligned medial axes, which represent extracted road segments. Due to the selective gating mechanism of LEGION, different roads in an image are grouped separately. Experimental results on synthetic and real images show the effectiveness of this method.
In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm for the separation of convolutive speech mixtures using two-microphone recordings, based on the combination of independent component analysis (ICA) and ideal binary mask (IB...
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In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm for the separation of convolutive speech mixtures using two-microphone recordings, based on the combination of independent component analysis (ICA) and ideal binary mask (IBM), together with a post-filtering process in the cepstral domain. Essentially, the proposed algorithm consists of three steps. First, a constrained convolutive ICA algorithm is applied to separate the source signals from two-microphone recordings. In the second step, we estimate the IBM by comparing the energy of corresponding time-frequency (T-F) units from the separated sources obtained with the convolutive ICA algorithm. The last step is to reduce musical noise caused typically by T-F masking using cepstral smoothing. The performance of the proposed approach is evaluated based on both reverberant mixtures generated using a simulated room model and real recordings. The proposed algorithm offers considerably higher efficiency, together with improved speech quality while producing similar separation performance as compared with a recent approach.
Attention is a critical mechanism for visual scene analysis. By means of attention, it is possible to break down the analysis of a complex scene to the analysis of its parts through a selection process. Empirical stud...
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Attention is a critical mechanism for visual scene analysis. By means of attention, it is possible to break down the analysis of a complex scene to the analysis of its parts through a selection process. Empirical studies demonstrate that attentional selection is conducted on visual objects as a whole. We present a neurocomputational model of object-based selection in the framework of oscillatory correlation. By segmenting an input scene and integrating the segments with their conspicuity obtained from a saliency map, the model selects salient objects rather than salient locations. The proposed system is composed of three modules: a saliency map providing saliency values of image locations, image segmentation for breaking the input scene into a set of objects, and object selection which allows one of the objects of the scene to be selected at a time. This object selection system has been applied to real images and the simulation results show its effectiveness.
In this paper the Binary Search Tree Imposed Growing Self Organizing Map (BSTGSOM) is presented as an extended version of the Growing Self Organizing Map (GSOM), which has proven advantages in knowledge discovery appl...
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(纸本)9781424448364;9781424448371
In this paper the Binary Search Tree Imposed Growing Self Organizing Map (BSTGSOM) is presented as an extended version of the Growing Self Organizing Map (GSOM), which has proven advantages in knowledge discovery applications. A Binary Search Tree imposed on the GSOM is mainly used to investigate the dynamic perspectives of the GSOM based on the inputs and these generated temporal patterns are stored to further analyze the behavior of the GSOM based on the input sequence. Also, the performance advantages are discussed and compared with that of the original GSOM.
We present an improved methodology for a thermal transient method enabling simultaneous measurement of thermal conductivity and specific heat of nanoscale structures with one-dimensional heat flow. The temporal respon...
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Real time performance of non-interactive rendering of three-dimensional scenes is usually unachievable. Ray tracing is one of the methods used for rendering such scenes. The performance achieved by a sequential softwa...
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E-Learning makes it possible for learners to study at any time. With the improvement of ubiquitous technologies and corresponding devices, learners can conduct their learning activities without any limitations from th...
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E-Learning makes it possible for learners to study at any time. With the improvement of ubiquitous technologies and corresponding devices, learners can conduct their learning activities without any limitations from the environment. Instructors can utilize various kinds of resources to create more plentiful learning materials for learners. In this situation, instructors or learners have to spend more time on collecting relevant resources for a specific purpose. In our previous works, we utilized the geographical information and RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) to develop an outdoor adventure game to support learning procedures. In this paper, we go further to propose and develop a resource retrieval mechanism to assist learners in collecting relevant learning resources. This mechanism can be regarded as a search procedure. We aim at providing search results in the order of relevant degree based on learners' current geographical information. It can make resource retrieval more efficient in ubiquitous learning environments.
Microarray is one of the most powerful DNA detection systems with multiplexing and high throughput capability. However, the current application of microarray is limited to the preliminary genomic screening of biologic...
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Some human-centering issues for the Networld based on trust are discussed. People sometimes need help to understand how and when to shift from unjustified trust closer to justified distrust. Trust has aspects of an at...
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Some human-centering issues for the Networld based on trust are discussed. People sometimes need help to understand how and when to shift from unjustified trust closer to justified distrust. Trust has aspects of an attitude, an attribution, an expectation, a feeling or belief, an intention, and a trait. Trust can be thought of as a family of relations, certainly not a single relation. Interpersonal trust is both fundamentally and subtly different from trust in automation. Threshold effects are reflected in the tendency to maintain a fixed level of reliance even as the level of trust changes, resulting in a dichotomous pattern of reliance. Cybersecurity and defense issues, including social deception, misdirection, influence, and manipulation, span all the venues of macrocognitive work in the Networld. In macrocognitive work systems, trust can also be thought of as the expectation of reciprocity from others.
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