Classifying images into a set of semantic categories that are meaningful to humans has proved to be a challenging and attractive problem in the field of content-based retrieval. Addressing this problem is typically ba...
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Classifying images into a set of semantic categories that are meaningful to humans has proved to be a challenging and attractive problem in the field of content-based retrieval. Addressing this problem is typically based on the initial extraction of low-level features for the images and the subsequent application of a pattern recognition technique, to divide the feature space in a number of subspaces corresponding to the semantic categories. An extension to this framework is presented in this paper, aiming at the improvement of the efficiency of image classification systems. This is based on the introduction of an unsupervised still image segmentation algorithm to the process and its combination with MPEG-7 low-level descriptors and a Bayes classifier. Experimental results using different pairs of classes and corresponding data sets demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed approach.
This paper investigates the effectiveness of a recently proposed numerical control design methodology in the stabilization control design of a 3-DOF RC helicopter. This control methodology is the combination of the TP...
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Humanoid robots, due to their link structure with high degree of freedom and the substitutability for human work, require a sophisticated motion control technique regardless of the type of motions or the environments....
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Data mining provides the opportunity to extract useful information from large databases. Various techniques have been proposed in this context in order to extract this information in the most efficient way. However, e...
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(纸本)1581139683
Data mining provides the opportunity to extract useful information from large databases. Various techniques have been proposed in this context in order to extract this information in the most efficient way. However, efficiency is not our only concern in this study. The security and privacy issues over the extracted knowledge must be seriously considered as well. By taking this into consideration, we study the procedure of hiding sensitive association rules in binary data sets by blocking some data values and we present an algorithm for solving this problem. We also provide a fuzzification of the support and the confidence of an association rule in order to accommodate for the existence of blocked/unknown values. In addition, we quantitatively compare the proposed algorithm with other already published algorithms by running experiments on binary data sets, and we also qualitatively compare the efficiency of the proposed algorithm in hiding association rules. We utilize the notion of border rules, by putting weights in each rule, and we use effective data structures for the representation of the rules so as (a) to minimize the side effects created by the hiding process and (b) to speed up the selection of the victim transactions. Finally, we discuss the advantages and the limitations of blocking. Copyright 2004 ACM.
In this paper we present a new feature extraction methodology for color texture recognition. It is based on the covariance of 2nd-order statistical features in the wavelet domain of the color channels of the images an...
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This paper describes an accurate unsupervised speaker adaptation method for lecture speech recognition using multiple LVC-SRs. In an unsupervised speaker adaptation framework, the improvement of recognition performanc...
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This paper describes an accurate unsupervised speaker adaptation method for lecture speech recognition using multiple LVC-SRs. In an unsupervised speaker adaptation framework, the improvement of recognition performance by adapting acoustic models greatly depends on the accuracy of labels such as phonemes and syllables. Therefore, extraction of the adaptation data guided by the confidence measures is effective for un-supervised adaptation. In this paper, we looked for the high confidence portions based on the agreement between two LVC-SRs, adapted acoustic models using the portions attached with high accurate labels, and then improved the recognition accuracy. We applied our method to the Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese (CSJ) and the method improved the recognition rate by about 5% in comparison with a traditional method.
We present a decision tree evaluation method integrated with a common framework for analyzing multi-attribute decisions under risk, where information is numerically imprecise. The approach extends the use of additive ...
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(纸本)1577352017
We present a decision tree evaluation method integrated with a common framework for analyzing multi-attribute decisions under risk, where information is numerically imprecise. The approach extends the use of additive and multiplicative utility functions for supporting evaluation of imprecise statements, relaxing requirements for precise estimates of decision parameters. Information is modeled in convex sets of utility and probability measures restricted by closed intervals. Evaluation is done relative to a set of rules, generalizing the concept of admissibility, computationally handled through optimization of aggregated utility functions. Pros and cons of two approaches, and tradeoffs in selecting a utility function, are discussed.
The thermal environment in urban areas is characterized by the heat island phenomenon. To estimate the thermal conditions of land surfaces by satellite, it is necessary to find the relationship between the surface tem...
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The thermal environment in urban areas is characterized by the heat island phenomenon. To estimate the thermal conditions of land surfaces by satellite, it is necessary to find the relationship between the surface temperature and land cover type. The most widely used vegetation index for ecological application is the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI). We studied the correlation between NDVI values and the surface temperature in our study area. NDVI uses radiance values or apparent reflectance values of the red and the near-infrared spectral bands. These reflectance values are influenced by the atmospheric aerosols. In order to calculate accurate NDVI values (aerosol-free NDVI), we first estimated the surface reflectance at visible bands by using our atmosphere-ground surface system based on the aerosol observation data. At the test site, we measured the aerosol optical thickness of visible bands using a sky radiometer, and we measured the air temperature and humidity by using a thermometer-hygrometer with a data logger. In this paper, we show the variations of aerosol optical thickness in the spring and summer and demonstrate the correlation between the surface temperatures of ASTER level 2B products and our observed screen temperatures.
Recent statistical performance surveys of search algorithms in difficult combinatorial problems have demonstrated the benefits of randomising and restarting the search procedure. Specifically, it has been found that i...
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