Biomimetic underwater robots have been paid more and more attention because of high efficiency, high maneuverability and low-noise. The undulating ribbon-fins used by rajiformes and gymnotiformes show better maneuvera...
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A robotic dolphin with a pair of 3-DOF flippers, two turning units and a multi-link oscillatory propulsion mechanism is designed. The mechanical, hardware and software designs of the robotic dolphin are given. The fli...
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Generalized second-price (GSP) is currently the dominant auction mechanism used in the sponsored search advertising market. However, despite its tremendous commercial success and theoretical optimality, its effectiven...
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Generalized second-price (GSP) is currently the dominant auction mechanism used in the sponsored search advertising market. However, despite its tremendous commercial success and theoretical optimality, its effectiveness is jeopardized by the severe click frauds conducted by advertisers and third-party publishers and the vicious bidding strategy used by advertisers to exhaust the budget of rivals. In this paper, we analyze the drawbacks of GSP that tolerate or even encourage such negative behaviors (i.e., click fraud and vicious bidding) and propose a dynamic modification of the original GSP mechanism to address these drawbacks. Our modified auction mechanism incorporates budget into slot allocation and payment determination and relates the quality score of an advertisement to the current bid. Our analysis shows that our mechanism can effectively reduce the effects of click fraud and vicious bidding.
This paper proposes a reinforcement learning based tag recommendation algorithm to deal with the data sparseness that affects the performance stability of collaborative filtering algorithms. Our algorithm integrates u...
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Two humanoid robots are used to play table tennis with each other. For each humanoid robot, three cameras and a computer are equipped to form a stereovision system and a monocular vision system. The stereovision syste...
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Two humanoid robots are used to play table tennis with each other. For each humanoid robot, three cameras and a computer are equipped to form a stereovision system and a monocular vision system. The stereovision system consisting of two smart cameras and a computer measures the 3-dimensional position of the table tennis ball. It adopts parallel processing mode in order to realize hundred frames level measurement per second. A high-speed digital camera and the computer compose the monocular vision system, which measures the pose of the robot relative to the table via a color mark attached on the robot. The two smart cameras in each stereovision system are synchronized via I/O signals. The vision systems for the two robots are synchronized by time verification. Experimental results verify the effectiveness of the designed vision system and the proposed methods.
Multiple-target tracking in complex scenes is one of the most complicated problems in computer vision. Handling the occlusion between objects is the key issue in multiple target tracking. This paper presents an occlus...
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Multiple-target tracking in complex scenes is one of the most complicated problems in computer vision. Handling the occlusion between objects is the key issue in multiple target tracking. This paper presents an occlusion segmentation-based method to track multiple people in complex situations which are captured by static monocular cameras. In the proposed method, we calculate the probabilistic histogram of each object's optical flow vector, then use this motion statistic information along with the color and appearance information to construct a new expression of pixel distance. Finally, a stepwise classification and K-means clustering method are taken advantages of to accomplish occlusion segmentation. Object tracking is handled by a particle filter-based tracking framework, and a probabilistic appearance model is used to find the best particle. Experiments are conducted using public challenging data set PETS 2009. Results show that our approach can improve the performance of the existing tracking approach and handle dynamic occlusions better.
It's an important need for a large chemical plant to roundly and deeply evaluate the design prototype of plant human machine interaction (HMI) using in the control room. To meet this need, we propose an evaluation...
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It's an important need for a large chemical plant to roundly and deeply evaluate the design prototype of plant human machine interaction (HMI) using in the control room. To meet this need, we propose an evaluation method based on the ACP (Artificial system, Computational experiment, and Parallel execution) theory. A plant operator agent is created in the method and it is composed of perception, cognition, and execution processors, short-term memory, and long-term memory. The operator agent is used as a virtual subject, and the HMI can be evaluated by behavior simulation, from the viewpoints of shortening fault detection and isolation (FDI) track and decreasing operator's physical and mental workloads. The proposed method shows that the ACP theory is useful for the HMI evaluation.
A novel image deblurring method based on high-order non-local range Markov Random Field (NLR-MRF) prior is proposed in the paper. NLR-MRF is an effective statistical framework to model prior knowledge of natural image...
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A novel image deblurring method based on high-order non-local range Markov Random Field (NLR-MRF) prior is proposed in the paper. NLR-MRF is an effective statistical framework to model prior knowledge of natural images which leads to excellent performance in some low-level vision problems. In our work, the framework is extended to image deblurring. To overcome some limitations of maximum a-posteriori (MAP) estimation, we adopt Bayesian minimum mean squared error (MMSE) estimation to perform deblurring. The high-order NLR-MRF prior can be easily integrated into this framework. Then, an efficient Gibbs sampling algorithm is employed to compute MMSE estimation. The proposed method frees the user from determining regularization parameter beforehand, which relies on unknown noise level. Our deblurring method shows superior or comparable results to the state-of-art deblurring methods.
With the fast development of the economy, the urban traffic demands increases rapidly, Bus rapid transit (BRT) system, a new type and high efficient bus operator system and a comprehensive mass transit system between ...
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With the fast development of the economy, the urban traffic demands increases rapidly, Bus rapid transit (BRT) system, a new type and high efficient bus operator system and a comprehensive mass transit system between the metro and regular bus systems, can alleviate traffic congestion, reduce resident traffic cost effectively, and improve transportation quality and efficiency, with its advantages becomes an effective way to improve urban traffic status. In this article, the definition, major elements, advantages, functions and development of BRT are provided, and a new real-time scheduling is given which is going to be applied to the Zhongshan Avenue BRT system in Guangzhou China.
This paper proposes a novel method to evaluate Traffic Signal control System(TSCS) based on Artificial Transportation systems(ATS). Using this method, we can generate travel demand based on individual's activities...
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This paper proposes a novel method to evaluate Traffic Signal control System(TSCS) based on Artificial Transportation systems(ATS). Using this method, we can generate travel demand based on individual's activities and construct artificial traffic scenarios using basic rules. While interacting with ATS, TSCS can be evaluated by observing and analyzing the traffic status that emerged. The cost of the evaluation is decreased as artificial traffic environment can be constructed in the laboratory to substitute real environment and the evaluation can be carried out before the installation on site. Furthermore, as reasonable travel demand can be generated based on individual's activities, the reliability of evaluation results can be guaranteed. Finally, the effectiveness of this method is verified by experiments.
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