The major obstacle in discrimination between different groups of subjects in a common cognitive state, by functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), has been the high intersubject functional and anatomical variabil...
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Enhanced engine operation-operation that is beyond normal limits-has the potential to improve the adaptability and safety of aircraft in emergency situations. Intelligent use of enhanced engine operation to improve th...
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(纸本)9781600869440
Enhanced engine operation-operation that is beyond normal limits-has the potential to improve the adaptability and safety of aircraft in emergency situations. Intelligent use of enhanced engine operation to improve the handling qualities of the aircraft requires sophisticated risk estimation techniques and a risk management system that spans the flight and propulsion controllers. In this paper, an architecture that weighs the risks of the emergency and of possible engine performance enhancements to reduce overall risk to the aircraft is described. Two examples of emergency situations are presented to demonstrate the interaction between the flight and propulsion controllers to facilitate the enhanced operation.
While most commercial automated surface inspection system (ASIS) has built-in functions for defect detection and classification, achieving high classification performance on pickled and noisy strip surfaces has remain...
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While most commercial automated surface inspection system (ASIS) has built-in functions for defect detection and classification, achieving high classification performance on pickled and noisy strip surfaces has remained challenging because of the diversity in defect types and the similarity in patterns and features in 2D images captured by cameras. A novel technique using laser triangulation meters was implemented with 3D surface profiling for better defect detection on pickled and noisy strip surfaces in the lab environment. The experimental results have shown significant performance improvement in surface defect detection especially in identifying the severe defects from less severe or uninterested defects.
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) refers to a group of lung diseases that block airflow and cause a huge degree of human suffering. While there is no cure for COPD and the lung damage that results in this d...
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a devastating disease. In this paper, we propose a novel method for scoring of air trapping in the lungs for detection and evaluation of COPD. The proposed method finds ...
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From the characteristics in regional grid, the connotation of smart grid and the change of regulation and control integrated management after meeting the requirement of operating monitoring and scheduling management i...
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This paper demonstrates the use of the Locality Sensitive Hashing technique operating in Euclidean metric space to build a data structure for Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) satellite imagery database....
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This paper demonstrates the use of the Locality Sensitive Hashing technique operating in Euclidean metric space to build a data structure for Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) satellite imagery database. Due to the high dimensionality of these images, their texture feature vectors are used. These features are extracted using pyramidal wavelet decomposition coupled with Gaussian central moments. Families of hash functions are drawn randomly and independently from a Gaussian distribution to create hash tables for these texture feature vectors of the images. The hash tables and the families of hash functions are then used to find similar satellite image matches to any query image in sublinear search time. When tested, our algorithm has proven to be about thirty three times faster than the linear search algorithm. In addition, our algorithm searches less than two percent of the entire database on the average to find the possible similar image matches to any given query without loss of accuracy.
Shape descriptors have been used frequently as features to characterize an image for classification and image retrieval tasks. The problem of recognizing classes of objects in images is important for annotation and in...
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Shape descriptors have been used frequently as features to characterize an image for classification and image retrieval tasks. The problem of recognizing classes of objects in images is important for annotation and indexing of Satellite image databases. In this paper, a comparison between shape and texture features for classification is presented. The classification is based on Support Vector Machine (SVM) learning. SVM classifier can be learned from training data of relevance images and irrelevance images marked by users. Using the classifier, the system can retrieve more images relevant to the query in the database efficiently. The goal is to build an accurate and fast query-by-example using content based image retrieval based on the information extracted from satellite image data. We have investigated and described various feature extraction methods relevant to our work in this paper. The experimental results demonstrate that using the shape features give a better classification accuracy than that of the texture features.
Buildings are pervasive in our society, but inefficiencies in operation and control make buildings significant sources of pollution, emissions, and significant consumers of resources. Recent advances in real-time mult...
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(纸本)9781624101540
Buildings are pervasive in our society, but inefficiencies in operation and control make buildings significant sources of pollution, emissions, and significant consumers of resources. Recent advances in real-time multi-objective control optimization allow models of increasing fidelity to be used in control of large-scale multiple-input multiple-output systems with overlapping actuation and coupled non-linear dynamics. Unfortunately, current building system modeling and simulation tools lack the necessary functionality or appropriate fidelity for real-time control and planning of a building system. In this paper we present Savant-ML - a finite element aero-thermal model and software library for creating models of total building systems that is designed for online estimation, optimal planning and real-time control in an integrated full-building control system. We present the current model formulation using a finite-volume discretization scheme of the Navier-Stokes equations, describe the software implementation and organization, and present initial experimental results using data from an instrumented smart-building experiment to estimate the states and parameters in the model.
We study the problem of finding the minimum-length curvature constrained closed path through a set of regions in the plane. This problem is referred to as the Dubins Traveling Salesperson Problem with Neighborhoods (D...
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We study the problem of finding the minimum-length curvature constrained closed path through a set of regions in the plane. This problem is referred to as the Dubins Traveling Salesperson Problem with Neighborhoods (DTSPN). Two algorithms are presented that transform this infinite dimensional combinatorial optimization problem into a finite dimensional asymmetric TSP by sampling and applying the appropriate transformations, thus allowing the use of existing approximation algorithms. We show for the case of disjoint regions, the first algorithm needs only to sample each region once to produce a tour within a factor of the length of the optimal tour that is independent of the number of regions. We present a second algorithm that performs no worse than the best existing algorithm and can perform significantly better when the regions overlap.
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