In images and videos of a 3D scene, blur due to camera shake can be a source of depth information. Our objective is to find the shape of the scene from its motion-blurred observations without having to restore the ori...
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Representing the face as a distribution of freely moving patches, which we refer to as a "free-parts" representation, has recently demonstrated some benefit in the task of face verification. This benefit can...
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ISBN:
(纸本)1901725294
Representing the face as a distribution of freely moving patches, which we refer to as a "free-parts" representation, has recently demonstrated some benefit in the task of face verification. This benefit can be largely attributed to the representation's natural ability to deal with local appearance variation within the face. Hitherto, a major limitation that has hindered the wider adoption of this type of facial representation, for the task of face verification, has been its poor ability to take advantage of prior knowledge concerning mismatches in context;such as pose. This paper goes some way to alleviating these limitations by making two novel contributions: (i) Demonstrating that free-parts distributions of a client's face for different poses overlap to such a degree that a considerable amount of discrimination is preserved in the intersection. (ii) Through the off-line estimation of subject-independent pose dependent priors, an alternative to the canonical log-likelihood measure can be employed that takes advantage of this intersection and is less sensitive to mismatch in the presence of pose variation.
Digital processing of black and white images has received most attention during the last 25 years, and has led to various algorithms for the enhancement, smoothing, and zooming of images. Due to the decreasing cost an...
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Due to the explosive growth of the Internet, stream services are becoming more popular. The large media servers supporting thousands of concurrent media streams have to satisfy us with both good throughout and high av...
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ISBN:
(纸本)8955191197
Due to the explosive growth of the Internet, stream services are becoming more popular. The large media servers supporting thousands of concurrent media streams have to satisfy us with both good throughout and high availability. Although they are reciprocal from the viewpoint of system performance, the stream service continuity, as well as throughput, should be considered in clustered media servers. This is because media stream services should be continuously available to the clients even on the event of system failure. In this paper, we introduce service availability as the gauge of service degree on media servers, and present the basic scheme for guaranteeing continuous stream service. To do this, we propose LSS(Log Stream Status) and RRD(Ready Resource for instant Delivery) mechanisms. They are classified according to the status management method of stream service and the resumption method of closed service. Although these mechanisms require additional overhead, we found that they can be applied to clustered media servers with minimum overhead. Additionally, we concluded that they can provide higher quality of service availability on traditional clustered media servers.
In our study, we aimed to explore the psychiatric disorders, risk factors, and predictors of self-immolation among individuals admitted to Shahid Motahari Hospital in Tehran from 2019 to 2020. This cross-sectional stu...
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In our study, we aimed to explore the psychiatric disorders, risk factors, and predictors of self-immolation among individuals admitted to Shahid Motahari Hospital in Tehran from 2019 to 2020. This cross-sectional study examines 64 hospitalized patients who received psychiatric counseling following self-immolation incidents. The rate of self-immolation varies significantly based on specific demographics. It is observed that in our population men had a higher rate of being unmarried (70.96 % vs 15.15 %), lower levels of education (70.96 % vs 63.63 % did not have a university degree), higher level of unemployment (54.83 % vs 30.30 %), younger age average with most men aging 15–24 (29.06 (SD = 9.33)) vs women 35–44 (35.27(SD = 10.27)) and higher prevalence of addiction (67.74 % vs 36.36 %) compared to women. On the other hand, women who attempted self-immolation mainly were married, involved in housekeeping, and tended to exhibit higher rates of depression (63.63 % vs 32.25 %) than men. Furthermore, these self-immolation incidents are often impulsive (64.1 %) and occur shortly (under an hour) after experiencing a stressor (39.1 %). Self-immolation accidents are frequently carried out using gasoline (50 %). Geographically, the majority of self-immolation cases of our study are concentrated in the central region of Iran (76.6 %), followed by the western region (15.6 %) this may be due to the proximity of these regions to our center while patients of other regions were hospitalized in their referral hospitals and were rarely transferred to the capital. To effectively address the issue of self-immolation and reduce its prevalence, it is essential to identify vulnerable populations and explore targeted preventive measures. Based on our findings, future pilot studies could investigate the feasibility of specific interventions, such as crisis hotlines to reduce impulsivity-related acts of self-immolation. Additionally, small-scale feasibility projects could explore the effect
In this study, we implement a device simulation-based multi-objective evolutionary algorithm (MOEA) for the optimal design of silicon solar cells. The short-circuited current, the open-circuited voltage, and the conve...
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Audio gunshot recordings can be helpful for crime scene reconstruction, estimation of the shooter's location and orientation, and verification of eyewitness accounts. The audio evidence can include the muzzle blas...
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Audio gunshot recordings can be helpful for crime scene reconstruction, estimation of the shooter's location and orientation, and verification of eyewitness accounts. The audio evidence can include the muzzle blast, the shock wave signature if the projectile is traveling at supersonic speed, and possibly even the characteristic sound of the firearm's mechanical action if the recording is obtained close to the shooting position. To investigate the acoustical phenomena associated with gunshot evidence, a systematic set of rifle shots were made from distances ranging from 10 meters to nearly 800 meters away from the recording microphone. This paper summarizes the primary acoustical evidence derived from these recorded gunshots, and suggests several strengths and weaknesses of gunshot analysis for forensic purposes.
In this paper,an efficient successive cancellation(SC) polar decoder based on new folding approaches is *** main approach of this paper is called k-level decomposition with 2 *** k and p,the derived architecture can h...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781509066261;9781509066254
In this paper,an efficient successive cancellation(SC) polar decoder based on new folding approaches is *** main approach of this paper is called k-level decomposition with 2 *** k and p,the derived architecture can have a very low processing complexity with proper combinations of decomposition method and folding *** to state-of-the-art designs,hardware utilization ratio(HUR) of processing elements can be drastically improved with small latency ***,the memory complexity remains ***,decomposition and folding operations can also be applied to a family of hybrid polar *** validate efficiency of these approaches,two folded SC decoders with N = 64 and 1024 respectively are implemented with Altera Stratix V *** two demos require only 68.3% and 39.1%ALMs,compared to the non-decomposed SC decoder.
Shape registration is one of the most challenging problems in computer vision and medical imaging. The process is affected by the way the shape is represented and the form of transformation used to move the source sha...
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In this paper, we present BioGrid, a novel computing resource that combines advantages of grid computing technology with bioinformatics parallel applications. The grid environment permits the sharing of a large amount...
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