In this study, we investigate methods to optimize the design of a panoramic annular lens (PAL) system. The design details of a PAL surveillance system, an anamorphic PAL surveillance system, a phone camera with a PAL ...
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In this study, we investigate methods to optimize the design of a panoramic annular lens (PAL) system. The design details of a PAL surveillance system, an anamorphic PAL surveillance system, a phone camera with a PAL attachment, and a PAL endoscope system are described. All these designs are optimized using a standard optical software package (Zemax). The results combine very good image quality with a modulation transfer function above 0.3, which is within the cutoff frequency of sensor chips. (C) 2012 Optical Society of America
Making recognition more reliable under unconstrained environment is one of the most important challenges for real-world face recognition. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for unconstrained face verification....
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(纸本)9781467325332;9781467325349
Making recognition more reliable under unconstrained environment is one of the most important challenges for real-world face recognition. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for unconstrained face verification. First, we use a spectral-clustering method based on Structural Similarity index to estimate the captured environments of facial images. Then for each pair of environments, we learn two coupled metrics, such that facial images captured in different environments can be transformed into a media subspace, and high recognition performance can be achieved. The coupled transformations are jointly determined by solving an optimization problem in the multi-task learning framework. Experimental results on the benchmark dataset (LFW) show the effectiveness of the proposed method in face verification across varying environments.
The rapid increasing popularity of micro-blogging has made it an important information seeking channel. By detecting recent popular topics from micro-blogging, we have opportunities to gain insights into internet hots...
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(纸本)9781467314909
The rapid increasing popularity of micro-blogging has made it an important information seeking channel. By detecting recent popular topics from micro-blogging, we have opportunities to gain insights into internet hotspots. Generally, a topic's popularity is determined by two primary factors. One is how frequently a topic is discussed by users, and the other is how much influence those users have, since topics shown in the influential users' posts are more likely to attract others' attention. However, existing approaches interpret a topic's popularity with only the number of keywords related to it, which neglect the importance of the user influence to information diffusion in micro-blogging. In this paper, drawing upon the Cognitive Authority Theory and Social Network Theory, we propose a novel model that detects the most popular topics in micro-blogging with a user interest-based method. The proposed model first constructs a topic graph according to users' interests and their following relationship, and then calculates the topics' popularity with a link-based ranking algorithm. The popular topics detected by the method can reflect the relationship among users' interests, and the topics in the posts of influential users can be highlighted. Experimental results on the data of Twitter, a well-known and feature-rich micro-blogging service, show that the proposed method is effective in popular topic discovery.
An intelligent-optimal control scheme for unknown nonaffine nonlinear discrete-time systems with discount factor in the cost function is developed in this paper. The iterative adaptive dynamic programming algorithm is...
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An intelligent-optimal control scheme for unknown nonaffine nonlinear discrete-time systems with discount factor in the cost function is developed in this paper. The iterative adaptive dynamic programming algorithm is introduced to solve the optimal control problem with convergence analysis. Then, the implementation of the iterative algorithm via globalized dual heuristic programming technique is presented by using three neural networks, which will approximate at each iteration the cost function, the control law, and the unknown nonlinear system, respectively. In addition, two simulation examples are provided to verify the effectiveness of the developed optimal control approach. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
In this paper, a neuro-optimal control scheme for a class of unknown discrete-time nonlinear systems with discount factor in the cost function is developed. The iterative adaptive dynamic programming algorithm using g...
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In this paper, a neuro-optimal control scheme for a class of unknown discrete-time nonlinear systems with discount factor in the cost function is developed. The iterative adaptive dynamic programming algorithm using globalized dual heuristic programming technique is introduced to obtain the optimal controller with convergence analysis in terms of cost function and control law. In order to carry out the iterative algorithm, a neural network is constructed first to identify the unknown controlled system. Then, based on the learned system model, two other neural networks are employed as parametric structures to facilitate the implementation of the iterative algorithm, which aims at approximating at each iteration the cost function and its derivatives and the control law, respectively. Finally, a simulation example is provided to verify the effectiveness of the proposed optimal control approach.
To overcome public transportation problems during the 16th Asian Games held in Guanhzhou China, a PtMS (Parallel Transportation managementsystem), a novel application of Intelligent Transportation systems, was introd...
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To overcome public transportation problems during the 16th Asian Games held in Guanhzhou China, a PtMS (Parallel Transportation managementsystem), a novel application of Intelligent Transportation systems, was introduced for effective and convenient traffic management. Results show that PtMS has successfully enhanced public traffic management, raising it from experience-based policy formulation plus manual implementation to scientific computing-based policy generation plus implementation with intelligent systems.
This paper focuses on macro prediction of corporate equipment maintenance expenditure, adopts ARMA to establish the model for historical data of corporate equipment maintenance expenditure and makes demand analysis an...
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The path following algorithm was proposed recently to approximately solve the matching problems on undirected graph models and exhibited a state-of-the-art performance on matching accuracy. In this paper, we extend th...
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The path following algorithm was proposed recently to approximately solve the matching problems on undirected graph models and exhibited a state-of-the-art performance on matching accuracy. In this paper, we extend the path following algorithm to the matching problems on directed graph models by proposing a concave relaxation for the problem. Based on the concave and convex relaxations, a series of objective functions are constructed, and the Frank-Wolfe algorithm is then utilized to minimize them. Several experiments on synthetic and real data witness the validity of the extended path following algorithm.
Sponsored search advertising (SSA), the primary revenue source of Web search engine companies, has become the dominant form of online advertising. Search engine companies, such as Google and Baidu, are naturally inter...
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Sponsored search advertising (SSA), the primary revenue source of Web search engine companies, has become the dominant form of online advertising. Search engine companies, such as Google and Baidu, are naturally interested in SSA mechanism design with the aim to improve the overall effectiveness and profitability of SSA ecosystems. Due to model intractability, however, traditional game theory and mechanism design frameworks provide only limited help as to the design and evaluation of practical SSA mechanisms. In this paper, we propose a niche-based co-evolutionary simulation approach, aiming at computationally evaluating SSA auction mechanisms based on advertisers' equilibrium bidding behavior generated through co-evolution of their bidding strategies. Using this approach, we evaluate and compare key performance measures of several practical SSA auction mechanisms, including the generalized first and second price auction, the Vickrey-Clarke-Groves mechanism, and a novel hybrid mechanism adopted by ***, a major search engine in China. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
The trajectory tracking problem of a closed-chain five-bar robot is studied in this paper. Based on an error transformation function and the backstepping technique, an approximation-based tracking algorithm is propose...
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The trajectory tracking problem of a closed-chain five-bar robot is studied in this paper. Based on an error transformation function and the backstepping technique, an approximation-based tracking algorithm is proposed, which can guarantee the control performance of the robotic system in both the stable and transient phases. In particular, the overshoot, settling time, and final tracking error of the robotic system can be all adjusted by properly setting the parameters in the error transformation function. The radial basis function neural network (RBFNN) is used to compensate the complicated nonlinear terms in the closed-loop dynamics of the robotic system. The approximation error of the RBFNN is only required to be bounded, which simplifies the initial "trail-and-error" configuration of the neural network. Illustrative examples are given to verify the theoretical analysis and illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm. Finally, it is also shown that the proposed approximation-based controller can be simplified by a smart mechanical design of the closed-chain robot, which demonstrates the promise of the integrated design and control philosophy.
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