The histogram of gradients for three-dimensional images (HOG3D) has been widely used to generate descriptors of local features for the matching of salient interest blobs between volumetric medical images. The distinct...
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The histogram of gradients for three-dimensional images (HOG3D) has been widely used to generate descriptors of local features for the matching of salient interest blobs between volumetric medical images. The distinctiveness of descriptors is essential to match similar patterns as well as differentiate different patterns. However, most methods for HOG3D are based on the unequal azimuth-elevation-angle division of the three-dimensional orientations, leading to the reduction of the distinctiveness. This paper presents a description method to extract distinctive descriptors by using a novel histogram of gradients based on the maximum directional derivative (HOG3DMAX). The three-dimensional orientations are divided equally into 24 homogeneous regions for the bins of gradient histogram to improve the distinctiveness. In addition, the interpolation of gradients is applied in HOG3DMAX according to the relatively simple form of the homogeneous regions in order to avoid harmful effects from boundary in images. Experiments were performed on three sets with different extents of similarity. The cluster analysis and classification accuracy were utilized to validate the proposed method. Compared with the commonly used azimuth-elevation based method, the new method shows lower intra-cluster pairwise distances relative to inter-cluster pairwise distances, and achieved 5% higher classification accuracy. The results indicate the improvement of distinctiveness by using equally divided regions and the interpolation of gradients. We conclude that the HOG3DMAX is an effective description method for three-dimensional images.
Simulation of plant structure competing for light source has mostly been done by directly modifying plant structure according to light interception. Functional-structural plant models, however, emphasize the influence...
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Simulation of plant structure competing for light source has mostly been done by directly modifying plant structure according to light interception. Functional-structural plant models, however, emphasize the influence of light interception on biomass production, and consequently plant structure. In this paper, we integrate a light distribution model with GreenLab model, which used Beer-Law in computing biomass production. By replacing Beer-Law with a light interception model for biomass production, the combined model was able to simulate the effect of light condition on plant structure through source-sink regulation. The positive and negative sides of this approach are discussed.
To further enhance emergency management skills of an organisation's emergency response personnel, emergency response training,especially 3D emergency drill, is currently becoming more and more important in the pet...
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Simulation of plant structure competing for light source has mostly been done by directly modifying plant structure according to light ***-structural plant models,however,emphasize the influence of light interception ...
Simulation of plant structure competing for light source has mostly been done by directly modifying plant structure according to light ***-structural plant models,however,emphasize the influence of light interception on biomass production,and consequently plant *** this paper,we integrate a light distribution model with GreenLab model,which used Beer-Law in computing biomass *** replacing Beer-Law with a light interception model for biomass production,the combined model was able to simulate the effect of light condition on plant structure through source-sink *** positive and negative sides of this approach are discussed.
Currently, the research issues are becoming increasingly global and complex. In order to master more and more professional and comprehensive ability to solve problems, it is proposed in this paper that academic intell...
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Actions are the primary way an entity interacts with other entities and acts on the external world. Action knowledge is of vital importance for behavior modeling, analysis and prediction in security informatics. In th...
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Actions are the primary way an entity interacts with other entities and acts on the external world. Action knowledge is of vital importance for behavior modeling, analysis and prediction in security informatics. In this paper, we present our approach to action knowledge extraction from Web textual data. Our approach is based on mutual bootstrapping with knowledge reasoning, which can acquire more action knowledge types and require less human participation compared with the related work. We evaluate the performance of our method and demonstrate its effectiveness through experiment.
Global manufacturing enterprises meet a lot of challenges on enterprise level, plant level and shop floor level. To solve those challenges, a kind of real- time Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (Mil) solutio...
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This paper studies a mean square average consensus of general linear discrete-time time-invariant multi-agent systems with communication noises.A distributed protocol,which is composed of the agent’s own state feedba...
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This paper studies a mean square average consensus of general linear discrete-time time-invariant multi-agent systems with communication noises.A distributed protocol,which is composed of the agent’s own state feedback and the relative states between the agent and its neighbors,is proposed.A time-varying consensus gain is applied to attenuate the effect of noises.A polynomial,namely “parameter polynomial”,is constructed in such a way that its coefficients are the paraments in the control gain vector of the proposed *** turns out that the parameter polynomial plays an important role in the consensus analysis of linear multi-agent *** is proved that under the proposed protocol the necessary and sufficient conditions for ensuring the mean square average consensus are: the communication topology graph is balanced and strongly connected;the consensus gain satisfies the approximation-type conditions;and all roots of the parameter polynomial are in the unit circle.
The k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) nonparametric regression is a classic model for single point short-term traffic flow forecasting. The traffic flows of the same clock time of the days are viewed as neighbors to each othe...
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The k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) nonparametric regression is a classic model for single point short-term traffic flow forecasting. The traffic flows of the same clock time of the days are viewed as neighbors to each other, and the neighbors with the most similar values are regarded as nearest neighbors and are used for the prediction. In this method, only the information of the neighbors is considered. However, it is observed that the “trends” in the traffic flows are useful for the prediction. Taking a sequence of consecutive time periods and viewing the a sequence of “increasing”, “equal” or “decreasing” of the traffic flows of two consecutive periods as a pattern, it is observed that the patterns can be used for prediction, despite the patterns are not from the same clock time period of the days. Based on this observation, a pattern recognition algorithm is proposed. Moreover, empirically, we find that the patterns from different clock time of the days can have different contributions to the prediction. For example, if both to predict the traffic flow in the morning, the pattern from the morning can lead to better prediction than same patterns from afternoon or evening. In one sentence, we argue that both the pattern and the clock time of the pattern contain useful information for the prediction and we propose the weighted pattern recognition algorithm (WPRA). We give different weights to the same patterns of different clock time for the prediction. In this way, we take both virtues of the k-NN method and the PRA method. We use the root mean square error (RMSE) between the actual traffic flows and the predicted traffic flows as the measurement. By applying the results to actual data and the simulated data, about 20% improvement compare with the PRA is obtained.
This paper proposes a novel algorithm for parking motion of a Car-like mobile robot. The algorithm presented here addresses calculating equations for planning a parking path in real time. Moreover, by incorporating th...
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This paper proposes a novel algorithm for parking motion of a Car-like mobile robot. The algorithm presented here addresses calculating equations for planning a parking path in real time. Moreover, by incorporating the constraints of the mechanical and kinematical characteristics of the car and the geometry of the parking lot in the path planning, we can turn a parking problem into solving algebraic equations. By tracking a planned path, the Car-like mobile robot can drive into the parking area without hitting any boundaries. The efficiency of the proposed algorithm is demonstrated by simulation.
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