... tracking of multiple objects, while precluding the incorrect merging of similar objects getting close to each other in the image plane Another direction of research concerns the automatic tuning of ... given instant is often made Finally, this kind of tracking usually outputs bounding boxes only By contrast, silhouette tracking has the advantage of directly providing the segmentationof the ... equip our tracking system with an additional separation step in case objects get merged The principles of the tracking, including the separation of merged objects, are explained in next subsections...
... detectors The fingerprinting approach for music detection seems to be effective Finding of repetitions with fingerprinting seems to be useful in audio segmentationof BN due to the omnipresence of advertisements, ... using a hierarchical organization of the detection process One of the most important decisions when using this kind of architecture lies in the orderings of the detection modules, since some of ... technique is used for finding the most discriminative features for each AC individually Segmentation approach: HMM-based The acoustic modeling is performed using five HMMs with one emitting state and...
... brain or used by the brain in explicit object categorisation Still, a lot of uncertainty remains concerning the amount of diversity and overlap in response tuning of individual neurons within ... recognition by serving as potential interpretations for the incoming visual input Ullman‘s (2006) model predicts preferential activation in object processing regions in a presence of highly informative ... SLOWDOWN IN VISUAL PROCESSING SPEED Aging has been associated with a decline in cognitive abilities and one of the indicators of this decline is a decrease in processing speed Many older people often...
... variations of the objectsof interest Increasing the number of training samples would help resolve this problem, but determining the amount of training samples required is also none trivial Also, in ... artifacts in images In filtering, a window is usually taken around a pixel of interest and an intensity value for that pixel is that calculated based on the intensities of the pixels in the window Of ... being able to change topology, are very effective forsegmentationof soft tissue since it can handle any of the cavities, splitting or merging normally found in such tissue Examples of such objects...
... employed for colon segmentation Other references can be found for each of those methods, but we will not go further since our main interest is in the segmentationin MR images 2.4 Segmentationin MR ... The low level of interest insegmentation methods in MR colonography is quite surprising Indeed, segmentationin MR images in general is much more challenging than segmentationin CT images (due ... results of the thresholding/region growing algorithm are refined by using adaptive thresholding This algorithm uses a threshold map instead of a single threshold value for the whole image, thus being...
... ‘◦’ indicates the target sample for training; ‘•’ indicates the nontarget samples for training ‘.’ and ‘•’ indicate the distribution of non-target data Two-class SVM is trained on the samples indicated ... proposed a novel method of incorporating prior shape information into the level set method for medical image segmentationIn this work a representation for deformable shapes is introduced and a probability ... nonuniform intensities, SVM cannot result in good classification using a small training set, and the result depends on the training set To address this problem, the SVM training is iteratively refined...
... Identification of C8-modified deoxyinosine and N2- and C8-modified deoxyguanosine as major products of the in vivo reaction of N-hydroxy-6-aminochrysene with DNA and the formation of the adducts in isolated ... ogttST::Cmr) strain (deficient in O6-methylguanine DNA methyltransferase) sensitive to alkylating chemicals These strains were kindly supplied by Dr T Nohmi of the National Institute of Health Sciences ... strains (Suzuki et al 1997, Yamada et al 1995) in order to assess the mutagenicity of 255 chemicals YG3003 was used to aid the identification of a variety of mutagenic free radicals including quinones,...
... parameter, obtaining in such a way continuous membership values of patterns to classes The Deterministic Annealing (DA) is a different fuzzy approach to clustering based on the minimization of a Free ... values (annealing procedure) It is worth of noting an on-line version of FCM, introducing also a scheduling of the fuzzifier parameter, has been recently proposed with the names of FKCN [10] and ... matrix, containing the membership values of all samples in all clusters; • m ∈ (1, ∞) is a control parameter of fuzziness The minimization of Jm , under the probabilistic constraint iteration of the...
... information processing systems, pages 3–10 D McClosky and E Charniak 2008 Self-training for biomedical parsing In Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics ... Computational Linguistics M Rei and T Briscoe 2010 Combining manual rules and supervised learning for hedge cue and scope detectionIn Proceedings of the 14th Conference on Natural Language Learning, pages ... http://scopefinder.sourceforge.net/ sure the baseline system performance The baseline system heuristics did not contain all phrase cues present in the dataset The scopes of cues that are missing from the baseline...
... Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), members of the Stop TB Partnership’s New Diagnostics Working Group, and other experts in the field of TB diagnostics for information on ongoing or ... result in lab or clinic, if the test was performed in a clinic Country income status will be classified as low/middle-income or high-income, according to the World Bank List of Economies Country income ... Relevant clinical information Yes for all studies In this review the availability or absence of clinical information such as age and presence and severity of symptoms should not affect test performance...
... the number of unique dialogue acts labels in the training set Each utterance-label pair in the original training set is now present in all N training sets If in the original training set an utterance ... argument of the argmax in equation 1: (1) instead of considering Score(Sh−1 ), consider only the last segment contained in Sh−1 ; and (2) instead of using the product of the scores of all segments, ... contain multiple dialogue acts, with only a small increase in the number of errors for the utterances containing only a single dialogue act In fact, even though more than 70% of the utterances in...
... of the 15th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), Kyoto, Japan Helmut Schmid (1994) Probabilistic Part -of- Speech Tagging Using Decision Trees In Proceedings of the International ... Methods in Language Processing, Manchester, UK Max D Silberztein (1994) INTEX: A Corpus Processing System In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), ... the number of occurrences of a descriptor Tj in a paragraph i; dfi is the number of paragraphs in which Tj occurs and 393 descriptor is added in the paragraph if absent In case of reinforcement,...
... in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Rochester in May 2003 The topic of her Ph.D research was the characterization of electrical porous silicon based sensors for their use in biodetection ... University of Florida under the supervision of Professor Dr Hummel He received his Ph.D degree in engineering (Doctor in Engineering) on June 2002 and was awarded “summa cum laude” for his research ... changes in the porous layer induced by the presence of molecules This effect was simulated by considering a uniform sheet of charge on the top surface in the presence of a dc voltage of V and...
... responses of the sensor materials were measured in a ¯owing stream of pure air or in 40 ppm NO in air (60:40 mixture from an air cylinder with another cylinder (BOC special gases) containing ca ... stirring at 80 8C until it was completely dried All solids were calcined at 600 8C for h in air The calcined powder, 0.6 g, was cold pressed at 10 tonnes into a pellet (area cm2) using an infra-red ... compressed pellet in a flowing stream of 40 ppm NO in air at 100 ml/min diffuse into the compressed powder through the edges of the pellets) As a result, all data presented in this paper were...
... sharply with an increase in concentration Since the operating voltage is necessary for driving electrons in gas-sensing layers, the operating voltage is one of the main factors that in uences the ... circulate by using a miniature fan installed in the airtight chamber The sensor element was exposed to sample gases of variable concentrations, containing a known amount of air During the sensing measurement, ... only for devices having identical interelectrode gaps Therefore, sensors having an interelectrode gap of 0.1 mm only were studied The graphic measuring principle is shown in Fig Measurements of...
... Fig Response transients of SiO2 (5%)–WO3 thin film on turning on and off various concentrations of NO2 diluted in air is primarily determined by the grain size of WO3 in agreement with literature ... equation As shown in Fig 2, the grain size decreased with an increase in SiO2 content, indicating that the growth of WO3 grains was suppressed by SiO2 Fig Average grain size of WO3 evaluated from ... preparation of SiO2 – WO3 thin films by a solgel method was useful for enhancing the NO2 sensing characteristics The grain growth of WO3 was suppressed more intensively with increasing SiO2 content,...
... the conformational change of the receptor upon ligand binding Similarly conformational changes have been invoked in the binding of ions and peptides to calmodulin due to ion or peptide binding [27], ... imprinted polymer fordetectionof sialic acid Biosens Bioelectron 16, 1059–1062 Wu AH & Syu MJ (2006) Synthesis of bilirubin imprinted polymer thin film for the continuous detectionof bilirubin ... solution was spin coated Using this method, dopamine-, epinephrineand norepinephrine-imprinted resonators were prepared and binding assays were performed The results show that dopamine-specific MIP-coated...
... found in repairs are likely to be found in fluent speech, acoustic information can be quite effective when combined with other sources of information, in particular with pattern matching In studying ... Furthermore, pattern matching alone contains insufficient information for reliably correcting these sentences Acoustic features reported in the following analyses were obtained by listening to the sound ... can be helpful in detecting repairs is acoustics In this section we describe firsthow prosodic information can help in distinguishing repairs from false positives for patterns involving matched...
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... Fig AutoCAD drawing of a hard dist suspension thermal shrinkage However, the compressive strain generated during heating is not completely cancelled Therefore, the residual strain in the laser-irradiated ... length is long enough for considering the laser heating and bending effect The mesh is uniform in the x and y directions and the element sizes are increased by stretching in the z-directions Eight-node ... in the analyses The number of element in each of the fine regions is (in x, y, z): 60 · 15 · The total element number is 57,808 Mesh tests are Numerical modeling In this paper, laser bending induced...