It has been suggested that septal nuclei are important in the control of behavior during various reward and non-reward situations. In the present study, neuronal activity was recorded from rat septal nuclei during discrimination of conditioned sensory stimuli (CSs) of the medial forebrain bundle associated with or without a reward (sucrose solution or intracranial self-stimulation, ICSS). Rats ...

Farzin Mokhtarian Abstrac-A complete, fast and practical isolated object recognition system has been developed which is very robust with respect to scale, position and orientation changes of the objects as well as noise and local deformations of shape (due to perspective projection, segmentation errors and nonrigid material used in some objects). The system has been tested on a wide variety of ...

A technique to prove termination of term rewrite systems, or more precise, constructorsystems (CSs) is presented.Soundnessof this technique is proved and it is described how the technique can be performed automatically for a subclass of the CSs. Whereas simplification orders fail in proving termination of CSs that are not simply terminating, the presented technique may still automatically prove...

In this paper, we present a novel feature extraction approach based on Curvature Scale Space (CSS) for translation, scale, and rotation invariant recognition of hand poses. First, the CSS images are used to represent the shapes of boundary contours of hand poses. Then, we extract the multiple sets of CSS features to overcome the problem of deep concavities in contours of hand poses. Finally, ne...

Exploring the capability of mobile elements to perform the data collection task in wireless sensor networks and thus reduce and balance the energy consumption at individual sensor nodes. The data collection latency gets affected due to the limited travel speed of mobile elements. Most of the approaches that strive to reduce the data collection latency focus on the scheduling of mobile elements ...

This paper proposes two novel schemes of wideband compressive spectrum sensing (CSS) via block orthogonal matching pursuit (BOMP) algorithm, for achieving high accuracy in real time. These aim to reliably recover the by adaptively adjusting number required measurements without inducing unnecessary sampling redundancy. To this end, minimum successful recovery is first derived terms its probabili...