Over the last 30 years there has been a reduction in the radioactive discharges from the UK’s Sellafield site. Radionuclide activity concentrations in the environment around Sellafield have declined as a result. However, routine monitoring results from the nearby Esk Estuary show a less clear trend, with fluctuations in gamma dose rate measurements being reported from year to year. A comprehens...

In this paper, we propose a novel method for detecting and segmenting text layers in complex images. This method is robust against degradations such as shadows, non-uniform illumination, low-contrast, large signaldependent noise, smear and strain. The proposed method first uses a geodesic transform based on a morphological reconstruction technique to remove dark/light structures connected to th...

* This work was supported in part by NATO under grant 0103/88. Dr. Kleihorst is currently with Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, the Netherlands. ABSTRACT Even original video sequences are often corrupted by a certain amount of noise. As a result of the gammacorrection in camera's, the observation noise is signaldependent. In this paper we present a spatio-temporal order statistic (OS) ...

The expansion of Kummer’s hypergeometric function as a series of incomplete Gamma functions is discussed, for real values of the parameters and of the variable. The error performed approximating the Kummer function with a finite sum of Gammas is evaluated analytically. Bounds for it are derived, both pointwisely and uniformly in the variable; these characterize the convergence rate of the serie...

We prove that certain archimedean integrals arising in global zeta integrals involving holomorphic discrete series on unitary groups are predictable powers of π times rational or algebraic numbers. In some cases we can compute the integral exactly in terms of values of gamma functions, and it is plausible that the value in the most general case is given by the corresponding expression. Non-vani...

Several approximations for n! have recently appeared in the literature. We show here how these approximations can be derived by expansion of certain polynomials in inverse powers of n and comparison with Stirling’s asymptotic series. Some new approximations are also given. The same procedure is applied to generate approximations for the ratio of two gamma functions.

Hippocampal theta and gamma rhythms often occur together. While gamma activity is supposed to be generated intrahippocampally, the source of theta oscillations is still debated. Here, a network model of hippocampal inhibitory interneurons was capable of generating the gamma rhythm when responding to constant excitation. Adding a periodic term to this stimulation resulted in complex pattern gene...

We study online learning under logarithmic loss with regular parametric models. Hedayati and Bartlett (2012b) showed that a Bayesian prediction strategy with Jeffreys prior and sequential normalized maximum likelihood (SNML) coincide and are optimal if and only if the latter is exchangeable, and if and only if the optimal strategy can be calculated without knowing the time horizon in advance. T...

In this paper, we extend and overview wide families of Alpha-, Betaand Gammadivergences and discuss their fundamental properties. In literature usually only one single asymmetric (Alpha, Beta or Gamma) -divergence is considered. We show in this paper that there exist families of such divergences with the same consistent properties. Moreover, we establish links and correspondences among these di...

Quantitation in cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) and single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) depends on being able to correct for several physical factors that tend to distort the data. One of the most important of these corrections is the correction for attenuation. For PET, cardiac attenuation correction is a reality, although certain problems remain to be solved. For SPE...