the iranians’ understanding of the political concepts posed in mashruteh (constitutional) period is a challenging issue which can help us better study iran’s constitutional revolution and the grounds for its failure. right and law are two modern political concepts which entered into this period as part of people’s claims. the iranians’ image of the said concepts is the basic issue discussed in ...

Granular Computing (GrC) can be considered as a common name of theories, methodologies, techniques, and tools that make use of granules, i.e. groups, classes, or clusters of a universe, in the process of problems solving. Basic ideas of crisp information granulation have appeared in related fields, such as interval analysis, rough set theory, Dempster-Shafer theory of belief functions, cluster ...

Seven digital library related projects conducted in the Vision and Modeling Group of the MIT Media Laboratory are reviewed. These projects address a large variety of issues that are essential to building sophisticated, e cient, and user friendly tools for image and video library applications. The problems on which these projects focus include feature extraction, feature combination, similarity ...

Document Image Understanding encompasses the technology required to make paper documents equivalent to other computer exchange media like oppies, tapes, and cdroms. The physical reader of the paper document is the scanner just like the physical reader of the oppy is the oppy drive and the physical reader of the tape cartridge is the tape cartridge drive, and the physical reader of the cdrom is ...

Research in the GRASP Laboratory has two main themes, parameterized multi-dimensional segmentation and robust decision making under uncertainty. The multi-dimensional approach interweaves segmentation with representation. The data is explained as a best fit in view of parametric primitives. These primitives are based on physical and geometric properties of objects and are limited in number. We ...

Image processing algorithms include methods that process images from their acquisition to the extraction of useful information for a given application. Among interpretation algorithms, some are designed to detect, localize, and identify one or several objects in an image. The problem addressed is the evaluation of the interpretation results of an image or a video given an associated ground trut...