A number of studies have shown that skilled readers decompose morphologically complex words upon encountering them (for a review, see Rastle & Davis, 2008). It has been proposed that this segmentation process is early and automatic and is driven by orthographic form, while being blind to semantic content, thus also called morpho-orthographic (Rastle, Davis, & New, 2004; Taft, 2003). One key fin...

The decomposition of binary structuring elements is a key problem in morphological image processing. So far only the decomposition of convex structuring elements and of speciic subsets of non-convex ones have been proposed in the literature. This work presents the results of a new approach, based on a Genetic Algorithm, in which no constraints are imposed on the shape of the initial structuring...

Efficient implementation of morphological operations requires the decomposition of structuring elements into the dilation of smaller structuring elements. Zhuang and Haralick (1986) presented a search algorithm to find optimal decompositions of structuring elements in binary morphology. We use the concepts of Top of a set and Umbra of a surface to extend this algorithm to find an optimal decomp...

In this paper the use of a fast algorithm for implementing shape decomposition of 3D binary objects is proposed. Shape decomposition is performed by successive 3D erosions and dilations, using 3D structuring elements of arbitrary size and shape. The proposed fast shape decomposition algorithm is based on a fast implementation of the basic morphological operation of Minkowski addition for the sp...

In this paper, a novel decomposition scheme for image compression is presented. It is capable to apply any nonlinear model to compress images in a lossless way. Here, a very efficient polynomial model that considers spatial information as well as order statistic information is introduced. This new rank order polynomial decomposition (ROPD) that allows also for a progressive bitstream is applied...

In the present work, we report the synthesis of binary nano metal oxides such as Zinc /Copper Oxide via novel dry synthetic methods such as thermal decomposition of oxalate precursor. The synthesis route involves facile solid-phase mechanochemical activation of a physical mixture of simple copper/zinc salts and oxalic acid, followed by calcination of the as-ground oxalate precursors at 450◦C. X...

in the present work, we report the synthesis of binary nano metal oxides such as zinc /copper oxide via novel dry synthetic methods such as thermal decomposition of oxalate precursor. the synthesis route involves facile solid-phase mechanochemical activation of a physical mixture of simple copper/zinc salts and oxalic acid, followed by calcination of the as-ground oxalate precursors at 450◦c. x...

In the present work, we report the synthesis of binary nano metal oxides such as Zinc /Copper Oxide via novel dry synthetic methods such as thermal decomposition of oxalate precursor. The synthesis route involves facile solid-phase mechanochemical activation of a physical mixture of simple copper/zinc salts and oxalic acid, followed by calcination of the as-ground oxalate precursors at 450◦C. X...

We describe a simple strategy to achieve translation performance improvements by combining output from identical statistical machine translation systems trained on alternative morphological decompositions of the source language. Combination is done by means of Minimum Bayes Risk decoding over a shared Nbest list. When translating into English from two highly inflected languages such as Arabic a...

– Part-based methods where silhouette is decomposed into parts. Different criterions have been proposed: limb and neck [32], optimization of the convexity of all parts [27] and morphology criteria [21, 26]. In [36] shape is decomposed into union of meaningful convex subparts by a recursive scheme. The shape of each subpart is approximated by a morphological dilatation of basic structuring eleme...