This study introduces a new fast motion estimation (ME) based on both an adaptive search range adjustment and a matching point decimation. In particular, the authors present a maximum matching error constraint in the matching phase that can eliminate an impossible candidate block much earlier than a conventional partial distortion elimination (PDE) scheme. The constraint is computed during the ...

High dimensional sparse learning has imposed a great computational challenge to large scale data analysis. In this paper, we are interested in a broad class of sparse learning approaches formulated as linear programs parametrized by a regularization factor, and solve them by the parametric simplex method (PSM). Our parametric simplex method offers significant advantages over other competing met...

Block matching (BM) motion estimation plays a very important role in video coding. In a BM approach, image frames in a video sequence are divided into blocks. For each block in the current frame, the best matching block is identified inside a region of the previous frame, aiming to minimize the sum of absolute differences (SAD). Unfortunately, the SAD evaluation is computationally expensive and...

PURPOSE Agomelatine is a novel antidepressant drug suffering from an extensive first-pass metabolism leading to a diminished absolute bioavailability. The aim of the study is: first to enhance its absolute bioavailability, and second to increase its brain delivery. METHODS To achieve these aims, the nasal route was adopted to exploit first its avoidance of the hepatic first-pass metabolism to...

In this paper, a space-time absolute nodal coordinate formulation cable (SAC) element forming technique based on the Lagrange family of shape functions is proposed. Two distinct SAC elements, each with spatial function, have been generated by method. Moreover, external forces such as bending moment and air resistance formula accounted for. The multiplier method, along concepts replacement const...