The error-entropy-minimization approach in adaptive system training is addressed in this paper. The effect of Parzen windowing on the location of the global minimum of entropy has been investigated. An analytical proof that shows the global minimum of the entropy is a local minimum, possibly the global minimum, of the nonparametrically estimated entropy using Parzen windowing with Gaussian kern...

Entropy measures applied to time-frequency signal representations have been found to be reliable indicators of various signal’s features. This paper gives an introduction to the time-frequency signal analysis, emphasizing the properties of time-frequency distributions that allow the application of entropy measures to quantify signals complexity. The paper includes an overview of the key propert...

This study is focused on the entropy production due to laminar forced convection in the entrance region of a concentric cylindrical annulus. The present hydrodynamic and temperature fields are obtained numerically. Local entropy generation distributions are obtained based on the resulting velocity and temperature fields by solving the entropy generation equation. The effect of different flow pa...

Entropy measures have been extensively used to assess heart rate variability (HRV), a noninvasive marker of cardiovascular autonomic regulation. It is yet to be elucidated whether those entropy measures can sensitively respond to changes of autonomic balance and whether the responses, if there are any, are consistent across different entropy measures. Sixteen healthy subjects were enrolled in t...

Automatic facial recognition has many potential applications in different areas of humancomputer interaction. However, they are not yet fully realized due to the lack of an effectivefacial feature descriptor. In this paper, we present a new appearance based feature descriptor,the local directional pattern (LDP), to represent facial geometry and analyze its performance inrecognition. An LDP feat...