with the growth of technology, supervising systems are increasingly replacing humans in military, transportation, medical, spatial, and other industries. among these systems are machine vision systems which are based on image processing and analysis. one of the important tasks of image processing is classification of images into desirable categories for the identification of objects or their sp...

In many sport competitions athletes, teams, or countries are evaluated based on several variables. The strong assumptions underlying traditional 'linear weight' scoring systems (that the relative importance, interactions and linearizing transformations of the variables are known) can often not be justified on theoretical grounds, and empirical 'validation' of weights, interactions and transform...

The medical practitioner wishes a lung radiograph to be capable of revealing details uhich. are hardly perceptible. Jf he does not see a certain suspected detail does this then mean that that detail is non-existent, or is it that the X-ray picture is unable to reveal it? For a study of the general problem of perceptibility of details in X-ray technique good use -can be made of specially constru...

A color image adaptive watermarking scheme is proposed. To increase the robustness and perceptual invisibility, a model called ICPM (image complexity and perceptibility model) is proposed to analyze the different sub-blocks’ properties. A novel technique is proposed for the watermark casting and retrieval by utilizing the properties of the image itself. Experimental results demonstrate the robu...

Abstract To explain why English compounds generally avoid internal inflectional suffixation (e.g. key-chain rather than keys-chain), linguists have often invoked the Level Ordering Hypothesis (Siegel 1979), i.e. that particular types of morphology, in this case inflectional suffixation, are derivationally ordered after compounding. However, a broad range of counterexamples and conceptual object...

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) technique now widely use for efficiency evaluation of a set of Decision Making Units (DMUs). As regards of the necessity for ranking efficient units different DEA models presented each of which has advantages and rank efficient units from special aspects. Note that all the existing ranking models have disadvantages, as well and there is not a model in which all t...