The control used for the tapchanger of an LTC transformer or step-voltage regulator is a prime illustration of electronic technology advances applied to the power industry. Electro-mechanical (balance-beam and induction disc), discrete static, integrated circuit static and now digital designs have evolved over the past forty years. This increased product sophistication has made possible many fe...

We propose an approach for view-invariant object detection directly in 3D with following properties: (i) The detection is based on matching of 3D contours to 3D object models. (ii) The matching is constrained with qualitative spatial relations such as above/below, left/right, and front/back. (iii) In order to ensure that any matching solution satisfies these constraints, we formulate the matchi...

Inductive sensors (ISs) are extremely sensitive sensing platforms that offer high resolution and currently serve as a relatively popular platform for the detection of metals, nonmetals, semiconductors. However, in spite wonderful usability, there is startling lack IS implementation chemical sensor. Similarly, nanofluids (NFs) have gained more traction past decade since physical properties base ...

This presentation reports on recent progress the Linguistic Data Consortium has made in addressing the needs of multiple research communities by collecting, annotating and distributing, simplifying access and developing standards and tools. Specifically, it describes new trends in publication, a sample of recent projects and significant improvements to LDC Online that improve access to LDC data...

PURPOSE To compare outcomes of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients initiating therapy with FDC vs. those with loose-dose combination (LDC) or step therapy (ST) in a managed care population. DESIGN A retrospective claims database analysis. METHODOLOGY Treatment-naive T2DM patients who were continuously enrolled in a health plan during 2006-2009 were studied. Eligible patients were assig...

(b) merging result, (c) corresponding relational interpretation. (a) a region displaying several holes surrounded by a larger contour, (b) merging result. Fig. 13. Contour based decomposition : (a) initial region and associated contour, (b) result. Fig. 14. Illustration of final results : (a) initial image, (b) final contours, (c) final regions. Fig. 15. Illustration of final results, using a F...

Image recognition is one of the most important field in image processing that in recent decades had much attention .Due to expansion of related fields with image processing and various application of this science in machine vision, military science, geography, aerospace and artificial intelligence and lots of other aspects, out stand the importance of this subject.One of the most important aspe...

This paper presents a new method for extracting pedestrian contours from images using 2D and 3D information obtained from a stereo-vision acquisition system. Two pedestrian contour types are extracted. First is obtained from static pedestrian confidence images using fixed background scenes and second from general traffic scenes having variable background. A robust approach for building contour ...