It is very challenging to accurately detect smoke from images because of large variances of smoke colour, textures, shapes and occlusions. To improve performance, the authors combine dual threshold AdaBoost with staircase searching technique to propose and implement an image smoke detection method. First, extended Haar-like features and statistical features are efficiently extracted from integr...

A STRUCTURED STAIRCASE ALGORITHM FOR SKEW-SYMMETRIC/SYMMETRIC PENCILS RALPH BYERS , VOLKER MEHRMANN , AND HONGGUO XU Abstract. We present structure preserving algorithms for the numerical computation of structured staircase forms of skew-symmetric/symmetric matrix pencils along with the Kronecker indices of the associated skew-symmetric/symmetric Kronecker-like canonical form. These methods all...

We discuss the electromagnetic measurements of rotating observers and study the propagation of electromagnetic waves in a uniformly rotating frame of reference. The phenomenon of helicity-rotation coupling is elucidated and some of the observational consequences of the coupling of the spin of a particle with the rotation of a gravitational source are briefly examined.

In this paper, band-pass filters based on the microstrip configuration and utilizing coupled defected ground structures are presented. The 50 Ω microstrip line has a gap discontinuity in the middle and characterized by stepped impedance resonators on either half. The four fractal geometries tested for defected ground are the first and second iterations of the modified Moore curve, the closed st...

UNLABELLED The nociceptive flexion reflex (NFR) is a physiological tool to study spinal nociception. However, NFR assessment can take several minutes and expose participants to repeated suprathreshold stimulations. The 4 studies reported here assessed the reliability and validity of a brief method to assess NFR threshold that uses a single ascending series of stimulations (Peak 1 NFR), by compa...

J. Cataliotti and A. Gilchrist (1995) reported that, consistent with anchoring theory, the lightness of a black step in a reflectance staircase was not altered by moving a white step from a remote to an adjacent location. Recently, E. Economou, S. Zdravkovic, and A. Gilchrist (2007) reported data supporting three additional predictions of the anchoring model (A. Gilchrist et al., 1999): 1) equi...

Although detection thresholds for odors are commonly measured in academic and medical settings, the influences of procedural factors on threshold values are poorly understood. The present study evaluated the influences of (i) trial sequence position and (ii) diluent type on the threshold value for the rose-like odorant phenyl ethyl alcohol. In Exp. 1, detection thresholds were measured in 24 su...

The art gallery problem asks for the smallest number of guards required to see every point of the interior of a polygon P . We introduce and study a similar problem called the chromatic art gallery problem. Suppose that two members of a finite point guard set S ⊂ P must be given different colors if their visible regions overlap. What is the minimum number of colors required to color any guard s...

A new calculus based on fractal subsets of the real line is formulated. In this calculus, an integral of order α, 0 < α ≤ 1, called F α-integral, is defined, which is suitable to integrate functions with fractal support F of dimension α. Further, a derivative of order α, 0 < α ≤ 1, called F α-derivative, is defined, which enables us to differentiate functions, like the Cantor staircase, " chang...

This thesis contributes to the Pathfinder project which aims at creating an XQuery compiler on top of a relational database system. Currently, it is being implemented on top of MonetDB, a main memory database system. For optimization and portability purposes, Pathfinder first compiles an XQuery expression into its own relational algebra, before translating the query into the query language of t...