0 Theorem 4, unlike Theorem 2, is not a s'pecial case of a known general result: it is not known if the statement of Theorem 4 holds for twoaccess channels that are not pairwise reversible. There is a converse to Theorem 4: For any fixed rate strictly inside R o , there exists a code with that rate for which X I 1 + o(N). This result holds for general twoaccess channels, and is proved by random...

A new advanced system for Ultrasonic Peening (UP) of materials, details and welded elements was developed recently. The UP produces a number of beneficial effects in metals and alloys. Foremost among these is increasing the resistance of materials to surface-related failures, such as fatigue, fretting fatigue and stress corrosion cracking. The beneficial effect is achieved mainly by relieving o...

In the present communication, we have obtained the optimum probability distribution with which the messages should be delivered so that the average redundancy of the source is minimized. Here, we have taken the case of various generalized mean codeword lengths. Moreover, the upper bound to these codeword lengths has been found for the case of Huffman encoding.

We derive the expression of an optimum non-Gaussian radar detector from the non-Gaussian spherically invariant random process (SIRP) clutter model and a bayesian estimator of the SIRP characteristic density. SIRP modelizes non-Gaussian process as a complex Gaussian process whose variance, the so-called texture, is itself a positive random variable (r.v.). After performing a bayesian estimation ...

A system is presented for transform coding of imagery. Specifically, the system uses the 2-D discrete cosine transform (DCT) in conjunction with adaptive classification, entropy-constrained trelliscoded quantization, optimal rate allocation, and adaptive arithmetic encoding. Adaptive classification, side rate reduction, and rate allocation strategies are discussed. Entropy-constrained codebooks...

Robust and accurate tracking of multiple objects is a key challenge in video surveillance. Tracking algorithms generally suffer from either one or more of the following problems, excluding detection errors. First, objects can be incorrectly interpreted as one of the other objects in the scene. Second, interactions between objects, such as occlusions, may cause tracking errors. Third, globally-o...

An offline handwritten signature classification approach is presented. The signature is parameterized using the radius values for contour points in the polar coordinates space. In order to determine the optimum outline for the classification task, nearest and faraway points were took into account. HMM and SVMLight model are analyzed in this work. Selecting faraway points offers better results, ...

The market for private life annuities is characterised by adverse selection, that is, contracts offer lower than fair payoffs to individuals with low life expectancy. Moreover, life expectancy and income have been found to be positively correlated. The paper shows that a linear tax on annuity payoffs, which raises more revenues from long-living individuals than from short-living, represents an ...

A currency area can be a self-validating optimal policy regime, even when monetary unification does not foster real economic integration and intra-industry trade. In our model firms choose the degree of exchange rate pass-through onto export prices accounting for expected monetary policies, and monetary authorities choose optimal policy rules taking firms’ pass-through as given. We show that th...