Top-k dominating queries combine the advantages of top-k queries and skyline queries, and eliminate their disadvantages. They return k objects with the highest domination score, which is defined as the number of dominated objects. As a top-k query, the user can bound the number of returned results through the parameter k, and like a skyline query a user-selected scoring function is not required...

Image reconstruction from a fiducial collection of scale space interest points and attributes (e.g. in terms of image derivatives) can be used to make the amount of information contained in them explicit. Previous work by various authors includes both linear and non-linear image reconstruction schemes. In this paper, the authors present new results on image reconstruction using a top point repr...

Facial appearance evokes robust impressions of other people's personality traits. Recent research suggests that the trait space arising from face-based impressions shifts due to context and social cognitive factors. We suggest a novel framework in which multiple bottom-up and top-down processes mutually determine a dynamic rather than fixed trait space.

We discuss the decays of the lightest scalar top quark t̃1 in the Minimal Supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model and show that the final state bτντχ 0 1, where χ01 is the lightest supersymmetric particle, can be dominant in a significant area of the parameter space, in particular in the high tan β regime. We then analyze the prospects for discovering relatively light scalar top quarks ac...

Fig 2: Reconstructions using different numbers of projections (Np) starting from the beginning of contrast uptake, i.e. projections 1 to 32, projections 1 to 64 etc, for golden angle (top row) and sequential (bottom row) radial data. The plots (right column) show the signal time course from the centre of k-space projections 1 to 201 for golden angle (top) and sequential (bottom) data. Golden An...

Fig. 2 Comparison of in vivo gradient echo images using conventional regridding (top), GROWL reconstruction without (middle) and with (bottom) regularization. Reduction factor R is shown at the top-left corner of each panel, while numbers at the bottom-right corners are normalized error percentage from the gold-standard (R=1, 256 view) image. For GROWL, the number of parallel k-space lines with...

Given a topological space X and a complete lattice L, we study the space of L-predicates F L (X) = X ! L op ] op , continuous maps from X to L op in its Scott-topology. It yields a functor F L () from TOP-L, a full subcategory of TOP subsuming continuous domains, to SUP, the category of complete sup-lattices and maps preserving suprema. Elements of F 2 (X) are continuous predicates (= closed se...

Human detection is a key component in fields such as advanced driving assistance and video surveillance. However, even detecting non-occluded standing humans remains a challenge of intensive research. Finding good features to build human models for further detection is probably one of the most important issues to face. Currently, shape, texture and motion features have deserve extensive attenti...