An automatic human cell detection system is proposed in this article. Histograms of Oriented Gradients are used for cell feature extraction. A robust search procedure, using variable sized sliding windows, is performed for cell localization in grayscale images. The proposed sliding-window based search algorithm is used in combination with a non-linear SVM-based feature vector classification tec...

The conventional sliding window (CSW) method has long been used in video segmentation for its adaptive thresholding technique. A hard cut is detected based on the ratio between the current feature value and its local neighborhood in the sliding window. Yet it has a relatively high rate of false alarm and missed cuts. This paper proposes an improved sliding window method which employs multi adap...

In order to detect outliers in temperature time series data for improving data quality and decision-making quality related to design and operation, we proposed an algorithm based on sliding window prediction. Firstly, the time series are segmented based on the sliding window. Then, the prediction model is established based on the history data to predict the future value. If the difference betwe...

In cognitive radio based cooperative sensing systems, some secondary users are likely to act malicious. Such secondary users are called malicious users. An optimal application of Dixon's outlier detection scheme for detecting malicious users in a cognitive radio cooperative spectrum sensing system has recently been termed as the Sliding Window Dixon's test. The Sliding window Dixon's test appli...

The m-ary method for computing x E partitions the bits of the integer E into words of constant length, and then performs as many multiplications as there are nonzero words. Variable length partitioning strategies have been suggested to reduce the number of nonzero words, and thus, the total numb e r o f m ultiplications. Algorithms for exponentiation using such partitioning strategies are terme...

The banking industry has initiated an assortment of new customer services and products using Information Technology (IT) systems. The banking industry has gone through many modifications as a consequence of the introduction of IT. In fact, the configuration of the industry is incessantly altering because of speedy expansion of IT. The sustained accomplishment of IT applications means that the b...

Several rounds of banking reforms in China have aimed to increase the competitive condition and further enhance stability in the Chinese banking sector, while the joint effects of competition and risk-taking behaviour on the profitability in the banking sector have not been studied well enough so far in the literature. The current study contributes to the empirical literature by testing the imp...

The aim of this paper is to estimate the efficiency of the Slovak commercial banks employing the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) window analysis approach during the period 20032012. The research is based on unbalanced panel data of the Slovak commercial banks. Undesirable output was included into analysis of banking efficiency. It was found that most efficient banks were Postovabanka, UniCredit...

This paper looks at the industrial organization of the investment banking industry. Longterm relationships between business firms and investment banks are pervasive in developed security markets. A vast literature argues that better monitoring and information result from relationships. Thus, security markets should allocate resources better when an investment banking industry exists. We study n...

The banking industry has been a pioneer in adopting electronic markets with exchanges, clearinghouses, and multilateral trading facilities having become the backbone of today’s globally integrated financial transactions. While most banks use the services of these electronic markets to handle interbank processes, they still strive for bilateral relations in the field of customer-facing processes...