The use of hyperspectral data is limited, in part, by increased spectral noise, particularly at the extremes of the wavelength ranges sensed by scanners. We apply Gaussian Processes (GPs) as a preprocessing step prior to extracting mineralogical information from the image using automated feature extraction. GPs are a probabilistic machine learning technique that we use for suppressing noise in ...

Much everyday knowledge about physical aspects of objects does not exist as computer data, though such computer-based knowledge will be needed to communicate with next generation voice-commanded personal robots as well in other applications involving visual scene recognition. The largest attempt at manually creating common-sense knowledge, the CYC project, has not yet produced the information n...

The development of broad domain statistical machine translation systems is gated by the availability of parallel data. A promising strategy for mitigating data scarcity is to mine parallel data from comparable corpora. Although comparable corpora seldom contain parallel sentences, they often contain parallel words or phrases. Recent fragment extraction approaches have shown that including paral...

More than 600 herbarium samples from four distantly related groups of flowering plants were used for DNA extraction and subsequent measurements of DNA purity and concentration. We did not find any significant relation between DNA purity and the age of the sample. However, DNA yields were different between plant groups studied. We believe that there there should be no reservations about "old" sa...

Based on the problem of large gas emission and serious accumulation in upper corner intensive fully mechanized caving face, taking face Wangjialing Coal Mine Hedong as research object, main sources extremely mining with low permeability content were studied. The methods extraction by inserting (burying) pipe directional drilling adopted carried out. application engineering practice comparative ...

The current problem of the production and processing heavy high-viscosity oils in Ukraine world has been considered. It established that main reserves crude are located South North America, Middle East, as well eastern regions. An analysis various classifications oils, which used both world, was carried out. extraction methods were considered, particular, quarry, mine, methods. overview technol...