0957-4174/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2010.07.083 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +30 210 772 3128; fa E-mail addresses: [email protected] (N.A. noa.gr (I. Keramitsoglou), [email protected] (C.T. An innovative system for detecting and extracting vehicles in traffic surveillance scenes is presented. This system involves locating moving objects present in comple...

This paper describes the importance of GAIT Recognition where identification of human being from far distance without any sort of co-operation from his side is performed. Motive to develop automatic identification of human being using GAIT recognition method that to find an application which provide high security in places such as banking sector, military, parking slots. Work is performed on vi...

The increasing evidence for a role of developmental plasticity in evolution offers exciting prospects for testing interactions between ecological and developmental genetic processes. Recent advances with the model organism Pristionchus pacificus have provided inroads to a mechanistic understanding of a developmental plasticity. The developmental plasticity of P. pacificus comprises two disconti...

In this paper, we present a new method for detecting road users in an urban environment which leads to an improvement in multiple object tracking. Our method takes as an input a foreground image and improves the object detection and segmentation. This new image can be used as an input to trackers that use foreground blobs from background subtraction. The first step is to create foreground image...

Neuroevolution is a method for modifying neural network weights, topologies, or ensembles in order to learn a specific task. Evolutionary computation is used to search for network parameters that maximize a fitness function that measures performance in the task. Compared to other neural network learning methods, neuroevolution is highly general, allowing learning without explicit targets, with ...

It is a very natural habit of mankind to search for easy answers to hard problems. However, such discoveries are sufficiently rare to be on guard whenever a new one appears, and yet it is all too easy to allow the power of apparent convenience lure a sound mind from careful inspection of the solution. Thus, when Huberman and Clearwater [2, 6] discovered a market-based method for controlling a b...

As Grid computing is increasingly deployed and utilized in everyday scientific and (soon) business activities, the need increases for a persistent, user-centric, and flexible Grid security infrastructure. In particular, Grid entities (humans, organizations, and software artifacts) must be able to easily and safely access the security credentials under which they are authorized to operate. These...

There is no place on the Earth, the planet we live on, where the natural background radiation level is zero. Since the birth and even in our fetal stage, we have been exposed to different sources of natural radiation. Life, in fact, evolved in a radiation environment that was much more harsh than today. Earth serves as a source of terrestrial radiation. Uranium, thorium, and radium are among th...

One of the possible modes suggested for detecting the Higgs particle is pp → ZZ → ℓ + ℓ − ν ¯ ν, where the Higgs appears as a resonance on a Jacobian background. Unfortunately there are QCD background processes which mimic the final state and we are obliged to impose stringent kinematic cuts to remove them. However, in doing so we also remove a significant fraction of the signal. In this report...

The composite galaxy luminosity function (hereafter LF) of 39 Abell clusters of galaxies is derived by computing the statistical excess of galaxy counts in the cluster direction with respect to control fields. Due to the wide field coverage of the digitised POSS-II plates, we can measure field counts around each cluster in a fully homogeneous way. Furthermore, the availability of virtually unli...