An approach to vision-based vehicle localization by viewing corridors as a combination of right parallelepipeds is proposed. The objective is to derive the orientation and lateral position of a vehicle in a right parallelepiped corridor. These two kinds of information are all that is needed for vehicles to navigate safely in a right parallelepiped corridor. This approach offers low hardware cos...

A detailed experimental investigation of wall fires in a channel was conducted to study the heat fluxes under ceiling. Various burner aspect ratios and fire release rates were employed simulate different scenarios. The effect source-ceiling height also examined. results show that distribution flux ceiling from on rectangular burners significantly influenced by ratio. As ratio increased, at give...

Automatic music transcription is considered by many to be the Holy Grail in the field of music signal analysis. However, the performance of transcription systems is still significantly below that of a human expert, and accuracies reported in recent years seem to have reached a limit, although the field is still very active. In this paper we analyse limitations of current methods and identify pr...

This paper motivates and develops a nonlinear extension of the Vector Autoregressive model which we call the Vector Floor and Ceiling model. Bayesian and classical methods for estimation and testing are developed and compared in the context of an application involving U.S. macroeconomic data. In terms of statistical signi ̄cance both classical and Bayesian methods indicate that the (Gaussian) li...

Although IPC has become really fast it is still too slow on certain processors. Two examples motivating even faster IPC, critical sections in real-time applications and multi-threaded servers, are briefly discussed below. Critical sections in real-time applications suffer from the wellknown priority-inversion problem [7]. Multiple solutions have been proposed, e.g. priority inheritance (which i...

This research aims to reveal the relationship between queen bee syndrome, glass ceiling and resilience. Accordingly, answer question regarding female teachers’ views on factors that affect The tested theoretical model which shows resilience were modeled. was modified by removing dimensions of family life, self confidence stereotyped biases related ceiling. Having a relational survey model, used...