Since the quality of compressed video is vulnerable to errors, video transmission over unreliable Internet is very challenging today. Two-Hypothesis Motion-Compensated Prediction (THMCP) has been shown to have Error Resilience (ER) capability for video transmission, where each macroblock is predicted from its previous two frames. In this paper, we propose a novel ER approach named Alternate Mot...

This study examines the capability of the Relevance Vector Machine (RVM) and Multivariate Adaptive Regression Spline (MARS) for prediction of ultimate capacity of driven piles and drilled shafts. RVM is a sparse method for training generalized linear models, while MARS technique is basically an adaptive piece-wise regression approach. In this paper, pile capacity prediction models are developed...

To improve recognition and generalization capability of back-propagation neural networks (BPNN), a hidden layer self-organization inspired by immune algorithm called SONIA, is proposed. B cell construction mechanism of immune algorithm inspires a creation of hidden units having local data recognition ability that improves recognition capability. B cell mutation mechanism inspires a creation of ...

Tumbling mill of thermal power plant, grinding the raw coal for the boiler, has high energy consumption, and pulverizing capability is usually used for representing the efficiency of tumbling mill. In the paper, a variable selection method for pulverizing capability prediction of tumbling mill based on improved hybrid genetic algorithm is proposed. Based on the tradition GA, the proposed method...

Preliminary prediction of escort tug capability aims to identify the maximum steering and braking forces could deliver during operations at sea. To this end, adoption a steady-state equilibrium approximation ensures attaining quick enough accurate results for initial design stage. Diverse techniques are suitable resolve equilibrium, with different simplification levels related limitations. In s...

the effects of different climatic, soil, geometric, and management factors on soil organic carbon (soc) degradation and sequestration potential was evaluated in the semi-arid zone of mereg watershed, west of iran. two nonparametric methods, viz. classification and regression tree (cart) and feed forward back propagation artificial neural network (ann) were compared with parametric multivariate ...

Failure prognostics requires an efficient prediction tool to be built. This task is as difficult as, in many cases, very few knowledge or previous experiences on the degradation process are available. Following that, practitioners are used to adopt a “trial and error” approach, and to make some assumptions when developing a prediction model: choice of an architecture, initialization of paramete...