Character detection in scenery images is a very difficult task. This paper describes a strategy of selecting character patterns for easier detection in scenery image. These character patterns, called conspicuous character patterns, are selected from character font sets according to a criterion that evaluates how the font has a larger distance from a non-character pattern distribution and, simul...

Consider a walker performing a random walk in an i.i.d. random environment, and assume that the walker tells us at each time the environment it sees at its present location. Given this history of the transition probabilities seen from the walker but not its trajectory can we reconstruct the law of the environment? We show that in a one-dimensional environment, the law of the environment can be ...

Due to unbalanced distribution of tourists during peak time, tourists are likely to highly flock in certain areas of scenery spots if imperfect organization and management. For this reason, there may be crowds or even trample accidents in addition to unrecoverable damages for the ecological environment in such areas. Therefore, the valid solution is to formulate scientific tourist diversion str...

Let (Zn)n∈N0 be a d-dimensional random walk in random scenery, i.e., Zn = ∑n−1 k=0 YSk with (Sk)k∈N0 a random walk in Z d and (Yz)z∈Zd an i.i.d. scenery, independent of the walk. We assume that the random variables Yz have a stretched exponential tail. In particular, they do not possess exponential moments. We identify the speed and the rate of the logarithmic decay of P( 1 nZn > tn) for all se...