With the aim of pushing limiting magnitude interferometric instruments, need for wide-band detection channels and a coordinated operation different instruments has considerably grown in field long-baseline interferometry. For this reason, Center High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA), an array six telescopes, requires new configuration longitudinal dispersion compensators to keep fringe cont...

The detection of contours in noise has been extensively studied, but the detection of closed contours, such as the boundaries of whole objects, has received relatively little attention. Closed contours pose substantial challenges not present in the simple (open) case, because they form the outlines of whole shapes and thus take on a range of potentially important configural properties. In this ...

To improve performance of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) for fading channels, linear dispersion coded OFDM (LDC-OFDM) was recently proposed to increase frequency and time diversity with high bandwith efficiency and performance. The performance of recently proposed LDC-OFDM was investigated through simulations. This paper analyzes the diversity aspects of LDCOFDM system, and s...

This work is devoted to the estimation of rectilinear and distorted contours in images by high-resolution methods. In the case of rectilinear contours, it has been shown that it is possible to transpose this image processing problem to an array processing problem. The existing straight line characterization method called subspace-based line detection (SLIDE) leads to models with orientations an...

Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) at the University of Pennsylvania has participated as a data provider in a variety of governmentsponsored programs that support development of Human Language Technologies. As the number of projects increases, the quantity and variety of the data LDC produces have increased dramatically in recent years. In this paper, we describe the technical infrastructure, bot...

Active contour, or snake, is an energy minimizing spline that is useful in image boundary detection. Active contours are stimulated by internal forces, image forces and external forces which maintain the shape of the contours while attract the contours to some desired features, usually edges. Problems in implementing active contours such as convergence and initialization have motivated research...

In this paper, Artificial Neural Network, one of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques, for the Volt / Var control in power distribution systems with dispersed generation (DG) is proposed. Artificial neural networks have been considered due to their ability for real time control, simpler calculations and adaptability to different operating conditions. Neuro-controllers are much more effec...