Region matching finding conjugate regions on a pair of images plays a fundamental role in computer vision. Indeed, such methods have numerous applications such as indexation, motion estimation or tracking. In the vast literature on the subject, several dissimilarity measures have been proposed in order to determine the true match for each region. In this paper, under statistical hypothesis of s...

Textual entailment has been proposed as a unifying generic framework for modeling language variability and semantic inference in different Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. This paper presents a novel statistical method for recognizing Chinese textual entailment in which lexical, syntactic with semantic matching features are combined together. In order to solve the problems of syntactic ...

Abstract Native-range thermal constraints may not reflect the geographical distributions of species introduced from native island ranges in part due to rapid physiological adaptation new environments. Correlative ecological niche models thus underestimate potential invasive islands. The northern curly-tailed lizard (Leiocephalus carinatus) is established Florida, including populations north its...

AIM To test a priori hypotheses concerning client-treatment matching in the treatment of alcohol problems and to evaluate the more general hypothesis that client-treatment matching adds to the overall effectiveness of treatment. DESIGN Pragmatic, multi-centre, randomized controlled trial (the UK Alcohol Treatment Trial: UKATT) with open follow-up at 3 months after entry and blind follow-up at...

An efficient and simple method for matching image features to a model is presented. It is designed to indoor mobile robot self-location. It is a two stage method based on interpretation tree search approach and using straight line correspondences. In the first stage a set of matching hypothesis is generated. Exploiting the specificity of the mobile robotics context, the global interpretation tr...

The effects of different temperatures and diets experienced during distinct life stages are not necessarily similar. The silver-spoon hypothesis predicts that developing under favorable conditions will always lead to better performing adults under all adult conditions. The environment-matching hypothesis suggests that a match between developmental and adult conditions will lead to the best perf...