We investigate line drawings as an alternative method to train an object detector. While traditional approaches rely on learning an object class from example images, we make use of abstraction provided by the artist. Our object class of choice are cats, posing a challenging detection problem by a variety of poses and appearances. In order to deal with this flexibility, and similar to part-based...

In this report, ultraviolet (UV) detectors were fabricated based on zinc oxide thin films. The epitaxial growth of zinc oxide thin films was carried out on bare glass substrate with preferred orientation to (002) plane of wurtzite structure through radio frequency sputtering technique. The structural properties indicated a dominant peak at 2θ=34.28º which was matched with JCPDS reference card N...

This quarter we primarily worked on optimizing the edge and line detectors incorporated in our image analysis software. We changed our optimization scenario and designed a metric for the evaluation procedure. With our optimized detectors, we achieved a match error rate of 29.3%, as well as a low level of insertion, on the test set 01 from the Pre-phase 01 image data. Meanwhile, we started inves...

This study set out to explore the impact of three levels of task planning on the accuracy of task-based oral performance with narrative task types among sixty Iranian sophomores majoring in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) at Islamic Azad University – Tabriz Branch. It was hypothesized that simultaneous pre-task/on-line planning would lead to more accurate performance. To test the ...

introduction today, there is a growing interest in the use of hadrontherapy as an advanced radiotherapy technique. hadrontherapy is considered a promising tool for cancer treatment, given its high radiobiological effectiveness and high accuracy of dose deposition due to the physical properties of hadrons. however, new radiation modalities of dose delivery and on-line beam monitoring play crucia...

Detecting intrusions early enough can be a challenging and expensive endeavor. While intrusion detection techniques exist for many types of vulnerabilities, deploying them all to catch the small number of vulnerability exploitations that might actually exist for a given system is not cost-effective. In this paper, we present FloGuard, an on-line intrusion forensics and on-demand detector select...