The detection of directional couplings between dynamics based on measured spike trains is a crucial problem in the understanding of many different systems. In particular, in neuroscience it is important to assess the connectivity between neurons. One of the approaches that can estimate directional coupling from the analysis of point processes is the nonlinear interdependence measure L. Although...

Abs t rac t The optimal design parameters of classifiers for omni-font machine-printed numeral recognition based on the minimum classification error (MCE) criterion are determined experimentall y. The design parameters that influence the accuracy of an optical character reader (OCR) are: similarity measure (or distance measure), kinds of features, dimension of the feature vector, method of trai...

We present a new cycle flow based method for finding fuzzy partitions of weighted directed networks coming from time series data. We show that this method overcomes essential problems of most existing clustering approaches, which tend to ignore important directional information by considering only one-step, one-directional node connections. Our method introduces a novel measure of communication...

PURPOSE To measure the subjective and objective improvement of speech intelligibility in noise offered by a commercial hearing aid that uses a fully adaptive directional microphone and a noise reduction algorithm that optimizes the Speech Intelligibility Index (SII). RESEARCH DESIGN Comparison of results on the Hearing in Noise Test (HINT) and the Acceptable Noise Level task (ANL). STUDY SA...

Lovell and Rouse (LR) have recently proposed a modification of the standard DEA model that overcomes the infeasibility problem often encountered in computing super-efficiency. In the LR procedure one appropriately scales up the observed input vector (scale down the output vector) of the relevant superefficient firm thereby usually creating its inefficient surrogate. An alternative procedure pro...

due to their advantages, omni-directional mobile robots have found many applications especially in robotic soccer competitions. however, omni directional navigation system, omni-vision system and kicking mechanism in such mobile robots have not ever been combined. this situation brings the idea of a robot with no head direction into existence, a comprehensive omni directional mobile robot. such...

Map information is important for path planning and self-localization when mobile robots accomplish autonomous tasks. In unknown environments, mobile robots should generate an environment map by themselves. Then, we propose a method for construction of the 3D environment model by a mobile robot. The method is based on structure from motion. We use a single omni-directional camera to measure the ...

⎯An analysis of a 3 dB lumped-element directional coupler (LEDC) based on arbitrary terminal impedance is described numerically. To solve the conflicted requirement for broad bandwidth and small size in LEDC, a new structure of coupler is introduced, which can significantly improve bandwidth and whose size is only 3 cm×4 cm on the conditions of the frequency domain of 410 MHz to 490 MHz. The me...

In this study a directional output distance function which incorporates both desirable and undesirable output is employed to investigate the impact of privatization experienced by the Taiwan Motor Transport Company (TMTC). For the first time, we measure efficiency changes before and after privatization while treating transport risk as a joint but undesirable output. The empirical results demons...

Biometrics is used for authentication purpose. Among the various types of biometrics, fingerprint is the most widely accepted biometrics. Biometric systems have several advantages when compared to classical methods such as passwords. Biometric system is vulnerable to various types of attacks. This paper proposes a method to avoid the sensor level attack. This method uses limited ring wedge spec...