The application of fuzzy clustering in image segmentation is a research hotspot nowadays. Existing robust have some problems such as the inability to adaptively select spatial constraint parameters, accurately segment images corrupted by high noise, and achieve balance between noise suppression detail preservation. In based on objective function optimization, choice distance measure very import...

3D action recognition has broad applications in human-computer interaction and intelligent surveillance. However, recognizing similar actions remains challenging since previous literature fails to capture motion and shape cues effectively from noisy depth data. In this paper, we propose a novel two-layer Bag-of-Visual-Words (BoVW) model, which suppresses the noise disturbances and jointly encod...

In this paper we address the problem of human activity modelling and recognition by means of a hierarchical representation of mined dense spatiotemporal features. At each level of the hierarchy, the proposed method selects feature constellations that are increasingly discriminative and characteristic of a specific action category, by taking into account how frequently they occur in that action ...

BACKGROUND Despite national policy recommending evidence-based practice (EBP), its application in social care has been limited. While local politicians can affect the process, little is known about their knowledge, attitudes and roles regarding EBP. The aim here is twofold: to explore the role of local politicians in the implementation of EBP in social care from both their own and a management ...

In this paper, we investigate the communication cost of reproducing Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) steering correlations arising from bipartite quantum systems. We characterize the set of bipartite quantum states which admits a local hidden state model augmented with c bits of classical communication from an untrusted party (Alice) to a trusted party (Bob). In case of one bit of information (c =...

The Local Wigner-Ville Distribution (LWVD) extends the Cohen's class time-frequency distributions (TFD) by the de nition of a kernel for each time-frequency point(local kernel). The subject of the paper is the determination of these local kernels for interference reduction. Starting from the simple idea of the local limitation of the Wigner-Ville TFD integral bounds, a method is presented to es...