An appropriate sampling method that provides for the representation of the collected material and the reliability of results plays a crucial role in environmental monitoring. This is especially important in soil quality investigations on sites with a differentiated surface microrelief, as in the case of afforested post-arable soils that have a specific, deep furrow-and-ridge microrelief. The pr...

Accurate estimation of ridge orientation is a critical step in image preprocessing methods used in automatic fingerprint identification systems (AFIS). Fingerprint orientation plays important roles in fingerprint enhancement, classification and recognition. The most popular is gradient-based method. This paper reviews the algorithm parameters, determining the compromise between accuracy in high...

This article proposes a novel solution for stretchy polynomial regression learning. The solution comes in primal and dual closed-forms similar to that of ridge regression. Essentially, the proposed solution stretches the covariance computation via a power term thereby compresses or amplifies the estimation. Our experiments on both synthetic data and real-world data show effectiveness of the pro...

In this paper, we propose a new ridge-type estimator called the new mixed ridge estimator (NMRE) by unifying the sample and prior information in linear measurement error model with additional stochastic linear restrictions. The new estimator is a generalization of the mixed estimator (ME) and ridge estimator (RE). The performances of this new estimator and mixed ridge estimator (MRE) against th...

Bilinear models have been proposed to separate the factors from the observations for joint factors identification or translation tasks. However, the performance of existing bilinear models may degrade under challenging conditions when local image information cannot be obtained caused by occlusions or image noises. In this paper, a novel sub-pattern bilinear model (SpBM) is proposed. Different f...

Due to the undulating terrain, earthwork estimation was very difficult in the planning and design of land consolidation projects in the hilly areas. A new approach was proposed to estimate the earthwork of sloped terraces according to map features of planning and design of land consolidation in this paper. It was achieved by applying digital elevation model (DEM) theory and statistical function...