A unified view on lifetime distributions arising from selection mechanisms

In this paper, we formulate a flexible density function from the selection mechanism viewpoint (see, for example, Bayarri and DeGroot (1992) and Arellano-Valle et al. (2006)) which possesses nice biological and physical interpretations. The new density function contains as special cases many models that have been proposed recently in the literature. In constructing this model, we assume that the number of competing causes of the event of interest has a general discrete distribution characterized by its probability generating function. This function has an important role in the selection procedure as well as in computing the conditional personal cure rate. Finally, we illustrate how various models can be deduced as special cases of the proposed model.     

Finding Hidden Events in Astrophysical Data using PCA and Mixture of Gaussians Clustering

The Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is applied to a set of astronomic data to obtain a separation between variations of luminosity and noisy fluctuations. A clustering with the Mixture of Gaussians method, performed in the principal subspace, allows us to classify the data according to the features of interest. Our results are compared with those obtained by the AGAPE (Andromeda Galaxy and Amplified Pixels Experiment) collaboration. Received: 22 December 2000, Received in revised form: 26 March 2001, Accepted: 20 April 2001     

A unified framework for document restoration using inpainting and shape-from-shading

We present a restoration framework to reduce undesirable distortions in imaged documents. Our framework is based on two components: (1) an image inpainting procedure that can separate non-uniform illumination (and other) artifacts from the printed content and (2) a shape-from-shading (SfS) formulation that can reconstruct the 3D shape of the document's surface. Used either piecewise or in its entirety, this framework can correct a variety of distortions including shading, shadow, ink-bleed, show-through, perspective and geometric distortions, for both camera-imaged and flatbed-imaged documents. Our overall framework is described in detail. In addition, our SfS formulation can be easily modified to target various illumination conditions to suit different real-world applications. Results on images of synthetic and real documents demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach. OCR results are also used to gauge the performance of our approach.     

A unified framework for designing textures using energy optimization

A unified framework is proposed for designing textures using energy optimization and deformation. Our interactive scheme has the ability to globally change the visual properties of texture elements, and locally change texture elements with little user interaction. Given a small sample texture, the design process starts with applying a set of global deformation operations (rotation, translation, mirror, scale and flip) to the sample texture to obtain a set of deformed textures automatically. Then we further make the local deformation to the deformed textures interactively by replacing the local-texture elements regions from other textures. By utilizing the energy optimization method, interactive selections and deformations of local-texture elements are accomplished simply through indicating the positions of texture elements very roughly with a brush tool. Finally the deformed textures are further utilized to create large textures with the fast layer-based texture deformation algorithm, and the wavelet-based energy optimization. Our experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach can help design a large variety of textures from a small example, change the locations of texture elements, increase or decrease the density of texture elements, and design cyclic marbling textures.     

A unified approach to shaft calculations using a microcomputer

This paper describes a program written for a microcomputer which allows shaft (or beam) calculations to be made for a wide range of geometrical, loading and support conditions. Expressions for generalized support conditions are developed including support flexibility and unloaded support misalignment. The program, occupying 6100 bytes of memory without problem data statements, is shown applied to a simple flexible support problem and to a complex paper-making machine shaft mounted on 21 supports.     

A scene description method using three-dimensional information

This paper presents a method for describing scenes with polyhedra and curved objects from three-dimensional data obtained by a range finder. A scene is divided into many surface elements consisting of several data points. The surface elements are merged together into regions. The regions are classified into three classes: plane, curved and undefined. The program extends the curved regions by merging adjacent curved and undefined regions. Thus the scene is described by plane regions and smoothly curved regions, which might be useful for the recognition of the objects. From the results obtained so far the program seems to achieve the desired goals.     

Synchronization of unified chaotic system via adaptive wavelet cerebellar model articulation controller

This study aims to propose a more efficient control algorithm for the chaotic system synchronization. In this study, a novel wavelet cerebellar model articulation controller (WCMAC) is proposed, which incorporates the wavelet decomposition property with a cerebellar model articulation controller (CMAC). This WCMAC is a generalization network; in some special cases, it can be reduced to a wavelet neural network, a neural network and a conventional CMAC. Then, an adaptive wavelet cerebellar model articulation control system (AWCCS) is proposed to synchronize a unified chaotic system. In this AWCCS, WCMAC is the main controller utilized to mimic a perfect controller and the parameters of WCMAC are online adjusted by the derived adaptive laws; and a compensation controller is designed to dispel the residual of the approximation error for achieving $ H^{\infty } $ robust performance. The derived AWCCS is then applied to the chaotic system synchronization control. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed control system is demonstrated through simulation results.     

一种双超球数据域描述模型

针对支持向量数据描述(SVDD)在训练学习时表现出的性能退化、鲁棒性差、分类间隔为零以及容易产生过学习等问题,提出一种双超球数据域描述(DSHDD)模型。在支持向量数据描述小包围球的基础上,设计一个大包围球,通过双包围球将数据分割成正常区域、异常区域、拒绝区域。实验结果验证了提出方法的适应性和有效性。     

A global structural optimization technique using an interval method

This paper deals with a global optimization scheme for structural systems that require finite element analysis to evaluate the constraints or the objective function. The paper proposes a strategy for finding the global optimum using an interval method in conjunction with a multipoint function approximation. The highly nonlinear and nonconvex objective and constraint functions are first represented in the design space using linear and adaptive local approximations and these approximations are blended globally with the use of proper weighting functions. The interval method is then employed to trace the global optimum in the approximated function space. The procedure is tested with several examples with known global solutions and it is successfully applied to optimize the fiber-orientation angles of laminated composite plates for minimum deflections. Received December 22, 2000     

A class of problems that can be solved using interval algorithms

The paper discusses several theoretical and implementational problems of interval branch-and-bound methods. A trial to define a class of problems that can be solved with such methods is done. Features and variants of the method are presented. Useful data structures and shared-memory parallelization issues are considered.     

A unified approach for detection of Clickbait videos on YouTube using cognitive evidences

Applied Intelligence - Clickbait is one of the form of false content, purposely designed to attract the user’s attention and make them curious to follow the link and read, view, or listen to...     

A unified group technology implementation using the backpropagation learning rule of neural networks

Two engineering problems in implementing Group Technology are part family formation and part classification. Regardless of the approach adopted for the formation and classification, a critical problem is how to maintain consistency. The consistency problem can be addressed most effectively if the formation and classification is a single procedure rather than two separate procedures. A feedforward neural network using the Backpropagation learning rule is adopted to automatically generate part families during the part classification process. The spontaneous generalization capability of the neural network is utilized in classifying the parts into the families and creating new families if necessary. A heuristic algorithm using the neural network is described with an illustrative example.     

A unified learning framework for object detection and classification using nested cascades of boosted classifiers

In this paper a unified learning framework for object detection and classification using nested cascades of boosted classifiers is proposed. The most interesting aspect of this framework is the integration of powerful learning capabilities together with effective training procedures, which allows building detection and classification systems with high accuracy, robustness, processing speed, and training speed. The proposed framework allows us to build state of the art face detection, eyes detection, and gender classification systems. The performance of these systems is validated and analyzed using standard face databases (BioID, FERET and CMU-MIT), and a new face database (UCHFACE).

A pair of operator summation formulas and their applications

Two types of symbolic summation formulas are reformulated using an extension of Mullin–Rota’s substitution rule in [R. Mullin, G.-C. Rota, On the foundations of combinatorial theory: III. Theory of binomial enumeration, in: B. Harris (Ed.), Graph Theory and its Applications, Academic Press, New York, London, 1970, pp. 167–213], and several applications involving various special formulas and identities are presented as illustrative examples.