Pattern Analysis and Applications - The pattern of spatial contrast discontinuities in natural images has been analysed in the present work, and based on it, a new adaptive model of the... 相似文献
The non-isothermal oxidation behavior of electrolytic-grade iron and Fe-Cr alloys in dry air has been studied using linear heating rates of 6 K/min, 10 K/ min, and 15 K/min up to a final temperature of 1273–1473 K. Some of the iron and iron-chromium alloy samples were given a surface treatment by dipping them in an aqueous solution containing both Cr and Al ions before their oxidation studies. This pretreatment has resulted in improved oxidation resistance and scale adherence as depicted by no scale rupture even after a second thermal cycle. Mass changes were recorded gravimetrically, and scales have been characterized by SEM, EPMA, and x-ray diffraction analyses. 相似文献
Subgraph querying has wide applications in various fields such as cheminformatics and bioinformatics. Given a query graph, q, a subgraph-querying algorithm retrieves all graphs, D(q), which have q as a subgraph, from a graph database, D. Subgraph querying is costly because it uses subgraph isomorphism tests, which are NP-complete. Graph indices are commonly used to improve the performance of subgraph querying in graph databases. Subgraph-querying algorithms first construct a candidate answer set by filtering out a set of false answers and then verify each candidate graph using subgraph isomorphism tests. To build graph indices, various kinds of substructure (subgraph, subtree, or path) features have been proposed with the goal of maximizing the filtering rate. Each of them works with a specifically designed index structure, for example, discriminative and frequent subgraph features work with gIndex, δ-TCFG features work with FG-index, etc. We propose Lindex, a graph index, which indexes subgraphs contained in database graphs. Nodes in Lindex represent key-value pairs where the key is a subgraph in a database and the value is a list of database graphs containing the key. We propose two heuristics that are used in the construction of Lindex that allows us to determine answers to subgraph queries conducting less subgraph isomorphism tests. Consequently, Lindex improves subgraph-querying efficiency. In addition, Lindex is compatible with any choice of features. Empirically, we demonstrate that Lindex used in conjunction with subgraph indexing features proposed in previous works outperforms other specifically designed index structures. As a novel index structure, Lindex (1) is effective in filtering false graphs (2) provides fast index lookups, (3) is fast with respect to index construction and maintenance, and (4) can be constructed using any set of substructure index features. These four properties result in a fast and scalable subgraph-querying infrastructure. We substantiate the benefits of Lindex and its disk-resident variation Lindex+ theoretically and empirically. 相似文献
Authors use images to present a wide variety of important information in documents. For example, two-dimensional (2-D) plots
display important data in scientific publications. Often, end-users seek to extract this data and convert it into a machine-processible
form so that the data can be analyzed automatically or compared with other existing data. Existing document data extraction
tools are semi-automatic and require users to provide metadata and interactively extract the data. In this paper, we describe
a system that extracts data from documents fully automatically, completely eliminating the need for human intervention. The
system uses a supervised learning-based algorithm to classify figures in digital documents into five classes: photographs,
2-D plots, 3-D plots, diagrams, and others. Then, an integrated algorithm is used to extract numerical data from data points
and lines in the 2-D plot images along with the axes and their labels, the data symbols in the figure’s legend and their associated
labels. We demonstrate that the proposed system and its component algorithms are effective via an empirical evaluation. Our
data extraction system has the potential to be a vital component in high volume digital libraries. 相似文献
Real-Time Systems - This paper presents results and observations from a survey of 120 industry practitioners in the field of real-time embedded systems. The survey provides insights into the... 相似文献
With the development of online social networking applications, microblogs have become a necessary online communication network in daily life. Users are interested in obtaining personalized recommendations related to their tastes and needs. In some microblog systems, tags are not available, or the use of tags is rare. In addition, user-specified social relations are extremely rare. Hence, sparsity is a problem in microblog systems. To address this problem, we propose a new framework called Pblog to alleviate sparsity. Pblog identifies users’ interests via their microblogs and social relations and computes implicit similarity among users using a new algorithm. The experimental results indicated that the use of this algorithm can improve the results. In online social networks, such as Twitter, the number of microblogs in the system is high, and it is constantly increasing. Therefore, providing personalized recommendations to target users requires considerable time. To address this problem, the Pblog framework groups similar users using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) method. Then, Pblog prunes microblogs of the target user group and recommends microblogs with higher ratings to the target user. In the experimental results section, the Pblog framework was compared with several other frameworks. All of these frameworks were run on two datasets: Twitter and Tumblr. Based on the results of these comparisons, the Pblog framework provides more appropriate recommendations to the target user than previous frameworks.
Spillways are hydraulic structures which transfer water to the downstream. Stepped spillways areseriously attended to, since they are highly efficient regarding energy dissipation. In this study, the flow pattern over stepped spillways was simulated with five different pool configurations. The VOF method was used to simulate the flow free surface, and K??(RNG) was employed to model turbulence. The results obtained fromthe numerical model were fairly consistent with the experimental results. The results demonstrated that theflow velocity and the residual head showed significant differences in the spillway width with regard to different pool configurations. The pool configuration in which the pools were installed as staggered configuration of flat and pooled steps showed the least residual head at the downstream and as a result the greatest energy dissipation. 相似文献