Multiple human tracking in drone image

Multimedia Tools and Applications - Object tracking, especially human tracking is one of the challenging research problems in computer vision. Although the performance has gained some positive...     

Correction to: A comprehensive evaluation of availability and operational cost for a virtualized server system using stochastic reward nets

The Journal of Supercomputing - The section “Acknowledgement” was incorrect in the original article. The correct section “Acknowledgement” is given below.     

Evaluation of multiple features for violent scenes detection

Multimedia Tools and Applications - Violent scenes detection (VSD) is a challenging problem because of the heterogeneous content, large variations in video quality, and complex semantic meanings of...     

THE VALIDATION OF THE ROBUST INPUT ESTIMATION APPROACH TO TWO-DIMENSIONAL INVERSE HEAT CONDUCTION PROBLEMS

A novel adaptive and robust input estimation inverse methodology of estimating the time-varying unknown heat flux, named as the input, on the two active boundaries of a 2-D inverse heat conduction problem is presented. The algorithm includes using the Kalman filter to propose a regression model between the residual innovation and the two thermal unknown boundaries flux through given 2-D heat conduction state-space models and noisy measurement sequence. Based on this regression equation, a recursive least-square estimator (RLSE) weighted by the forgetting factor is proposed to on-line estimate these unknowns. The adaptive and robust weighting technique is essential since unknowns input are time-varied and have unpredictable changing status. In this article, we provide the bandwidth analysis together with bias and variance tests to construct an efficient and robust forgetting factor as the ratio between the standard deviation of measurement and observable bias innovation at each time step. Herein, the unknowns are robustly and adaptively estimated under the system involving measurement noise, process error, and unpredictable change status of time-varying unknowns. The capabilities of the proposed algorithm are demonstrated through the comparison with the conventional input estimation algorithm and validated by two benchmark performance tests in 2-D cases. Results show that the proposed algorithm not only exhibits superior robust capability but also enhances the estimation performance and highly facilitates practical implementation.     

复合热稳定剂对绝缘纸协同抗老化效应的分子模拟研究

为了从微观层面探究热稳定剂的复合添加对绝缘纸协同抗热老化特性的影响机理,以双氰胺、三聚氰胺为热稳定剂研究对象,对老化过程中的热稳定剂、β-D-吡喃葡萄糖分子、水分子和小分子酸等进行了量子化学计算,利用前线轨道理论考察了不同分子之间的化学反应活性。此外,采用分子动力学模拟软件,搭建了末添加、单一添加和复合添加热稳定剂的四种纤维素含水含酸模型,从纤维素与水分子、蚁酸分子的氢键结合数、相互作用能这两个方面考察了不同改性体系的差异及抗老化性能差异的机理。结果表明:热稳定剂分子与水分子、小分子酸的化学反应活性要强于β-D-吡喃葡萄糖分子与这些物质的反应活性;两种热稳定剂分子分别与水分子、小分子酸的反应活性存在差异,复合添加可以集中二者的优势,起到协同延缓绝缘纸老化的效果;双氰胺与三聚氰胺的复合添加在降低纤维素分子对水分子、蚁酸分子的吸附能力上存在协同作用。     

Performance analysis of cooperative spatial multiplexing networks with AF/DF relaying and linear receiver over Rayleigh fading channels

Cooperative spatial multiplexing (CSM) system has played an important role in wireless networks by offering a substantial improvement in multiplexing gain compared with its cooperative diversity counterpart. However, there is a limited number of research works that consider the performance of CSM systems. As such, in this paper, we have derived exact performance of CSM with amplify‐and‐forward and decode‐and‐forward relays in terms of outage capacity and ergodic capacity. We have shown that CSM systems yield a unity diversity order regardless of the number of antennas at the destination and the number of relays in the networks, which is the direct result of diversity and multiplexing gain trade‐off. Our analytical expressions are corroborated by Monte‐Carlo simulations. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Cognitive amplify‐and‐forward relay networks with beamforming under primary user power constraint over Nakagami‐m fading channels

In this paper, we analyze the performance of cognitive amplify‐and‐forward (AF) relay networks with beamforming under the peak interference power constraint of the primary user (PU). We focus on the scenario that beamforming is applied at the multi‐antenna secondary transmitter and receiver. Also, the secondary relay network operates in channel state information‐assisted AF mode, and the signals undergo independent Nakagami‐m fading. In particular, closed‐form expressions for the outage probability and symbol error rate (SER) of the considered network over Nakagami‐m fading are presented. More importantly, asymptotic closed‐form expressions for the outage probability and SER are derived. These tractable closed‐form expressions for the network performance readily enable us to evaluate and examine the impact of network parameters on the system performance. Specifically, the impact of the number of antennas, the fading severity parameters, the channel mean powers, and the peak interference power is addressed. The asymptotic analysis manifests that the peak interference power constraint imposed on the secondary relay network has no effect on the diversity gain. However, the coding gain is affected by the fading parameters of the links from the primary receiver to the secondary relay network. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Natural Palm Olein Polyol as a Replacement for Polyether Polyols in Viscoelastic Polyurethane Foam

The impact of replacing three polyether polyols with different levels of a single palm olein‐based natural oil polyol (NOP) was systematically correlated with the changes in foaming reactivity, cell structure, physico‐mechanical properties, and morphology of viscoelastic (VE) foams. The data show that replacing the polyether polyols with the NOP slightly increased the rate of the foaming reactivity. Increasing the NOP content resulted in increased cell size and cells remained fully open. Increased NOP content contributed to higher load bearing properties of VE foam, which can be attributed to higher functionality of NOP compared to polyether polyols. Addition of the NOP slightly increased the resilience of the foams, however, the hysteresis which is the measure of energy absorption remained mostly unaffected. Age properties, characterized by dry and humid compression sets, were mostly unaffected by the replacement of the polyether polyol with the NOP. The addition of NOP did not impact the morphology of the VE foam polymer matrix, which appears to retain a low degree of hard and soft segment domain separation. Overall, the results demonstrate a feasibility that the NOP can be used to partially replace the polyether polyols in VE polyurethane foams without significant impact on the functional performance.