Palmprint matching using feature points and SVD factorisation

In this paper, a new palmprint matching system based on the extraction of feature points is suggested. Using a scale-space representation, the points in question are corners formed by the intersection of creases and lines. Unlike minutiae, such points can still be extracted even on low resolution palmprints. Matching is carried out using an SVD factorisation of a proximity matrix and takes account of the coordinates of the detected points and their local texture. Our experiments have yielded some very good results evidenced by an EER of 0.10%.     

A new image fusion performance metric based on visual information fidelity

Because subjective evaluation is not adequate for assessing work in an automatic system, using an objective image fusion performance metric is a common approach to evaluate the quality of different fusion schemes. In this paper, a multi-resolution image fusion metric using visual information fidelity (VIF) is presented to assess fusion performance objectively. This method has four stages: (1) Source and fused images are filtered and divided into blocks. (2) Visual information is evaluated with and without distortion information in each block. (3) The visual information fidelity for fusion (VIFF) of each sub-band is calculated. (4) The overall quality measure is determined by weighting the VIFF of each sub-band. In our experiment, the proposed fusion assessment method is compared with several existing fusion metrics using the subjective test dataset provided by Petrovic. We found that VIFF performs better in terms of both human perception matching and computational complexity.     

Efficient bidirectional quantum secure communication with two-photon entanglement

An efficient bidirectional quantum secure communication protocol is proposed with two-photon entanglement. Compared with the previous protocol proposed by Shi et al., our protocol can achieve higher efficiency. Meanwhile, for the same length secret messages, only half of entangled photon pairs need to be prepared in our protocol. And the number of classical bits in public classical communication is also a half of that in the previous protocol. Moreover, the information leakage does not exist in our scheme.     

基于OCTEON芯片的高精度流回放系统的设计与实现

介绍网络多核处理器OCTEON和基于OCTEON开发的基本需求,讨论在Linux平台下基于该芯片开发高精度流回放系统的设计与实现过程,包括主机与OCTEON间PCI的通信,高精度流回放的时间戳实现,以及多个流同时回放的设计与实现。对该系统的性能测试表明,基于OCTEON的流回放实现高度并行并且高精度的处理,系统的实现对于在高速Gbps环境下的网络数据流检测、过滤与入侵检测系统具有很高的应用价值。     

创设情景,诱发学生的主动性

课堂教学是教师给学生传授知识和技能的全过程,如何让学激发学生的学习兴趣,培养学生学习的主动性非常重要.心理学研究表明,"兴趣是学生最好的老师",兴趣能使学生在愉悦的气氛中学习,唤起学生强烈的求知欲望,是教学成功的关健.     

Direct microscale imprinting of Al at room temperature with Si inserts

For direct imprinting of metals, hard materials such as diamond and SiC have been used to construct mold inserts in preference to Si, despite the ease in fabricating Si-based micro-/nano- scale structures. In this communication, we demonstrate that micron scale Al structures can be replicated with good fidelity at room temperature by compression molding with Si inserts without incurring insert damage. We further report on results of a finite element analysis of the mechanics of the molding process. The finite element results provide some understanding of the observed lack of damage to the Si inserts.     

Stability and control of nonlinear systems described by retarded functional equations: a review of recent results

This paper reports on recent results in a series of the work of the authors on the stability and nonlinear control for general dynamical systems described by retarded functional differential and difference equations. Both internal and external stability properties are studied. The corresponding Lyapunov and Razuminkhin characterizations for input-to-state and input-to-output stabilities are proposed. Necessary and sufficient Lyapunov-like conditions are derived for robust nonlinear stabilization. In particular, an explicit controller design procedure is developed for a new class of nonlinear time-delay systems. Lastly, sufficient assumptions, including a small-gain condition, are presented for guaranteeing the input-to-output stability of coupled systems comprised of retarded functional differential and difference equations.     

Web数据挖掘在个性化推荐服务的应用

随着Internet的迅速发展和普及,人们在网络上开展的活动也越来越多,尤其是电子商务的兴起,使得网上购物逐渐成为一种时尚.然而由于互联网上的信息量日益增长,人们面对这些庞大的信息感到无所适从,花费大量时间在搜寻信息上,因此如何为用户提供更好的服务变得非常迫切.本文以数据挖掘理论为基础,分析和探讨了关联规则挖掘算法并应用该方法实现web个性化推荐服务.     

Learning Image-Text Associations

Web information fusion can be defined as the problem of collating and tracking information related to specific topics on the World Wide Web. Whereas most existing work on Web information fusion has focused on text-based multidocument summarization, this paper concerns the topic of image and text association, a cornerstone of cross-media Web information fusion. Specifically, we present two learning methods for discovering the underlying associations between images and texts based on small training data sets. The first method based on vague transformation measures the information similarity between the visual features and the textual features through a set of predefined domain-specific information categories. Another method uses a neural network to learn direct mapping between the visual and textual features by automatically and incrementally summarizing the associated features into a set of information templates. Despite their distinct approaches, our experimental results on a terrorist domain document set show that both methods are capable of learning associations between images and texts from a small training data set.     

Shift-invariant interpattern association neural network

A shift-invariant neural network that uses the translation-invariant property of the modulus Fourier spectra with the heteroassociation interpattern association memory is proposed. A binary encoding of a spectral sampling of the training set is used to preserve the main features. Computer simulations and experimental demonstrations are provided that show the shift-invariant property of the proposed optical neural network.