Mobile multi-view object image search

High user interaction capability of mobile devices can help improve the accuracy of mobile visual search systems. At query time, it is possible to capture multiple views of an object from different viewing angles and at different scales with the mobile device camera to obtain richer information about the object compared to a single view and hence return more accurate results. Motivated by this, we propose a new multi-view visual query model on multi-view object image databases for mobile visual search. Multi-view images of objects acquired by the mobile clients are processed and local features are sent to a server, which combines the query image representations with early/late fusion methods and returns the query results. We performed a comprehensive analysis of early and late fusion approaches using various similarity functions, on an existing single view and a new multi-view object image database. The experimental results show that multi-view search provides significantly better retrieval accuracy compared to traditional single view search.     

Risk-sensitive control of Markov jump linear systems: Caveats and difficulties

In this technical note, we revisit the risk-sensitive optimal control problem for Markov jump linear systems (MJLSs). We first demonstrate the inherent difficulty in solving the risk-sensitive optimal control problem even if the system is linear and the cost function is quadratic. This is due to the nonlinear nature of the coupled set of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations, stemming from the presence of the jump process. It thus follows that the standard quadratic form of the value function with a set of coupled Riccati differential equations cannot be a candidate solution to the coupled HJB equations. We subsequently show that there is no equivalence relationship between the problems of risk-sensitive control and H ^∞ control of MJLSs, which are shown to be equivalent in the absence of any jumps. Finally, we show that there does not exist a large deviation limit as well as a risk-neutral limit of the risk-sensitive optimal control problem due to the presence of a nonlinear coupling term in the HJB equations.

     

A new supervised classification algorithm in artificial immune systems with its application to carotid artery Doppler signals to diagnose atherosclerosis

Because of its self-regulating nature, immune system has been an inspiration source for usually unsupervised learning methods in classification applications of Artificial Immune Systems (AIS). But classification with supervision can bring some advantages to AIS like other classification systems. Indeed, there have been some studies, which have obtained reasonable results and include supervision in this branch of AIS. In this study, we have proposed a new supervised AIS named as Supervised Affinity Maturation Algorithm (SAMA) and have presented its performance results through applying it to diagnose atherosclerosis using carotid artery Doppler signals as a real-world medical classification problem. We have employed the maximum envelope of the carotid artery Doppler sonograms derived from Autoregressive (AR) method as an input of proposed classification system and reached a maximum average classification accuracy of 98.93% with 10-fold cross-validation method used in training-test portioning. To evaluate this result, comparison was done with Artificial Neural Networks and Decision Trees. Our system was found to be comparable with those systems, which are used effectively in literature with respect to classification accuracy and classification time. Effects of system's parameters were also analyzed in performance evaluation applications. With this study and other possible contributions to AIS, classification algorithms with effective performances can be developed and potential of AIS in classification can be further revealed.     

基于消息通信的同步协同设计技术

协同设计是CSCW在设计工作中的应用,协同设计工具应当有效地支持分布式产品开发,为协作用户提供在线的、实时的协同讨论和问题求解的环境。本文着重研究协同感知的同步协同设计技术。文章首先分析同步协同设计系统的功能模型,将同步协同设计系统划分成四个层次－－网络层、通信层、协作层和应用层,然后提出一个C／S结构的同步协同设计原型系统,并详细地讨论基于消息通信的显示同步和造型同步实现机制,可以较好地解决Internet网络环境下的实时性问题。     

新型方波-直流电压信号的转换方法

围绕CCD(电荷耦合器件 )线阵在控制电路中的应用的难点 (如何将CCD输出的原始信号经过初步处理后所得的方波信号转换成直流电压信号 )进行了讨论和分析。首先介绍了两种传统的转换方法 ,并对这两种方法的优缺点进行了分析和比较。最后提出了一种新颖的转换方法 :基于滤波思想的方波 -直流电压信号的转换方法。经实验验证 ,这种方法所得的直流电压信号确实稳定、可靠     

KJ2005煤井监控系统软件的设计与实现*

针对目前中小型煤井的需求,结合计算机技术和网络技术,采用模块化设计在VC++ 6.0下开发了KJ2005煤井监控系统。对该软件的主要模块进行了简单介绍,并详细介绍了其串口通信接口程序的设计,给出了部分通信源码。应用表明,该系统简单、实用,能及时为用户提供准确信息,能动地减少了事故发生。     

Using difference intervals for time-varying isosurface visualization

We present a novel approach to out-of-core time-varying isosurface visualization. We attempt to interactively visualize time-varying datasets which are too large to fit into main memory using a technique which is dramatically different from existing algorithms. Inspired by video encoding techniques, we examine the data differences between time steps to extract isosurface information. We exploit span space extraction techniques to retrieve operations necessary to update isosurface geometry from neighboring time steps. Because only the changes between time steps need to be retrieved from disk, I/O bandwidth requirements are minimized. We apply temporal compression to further reduce disk access and employ a point-based previewing technique that is refined in idle interaction cycles. Our experiments on computational simulation data indicate that this method is an extremely viable solution to large time-varying isosurface visualization. Our work advances the state-of-the-art by enabling all isosurfaces to be represented by a compact set of operations.