Factors influencing feature usage in work-related communication

Two studies are presented. The first aimed to identify possible barriers to the uptake and use of commonly available telephony features and to determine whether greater knowledge of features/access codes and availability of user manuals could increase feature usage under certain conditions. Results showed that feature-usage patterns were not affected by any of the manipulations, but that they were determined by specific job demands. Using Constantine and Lockwood's (1999) conceptualization of user roles, a method to support feature bundling decisions for specific target markets was developed and tested in the second study. The method - Strategic User Needs Analysis (SUNA) - was shown to yield a useful balance between high- and low-level information about selected roles. SUNA provided sufficient information to distinguish between PDA feature usage patterns of two similar target user groups as well as to suggest additional features each of the two target groups would find useful. The development of SUNA and observational findings of actual PDA usage are reported.     

MALL在中国的现状及其建筑设计要点

该文介绍了Mall的产生条件和国内发展概况，并结合实例分析，着重论述建筑设计方面的有关问题。     

Application of the blind source separation method to feature extraction of machine sound signals

As the result of vibration emission in air, a machine sound signal carries important information about the working condition of machinery. But in practice, the sound signal is typically received with a very low signal-to-noise ratio. To obtain features of the original sound signal, uncorrelated sound signals must be removed and the wavelet coefficients related to fault condition must be retrieved. In this paper, the blind source separation technique is used to recover the wavelet coefficients of a monitored source from complex observed signals. Since in the proposed blind source separation (BSS) algorithms it is generally assumed that the number of sources is known, the Gerschgorin disk estimator method is introduced to determine the number of sound sources before applying the BSS method. This method can estimate the number of sound sources under non-Gaussian and non-white noise conditions. Then, the partial singular value analysis method is used to select these significant observations for BSS analysis. This method ensures that signals are separated with the smallest distortion. Afterwards, the time-frequency separation algorithm, converted to a suitable BSS algorithm for the separation of a non-stationary signal, is introduced. The transfer channel between observations and sources and the wavelet coefficients of the source signals can be blindly identified via this algorithm. The reconstructed wavelet coefficients can be used for diagnosis. Finally, the separation results obtained from the observed signals recorded in a semi-anechoic chamber demonstrate the effectiveness of the presented methods .     

Target differentiation with simple infrared sensors using statistical pattern recognition techniques

This study compares the performances of various statistical pattern recognition techniques for the differentiation of commonly encountered features in indoor environments, possibly with different surface properties, using simple infrared (IR) sensors. The intensity measurements obtained from such sensors are highly dependent on the location, geometry, and surface properties of the reflecting feature in a way that cannot be represented by a simple analytical relationship, therefore complicating the differentiation process. We construct feature vectors based on the parameters of angular IR intensity scans from different targets to determine their geometry and/or surface type. Mixture of normals classifier with three components correctly differentiates three types of geometries with different surface properties, resulting in the best performance (100%) in geometry differentiation. Parametric differentiation correctly identifies six different surface types of the same planar geometry, resulting in the best surface differentiation rate (100%). However, this rate is not maintained with the inclusion of more surfaces. The results indicate that the geometrical properties of the targets are more distinctive than their surface properties, and surface recognition is the limiting factor in differentiation. The results demonstrate that simple IR sensors, when coupled with appropriate processing and recognition techniques, can be used to extract substantially more information than such devices are commonly employed for.     

CAD与CAPP集成研究回转体类零件特征识别

本文研究了回转体轴类,轴套类零件的特征识别。对这类零件常用的特征单元进行了定义,描述了这类零件的特征模型:介绍了它的识别方法和特征参数定义方法。     

可信性空间上基于复模糊变量的学习理论的关键定理

给出了可信性测度空间上复模糊变量定义及一些性质;给出了复模糊变量的经验风险泛函、期望风险泛函以及经验风险最小化原则严格一致收敛的定义。在此基础上给出并证明了基于复模糊变量的学习理论的关键定理,为系统建立可信性空间上的复统计学习理论奠定了理论基础。     

Locally linear discriminant embedding: An efficient method for face recognition

In this paper an efficient feature extraction method named as locally linear discriminant embedding (LLDE) is proposed for face recognition. It is well known that a point can be linearly reconstructed by its neighbors and the reconstruction weights are under the sum-to-one constraint in the classical locally linear embedding (LLE). So the constrained weights obey an important symmetry: for any particular data point, they are invariant to rotations, rescalings and translations. The latter two are introduced to the proposed method to strengthen the classification ability of the original LLE. The data with different class labels are translated by the corresponding vectors and those belonging to the same class are translated by the same vector. In order to cluster the data with the same label closer, they are also rescaled to some extent. So after translation and rescaling, the discriminability of the data will be improved significantly. The proposed method is compared with some related feature extraction methods such as maximum margin criterion (MMC), as well as other supervised manifold learning-based approaches, for example ensemble unified LLE and linear discriminant analysis (En-ULLELDA), locally linear discriminant analysis (LLDA). Experimental results on Yale and CMU PIE face databases convince us that the proposed method provides a better representation of the class information and obtains much higher recognition accuracies.     

基于先验知识的月球车视觉系统特征提取方法

为了满足月面巡视探测器的自主导航要求。提出一种新的基于先验知识的特征点提取算法。首先,根据先验知识对原始图像进行预分割成危险区域和安全区域,然后在危险区域里面进行特征点的选取工作,对特征点用于以后的匹配和目标定位,进而用于视觉系统的导航工作。与传统算法相比,提取方法可以有效减少计算量,使选取特征点更加准确,提高后续匹配阶段的处理速度和匹配精度。在模拟试验场的双目视觉照片中,通过实验取得较好的效果。     

蛋白质亚细胞定位预测的机器学习方法

蛋白质亚细胞定位与其功能密切相关.蛋白质在细胞中的正确定位是细胞系统高度有序运转的前提保障.研究细胞中蛋白质定位的机制和规律,预测蛋白质的亚细胞定位,时于了解蛋白质的性质和功能,了解蛋白质之间的相互作用,探索生命的规律和奥秘具有重要意义.基于机器学习方法的蛋白质亚细胞定位预测是生物信息学研究的热点之一.从数据集的建立、蛋白质序列特征刻画和蛋白质亚细胞定位预测算法3个方面,总结和评述了在过去十几年里机器学习方法在蛋白质亚细胞定位研究中的应用情况和取得的成果,分析了机器学习方法在蛋白质亚细胞定位预测方面存在的问题和面临的挑战,指出了蛋白质亚细胞定位研究的主要方向.