There are many published methods for detecting similar and near-duplicate images. Here, we consider their use in the context of unsupervised near-duplicate detection, where the task is to find a (relatively small) nearduplicate intersection of two large candidate sets. Such scenarios are of particular importance in forensic near-duplicate detection. The essential properties of a such a function...

S. Pujol, C-F. Westin, R. Whitaker, G. Gerig, T. Fletcher, V. Magnotta, S. Bouix, R. Kikinis, W. M. Wells III, and R. Gollub Surgical Planning Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States, Laboratory of Mathematics in Imaging, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, University of...

an aerobic, meophilic and lipolitic bacillus.sp bacterium (lipase activity 40 u/ml) was isolated from the olive extract. this isolate was identified based on morphological and biochemical characterization and 16s rrna gene sequence. effect of the solid substrate (pomegranate seed ground, grape seed ground and coriander seed ground as a solid substrate), the substrate particle size, moisture con...

The rapid deployment of smartphones has led to a wide adoption of wireless communication systems such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Both techniques leak information to the surroundings during operation. This information has been used in literature for estimating pedestrian flows, b ut t he c orrelation t o g round truth has not yet been evaluated. Thus, a reliable deployment in real world scenarios i...

Figure 1: Framework overview. An image sequence is rendered and passed to the evaluated VSLAM system. A log of the systems operation is created and processed by the evaluation system. From the known scene structure and trajectory, the log is used to compute a sparse ground truth feature map, as well as ground truth (or rather “ideal”) measurements. Finally, plot data is generated comparing esti...

A. Spyrou,1,2,* J. K. Smith,1,2 T. Baumann,1 B. A. Brown,1,2 J. Brown,3 G. Christian,1,2 P. A. DeYoung,4 N. Frank,5 S. Mosby,1,2 W. A. Peters,6,† A. Schiller,7 M. J. Strongman,1 M. Thoennessen,1,2 and J. A. Tostevin8 1National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA 2Department of Physics & Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lan...

The purpose of this paper is to present a fast, economical and practical method for mathematical modeling of aerodynamic characteristics of rectangular wing-in-ground effect (WIG). Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations were converted to Bernoulli equation by reasonable assumptions. Also Helmbold's equation was developed for calculation of the slope of wing lift coefficient in ground ...

Most current vision algorithms deliver their output ‘as is’, without indicating whether it is correct or not. In this paper we propose evaluator algorithms that predict if a vision algorithm has succeeded. We illustrate this idea for the case of Human Pose Estimation (HPE). We describe the stages required to learn and test an evaluator, including the use of an annotated ground truth dataset for...

Data can be acquired, shared, and processed by an increasingly larger number of entities, in particular people. The distributed nature of this phenomenon has contributed to the development of many crowdsourcing projects. This scenario is prevalent in most forms of expert/non-expert group opinion and rating tasks (including many forms of internet or on-line user behavior), where a key element is...

Modified functions r−αρ(r) and p−β (p) of the spherically averaged electron densities ρ(r) in position space and (p) in momentum space are found to be convex (i.e., the second derivatives are nonnegative everywhere) for all the 103 ground-state atoms from hydrogen (atomic number Z = 1) to lawrencium (Z = 103), if the parameters are chosen to be α 0.6 and β 1.4. The convex property of r−αρ(r) an...