Features analysis is an important task which can significantly affect the performance of automatic bacteria colony picking. Unstructured environments also affect the automatic colony screening. This paper presents a novel approach for adaptive colony segmentation in unstructured environments by treating the detected peaks of intensity histograms as a morphological feature of images. In order to...

show that the proposed method is an excellent forecasting tool for logistics management.

Stable night-time light data from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Operational Line-scan System (OLS) provide a unique proxy for anthropogenic development. This paper presents a regional urban extent extraction method using a one-class classifier and combinations of DMSP/OLS stable night-time light (NTL) data, MODIS normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) data, and land...

Article history: Received 9 September 2014 Received in revised form 25 January 2015 Accepted 9 February 2015 Available online xxxx

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The paper presents a novel learning algorithm for the class of L2 Support Vector Machines classifiers dubbed Direct L2 SVM. The proposed algorithm avoids solving the quadratic programming problem and yet, it produces both the same exact results as the classic quadratic programming based solution in a significantly shorter CPU time. The connections between various L2 SVM algorithms will be highl...