In this paper, we propose a method to recover 3D human body motion from a video acquired by a single static camera. In order to estimate the complex state distribution of a human body, we adopt the particle filtering framework. We represent the human body using several layers of representation and compose the whole body step by step. In this way, more effective particles are generated and ineff...

Gravitational search algorithm (GSA) is one of the newest swarm based optimization algorithms, which has been inspired by the Newtonian laws of gravity and motion. GSA has empirically shown to be an efficient and robust stochastic search algorithm. Since introducing GSA a convergence analysis of this algorithm has not yet been developed. This paper introduces the first attempt to a formal conve...

Gravitational search algorithm (GSA) is one of the newest swarm based optimization algorithms, which has been inspired by the Newtonian laws of gravity and motion. GSA has empirically shown to be an efficient and robust stochastic search algorithm. Since introducing GSA a convergence analysis of this algorithm has not yet been developed. This paper introduces the first attempt to a formal conve...

langevin equation for a nano-particle suspended in a laminar fluid flow was analytically studied. the brownian motion generated from molecular bombardment was taken as a wiener stochastic process and approximated by a gaussian white noise. euler-maruyama method was used to solve the langevin equation numerically. the accuracy of brownian simulation was checked by performing a series of simulati...

We present a new particle tracking algorithm for accurately resolving large deformation and rotational motion fields, which takes advantage of both local global algorithms. call this method ScalE Rotation Invariant Augmented Lagrangian Particle Tracking (SerialTrack). This builds an iterative scale rotation invariant topology-based feature vector each within multi-scale algorithm. The kinematic...

This paper concerns the propagation of particles through a quenched random medium. In the oneand two-dimensional models considered, the local dynamics is given by expanding circle maps and hyperbolic toral automorphisms, respectively. The particle motion in both models is chaotic and found to fluctuate about a linear drift. In the proper scaling limit, the cumulative distribution function of th...

Why some strains of a species exhibit a certain phenotype (e.g. drug resistant) but not the other strains of the same species is a critical question to answer. Studying the metabolism of the two groups of strains may discover the corresponding pathways that are conserved in the first group but not in the second group. However, only a few tools provide functions to compare two groups of metaboli...