This paper presents a new and less conservative condition for the robust stability test of discrete-time polytopic systems by using a descriptor system approach. The stability condition is formulated in terms of a set of linear matrix inequalities and can be easily adapted for robust controller synthesis. The developed results can be viewed as a discretetime counterpart of the continuous-time o...

Reliable and efficient Visual Place Recognition is a major building block of modern SLAM systems. Leveraging on our prior work, in this paper we present a Hamming Distance embedding Binary Search Tree (HBST) approach for binary Descriptor Matching and Image Retrieval. HBST allows for descriptor Search and Insertion in logarithmic time by exploiting particular properties of binary Feature descri...

Recently, one-two descriptor has been defined and it has been shown that it is a good predictor of the heat capacity at P constant (CP) and of the total surface area (TSA). In this paper, we analyze its generalizations by replacing the value 2 by arbitrary positive value . We show that these analyses may be on interest, because even good predictions of CP and TSA can be slightly improved. Furth...

Descriptor systems which are also referred to as singular systems are described by differential equations and algebraic equations [1]. It has been widely applied in the areas of power systems, economic systems, biological systems, constrained robots, electronic networking, aerospace, chemical process and astronomy (solar activity)[1-4]. Stability of descriptor systems is a basic and important p...

In this paper, we propose a new local spatiotemporal descriptor for videos and we propose a new approach for action recognition in videos based on the introduced descriptor. The new descriptor is called the Video Covariance Matrix Logarithm (VCML). The VCML descriptor is based on a covariance matrix representation, and it models relationships between different low-level features, such as intens...