This paper proposes a particle swarm optimization based algorithm for object tracking in image sequences. In each frame the particles are drawn from a Gaussian distribution in order to cover the promising object locations and afterwards the particle swarm optimization takes place in order to concentrate the particles near the true object state. The aim of the particle swarm optimization is to s...

Particle filtering algorithms can be used for the monitoring of dynamic systems with continuous state variables and without any constraints on the form of the probability distributions. The dimensionality of the problem remains a limitation of these approaches due to the growing number of particles required for the exploration of the state space. Computer vision problems such as 3D motion track...

Global-motion perception is the perception of coherent motion in a noisy motion stimulus. Thresholds for coherent motion perception were measured for different combinations of signal and noise speeds. Previous research [Edwards, M., Badcock, D. R., & Smith, A. T. (1998). Independent speed-tuned global-motion systems. Vision Research, 38 (11), 1573-1580; Khuu, S. K., & Badcock, D. R. (2002). Glo...

We consider a branching Brownian motion (BBM) on the real line R, which evolves as follows. Starting at time t = 0, one particle located at 0, called the root, moves like a standard Brownian motion until an independent exponentially distributed time with parameter 1. At this time it splits into two particles, which, relative to their birth time and position, behave like independent copies of th...

Three experiments investigated several aspects of motion perception at high and low luminance levels. Detection of weak coherent motion in random dot cinematograms was unaffected by light level over a range of dot speeds. The ability to judge form from motion was, however, impaired at low light levels, as was the ability to discriminate normal from phase-scrambled biological motion sequences. T...

If motion that one has been looking at for some time suddenly stops, or if one shifts one's gaze to a static object, one will see motion in the opposite direction: the motion after-effect. If two transparent surfaces move with different speeds in different directions, then the direction of the motion after-effect will depend on the test pattern. For such transparent surfaces both the local moti...

in this paper, we have examined abrupt changes in volatility of tepix index in tehran stock exchange during august 23, 2010 to june 12, 2014. applying the iterated cumulative sum of squares (icss) algorithm proposed by inclan and tiao (1994) and the modified version of this algorithm consisting kappa 1 and kappa 2 test statistics developed by sansó et al. (2004), we have specified that the dete...