Photos with people (e.g., family, friends, celebrities, etc.) are the major interest of users. Thus, with the exponentially growing photos, large-scale content-based face image retrieval is an enabling technology for many emerging applications. In this work, we aim to utilize automatically detected human attributes that contain semantic cues of the face photos to improve content-based face retr...

Before applying learning algorithms to datasets, practitioners often globally discretize any numeric attributes. If the algorithm cannot handle numeric attributes directly, prior discretization is essential. Even if it can, prior discretization often accelerates induction, and may produce simpler and more accurate classi ers. As it is generally done, global discretization denies the learning al...

Grouping datasets plays an important role in many scientific researches. Depending on data features and applications, different constrains are imposed on groups, while having groups with similar members is always a main criterion. In this paper, we propose an algorithm for grouping the objects with random labels, nominal features having too many nominal attributes. In addition, the size constra...

This article presents an architecture based on FPGA for the calculation of texture attributes using an adequacy of the technique of sum and differences of histograms. The attributes calculated by this architecture will be used in a process of classification for identification of objects during the navigation of an autonomous robot of service. Because of that, the constraint of real-time executi...

We propose a method to describe how a person is dressed, using an innovative way to extract Visual Information exploiting the Human Pose Estimation. Given the lack of algorithms in this field, we aims to pave the way giving a baseline and publishing a detailed dataset for future comparisons. In particular in this study we show how using the Human Pose Estimation, we are able to extract the esse...

Replenishing nutrients through organic sources is essential to maintain the soil health and sustainability in Eastern Himalayan Region, India which is organic by default. Keeping this in mind an experiment was laid out on randomized block design with six treatments viz., T1: Vermicompost (VC; 2.5 Mg ha-1), T2: Poultry manure (PM; 1.25 Mg ha-1), T3: Swine manure (SM; 3.0 Mg ha-1), T4: Cow du...

some physical attributes of two common types of iranian garlic cloves (white and pink) were identified and compared. a machine vision system was used to determine three di-mensions and both major and minor projected areas of garlic cloves at a moisture content of 42.4% w. b. the geometric mean diameter and sphericity were calculated, as well as the unit mass and volume of cloves were measured. ...

INTRODUCTION Role models facilitate student learning and assists in the development of professional identity. However, social organization and cultural values influence the choice of role models. Considering that the social organization and cultural values in South East Asia are different from other countries, it is important to know whether this affects the characteristics medical students loo...

Implementing and maintaining complicated manufacturing processes in an error-free mode is essential to the survival of any manufacturing business. One essential element to realizing error-free manufacturing is saving learning and making it readily available to those who need it, on a system that is easy to develop and use. A knowledge based tool, DEPICT (Digitized Expert PICTures), has been dev...