This paper presents a survey of segmentation handwritten cursive word images into individual characters. It provides a comprehensive review of segmentation rates and descriptions of test data for the approaches discussed. Techniques that used to decide segmentation points describe in detail. Then the performances are compared in two categories based on number of words and existence of learning ...

This project aims at developing tools to extend the use of the MediaCycle software to live performances and installations. In particular, this requires real-time recording and analysis of media streams (e.g., video and audio). These tools are developed as patches for the Puredata (Pd) software [10] which is widely used by the artistic community. This project is a collaboration with the Belgian ...

As High Performance Fortran (HPF) is being both developed and redesigned by the HPF Forum, it is important to provide comprehensive criteria for analyzing HPF features. This paper presents such criteria related to three aspects: adequacy to applications, aesthetic and soundness in a language, and implementability. Some features already in HPF or being currently discussed are analyzed according ...

The growth law for the development of top athletes performances remains unknown in quantifiable sport events. Here we present a growth model for 41351 best performers from 70 track and field (T&F) and swimming events and detail their characteristics over the modern Olympic era. We show that 64% of T&F events no longer improved since 1993, while 47% of swimming events stagnated after 1990, prior...

data envelopment analysis (dea) was developed to help compare the relative performance of decision-making units. it is a non-parametric method for performing frontier analysis. it uses linear programming to estimate the efficiency of multiple decision-making units and it is commonly used in production, management and economics [3]. dea generates an efficiency score between 0 and 1 for each unit...

A tunable-focus liquid lens using dielectrophoretic effect is demonstrated. When a voltage is applied to a dielectric liquid droplet, the generated electric field inside the droplet is inhomogeneous. As a result, the liquid bears a dielectric force and its surface profile can be reshaped which causes the focal length to change. Adaptive lenses with different apertures are fabricated and their p...

The Cambodian Buddhist Chanting style smot is highly elaborated in terms of melismas and therefore unique to this area of Southeast Asia. As the style in its most sophisticated form needs extensive vocal training and precise knowledge of the correct ornaments to present, monasteries give smot training courses running over years with final exams finding the best singers. The musical parameters l...

This paper proposes a method for obtaining surface orientations of transparent objects using polarization in highlight. Since the highlight, the specular component of reflection light from objects, is observed only near the specular direction, it appears merely limited parts on an object surface. In order to obtain orientations of a whole object surface, we employ a spherical extended light sou...

hyperion hyperspectral data contains a very rich source of information from the earth surface that collects 242 narrow contiguous spectral bands. achieving this source of rich information is subject to the performance of suitable image processing methods on raw satellite data. satellite image processing methods can be classified into two categories of statistical-based and spectral-based. in th...