in this paper various arch models and relevant news impact curves including a partially nonparametric (pnp) one are compared and estimated with daily iran stock return data. diagnostic tests imply the asymmetry of the volatility response to news. the egarch model, which passes all the tests and appears relatively matching with the asymmetry in the data, seems to be the most adequate characteriz...

We describe a method for shape-based image database search that uses deformable prototypes to represent categories. Rather than directly comparing a candidate shape with all shape entries in the database, shapes are compared in terms of the types of nonrigid deformations (differences) that relate them to a small subset of representative prototypes. To solve the shape correspondence and alignmen...

This paper introduces a novel approach for contour-based shape matching named as Constructive Relaxation Matching (CRM). In image matching relying on a particular modeling method, apparently similar images can be judged as being quite distant, according to the nature of the modeling process. In the proposed CRM, the modeling stage for a novel input image contour, commonly done in the same proce...

A two-stage string matching method for the recognition of two-dimensional (2-D) objects is proposed in this work. The first stage is a global cyclic string matching. The second stage is a local matching with local dissimilarity measure computing. The dissimilarity measure function of the input shape and the reference shape are obtained by combining the global matching cost and the local dissimi...

Shape matching and object recognition plays an vital role in the computer vision. The shape matching is difficult in case of the real world images like mpeg database images since the real world images has the internal and external contours. The Mahalanobis distance based shape context approach is proposed to measure similarity between shapes and exploit it for shape retrieval. The process of sh...

Touching for shape recognition has been shown to activate occipital areas in addition to somatosensory areas. In this study we asked if this combination of somatosensory and other sensory processing areas also exist in other kinds of touch recognition. In particular, does touch for texture roughness matching activate other sensory processing areas apart from somatosensory areas? We addressed th...

Shape matching plays important roles in many fields such as object recognition, image retrieval etc. Belongie, et al. recently proposed a novel shape matching algorithm utilizing the shape context as a shape descriptor and the magnitude of the aligning two shape contexts as a distance measure. It was claimed to be an information rich descriptor that is invariant to translation, scale, and rotat...