Bristol '67. Bristol '87. Bristol '07? How will the BMA change before the next Annual Representative Meeting jn Bristol, if the 20 year interval between hosting meetings is repeated? How many of us will be there? Will seasoned representatives looking back on '87 sigh as nostalgically as we now do about '67? How many of us could have foreseen in '67 that the BMA would now be a statutory Trade Un...

Long-term forecasting is a big challenge for the regional modelling, since only a few years of panel data are available on a regional basis. Furthermore, traffic dependent models must be developed to explore the sensitivity of travelling times on the socio-demographic variables of a region. Using the sophisticated model choice procedure BMA (Bayesian model averaging, see Raftery et al. 1997) fo...

Many approaches to unconstrained face identification exploit small patches which are unaffected by distortions outside of their locality. However, small patches have limited discriminative ability, making accurate patch matching difficult. We propose a novel blockbased approach to exploit the greater discriminative information in larger areas, while maintaining robustness to local variations. A...

Mosaic refers to a technique that makes image by gathering lots of small materials in various colors. This paper presents an automatic algorithm that makes the photo-mosaic image using photos. The algorithm is composed of 4 steps: partition and feature extraction, block matching, redundancy removal and color adjustment. The input image is partitioned in the small block to extract feature. Each ...

The recent sight system requires high stabilization functions for the longer range of observation and the higher kill probability. To this end, it is necessary to compensate rotational disturbances which are not stabilized with the conventional 2-axes stabilization system. This paper proposes a simple method on the rotational motion estimation for the stabilization of the sight system. key word...

Model uncertainty remains a challenge to researchers in different applications. When many competing models are available for estimation, and without enough guidance from theory, model averaging represents an alternative to model selection. Despite model averaging approaches have been present in statistics for many years, only recently they are starting to receive attention in applications. The ...

Several variants of Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA) are described and evaluated on a model library of heterogeneous classifiers, and compared to other classifier combination methods. In particular, embedded cross-validation is investigated as a technique for reducing overfitting in BMA.

This paper is based upon Adaptive Rood Pattern Search algorithm for Block Matching Algorithm. There are various types of algorithm is available but this method is most reliable. Experimental results shows that it gives better results than other algorithms. This algorithm uses motion activity of the video. In this paper, adaptive rood pattern search method using motion activity is applied on vid...

The low-energy characteristics of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) pose a great design challenge for MAC protocol design. Recent studies have proposed different clusterbased MAC protocols. In [1], we proposed an intra-cluster communication bit-map-assisted (BMA) MAC protocol for clusterbased WSNs. BMA is intended for event-driven applications, where sensor nodes transmit data to the cluster head...

for an infant the parents must ultimately decide"-with the doctor helping the parents to understand the choices.5 In their responses to the present case (22 August, p 567) both the BMA and the British Paediatric Association have reiterated these principles. We believe that in the absence of a clear code to which society adheres there is no justification for usurping parents' rights, or for beli...