The paper presents a novel type of fuzzy sets, called time-Varying Fuzzy Sets (VFS). These fuzzy sets are based on the Gaussian membership functions, they are depended on the error and they are characterized by the displacement of the kernels to both right and left side of the universe of discourse, the two extremes kernels of the universe are fixed for all time. In this work we focus only on t...

In this paper, pretopological and topological operators are introduced based on partially continuous linear transformations of the membership and non-membership functions for intuitionistic fuzzy sets. They turn out to be a generalization of the topological operators for intuitionistic fuzzy sets.On the other hand it is a generalization of the fuzzy set pretopological operators introduced...

Data envelopment analysis is a nonparametric technique checking efficiency of DMUs using math programming. In conventional DEA, it has been assumed that the status of each measure is clearly known as either input or output. Kao and Hwang (2008) developed a data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach for measuring efficiency of decision processes which can be divided into two stages. The first stag...

Forensic dentistry involves the identi'cation of people based on their dental records, mainly available as radiograph images. Our goal is to automate this process using image processing and pattern recognition techniques. Given a postmortem radiograph, we search a database of antemortem radiographs in order to retrieve the closest match with respect to some salient features. In this paper, we u...

Binocular vision is obviously useful for depth perception, but it might also enhance other components of visual processing, such as image segmentation. We used naturalistic images to determine whether giving an object a stereoscopic offset of 15-120 arcmin of crossed disparity relative to its background would make the object easier to recognize in briefly presented (33-133 ms), temporally maske...

Exploratory data analysis heavily relies on methods to visualize data and models in a user friendly and interpretable manner. We show how models consisting of a collection of fuzzy points can be visualized in parallel coordinates. In contrast to existing techniques that display only lines representing centroids or shaded areas showing the general variance of cluster centers, the proposed techni...

Projectors suffer from nonuniformity across the display, as well as spurious contours due to insufficient levels. This work offers an efficient and accurate solution to both problems. A camera-based calibration scheme both measures the spatial luminance nonuniformity and detects the projected levels that are unique. Using this data, an attenuation array is built using reverse-3D-table lookup. T...

in the present paper, the idea of braking energy regeneration and reusing that energy during acceleration for a refuse truck is comprehended. according to their driving cycle, the refuse trucks have a good potential for braking energy regeneration. on the other hand, hydraulic hybrid is a powertrain with high power density which is appropriate for energy regeneration. in the primary stage of th...