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In this paper we propose an evolutionary approach capable of successfully combining rules to play the popular video game, Ms. PacMan. In particular we focus our attention on the benefits of using Grammatical Evolution to combine rules in the form of “if then perform ”. We defined a set of high-level functions that we think are necessary to successufully maneuver Ms. Pac-Man ...

We describe an algorithm for inducing clause-combining rules for use in a traditional natural language generation architecture. An experiment pairing lexicalized text plans from the SPaRKy Restaurant Corpus with logical forms obtained by parsing the corresponding sentences demonstrates that the approach is able to learn clause-combining operations which have essentially the same coverage as tho...

This paper proposes an efficient fingerprint recognition algorithm combining phase-based image matching and feature-based matching. In our previous work, we have already proposed an efficient fingerprint recognition algorithm using Phase-Only Correlation (POC), and developed commercial fingerprint verification units for access control applications. The use of Fourier phase information of finger...

The development of the IRAF/STSDAS package dither and its primary task, drizzle (Fruchter & Hook 1997), now give the HST user powerful tools for combining dithered images; however, these tasks do not provide a simple means for locating and removing cosmic rays, or other blemishes, from dithered images. Here we discuss several additional IRAF scripts that one of us (ASF) has written to simplify ...

The problem of assessing the quality combining component images formed in two synchronous channels an atomic force microscope (AFM images), is considered. A computationally simple metric for AFM images, based on local correlation coefficients proposed, taking into account contribution each to resulting combined image and between images. It shown that provides a higher accuracy combination estim...

The semantic interpretation of natural scenes, generally so obvious and effortless for humans, still remains a challenge in computer vision. We intend to design classifiers able to annotate images with keywords. Firstly, we propose an image representation appropriate for scene description: images are segmented into regions and indexed according to the presence of given region types. Secondly, w...

a study was conducted on genetics of some important agronomic traits (number of productive tillers per hill, plant height (cm), panicle length (cm), number of spikelets per panicle and 100-grain weight) in rice during 2012-13. two lines were crossed with five testers in line × tester fashion to produce 10 f1 hybrids. analysis of variance revealed significant differences among genotypes and cros...