This paper presents a statistical method to match feature points from stereo pairs of images. The proposed method is evaluated in terms of effectiveness, robustness and computational speed. The evaluation was performed on several pairs of real stereo images of natural scenes taken onboard an unmanned aerial vehicle. The results show that the proposed method reduces the number of incorrect match...

application of distributed generation (dg) units in distribution networks has increased in recent years. sizing and sitting of dg units are two important factors which should be considered, especially for reduction of power losses in distribution system. this paper presents a new approach for dg placement in distribution systems using the mixed integer nonlinear programming (minlp). this approa...

OBJECTIVE This paper evaluated harness sizing schemes and anthropometric criteria for harness design applications. BACKGROUND Updated harness sizing systems are needed to accommodate diverse populations in the current workforce. METHOD Three-dimensional torso scan data and human-harness interfaces from 108 women and 108 men were digitally captured. Abounding box approach was employed to qua...

In this paper we present an efficient algorithm for camera tracking applicable for mobile devices. In particular, the work is motivated by the limited computational power and memory, precluding the use of existing methods for estimation of the 6-DoF pose of a mobile device (camera) relative to a previously unknown planar object. Similar to existing methods, we introduce a keypoint based approac...

the purpose of the present study is to investigate effective factors in making people willing to repurchase sports match tickets online with the approach of extending technology acceptance model. this research is considered applied regarding its purpose, descriptive- survey regarding its method, and is based on structural equation model (sem). the participants are iran's national volleybal...

Adipocyte sizing methods have been extensively compared with each other since the late 60’s (1–3) and multiple measures of adipocyte size were established to be associated with metabolic risk (4). Laforest and colleagues (5) address a related and important issue: which method best predicts metabolic risk. They found fairly good correlations among the three commonly used cell sizing methods (col...

Our purely neural network-based system represents a paradigm shift away from the techniques based on phrase-based statistical machine translation we have used in the past. The approach exploits the agreement between a pair of target-bidirectional LSTMs, in order to generate balanced targets with both good suffixes and good prefixes. The evaluation results show that the method is able to match a...

Pollard’s rho method is a randomized algorithm for computing discrete logarithms. It works by defining a pseudo-random sequence and then detecting a match in the sequence. Many improvements have been proposed, while few evaluation results and efficiency suggestions have been reported. This paper is devoted to a detailed study of the efficiency issues in Pollard’s rho method. We describe an empi...

High-yield pulp (HYP) such as bleached chemi-thermo-mechanical pulp (BCTMP) from aspen wood, is now being used in the production of highquality fine papers, and this is particularly true in China. In this study, the effect of using cationic polymers such as poly-aluminum chloride (PAC), polyethylenimine (PEI), cationic polyacrylamide (CPAM), and poly(diallyldimethylammonium chloride) (PDADMAC) ...