This paper1 presents a comparative analysis of state of the art image processing based fire color detection rules and methods in the context of geometrical characteristics measurement of wildland fires. Two new rules and two new detection methods using an intelligent combination of the rules are presented and their performances are compared with their counterparts. The benchmark is performed on...

Abstract As a promising next‐generation lighting technology, all‐fluorescence white organic light‐emitting diodes (WOLEDs) have advanced rapidly but still face the formidable challenge of achieving high efficiencies and color quality simultaneously. Herein, an interlayer sensitization strategy assisted by electron‐capturing agent with thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) is proposed ...

This thesis addresses the problem of extracting and retrieving visual concepts in images databases, with the aim of developing a generic CBIR system applicable to a wide range of images. The system proposed in this thesis is scale and rotation invariant and easily updateable. The proposed approach is modular; the modules constituting the system are the following: • A visual attention module, th...

This work investigates the ideal distribution of sensors in networked arrays. MATLAB models these arrays and simulates the results these networks obtain using active and passive sonar. These results determine the ideal sensor placement for optimal parameter detection and estimation of targets. This work's first part focuses on active sonar networks with a fixed number of sensors in a differing ...

There is a general need for spacecraft systems to make use of advances in analog to digital (ADC) and digital to analog (DAC) technologies. In particular, imaging systems such as star trackers and remote sensing instruments require 14,16, or more bits ADCs that have low power consumption, fast conversion rates (>1 MSPS) and good radiation tolerances. Because ADC and DAC have both analog and dig...

Concurrent schedules may be viewed as consisting of two pairs of stay and switch schedules, each pair associated with one of the alternatives. A stay schedule arranges reinforcers for staying and responding at one alternative, whereas the associated switch schedule arranges reinforcers for switching to the other alternative. In standard concurrent schedules, the stay schedule at each alternativ...

CyberCars are road vehicles with fully automated driving capabilities. A fleet of such vehicles forms a Cybernetic Transportation System, for passengers or goods, on a network of roads with on-demand and door-to-door capability. This paper presents a framework for the overall evaluation of the performance of different technologies under development during the project. The evaluation plan descri...

drought is random and nonlinear phenomenon and using linear stochastic models, nonlinear artificial neural network and hybrid models is advantaged for drought forecasting. this paper presents the performances of autoregressive integrated moving average (arima), direct multi-step neural network (dmsnn), recursive multi-step neural network (rmsnn), hybrid stochastic neural network of directive ap...

This paper is a report of new musical instrument/ interface in which the main concept is "untouchable". I will report on not only the system design but also on the performances as applications. The new musical instrument/interface is constructed with infrared rays distance sensors and optical distance sensors. In attending some concerts of computer music in the past, I was inspired with perform...