In this paper we present a Bayesian image zooming/super-resolution algorithm based on a patch based representation. We work on a patch based model with overlap and employ a Locally Linear Embedding (LLE) based approach as our data fidelity term in the Bayesian inference. The image prior imposes continuity constraints across the overlapping patches. We apply an error back-projection technique, w...

The general framework developed for assessing chemical risks was applied to twelve chemical substances, namely, radon, formaldehyde, dioxins, cadmium, toluene, chlorpyirofs, arsenic, benzene, mercury, xylene, DDT, and chlordane. In the framework, loss of life expectancy (LLE) was adopted as a measure of risks and individual variabilities in exposure, metabolism, and sensitivity were taken into ...

Abundances of LLE (Li, B, Be) are strongly zoned in augite grains of the NWA 817 nakhlite [1,2]. Be and B consistently increase to grain rims (like Fe* and Ti), consistent with their geochemical behavior as incompatible elements. Li abundances increase outward in some rims, but decrease significantly in others. The cause of this bipolar behavior is not clear. LLE are not zoned in augites in the...

Accurately extracting foreground objects is the problem of isolating the foreground in images and video, called image matting which has wide applications in digital photography. This problem is severely ill-posed in the sense that, at each pixel, one must estimate the foreground and background pixels and the so-called alpha value from only pixel information. The most recent work in natural imag...

In this paper, two significant weaknesses of locally linear embedding (LLE) applied to computer vision are addressed: ‘‘intrinsic dimension’’ and ‘‘eigenvector meanings’’. ‘‘Topological embedding’’ and ‘‘multi-resolution nonlinearity capture’’ are introduced based on mathematical analysis of topological manifolds and LLE. The manifold topological analysis (MTA) method is described and is based ...

A rapid assay procedure was developed for mycotoxin citrinin in corn using liquid-liquid extraction (LLE) cartridges. Ground corn was extracted with methylene chloride and 0.5 N phosphoric acid. The extract was added to an LLE cartridge containing a diatomaceous-earth adsorbant, previously impregnated with sodium bicarbonate solution. After aspiration to dryness, the cartridge was eluted with m...

The locally linear embedding (LLE) algorithm can be used to discover a low-dimensional subspace from face manifolds. However, it does not mean that a good accuracy can be obtained when classifiers work under the subspace. Based on the proposed ULLELDA (Unified LLE and linear discriminant analysis) algorithm, an ensemble version of the ULLELDA (En-ULLELDA) is proposed by perturbing the neighbor ...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to investigate the language outcomes of 7-year-old children with and without a history of late language emergence at 24 months. METHOD One hundred twenty-eight children with a history of late language emergence (LLE) at 24 months and 109 children with a history of normal language emergence (NLE) at 24 months participated in direct behavioral assessment of mul...

We investigate the laws that rule the behavior of the largest Lyapunov exponent (LLE) in many particle systems with long-range interactions. We consider as a representative system the so-called Hamiltonian alpha-XY model where the adjustable parameter alpha controls the range of the interactions of N ferromagnetic spins in a lattice of dimension d. In previous work the dependence of the LLE wit...

This paper describes a novel exemplar-based spectral conversion (SC) system developed by the AST (Academia Sinica, Taipei) team for the 2016 voice conversion challenge (vcc2016). The key feature of our system is that it integrates the locally linear embedding (LLE) algorithm, a manifold learning algorithm that has been successfully applied for the super-resolution task in image processing, with...