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The Inverse Frobenius-Perron problem (IFPP) concerns the creation of discrete chaotic mappings with arbitrary invariant densities. In this note, we present a new and elegant solution to the IFPP, based on positive matrix theory. Our method allows chaotic maps with arbitrary piecewise-constant invariant densities, and with arbitrary mixing properties, to be synthesized.

We introduce a novel approach for separating and segmenting individual facades from streetside images. Our algorithm incorporates prior knowledge about arbitrarily shaped repetitive regions which are detected using intensity profile descriptors and a voting–based matcher. In the experiments we compare our approach to extended state–of–the–art matching approaches using more than 600 challenging ...

Designing hypermedia systems might be a complex task as soon as the number of chunks of information to organize is large. In the task of designing hypermedia systems, interactive dynamic maps can provide designers with a better understanding of the semantics of the underlying set of documents, thus providing assistance in the design process. In this paper we present topic maps and techniques fo...

In this paper we propose an ontological framework for tools facilitating creative writing and story reading. It is based on an ontology implemented as a topic map and employs linguistic analysis methods for discovering conceptual entities in the text.

We consider causal time-invariant nonlinear inputoutput maps that take a set of bounded functions into a set of real-valued functions, and we give criteria under which these maps can be uniformly approximated arbitrarily well using a certain structure consisting of a notnecessarily linear dynamic part followed by a nonlinear memoryless section that may contain sigmoids or radial basis functions...

Designing chaotic maps with complex dynamics is a challenging topic. This paper introduces the nonlinear chaotic processing (NCP) model, which contains six basic nonlinear operations. Each operation is a general framework that can use existing chaotic maps as seed maps to generate a huge number of new chaotic maps. The proposed NCP model can be easily extended by introducing new nonlinear opera...

Maps of sensory receptor epithelia and computed features of the sensory environment are common elements of auditory, visual, and somatic sensory representations from the periphery to the cerebral cortex. Maps enhance the understanding of normal neural organization and its modification by pathology and experience. They underlie the derivation of the computational principles that govern sensory p...

We introduce a novel system of interconnected SelfOrganizing Maps that can be used to build feedforward and recurrent networks of maps. Prime application of interconnected maps is in modelling systems that operate with multimodal data as for example in visual and auditory cortices and multimodal association areas in cortex. A detailed example of animal categorization in which the feedworward ne...

The cadastral data actually had the type of dynamic characteristic. Along with time variation, it may be transferred its property rights, spatial attribute, and change the types of land use. There will be had a large number of historical data be produced while the cadastral data was updated. It seems that this kind of historical data is not often to use, therefore it is easy to be neglected. Ho...