Horizontal alignment is a major roadway characteristic used in safety and operational evaluations of many facility types. The Highway Safety Manual (HSM) uses this characteristic in crash prediction models for rural two-lane highways, freeway segments, and freeway ramps/C-D roads. Traffic simulation models use this characteristic in their processes on almost all types of facilities. However, a ...

Multi-line array sensors, carried on airborne or satellite, acquire images with along or across track stereo viewing and are used for photogrammetric mapping at different scales. The main characteristic of the imagery provided by this kind of sensors is that each image line is independently acquired with a different sensor external orientation (position, attitude). If positioning instruments (G...

Face recognition is a challenging problem due to variations in pose, illumination, and expression. Techniques that can provide effective feature representation with enhanced discriminability are crucial. Wavelets have played an important role in image processing for its ability to capture localized spatial-frequency information of images. In this paper, we propose a novel local discriminant coo...

Small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) is an experimental technique used for structural characterization of macromolecules in solution. Here, we introduce BCL::SAXS--an algorithm designed to replicate SAXS profiles from rigid protein models at different levels of detail. We first show our derivation of BCL::SAXS and compare our results with the experimental scattering profile of hen egg white lyso...

The paper proposed an approach to reconstruct the solid of rotation lacking in texture from two-dimensional images. The approach only requires a digital camera, an ordinary slide projector and a rotated platform. The camera and projector are required to be calibrated in advance. The rotated platform is functioned as a control ground and the target object is put on it. The projector projects the...

This paper may be regarded as a new numerical method for the analysis of triangular thin plates using the natural area coordinates. Previous studies on the solution of triangular plates with different boundary conditions are mostly based on the Rayleigh-Ritz principle which is performed in the Cartesian coordinates. Consequently, manipulation of the geometry and numerical calculation of the int...

This paper presents a numerical solution for vibration analysis of a cantilever trapezoidal thick plate. The material of the plate is considered to be graded through the thickness from a metal surface to a ceramic one according to a power law function. Kinetic and strain energies are derived based on the Reissner-Mindlin theory for thick plates and using Hamilton's principle, the governing equa...