Deformations in handwritten characters have classdependent tendencies. For example, characters of class “A” are often deformed by global slant transformation and never deformed to be similar to “R”. In this paper, the extraction and the utilization of such tendencies called eigen-deformations are investigated for better performance of elastic matching based recognition systems. The eigen-deform...

To represent the evolution of nucleic acid and protein sequence, we express the parallel and Eigen models for molecular evolution in terms of a functional integral representation with an h-letter alphabet, lifting the two-state, purine/pyrimidine assumption often made in quasi-species theory. For arbitrary h and a general mutation scheme, we obtain the solution of this model in terms of a maxim...

The impact of the latest combined CHAMP/GRACE/terrestrial measurements Earth gravity model EIGEN-CG03C on the measurement of the Lense-Thirring effect with some linear combinations of the nodes of some of the existing Earth’s artificial satellites is presented. The 1-sigma upper bound of the systematic error in the nodenode LAGEOS-LAGEOS II combination is 3.9% (4% with EIGENGRACE02S, ∼ 6% with ...