In this paper, we show how the combination and cooperation of six feature vectors computed from the minimum-perimeter polygon (MPP) contours of Arabic words can lead to very interesting results for off-line text-independent Arabic writer identification. These feature vectors are in the form of probability distribution functions (PDFs), and are based on the length, direction, angle and curvature...

Environmental Flow Requirement (EFR) is defined as the flow that is necessary to ensure the existence of habitats in water resources systems. EFR is defined in rivers as flow index commonly. Tennant method is the most popular hydrological method in rivers and based on the historic flow data. The most common method of hydraulic rating method is the wetted perimeter method. Habitat simulation tec...

This paper describes the design of multi-category support vector machines (SVMs) for classification of bags. To train and test the SVMs a collection of 120 images of different types of bags were used (backpacks, small shoulder bags, plastic flexible bags, and small briefcases). Tests were conducted to establish the best polynomial and Gaussian RBF (radial basis function) kernels. As it is well ...

Micrographs of isolated gap junction specimens, negatively stained with one molybdate, three tungstate and three uranyl stains, were recorded at low and high irradiation. Fourier-averaged images of the negatively stained gap junctions have been self-consistently scaled to identify conserved and variable features. Intrinsic features in the hexagonally averaged images have been distinguished from...

let e be the ellipse with major and minor radii a and b respectively, and pbe its perimeter, then p = lim 4 tan(p/n)(a + b + 2) σ a2 cos2 (2k-2)pi/n+ sin2 (2k-2)pi/n; where n = 2m. so without considering the limit, it gives a reasonable approxi-mation for p, it means that we can choose n large enough such that the amountof error be less than any given small number. on the other hand, the formul...