In this study, we suggest a new approach to the detection of edge orientation in order to guide a choice of the appropriate directional filter. This approach aims at analysing variograms properties such as the directionality, the renewal period of texture pattern and size of objet. The use of variograms enable to define directional MAP and to determine the edge orientation of the object in orde...

In this work we addresses the issue of deafness and hidden terminal problem in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) using directional antennas. To minimize these effects, we propose a MAC protocol for directional Antennas (MDA) which employs a novel Enhanced Directional Network Allocation Vector (EDNAV) scheme and, and an efficient technique of Diametrically Opposite Directions (DOD) transmission of...

Finger vein patterns are considered as one of the most promising biometric authentication methods for its security and convenience. Most of the current available finger vein recognition methods utilize features from a segmented blood vessel network. As an improperly segmented network may degrade the recognition accuracy, binary pattern based methods are proposed, such as Local Binary Pattern (L...

In order to achieve a multiple resolution with multiple directional feature analysis, a Laplacian pyramid is combined with directional filter bank. This requires the analysis on the design of both the filter in the Laplacian pyramid and the overall directional decomposition structure. Our analysis shows that the energy distribution of the filter in the Laplacian pyramid should match with the an...

We tested whether directional selection on an index-based wing character in Drosophila melanogaster affected developmental stability and patterns of directional asymmetry. We selected for both an increase (up selection) and a decrease (down selection) of the index value on the left wing and compared patterns of fluctuating and directional asymmetry in the selection index and other wing traits a...