This paper presents a micro-payment-based incentive mechanism for long-term peer-to-peer storage systems. The main novelty of the proposed incentive mechanism is to allow users to be off-line for extended periods of time without updating or renewing their information by themselves. This feature is enabled through a digital cheque, issued by the user, which is later employed by the peers to get ...

In this paper we present a system for the recognition of handwritten words on literal cheque amounts which advantageously combine hmms and Markov random elds mrfs It operates at pixel level in a holistic manner on height normalized word images which are viewed as random eld realizations The hmm analyzes the image along the horizontal writing direction in a speci c state observation probabil ity...

In this paper we present a system for the recognition of handwritten words on literal cheque amounts which advantageously combine hmms and Markov random elds (mrfs). It operates at pixel level, in a holistic manner, on height normalized word images which are viewed as random eld realizations. The hmm analyzes the image along the horizontal writing direction, in a speciic state observation proba...

In this paper, we present a framework for clustering and classifying cheque images according to their payee-line content. The features used in the clustering and classification processes are extracted from the wavelet domain by means of thresholding and counting of wavelet coeilficients. The feasibility of this framework is tested on a database of 2620 cheque images. This database consists of c...

Currently, the majority of clinical trial sites in the United States use paper cheques as their primary method of payment, although it is proven that this process requires far higher administrative costs and yields lower subject retention rates than electronic payments. This payment preference persists despite recent data that approximately 25% of the American adult population does not have a b...

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