Recently, a discrimination measure for feature extraction for two-class data, called the maximum discriminating (MDF) measure (Talukder and Casasent [Neural Networks 14 (2001) 1201-1218]), was introduced. In the present paper, it is shown that the MDF discrimination measure produces exactly the same results as the classical Fisher criterion, on the condition that the two prior probabilities are...

PASCAL-S is a dataset built using the validation set of the PASCAL VOC 2010 segmentation challenge. It contains 850 images with the ground truth labeled by 12 subjects. We threshold the masks at 0.5 to obtain binary masks as suggested in [4]. The SOD dataset contains 300 images and it was originally designed for image segmentation. Many images in this dataset have multiple salient objects with ...

There is a growing consensus that land surface models (LSMs) that simulate terrestrial biosphere exchanges of matter and energy must be better constrained with data to quantify and address their uncertainties. FLUXNET, an international network of sites that measure the land surface exchanges of carbon, water and energy using the eddy covariance technique, is a prime source of data for model imp...

Beyond the disorders recognized as mitochondrial diseases, abnormalities in function and/or ultrastructure of mitochondria have been reported in several unrelated pathologies. These encompass ageing, malformations, and a number of genetic or acquired diseases, as diabetes and cardiologic, haematologic, organ-specific (e.g., eye or liver), neurologic and psychiatric, autoimmune, and dermatologic...

This paper presents findings from a study of five healthy subjects performing 50% maximum voluntary contraction until complete fatigue of the muscle. An overlapping window technique was used to find the values for mean frequency (MNF), median frequency (MDF) of the power spectrum, root mean square (RMS) and muscle fibre conduction velocity (MFCV). The surface electromyography signal (sEMG) was ...

A theory of overparameterized structural models is presented. In such a model some "redundant" parameters are involved; the parameter vector is not identified, and the information matrix is not nonsingular. The minimum discrepancy function (MDF) test statistic is shown to have an asymptotic chi-squared distribution almost everywhere for a wide class of discrepancy functions. Asymptotic distribu...

The selection of multiple regularization parameters is considered in a generalized L-curve framework. Multiple-dimensional extensions of the L-curve for selecting multiple regularization parameters are introduced, and a minimum distance function (MDF) is developed for approximating the regularization parameters corresponding to the generalized corner of the L-hypersurface. For the single-parame...

Design of modern engineering products requires complexity management. Several methodologies for complex system optimization have been developed in response. Single-level strategies centralize decision-making authority, while multi-level strategies distribute the decision-making process. This article studies the impact of coupling strength on single-level Multidisciplinary Design Optimization fo...

the medium density fiberboard (mdf) market demand was investigated during the years from 2004 to 2013 in iran. estimation of mdf demand was made by exponential smoothing method by the year 2018. the insight into the level of demand that might exist by the year 2013 was obtained by reviewing the production, import, export, and consumption of mdf on the iran. the results show that the consumption...