The efficient and discriminating feature extraction is a significant problem in pattern recognition and computer vision. This paper presents a novel Discriminating Haar (D-Haar) features for eye detection. The DHaar feature extraction starts with a Principal Component Analysis (PCA) followed by a whitening transformation on the Haar feature space. A discriminant analysis is then performed on th...

The main result of the paper is a constructive proof of the following equivalence: two pure -terms are observationally equivalent in the lazy concurrent -calculus i they have the same L evy-Longo trees. An algorithmwhich allows to build a context discriminating any two pure -terms with di erent L evy-Longo trees is described. It follows that contextual equivalence coincides with behavioural equ...

In this study we investigated the speaker discriminating potential of nasals and fricatives. In the past, vowel formants were often used for speaker discriminating purposes, but it seems that they are not the best choice for this task. Our study suggests that the spectral moments of nasals and fricatives may discriminate speakers better than vowel formants. Furthermore, we analysed whether the ...

The potential of DNA barcoding approaches to identify single species and characterize species compositions strongly depends on the marker choice. The prominent "Folmer region", a 648 basepair fragment at the 5' end of the mitochondrial CO1 gene, has been traditionally applied as a universal DNA barcoding region for metazoans. In order to find a suitable marker for biomonitoring odonates (dragon...