this essay approaches the challenges of global translation in the 21st century from what might still be considered a somewhat uncommon example: a direct translation of ismail kadaré's 1978 novel prill e thyër (broken april) from the original albanian into brazilian portuguese in 2001. not only does it examine and compare lexical elements in the source and target texts and the usage of translato...

We propose a novel image segmentation model, called the Semi-Supervised Subspace Mumford-Shah model, which incorporates subspace clustering techniques into a Mumford-Shah model to solve texture segmentation problems. While the natural unsupervised approach to learn a feature subspace can easily be trapped in a local solution, we propose a novel semi-supervised optimization algorithm that makes ...

We present an estimation-theoretic approach to curve evolution for the Mumford-Shah problem. By viewing an active contour as the set of discontinuities in the Mumford-Shah problem, we may use the corresponding functional to determine gradient descent evolution equations to deform the active contour. In each gradient descent step, we solve a corresponding optimal estimation problem, connecting t...

The aim of this paper is to provide a formal link between an oscillatory neural model, whose phase is represented by a difference equation, and the Mumford and Shah functional. A Riemannian metric is induced by the pattern of neural connections, and in this setting the difference equation is studied. Its Euler–Lagrange operator Γ-converges as the dimension of the grid tends to 0 to the Mumford ...

In a recent paper, Soni and Shah [Soni, H., Shah, N. H., 2008. Optimal ordering policy for stock-dependent demand under progressive payment scheme. European Journal of Operational Research 184, 91-100] developed a model to find the optimal ordering policy for a retailer with stock-dependent demand and a supplier that offers a progressive payment scheme to the retailer. This note corrects some e...