With the rapid growing amount of multimedia, content-based information retrieval has become more and more important. As a crucial step in content-based news video indexing and retrieval system, shot boundary detection attracts much more research interests in recent years. To partition news video into shots, many metrics were constructed to measure the similarity among video frames based on all ...

Segmentation is generally regarded as partitioning space at the boundary of an object so as to represent the object's shape, pose, size, and topology. Some images, however, contain so much noise that distinct boundaries are not forthcoming even after the object has been identified. We have used statistical methods based on medial features in Real Time 3D echocardiography to locate the left vent...

The discovery of association rule acquire an imperative role in data mining since its inception, which tries to find correlation among the attributes in a database. Classical algorithms/procedures meant for Boolean data and they suffer from sharp boundary problem in handling quantitative data. Thereby fuzzy association rule (i.e., association rule based on fuzzy sets) with fuzzy minimum support...

The fundamental concept in the theory of fuzzy transform (F-transform) is that of fuzzy partition. The original definition assumes that each two fuzzy subsets overlap in such a way that sum of membership degrees in each point is equal to 1. However, this condition can be generalized to obtain a denser fuzzy partition that leads to improvement of approximation properties of Ftransform. However, ...

The fuzzy preference framework of Graph Model for Conflict Resolution (GMCR), handling both crisp and fuzzy preferences of decision makers (DMs), is capable of calculating and predicting different conflict resolutions (equilibria) according to DMs’ different satisficing criteria. Employing this methodology, a water contamination conflict occurs at the boundary of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces ...

Molodstov introduced soft sets to deal with uncertainties and not clear objects. Researchers developed the relationship between soft sets and information systems. Fuzzification of the notions of soft sets and soft topology have been discussed in the literature. In this paper, we define and establish the topological structures of fuzzy soft semi-open sets and fuzzy soft semi-closed sets. We intr...