This paper proposed an improved Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) system for all types of Vietnam license plates (LP), which consists of three modules: license plate location (LPL), characters segmentation and characters recognition. In the LPL module, we have combined edge detection, image subtraction, mathematical morphology, radon transform, interpolation and specific characteristic...

In recent years, Japanese quail meat has gained much popularity among consumers. The aim of this study was to evaluate the meat quality characteristics and nutritional composition of Nandanam Quail-III (Coturnix coturnix japonica) meat as influenced by age at slaughter. Totally twelve birds were divided into two different age groups. The birds were slaughtered and breast muscle was obtained. Th...

Twelve introgressed oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) progenies of Nigerian dura x Deli dura were evaluated for bunch yield, yield attributes, bunch quality components and vegetative characters at the Malaysian Palm Oil Board Research Station, in Keratong, Pahang, Malaysia. Analysis of variance revealed significant to highly significant genotypic differences, indicating sufficient genetic variabilit...

                The present study was undertaken to evaluate direct and indirect selection criteria for the improvement of grain yield and quality components in Chenopodium quinoa Willd. Correlated response (CR) and relative selection efficiency (RSE) were estimated for grain yield and three quality components, grain protein, grain carotenoid and leaf carotenoid based on different contributing ...

Recognizing the importance of artificial intelligence to modern video games, considerable efforts have been directed towards creating more believable non player characters in games, complete with personalities, emotions, relationships, and other psychosocial elements. To date, research in the field has primarily focused on the quality of character behaviour, and not on aspects of performance an...

0141-9331/$ see front matter 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.micpro.2013.09.001 ⇑ Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (K. Grüttner), nebel@informatik. uni-oldenburg.de (W. Nebel), [email protected] (E. Villar), fornacia@elet. polimi.it (W. Fornaciari), [email protected] (C. Ykman-Couvreur), davide.quaglia@ edalab.it (D. Quaglia), ffer...

Motion blur is a common degradation which usually brings difficulties to subsequent image process and analysis of a machine vision system. In this paper, an effective restoration scheme is proposed for high-overlapped image sequence with composite motion blurs which refer to the blurs caused during the exposure time by dual relative motions among the background of the scene, the moving objects ...

In this paper we introduce a number of new features for quality estimation in machine translation that were developed for the WMT 2012 quality estimation shared task. We find that very simple features such as indicators of certain characters are able to outperform complex features that aim to model the connection between two languages.