For reliable detection of explosives, a combination of methods integrated within a single measurement platform may increase detection performance. However, the efficient field testing of such measurement platforms requires the use of inexplosive simulants that are detectable by a wide range of methods. Physical parameters such as simulant density, elemental composition and crystalline structure...

In this paper, we present a novel method for processing double-sided historic handwritten documents using wavelets. The method is specially designed to remove the interfering strokes from the reverse side due to ink sipping through pages after long periods of storage. The proposed method works by first matching both sides of a document page such that the interfering strokes are mapped with the ...

We consider the problem of detecting the true quantum state among r possible ones, based of measurements performed on n copies of a finite dimensional quantum system. A special case is the problem of discriminating between r probability measures on a finite sample space, using n i.i.d. observations. In this classical setting it is known that the averaged error probability decreases exponentiall...

Polarimetric imaging has proved its value in medical diagnostics, bionics, remote sensing, astronomy, and in many other wide fields. Pixel-level solid monolithically integrated polarimetric imaging photo-detectors are the trend for infrared polarimetric imaging devices. For better polarimetric imaging performance the high polarization discriminating detectors are very much critical. Here we dem...

In the field of mobile robots ever more frequent use is being made of ultrasonic sensors composed of several transducers carrying out readings simultaneously and in a coordinated way. These sensors can read not only the distances but also listening angles, and they can also determine the reflector type (i.e. edge, plane or corner). To this end it is especially important that, after each emissio...

A new approach is proposed for the automatic detection of the near-end and far-end intima and adventitia inner boundaries in ultrasound images of the common carotid artery. This method uses the instantaneous coefficient of variation edge detector, fuzzy classification of edges, several discriminating features of the carotid wall boundaries and dynamic programming. The carotid wall boundaries ar...