This paper presents a new motion estimation algorithm to improve the performance of the existing searching algorithms at a relative low computational cost. We try to amend the incorrect and/or inaccurate estimate of motion with higher precision by using adaptive weighted median filtering and its modifications. The median filter is well-known. A more general filter, called the Adaptively Weighte...

The use of GARCH models to characterize crude oil price volatility is widely observed in the empirical literature. In this paper the efficiency of six univariate GARCH models and two methods of estimation the parameters for forecasting oil price volatility are examined and the best method for forecasting crude oil price volatility of Brent market is determined. All the examined models in this p...

The stochastic frontier model with heterogeneous technical efficiency explained by exogenous variables is augmented with a sparse spatial autoregressive component for a crosssection data, and a spatial-temporal component for a panel data. An estimation procedure that takes advantage of the additivity of the model is proposed, computational advantages over simultaneous maximum likelihood estimat...

in this paper, we have calculated the environmental efficiency for india, turkey, egypt and iran. the results show that iran’s environmental efficiency has experienced a decreasing trend from 1991 to 2007and india, turkey, egypt and iran have the highest environmental efficiency, respectively. we also have investigated the environmental kuznets curve for this period using data envelopment analy...

Introduction 1 1. Definition and estimation of Sobol indices 2 1.1. Exact model 2 1.2. Estimation of S 3 2. Asymptotic properties: exact model 4 2.1. Consistency and asymptotic normality 4 2.2. Asymptotic efficiency 6 3. Asymptotic properties: metamodel 8 3.1. Metamodel-based estimation 8 3.2. Consistency and asymptotic normality 8 3.3. Asymptotic efficiency 11 4. Numerical illustrations 12 4.1...

Propagation of radio occultation (RO) signals through the lower troposphere results in high phase acceleration and low signal to noise ratio signal. The excess Doppler estimation accuracy in lower troposphere is very important in receiving RO signals which can be estimated by sliding window spectral analysis. To do this, various frequency estimation methods such as MUSIC and ESPRIT can be adopt...

Having fast and efficient motion estimation is crucial in today’s advance video compression technique since it determines the compression efficiency and the complexity of a video encoder. In this paper, a method which we call semi-hierarchical motion estimation is proposed for the Dirac video encoder. By considering the fully hierarchical motion estimation only for a certain type of inter frame...