The Thermal Infrared Visual Object Tracking (VOT-TIR2015) Challenge was organized in conjunction with ICCV2015. It was the first benchmark on short-term, single-target tracking in thermal infrared (TIR) sequences. The challenge aimed at comparing short-term single-object visual trackers that do not apply pre-learned models of object appearance. It was based on the VOT2013 Challenge, but introdu...

The Edinburgh Mouse Atlas of Gene Expression (EMAGE) publishes the results of gene expression experiments on the mouse embryo. Whilst this resource uses visual mechanisms to display the result of a single experiment, it currently provides no technique for the visual navigation of data. Ideally, a semantic visual navigation mechanism would exist. Our work focuses on trying to understand the requ...

A new, non-statistical method is presented for analysis of the past history and current evolution of economic and financial processes. The method is based on the sliding model approach using linear differential or difference equations applied to discrete information in the form of known chronological data (time series) about the process. An algorithm is proposed that allows one to project the c...

The PLATUS simulation environment allows for a modular description of simulation models, clearly separating aspects of behavior, statistics and animation. Each component of a model in PLATUS has its own animation interface, that describes when and which messages will be sent to a corresponding animation module. The GENGED environment was originally developed for the visual definition of visual ...

This new paper is a follow-up to the Kodner paper I circulated a few weeks ago called Value-Based Purchasing in Health Care: Strategic Implications for Vulnerable Populations. In the companion paper we point out that individuals in vulnerable population groups (and their family caregivers) face numerous obstacles in coping with their conditions on an ongoing basis, accessing a wide array of ser...

Die vorliegende Arbeit stellt ein Monte-Carlo basiertes Simulationswerkzeug vor, mit dessen Hilfe Wachstums-, Gesundheits-, und weitere Parameter simuliert werden können. Das Werkzeug wurde mit Visual Basic für MS-Excel erstellt. Einerseits können die Auswirkungen prozessualer oder natürlicher Veränderungen simuliert werden, wenn intrinsische Zusammenhänge bekannt sind und andererseits Hypothes...

IS educators often struggle with curriculum issues including timeliness and completeness of the curriculum. While model curricula suggest that programming courses should be a part of an IS undergraduate degree, little guidance is offered as to the order and timing of these courses. A longitudinal survey of students in programming courses was used to assess whether sequence or concurrency explai...

It is necessary to research a cheap and simple fixed water distribution device according to the current situation of the technology of low-pressure pipe irrigation. This article proposed a fixed water distribution device with round table based on the analysis of the hydraulic characteristics of low-pressure pipe irrigation systems. The simulation of FLUENT and GAMBIT software conducted that the...

As abstract systems have become more sophisticated, natural language processing systems have been one of the most interesting topics of computer science. Because of the contributions of Turkish to computational applications and the language’s rich linguistic properties, Turkish studies are approved in linguistic theory. This study presents a Visual Basic application of the Earley Algorithm that...

Recent advances in deep learning have led to significant progress in the computer vision field, especially for visual object recognition tasks. The features useful for object classification are learned by feed-forward deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) automatically, and they are shown to be able to predict and decode neural representations in the ventral visual pathway of humans and mon...