Development of various image descriptors has greatly contributed to the advancement in image retrieval. Image descriptors can be made invariant to various image changes. In this paper, a new image descriptor is described and its application in image retrieval is evaluated. The descriptor uses the autoencoder concept to reduce the dimension of the feature vector measuing various properties of a ...

Although peas cv. master pea was registered more than 25 years ago in Egypt, this variety showed a remarkable superiority over the varieties grown all governorates of Egypt terms production, quality, and environmental adaptation to climate changes. This study intends assess cultivar's genetic traits, determine degree its deterioration time develop an appropriate plan for maintenance, improvemen...

Descriptor systems which are also referred to as singular systems are described by differential equations and algebraic equations [1]. It has been widely applied in the areas of power systems, economic systems, biological systems, constrained robots, electronic networking, aerospace, chemical process and astronomy (solar activity)[1-4]. Stability of descriptor systems is a basic and important p...

In this paper, we propose a new local spatiotemporal descriptor for videos and we propose a new approach for action recognition in videos based on the introduced descriptor. The new descriptor is called the Video Covariance Matrix Logarithm (VCML). The VCML descriptor is based on a covariance matrix representation, and it models relationships between different low-level features, such as intens...

A novel motion activity descriptor and its extraction from a compressed MPEG (MPEG-1/2) video stream are presented. The descriptor consists of two parts, a temporal descriptor and a spatial descriptor. To get the temporal descriptor, the “motion intensity” is first computed based on P frame macroblock information. Then the motion intensity histogram is generated for a given video unit as the te...