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Production of high quality wheat has a great importance especially in the solution of nutrition problems. It is necessary to make decomposition for specifying the quality. Here, high quality and unclassified wheat recognition are realized. The most distinctive feature between high quality and poor quality wheat is the shape difference. In this study, Bag of Contour Fragments (BCF) was used as a shape...
Two assembly-oriented strategies for the design of higher-order curl-conforming basis functions in the context of finite element methods are presented. Comparison of their robustness in terms of the condition number of the finite element matrices with arbitrary meshes and specially distorted elements is shown.
Arabic recognition is a very challenging task that begins to draw the attention of the OCR community. This work presents our latest contributions to this task, exploring the impact of several features and classifiers combinations on the performances of some developed systems. Different types of writings were considered (machine-printed, multi-fonts, handwritten, unconstrained, multi-writers, bi-dimensional,...
Recent progress in Thermal and infrared Non-Destructive Testing (IRNDT) in different fields have provided interesting defect detection solutions. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) based K-means clustering have been successfully introduced and used in many clustering applications. However, PCA suffers from being relatively more sensitive to the noise due to having a linear transformation. On the other...
This paper proposes an adaptive cross-window stereo camera distance estimation technology which is a low complexity disparity algorithm and high efficient parallelized, which includes Adaptive Cross Window Distance Estimation (ACWDE) and disparity-based erosion. The proposed algorithm reduces the computation time by changing the aggregation window shape, which calculates color and texture of 13 pixels...
Conventionally separation of bio-particle from blood is a long term process. Different methods are involved in separation of bio-particles. Bio-particles like bacteria, WBC, RBC are separated in a micro fluidic device by using pillars and applying different types of fields. In this paper, different shapes of pillars are analysed for efficient separation of bio-particles without applying different...
Identification and apprehension of criminals by matching facial sketches with photographic faces is one of the major law enforcement applications of the modern world. Majority of the crime occur where there will not be any information available regarding the suspect. In such situation, forensic sketch artist who usually deals with the eyewitness of the crime or victim in order to draw the sketch that...
An Android-based eModule app has been designed and developed for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. The eModule consists of: (1) an Android demonstration of echolocation; (2) a set of notes describing the functionality of the app, the basics of echolocation, and its application to advanced signal processing systems such as RADAR, LIDAR, and SONAR; (3) quizzes to test...
Gesture recognition is one of the emerging fields in industry and a hot research topic in academia. It is commonly used in smart devices to assist the owners in their day-to-day life. But it is also important in facilitating processes in any kind, that involves people. In our attempt at improving life quality for disabled people below the neck, an assistive autonomous powerchair is developed. To ease...
Floating Content (FC) has recently been proposed as an attractive application for mobile networks, such as VANETs, to operate opportunistic and distributed content sharing over a given geographic area, namely Anchor Zone (AZ). FC performances are tightly dependent on the AZ size, which in literature is classically chosen by the node that generates the floating message. In the present work, we propose...
STEM activities are activities that promote learning in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. They claim to help children work towards careers in these areas. They promote cognitive and psychomotor development in children, and assist in developing their meta-cognitive knowledge. While typical STEM activities for young children are categorized into broad categories of robotics, physics...
This paper presents a process of knowledge Discovery from Data (KDD) applied on 2D Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar (ISAR) images. This process is based on four crucial steps which are data acquisition, data pre-processing, data representation and data classification to make the final decision. We propose a new method for data representation based on combining mathematical morphology top-Hat, Thresholding...
The Levy Walk (or Levy flight) is a concept fromBiomathematics to describe the hunting–behaviour of manypredatory species. It is a very efficient way to find prey in avery short time frame. We now want to use this concept ina clustering–context to – if you so will – "hunt" for clusters. We describe how we convert this concept into an efficient wayto find cluster centres by linking the data...
In this paper, for a class of distributed port-Hamiltonian systems defined on a one-dimensional spatial domain, an equivalent Brayton-Moser formulation is provided. The dynamic is expressed as a gradient equation with respect to a new storage function, the “mixed-potential,” with the dimensions of power. The system is then passive with respect to a supply rate that is related to the reactive power,...
In this paper, a customized electricity retailing plan recommendation strategy is developed. Cost-effective retailing plans are recommended according to customer's electricity usage pattern. Usage pattern is recognized through classifying daily load profile (DLP) into a certain class, which is obtained in DLP clustering process. Two DLP clustering skills, plan rank-oriented and load feature-oriented...
Visualization of goods package has become an important factor in communicating goods characteristics to consumers and plays a critical role in influencing consumers' purchase decision. This phenomenon is particularly apparent in the case of mature consumer goods such as perfume products, chocolate, daily commodity, and so on. To construct a design support model for assisting package designers to create...
In this research, we consider the deficiencies of current e-collaboration design systems that are introduced to enterprises, and then concentrate on how to express the essential requirements for product design. The authors propose a systematic process model to support collaborative product development (CPD). The required multi-disciplinary information for CPD will be handled via the processes of classification,...
In this study, Nd2O3 was used as the dopant and the commercial Sr2SiO4:Nd phosphors was produced by using solid-state reaction method. The Sr2SiO4:Nd phosphors was sintered at the temperature range of 1000°C∼1300°C for 2 h. From the results of X-ray diffraction patterns, even sintered at 1000°C only Sr2SiO4 phase was observed, no secondary and unknown phases were residual in the calcined Sr2SiO4:Nd...
According to the study research, carried out by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in 2011, every year over the globe, there are over one-third of eatable fruits and vegetables been wasted or damaged. With the additional loss from the supply and marketing process and the waste caused by the consumer side, the total squandering every year can be accumulated up to 1.3 billion...
In view of recent economic or shared resources shared ideas advocated the development of network technology and applications, this trend has also led to the digital content industry-related design industries and the development of cultural and creative industries, this study hope that through analysis of the designer in while authoring modeling required design resources to design the Creative Design...
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