1,720,976 research outputs found
On smoothness of vector field with discrete wavelet transform
No full textThe analysis of image sequences is one of the most actively areas studied in computer vision and image processing. A fundamental problem in the process of image sequences is the computation of the velocity vector field of apparent motion of brightness patterns usually referred as optical flow. Optical flow is usually adopted in many applications ranging from passive scene interpretation to autonomous active exploration. It has been used, quite successfully, as an intermediate step, in problem of 3D object reconstruction and 3D scene analysis for computing informnation such as depth and surface orientation. Numerous methods have been used to determine measurements of optical jlow and most of them perform relatively poorly generating many vectors with an inconsistent direction or magnitude. Hence a smoothness on optical flow is often needed to enhance the signal-to-noise ratio. In this paper discrete wavelet transform has been adopted to reduce noise in optical flow rendering it clean enough to be of pratical value. The algorithm adopied as flow estimator is the well-known Horn and Schunck's method which relates the spatio-temporal derivatives of the image intensity at each point to the optical flow field in a linear fashion. Experiments with compactly supported orthonormal wavelets have been reported by varing the number of vanishing moments and decomposition levels. Various experiments have been presented by removing small values of the discrete wavelet transform and by opportunely treating the spaces of the low and high frequencies. Interesting results have been obtained by substracting high level components in the wavelet expansion and by composing the low frequencies magnified M times using pixels replication where M is the wavelet multiplicity
Multinode Shepard method for two-dimensional elliptic boundary problems on different shaped domains
Full text linkIn this paper, we continue the study on the application of multinode Shepard method to numerically solve elliptic Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) equipped with various conditions at the boundary of domains of different shapes. In particular, for the first time, the multinode Shepard method is proposed to solve elliptic PDEs with Dirichlet and/or Neumann boundary conditions. The method has been opportunely handled to efficiently work dealing with scattered distribution of points and, to this aim, several exper- iments in different 2d domains have been performed. Comparisons with the analytic solution and the results generated by the Kansa’s RBF solvers have been reported referring to Halton points. The results are very promising and should be of interest for applications in the real world
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
- …
