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2D-page texture classification using support vector machines and genetic algorithms an hybrid approach for texture image analysis
No full textIn this paper, a novel texture classification method from two-dimensional electrophoresis gel images is presented. Such a method makes use of textural features that are reduced to a more compact and efficient subset of characteristics by means of a Genetic Algorithm-based feature selection technique. Then, the selected features are used as inputs for a classifier, in this case a Support Vector Machine. The accuracy of the proposed method is around 94%, and has shown to yield statistically better performances than the classification based on the entire feature set. We found that the most decisive and representative features for the textural classification of proteins are those related to the second order co-occurrence matrix. This classification step can be very useful in order to discard over-segmented areas after a protein segmentation or identification process
Real-Time GPU based road sign detection and classification
No full textThis paper presents a system for detecting and classifying road signs from video sequences in real time. A model-based approach is used in which a prototype of the sign to be detected is transformed and matched to the image using evolutionary techniques. Then, the sign detected in the previous phase is classified by a neural network. Our system makes extensive use of the parallel computing capabilities offered by modern graphics cards and the CUDA architecture for both detection and classification. We compare detection results achieved by GPU-based parallel versions of Differential Evolution and Particle Swarm Optimization, and classification results obtained by Learning Vector Quantization and Multi-layer Perceptron. The method was tested over two real sequences taken from a camera mounted on-board a car and was able to correctly detect and classify around 70% of the signs at 17.5 fps, a similar result in shorter time, compared to the best results obtained on the same sequences so far
Particle Swarm Optimization and Differential Evolution for Model-based Object Detection
No full textAutomatically detecting objects in images or video sequences is one of the most relevant and frequently tackled tasks in computer vision and pattern recognition. The starting point for this work is a very general model-based approach to object detection. The problem is turned into a global continuous optimization one: given a parametric model of the object to be detected within an image, a function is maximized, which represents the similarity between the model and a region of the image under investigation. In particular, in this work, the optimization problem is tackled using Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Differential Evolution (DE). We compare the performances of these optimization techniques on two real-world paradigmatic problems, onto which many other real-world object detection problems can be mapped: hippocampus localization in histological images and human body pose estimation in video sequences. In the former, a 2D deformable model of a section of the hippocampus is fit to the corresponding region of a histological image, to accurately localize such a structure and analyze gene expression in specific sub-regions. In the latter, an articulated 3D model of a human body is matched against a set of images of a human performing some action, taken from different perspectives, to estimate the subject's posture in space. Given the significant computational burden imposed by this approach, we implemented PSO and DE as parallel algorithms within the nVIDIATM CUDA computing architecture
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
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