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Co.Vi.Wo.: Color Visual Words Based on Non-Predefined Size Codebooks
(IEEE, 2012)Due to the rapid development of information technology and the continuously increasing number of available multimedia data, the task of retrieving information based on visual content has become a popular subject of scientific ...
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CoMo: A Compact Composite Moment-Based Descriptor for Image Retrieval
(ACM, 2017-06-19)Low level features play a vital role in image retrieval. Image moments can effectively represent global information of image content while being invariant under translation, rotation, and scaling. This paper briefly presents ...
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CoMo: a scale and rotation invariant compact composite moment-based descriptor for image retrieval
(Springer International Publishing, 2018-03-01)Low level features play a significant role in image retrieval. Image moments can effectively represent global information of image content while being invariant under translation, rotation, and scaling. This paper presents ...
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Composite description based on Salient Contours and Color information for CBIR tasks
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019)This paper introduces a novel image descriptor for content based image retrieval tasks that integrates contour and color information into a compact vector. Loosely inspired by the human visual system and its mechanisms in ...
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Content based radiology image retrieval using a fuzzy rule based scalable composite descriptor
(2010)The rapid advances made in the field of radiology, the increased frequency in which oncological diseases appear, as well as the demand for regular medical checks, led to the creation of a large database of radiology ...
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Content-based image retrieval over IEEE 802.11b noisy wireless networks
(Wiley, 2014)Mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets are widely used in everyday life to perform a variety of operations, such as e-mail exchange, connection to social media, bank/financial transactions, and so on. Moreover, ...
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Controlling the Handoff Procedure in an Oil Refinery Environment Using Fuzzy Logic
(IEEE, 2012)Mobility is one of the most important challenges in a wireless sensor system. Usually, continuous connectivity of a Mobile Node (MN) is achieved by supporting handoff from one connection point to another. In order to ...
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DARP: Divide Areas Algorithm for Optimal Multi-Robot Coverage Path Planning
(Springer, 2017)This paper deals with the path planning problem of a team of mobile robots, in order to cover an area of interest, with prior-defined obstacles. For the single robot case, also known as single robot coverage path planning ...
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A distributed, plug-n-play algorithm formulti-robot applications with a priorinon-computable objective functions
(Sage, 2019-05)This paper presents a distributed algorithm applicable to a wide range of practical multi-robot applications. In such multi-robot applications, the user-defined objectives of the mission can be cast as a general optimization ...
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Dynamic two-stage image retrieval from large multimedia databases
(Elsevier, 2013)Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) with global features is notoriously noisy, especially for image queries with low percentages of relevant images in a collection. Moreover, CBIR typically ranks the whole collection, ...
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"Educational Robotics: Platforms, Competitions and Expected Learning Outcomes"
(IEEE, 2020-12-04)Motivated by the recent explosion of interest around Educational Robotics (ER), this paper attempts to re-approach this area by suggesting new ways of thinking and exploring the related concepts. The contribution of the ...
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An efficient privacy-preserving solution for finding the nearest doctor
(Personal and Ubiquitous Computing volume, 2012-10-30)In this work, we define the Nearest Doctor Problem for finding the nearest doctor in case of an emergency and present a privacy-preserving protocol for solving it. The solution is based on cryptographic primitives and makes ...
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Enabling Responsible Online Gambling by Real-time Persuasive Technologies
(RTU Press, 2019-01)Online gambling, unlike other offline addiction forms, provides unprecedented opportunities for monitoring users’ behaviour in real-time, along with the ability to adapt persuasive interactions and messages that would match ...
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Estimating the Joint Tail Risk Under the Filtered Historical Simulation. An Application to the CCP's Default and Waterfall Fund
(Geneva :Swiss Finance Institute, 2015)To ensure that central counterparties (“CCPs”) are safe in all market conditions the European Union (EU) has adopted legislation, commonly known as the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (“EMIR”) that deal with their ...
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Euroscepticism and Nationalist Populism
(Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, 2017)In recent years Eurosceptic parties have gained significant ground in national and European Parliament elections in many EU countries. This trend is related to the effects of the ongoing economic crisis, which has drastically ...
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An Experimental Analysis of the Mobile IPv6 Handover Latency Components
(2009)This paper examines the handover process of Mobile IPv6 in a real wireless testbed, based on IEEE 802.11b and extracts information on the actions taken by network entities during the movement of a mobile node. This work ...
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Fast and Efficient TSC-Checkers for m-out-of (2m ± 1) codes
(IEEE, 1983-06)This note is concerned with the design of fast totally self-checking checkers for m-out-of-(2m ± 1) codes. The new method uses only three levels of gates, and is based on the partitioning of the input lines into m blocks ...
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Fast Retrieval from Image Databases via Binary Haar Wavelet Transform on the Color and Edge Directivity Descriptor
(IARIA, 2011)In this paper, we are evaluating several accelerating techniques for content-based image retrieval, suitable for the Color and Edge Directivity Descriptor (CEDD). To date, the experimental results presented in the ...
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Fuzzy Logic Control for Mobility Support in Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks
(Springer, 2014)Mobility management is a crucial problem for wireless mobile communication, especially in wireless sensor networks (WSN). In this chapter, we show the need of providing an intelligent mobility controller, applicable to any ...
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The GINSENG System for Wireless Monitoring and Control: Design and Deployment Experiences
(ACM, 2013)Today’s industrial facilities, such as oil refineries, chemical plants, and factories, rely on wired sensor systems to monitor and control the production processes. The deployment and maintenance of such cabled systems is ...