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Automatic image retargeting with fisheye-view warping
Image retargeting is the problem of adapting images for display on devices different than originally intended. This paper presents a method for adapting large images, such as those taken with a digital camera, for a small display, such as a cellular telephone. The method uses a non-linear fisheye-view warp that emphasizes parts of an image while shrinking others. Like previous methods, fisheye-view warping uses image information, such as low-level salience and high-level object recognition to find important regions of the source image. However, unlike prior approaches, a non-linear image warping function emphasizes the important aspects of the image while retaining the surrounding context. The method has advantages in preserving information content, alerting the viewer to missing information and providing robustness.
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Intelligent Crowd Simulation
Crowd simulation is a continuous challenge in computer animation. In this paper, we present an intelligent crowd simulation technique based on multiple autonomous agents. Each animated character (AC) is modeled as an autonomous agent, consisting of the perception, behavior planning and motion generation system. AC perceives the environment information, generates intentions and plans behaviors autonomously. To execute behaviors, appropriate motions are selected from the fundamental motion library (FML) and edited to create required motions. And the crowd behavior can be regarded as a combination of the individual behavior of each AC. The experiment shows the feasibility of this technique.
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Video retargeting: automating pan and scan
When a video is displayed on a smaller display than originally intended, some of the information in the video is necessarily lost. In this paper, we introduce Video Retargeting that adapts video to better suit the target display, minimizing the important information lost. We define a framework that measures the preservation of the source material, and methods for estimating the important information in the video. Video retargeting crops each frame and scales it to fit the target display. An optimization process minimizes information loss by balancing the loss of detail due to scaling with the loss of content and composition due to cropping. The cropping window can be moved during a shot to introduce virtual pans and cuts, subject to constraints that ensure cinematic plausibility. We demonstrate results of adapting a variety of source videos to small display sizes.
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Generic Carrier-Based Core Model for Four-Terminal Double-Gate MOSFET Valid for Symmetric, Asymmetric, SOI, and Independent Gate Operation Modes
A generic carrier-based core model for undoped four-terminal double-gate (DG) MOSFET valid for symmetric, asymmetric, SOI, and independent gate operation modes is presented in this paper. Based on the exact solution of the 1-D Poisson's equation of a general DG-MOSFET configure, a generic drain current model is derived from Pao-Sah's double integral in terms of the carrier concentration. The model is verified by extensive comparisons with 2-D numerical simulations under different bias conditions to all four terminals. The concise mathematic formulation allows the unification various double-gate models into a carrier-based core model for compact DG-MOSFET model development.
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An analytic model for Ge/Si core/shell nanowire MOSFETs considering drift-diffusion and ballistic transport
In this paper an analytic model for Ge/Si core/shell nanowire MOSFETs (NWFETs) is developed. First, the electrostatic potential and charge model are derived out from classical device physics. Then the drift-diffusion drain current model is obtained and verified by comparisons with the numerical simulation. The ballistic current model is obtained with the approximately described quantummechanical effect through modifying the intrinsic carrier concentration under 2-dimensional confinement. With the proposed model, the performances of Ge/Si core/shell NWFETs are analyzed and significant characteristics are demonstrated in details. The analytic model in this paper provides a framework for further developing compact models of the NWFETs with Ge/Si core/shell heterostructure for circuit design and simulation.
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A New Algorithm of Gray Watermark Embedding
The problems of the digital information transmission safety, its’ copyright protection etc. are seriously increase. Digital watermark is one of the good solutions for many problems mentioned above. Generally the watermark information is a one-dimension random signal. Two-dimension gray watermark is difficult to guarantee the robustness of the information embedding. Put a new kind of discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and the singular value decompose (SVD) on two-dimension gray watermark, the watermark becomes very strong robust to the compression, noise, low pass filter, high pass filter and median filter. It is useful for the safety of digital information transmission and its copyright protection.
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Intentionally and unintentionally: on both, A and non-A, in neutrosophy
The paper presents a fresh new start on the neutrality of neutrosophy in that "both A and Non-A" as an alternative to describe Neuter-A in that we conceptualize things in both intentional and unintentional background. This unity of opposites constitutes both objective world and subjective world. The whole induction of such argument is based on the intensive study on Buddhism and Daoism including I-ching. In addition, a framework of contradiction oriented learning philosophy inspired from the Later Trigrams of King Wen in I-ching is meanwhile presented. It is shown that although A and Non-A are logically inconsistent, but they are philosophically consistent in the sense that Non-A can be the unintentionally instead of negation that leads to confusion. It is also shown that Buddhism and Daoism play an important role in neutrosophy, and should be extended in the way of neutrosophy to all sciences according to the original intention of neutrosophy.
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Constant Modulus Based Blind Channel Estimation for OFDM Systems
A novel blind channel estimation scheme is proposed for OFDM systems employing PSK modulation. This scheme minimizes the number of possible channels by exploiting the constant modulus property, chooses a best fit over the possible channels by exploiting the finite alphabet property of information signals, and achieves competitive performance with low computational complexity. Results comparing the new scheme with the finite-alphabet based channel estimation are presented.
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Research on System Integrative Evaluation Method Based on Survivability
Survivability is the essential ability of a system to fulfill its mission, in a timely manner, in the presence of attacks, failures, or accidents. Survivability should be considered beyond security for information system, and quantitative analysis can assess system survivability accurately for improvement. The paper presents a new type of analysis method for computer system survivability which considers both exterior environment and interior components and their correlations. The method can describe the survivability more precisely and exactly. The paper also elaborates on the process of using this method to evaluate system survivability and its advantages.
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Splice Site Prediction using Support Vector Machines with Context-Sensitive Kernel Functions
This paper focuses on the use of support vector machines on a typical context-dependent classification task, splice site prediction. For this type of problems, it has been shown that a context-based approach should be preferred over a transfor- mation approach because the former approach can easily incorporate statistical mea- sures or directly plug sensitivity information into distance functions. In this paper, we designed three types of context-sensitive kernel functions: polynomial-based, radial basis function-based and negative distance-based kernels. From the experimental re- sults it becomes clear that the radial basis function-based kernel with information gain weighting gets the best accuracies and can always outperform their simple non-sensitive counterparts both in accuracy and in model complexity. And with well designed fea- tures and carefully chosen context sizes, our system can predict splice sites with fairly high accuracy, which can achieve the FP95% rate, 3.94 for donor sites and 5.98 for acceptor sites, an approximate state of the art performance for the moment.
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A Projection and Search Algorithm for the Bicluster Problem
The advent of microarray technologies has made the experimental study of gene expression faster and more efficient. It is an important task to analyze the gene expression data acquired from the microarray experiments. Biclustering is a popular method to search a subset of genes which exhibit similar expression patterns along a subset of conditions in the gene expression matrix. In this paper, we propose a projection and search algorithm (PSA) for finding biclusters in the gene expression matrix. The algorithm adopts projection method to find a raw submatrix, then refines and extends the raw submatrix into a bicluster using greedy algorithms. We test the algorithm on simulation data and real data. The test results show that the algorithm has good performance on both simulation data and real data. Additionally, compared with other methods, PSA isnpsilat sensitive to noise level.