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Most Cited Information Fusion Articles
The most cited articles published since 2011, extracted from Scopus.
Multisensor data fusion: A review of the state-of-the-artBahador Khaleghi | Alaa Khamis | Fakhreddine O. Karray | Saiedeh N. Razavi
Volume 14, Issue 1, January 2013, Pages 28-44
There has been an ever-increasing interest in multi-disciplinary research on multisensor data fusion technology, driven by its versatility and diverse areas of application. Therefore, there seems to be a real need for an analytical review of recent developments in the data fusion domain. This paper proposes a comprehensive review of the data fusion state of the art, exploring its conceptualizations, benefits, and challenging aspects, as well as existing methodologies. In addition, several future directions of research in the data fusion community are highlighted and described. © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Performance comparison of different multi-resolution transforms for image fusionShutao Li | Bin Yang | Jianwen Hu
Volume 12, Issue 2, April 2011, Pages 74-84
Image fusion combines information from multiple images of the same scene to get a composite image that is more suitable for human visual perception or further image-processing tasks. In this paper, we compare various multi-resolution decomposition algorithms, especially the latest developed image decomposition methods, such as curvelet and contourlet, for image fusion. The investigations include the effect of decomposition levels and filters on fusion performance. By comparing fusion results, we give the best candidates for multi-focus images, infrared-visible images, and medical images. The experimental results show that the shift-invariant property is of great importance for image fusion. In addition, we also conclude that short filter usually provides better fusion results than long filter, and the appropriate setting for the number of decomposition levels is four. © 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
A survey of multiple classifier systems as hybrid systemsMichał Woźniak | Manuel Graña | Emilio Corchado
Volume 16, Issue 1, January 2014, Pages 3-17
A current focus of intense research in pattern classification is the combination of several classifier systems, which can be built following either the same or different models and/or datasets building approaches. These systems perform information fusion of classification decisions at different levels overcoming limitations of traditional approaches based on single classifiers. This paper presents an up-to-date survey on multiple classifier system (MCS) from the point of view of Hybrid Intelligent Systems. The article discusses major issues, such as diversity and decision fusion methods, providing a vision of the spectrum of applications that are currently being developed. © 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Data fusion in intelligent transportation systems: Progress and challenges - A surveyNour Eddin El Faouzi | Henry Leung | Ajeesh Kurian
Volume 12, Issue 1, January 2011, Pages 4-10
In intelligent transportation systems (ITS), transportation infrastructure is complimented with information and communication technologies with the objectives of attaining improved passenger safety, reduced transportation time and fuel consumption and vehicle wear and tear. With the advent of modern communication and computational devices and inexpensive sensors it is possible to collect and process data from a number of sources. Data fusion (DF) is collection of techniques by which information from multiple sources are combined in order to reach a better inference. DF is an inevitable tool for ITS. This paper provides a survey of how DF is used in different areas of ITS. © 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
A review of soft consensus models in a fuzzy environmentEnrique Herrera-Viedma | Francisco Javier Cabrerizo | Janusz Kacprzyk | Witold Pedrycz
Volume 17, Issue 1, January 2014, Pages 4-13
In the consensus reaching processes developed in group decision making problems we need to measure the closeness among experts' opinions in order to obtain a consensus degree. As it is known, to achieve a full and unanimous consensus is often not reachable in practice. An alternative approach is to use softer consensus measures, which reflect better all possible partial agreements, guiding the consensus process until high agreement is achieved among individuals. Consensus models based on soft consensus measures have been widely used because these measures represent better the human perception of the essence of consensus. This paper presents an overview of consensus models based on soft consensus measures, showing the pioneering and prominent papers, the main existing approaches and the new trends and challenges. © 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Pixel-level image fusion with simultaneous orthogonal matching pursuitBin Yang | Shutao Li
Volume 13, Issue 1, January 2012, Pages 10-19
Pixel-level image fusion integrates the information from multiple images of one scene to get an informative image which is more suitable for human visual perception or further image-processing. Sparse representation is a new signal representation theory which explores the sparseness of natural signals. Comparing to the traditional multiscale transform coefficients, the sparse representation coefficients can more accurately represent the image information. Thus, this paper proposes a novel image fusion scheme using the signal sparse representation theory. Because image fusion depends on local information of source images, we conduct the sparse representation on overlapping patches instead of the whole image, where a small size of dictionary is needed. In addition, the simultaneous orthogonal matching pursuit technique is introduced to guarantee that different source images are sparsely decomposed into the same subset of dictionary bases, which is the key to image fusion. The proposed method is tested on several categories of images and compared with some popular image fusion methods. The experimental results show that the proposed method can provide superior fused image in terms of several quantitative fusion evaluation indexes. © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Entropy/cross entropy-based group decision making under intuitionistic fuzzy environmentMeimei Xia | Zeshui Xu
Volume 13, Issue 1, January 2012, Pages 31-47
We study the group decision making problem under intuitionistic fuzzy environment. Based on entropy and cross entropy, we give two methods to determine the optimal weights of attributes, and develop two pairs of entropy and cross entropy measures for intuitionistic fuzzy values. Then, we discuss the properties of these measures and the relations between them and the existing ones. Furthermore, we introduce three new aggregation operators, which treat the membership and non-membership information fairly, to aggregate intuitionistic fuzzy information. Finally, several practical examples are presented to illustrate the developed methods. © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
An ID-based client authentication with key agreement protocol for mobile client-server environment on ECC with provable securityHe Debiao | Chen Jianhua | Hu Jin
Volume 13, Issue 3, July 2012, Pages 223-230
Recently, lots of remote user authentication schemes are implemented on elliptic curve cryptosystem (ECC) to reduce the computation loads for mobile devices. However, most of those remote user authentication schemes on ECC suffer from different attacks and can not provide provable security. Therefore, we propose an ID-based remote mutual authentication with key agreement scheme on ECC in this paper. The proposed scheme not only provides mutual authentication but also supports a session key agreement between the user and the server. The scheme also provides the known session key security, the perfect forward secrecy, the no key-compromise impersonation, the no unknown key-share and the no key control. Compared with the related works, the proposed scheme is more efficient and practical for mobile devices. We also give a security proof under the random oracle.
GPS/INS integration utilizing dynamic neural networks for vehicular navigationAboelmagd Noureldin | Ahmed El-Shafie | Mohamed Bayoumi
Volume 12, Issue 1, January 2011, Pages 48-57
Recently, methods based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) have been suggested to provide reliable positioning information for different land vehicle navigation applications integrating the Global Positioning System (GPS) with the Inertial Navigation System (INS). All existing AI-based methods are based on relating the INS error to the corresponding INS output at certain time instants and do not consider the dependence of the error on the past values of INS. This study, therefore, suggests the use of Input-Delayed Neural Networks (IDNN) to model both the INS position and velocity errors based on current and some past samples of INS position and velocity, respectively. This results in a more reliable positioning solution during long GPS outages. The proposed method is evaluated using road test data of different trajectories while both navigational and tactical grade INS are mounted inside land vehicles and integrated with GPS receivers. The performance of the IDNN - based model is also compared to both conventional (based mainly on Kalman filtering) and recently published AI - based techniques. The results showed significant improvement in positioning accuracy especially for cases of tactical grade INS and long GPS outages. © 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Medical image fusion: A survey of the state of the artAlex Pappachen James | Belur V. Dasarathy
Volume 19, Issue 1, January 2014, Pages 4-19
Medical image fusion is the process of registering and combining multiple images from single or multiple imaging modalities to improve the imaging quality and reduce randomness and redundancy in order to increase the clinical applicability of medical images for diagnosis and assessment of medical problems. Multi-modal medical image fusion algorithms and devices have shown notable achievements in improving clinical accuracy of decisions based on medical images. This review article provides a factual listing of methods and summarizes the broad scientific challenges faced in the field of medical image fusion. We characterize the medical image fusion research based on (1) the widely used image fusion methods, (2) imaging modalities, and (3) imaging of organs that are under study. This review concludes that even though there exists several open ended technological and scientific challenges, the fusion of medical images has proved to be useful for advancing the clinical reliability of using medical imaging for medical diagnostics and analysis, and is a scientific discipline that has the potential to significantly grow in the coming years. © 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Biological image fusion using a NSCT based variable-weight methodTianjie Li | Yuanyuan Wang
Volume 12, Issue 2, April 2011, Pages 85-92
Biological image fusion, as a powerful tool for the protein study, has developed with the advent of various imaging modalities in molecular biology. Combining the fluorescent image and its corresponding phase contrast image will benefit the localization of the protein. However, resulting images of traditional methods are always difficult to compromise between multimodalities. This paper has solved this problem by a variable-weight fusion rule based on the nonsubsampled contourlet transform (NSCT). The intensity components of original images are combined in the multiscaled space and the fused image is obtained in the generalized intensity-hue-saturation (GIHS) frame. Validation experiments on 117 sets of Arabidopsis images are for two purposes: the comparison among different fusion rules and the impact of the multiscaled analysis in biological image fusion. Region-based quantified indexes reveal the similarity between fused images and original ones, and therefore demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method over traditional methods. © 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
A multi-criterion optimization technique for energy efficient cluster formation in wireless sensor networksNauman Aslam | William Phillips | William Robertson | Shyamala Sivakumar
Volume 12, Issue 3, July 2011, Pages 202-212
Clustering techniques have emerged as a popular choice for achieving energy efficiency and scalable performance in large scale sensor networks. Cluster formation is a process whereby sensor nodes decide which cluster head they should associate with among multiple choices. Typically this cluster head selection decision involves a metric based on parameters including residual energy and distance to the cluster head. This decision is a critical embarkation point as a poor choice can lead to increased energy consumption, thus compromising network lifetime. In this paper we present a novel energy efficient cluster formation algorithm based on a multi-criterion optimization technique. Our technique is capable of using multiple individual metrics in the cluster head selection process as input while simultaneously optimizing on the energy efficiency of the individual sensor nodes as well as the overall system. The proposed technique is implemented as a distributed protocol in which each node makes its decision based on local information only. The feasibility of the proposed technique is demonstrated with simulation results. It is shown that the proposed technique outperforms all other well known protocols including LEACH, EECS and HEED resulting in a significant increase in network life. © 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Prioritized intuitionistic fuzzy aggregation operatorsXiaohan Yu | Zeshui Xu
Volume 14, Issue 1, January 2013, Pages 108-116
In some multi-attribute decision making problems, distorted conclusions will be generated due to the lack of considering various relationships among the attributes of decision making. In this paper, we investigate the prioritization relationship of attributes in multi-attribute decision making with intuitionistic fuzzy information (i.e., partial or all decision information, like attribute values and weights, etc., is represented by intuitionistic fuzzy values (IFVs)). Firstly, we develop a new method for comparing two IFVs, based on which the basic intuitionistic fuzzy operations satisfy monotonicities. In addition, we devise a method to derive the weights with intuitionistic fuzzy forms, which can indicate the importance degrees of the corresponding attributes. Then we develop a prioritized intuitionistic fuzzy aggregation operator, which is motivated by the idea of the prioritized aggregation operators [R.R. Yager, Prioritized aggregation operators, International Journal of Approximate Reasoning 48 (2008) 263-274]. Furthermore, we propose an intuitionistic fuzzy basic unit monotonic (IF-BUM) function to transform the derived intuitionistic fuzzy weights into the normalized weights belonging to the unit interval. Finally, we develop a prioritized intuitionistic fuzzy ordered weighted averaging operator on the basis of the IF-BUM function and the transformed weights. © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Distributed weighted robust Kalman filter fusion for uncertain systems with autocorrelated and cross-correlated noisesJianxin Feng | Zidong Wang | Ming Zeng
Volume 14, Issue 1, January 2013, Pages 78-86
In this paper, the problem of distributed weighted robust Kalman filter fusion is studied for a class of uncertain systems with autocorrelated and cross-correlated noises. The system under consideration is subject to stochastic uncertainties or multiplicative noises. The process noise is assumed to be one-step autocorrelated. For each subsystem, the measurement noise is one-step autocorrelated, and the process noise and the measurement noise are two-step cross-correlated. An optimal robust Kalman-type recursive filter is first designed for each subsystem. Then, based on the newly obtained optimal robust Kalman-type recursive filter, a distributed weighted robust Kalman filter fusion algorithm is derived for uncertain systems with multiple sensors. The distributed fusion algorithm involves a recursive computation of the filtering error cross-covariance matrix between any two subsystems. Compared with the centralized Kalman filter, the distributed weighted robust Kalman filter developed in this paper has stronger fault-tolerance ability. Simulation results are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approaches. © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Fusion of multimodal medical images using Daubechies complex wavelet transform - A multiresolution approachRajiv Singh | Ashish Khare
Volume 19, Issue 1, January 2014, Pages 49-60
Multimodal medical image fusion is an important task for the retrieval of complementary information from medical images. Shift sensitivity, lack of phase information and poor directionality of real valued wavelet transforms motivated us to use complex wavelet transform for fusion. We have used Daubechies complex wavelet transform (DCxWT) for image fusion which is approximately shift invariant and provides phase information. In the present work, we have proposed a new multimodal medical image fusion using DCxWT at multiple levels which is based on multiresolution principle. The proposed method fuses the complex wavelet coefficients of source images using maximum selection rule. Experiments have been performed over three different sets of multimodal medical images. The proposed fusion method is visually and quantitatively compared with wavelet domain (Dual tree complex wavelet transform (DTCWT), Lifting wavelet transform (LWT), Multiwavelet transform (MWT), Stationary wavelet transform (SWT)) and spatial domain (Principal component analysis (PCA), linear and sharp) image fusion methods. The proposed method is further compared with Contourlet transform (CT) and Nonsubsampled contourlet transform (NSCT) based image fusion methods. For comparison of the proposed method, we have used five fusion metrics, namely entropy, edge strength, standard deviation, fusion factor and fusion symmetry. Comparison results prove that performance of the proposed fusion method is better than any of the above existing fusion methods. Robustness of the proposed method is tested against Gaussian, salt & pepper and speckle noise and the plots of fusion metrics for different noise cases established the superiority of the proposed fusion method. © 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Consistency and consensus measures for linguistic preference relations based on distribution assessmentsGuiqing Zhang | Yucheng Dong | Yinfeng Xu
Volume 17, Issue 1, January 2014, Pages 46-55
In this paper, we propose the concept of distribution assessments in a linguistic term set, and study the operational laws of linguistic distribution assessments. The weighted averaging operator and the ordered weighted averaging operator for linguistic distribution assessments are presented. We also develop the concept of distribution linguistic preference relations, whose elements are linguistic distribution assessments. Further, we study the consistency and consensus measures for group decision making based on distribution linguistic preference relations. Two desirable properties of the proposed measures are shown. A consensus model also has been developed to help decision makers improve the consensus level among distribution linguistic preference relations. Finally, illustrative numerical examples are given. The results in this paper provide a theoretic basis for the application of linguistic distribution assessments in group decision making. © 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Image matting for fusion of multi-focus images in dynamic scenesShutao Li | Xudong Kang | Jianwen Hu | Bin Yang
Volume 14, Issue 2, January 2013, Pages 147-162
In this paper, we address the problem of fusing multi-focus images in dynamic scenes. The proposed approach consists of three main steps: first, the focus information of each source image obtained by morphological filtering is used to get the rough segmentation result which is one of the inputs of image matting. Then, image matting technique is applied to obtain the accurate focused region of each source image. Finally, the focused regions are combined together to construct the fused image. Through image matting, the proposed fusion algorithm combines the focus information and the correlations between nearby pixels together, and therefore tends to obtain more accurate fusion result. Experimental results demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method over traditional multi-focus image fusion methods, especially for those images in dynamic scenes. © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
An empirical study of binary classifier fusion methods for multiclass classificationNicolás García-Pedrajas | Domingo Ortiz-Boyer
Volume 12, Issue 2, April 2011, Pages 111-130
One of the most important topics in information fusion is the combination of individual classifiers in multi-classifier systems. We have two different tasks in this area: one is the training and construction of ensembles of classifiers, with each one being able to solve the multiclass problem; the other task is the fusion of binary classifiers, with each one solving a different two-class problem to construct a multiclass classifier. This paper is devoted to the study of several aspects on the fusion process of binary classifiers to obtain a multiclass classifier. In the general case of a classification problem with more than two classes, we are faced with the issue that many algorithms either work better with two-class problems or are specifically designed for two-class problems. In such cases, a binarization method that maps the multiclass problem into several two-class problems must be used. In this task, information fusion plays a central role because of the combination of the prediction of the different binary classifiers into a multiclass classifier. Several issues regarding the way binary learners are trained and combined are raised by this task. Issues such as individual accuracy, diversity, and independence are common to other information fusion tasks such as the construction of ensembles of classifiers. This paper presents a study of the different class binarization methods for the various standard multiclass classification problems that have been proposed while addressing aspects not considered in previous works. We are especially concerned with many of the general assumptions in the field that have not been fully assessed by experimentation. We test the different methods in a large set of real-world problems from the UCI Machine Learning Repository, and we use six different base learners. Our results corroborate some of the previous results present in the literature. Furthermore, we present new results regarding the influence of the base learner on the performance of each method. We also show new results on the behavior of binary testing error and the independence of binary classifiers depending on the coding strategy. Finally, we study the behavior of the methods when the number of classes is high and in the presence of noise. © 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Information fusion techniques for change detection from multi-temporal remote sensing imagesPeijun Du | Sicong Liu | Junshi Xia | Yindi Zhao
Volume 14, Issue 1, January 2013, Pages 19-27
In order to investigate the impacts of different information fusion techniques on change detection, a sequential fusion strategy combining pan-sharpening with decision level fusion is introduced into change detection from multi-temporal remotely sensed images. Generally, change map from multi-temporal remote sensing images using any single method or single kind of data source may contain a number of omission/commission errors, degrading the detection accuracy to a great extent. To take advantage of the merits of multi-resolution image and multiple information fusion schemes, the proposed procedure consists of two steps: (1) change detection from pan-sharpened images, and (2) final change detection map generation by decision level fusion. Impacts of different fusion techniques on change detection results are evaluated by unsupervised similarity metric and supervised accuracy indices. Multi-temporal QuickBird and ALOS images are used for experiments. The experimental results demonstrate the positive impacts of different fusion strategies on change detection. Especially, pan-sharpening techniques improve spatial resolution and image quality, which effectively reduces the omission errors in change detection; and decision level fusion integrates the change maps from spatially enhanced fusion datasets and can well reduce the commission errors. Therefore, the overall accuracy of change detection can be increased step by step by the proposed sequential fusion framework. © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
A new image fusion performance metric based on visual information fidelityYu Han | Yunze Cai | Yin Cao | Xiaoming Xu
Volume 14, Issue 2, January 2013, Pages 127-135
Because subjective evaluation is not adequate for assessing work in an automatic system, using an objective image fusion performance metric is a common approach to evaluate the quality of different fusion schemes. In this paper, a multi-resolution image fusion metric using visual information fidelity (VIF) is presented to assess fusion performance objectively. This method has four stages: (1) Source and fused images are filtered and divided into blocks. (2) Visual information is evaluated with and without distortion information in each block. (3) The visual information fidelity for fusion (VIFF) of each sub-band is calculated. (4) The overall quality measure is determined by weighting the VIFF of each sub-band. In our experiment, the proposed fusion assessment method is compared with several existing fusion metrics using the subjective test dataset provided by Petrovic. We found that VIFF performs better in terms of both human perception matching and computational complexity. © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
GeoSpray: A geographic routing protocol for vehicular delay-tolerant networksVasco N G J Soares | Joel J P C Rodrigues | Farid Farahmand
Volume 15, Issue 1, January 2014, Pages 102-113
Vehicular networks are characterized by a highly dynamic network topology, and disruptive and intermittent connectivity. In such network environments, a complete path from source to destination does not exist on the most part of the time. Vehicular delay-tolerant network (VDTN) architecture was introduced to deal with these connectivity constraints. VDTN assumes asynchronous, bundle-oriented communication, and a store-carry-and-forward routing paradigm. A routing protocol for VDTNs should make the best use of the tight resources available in network nodes to create a multi-hop path that exists over time. This paper proposes a VDTN routing protocol, called GeoSpray, which takes routing decisions based on geographical location data, and combines a hybrid approach between multiple-copy and single-copy schemes. First, it starts with a multiple-copy scheme, spreading a limited number of bundle copies, in order to exploit alternative paths. Then, it switches to a forwarding scheme, which takes advantage of additional contact opportunities. In order to improve resources utilization, it clears delivered bundles across the network nodes. It is shown that GeoSpray improves significantly the delivery probability and reduces the delivery delay, compared to traditional location and non location-based single-copy and multiple-copy routing protocols. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Multisensor data fusion for fire detectionE. Zervas | A. Mpimpoudis | C. Anagnostopoulos | O. Sekkas | S. Hadjiefthymiades
Volume 12, Issue 3, July 2011, Pages 150-159
Fire is a common disastrous phenomenon that constitutes a serious threat. The SCIER (Sensor and Computing Infrastructure for Environmental Risks is partially funded by the European Community through the FP6 IST Program. The work presented in this paper expresses the ideas of the authors and not necessarily the whole SCIER consortium.) project envisages the deployment of Wireless Sensor Networks at the "Urban-Rural-Interface" (URI) aiming to the detection, monitoring and crisis management of such natural hazards. One of its primary objectives is the development of an advanced multisensor data fusion scheme which feeds a CUSUM sequential test used in the early detection of fires. Reasoning about the probability of fire in a geographical area covered by temperature, humidity and vision sensors is achieved through Evidential Reasoning (Dempster-Shafer theory). © 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
The accuracy comparison of multisensor covariance intersection fuser and three weighting fusersZili Deng | Peng Zhang | Wenjuan Qi | Yuan Gao | Jinfang Liu
Volume 14, Issue 2, January 2013, Pages 177-185
For multisensor systems with exactly known local filtering error variances and cross-covariances, a covariance intersection (CI) fusion steady-state Kalman filter without cross-covariances is presented. It is rigorously proved that it has consistency, and its accuracy is higher than that of each local Kalman filter and is lower than that of the optimal Kalman fuser with matrix weights. Under the unbiased linear minimum variance (ULMV) criterion, it is proved that the accuracy of the fuser with matrix weights is higher than that of the fuser with scalar weights, and the accuracy of the fuser with diagonal matrix weights is in between both of them, and the accuracies of all three weighting fusers and the CI fuser are lower than that of centralized Kalman fuser, and are higher than that of each local Kalman filter. The geometric interpretations of the above accuracy relations are given based on the covariance ellipsoids. A Monte-Carlo simulation example for tracking system verifies correctiveness of the proposed theoretical accuracy relations, and shows that the actual accuracy of the CI Kalman fuser is close to that of the optimal Kalman fuser, so that it has higher accuracy and good performance. When the actual local filtering error variances and cross-covariances are unknown, if the local filtering estimates are consistent, then the corresponding robust CI fuser is also consistent, and its robust accuracy is higher than that of each local filter. © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Multi-focus image fusion using a morphology-based focus measure in a quad-tree structureIshita De | Bhabatosh Chanda
Volume 14, Issue 2, January 2013, Pages 136-146
Finite depth-of-field poses a problem in light optical imaging systems since the objects present outside the range of depth-of-field appear blurry in the recorded image. Effective depth-of-field of a sensor can be enhanced considerably without compromising the quality of the image by combining multi-focus images of a scene. This paper presents a block-based algorithm for multi-focus image fusion. In general, finding a suitable block-size is a problem in block-based methods. A large block is more likely to contain portions from both focused and defocused regions. This may lead to selection of considerable amount of defocused regions. On the other hand, small blocks do not vary much in relative contrast and hence difficult to choose from. Moreover, small blocks are more affected by mis-registration problems. In this work, we present a block-based algorithm which do not use a fixed block-size and rather makes use of a quad-tree structure to obtain an optimal subdivision of blocks. Though the algorithm starts with blocks, it ultimately identifies sharply focused regions in input images. The algorithm is simple, computationally efficient and gives good results. A new focus-measure called energy of morphologic gradients is introduced and is used in the algorithm. It is comparable with other focus measures viz.energy of gradients, variance, Tenengrad, energy of Laplacian and sum modified Laplacian. The algorithm is robust since it works with any of the above focus measures. It is also robust against pixel mis-registration. Performance of the algorithm has been evaluated by using two different quantitative measures. © 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Consensus under a fuzzy context: Taxonomy, analysis framework AFRYCA and experimental case of studyIván Palomares | Francisco J. Estrella | Luis Martínez | Francisco Herrera
Volume 20, Issue 1, January 2014, Pages 252-271
Consensus reaching processes play an increasingly important role in the resolution of group decision making problems: a solution acceptable to all the experts participating in a problem is necessary in many real-life contexts. A large number of consensus approaches have been proposed to support groups in such processes, each one with its own characteristics, such as the methods utilized for the fusion of information regarding the preferences of experts. Given this variety of existing approaches in the literature to support consensus reaching processes, this paper considers two main objectives. Firstly, we propose a taxonomy that provides an overview and categorization of some existing consensus models for group decision making problems defined in a fuzzy context, taking into account the main features of each model. Secondly, the paper presents AFRYCA, a simulation-based analysis framework for the resolution of group decision making problems by means of different consensus models. The framework is aimed at facilitating a study of the performance of each consensus model, as well as determining the most suitable model/s for the resolution of a specific problem. An experimental study is carried out to show the usefulness of the framework. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.


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Reviews of Huab Lodge
They do not necessarily represent the views of Expert Africa.
Huab Lodge review
Our hosts Jan and Suzi were delightful and interesting people. Huab Lodge's facilities are beautiful and tastefully decorated. Our bungalow was wonderful. The food was wonderful and the family-style meals enjoyable. Steve's vegetarian meals were the best of our three week trip, thanks to Suzi.
We participated in sunrise walks and nature drives led by Jan. The location is somewhat remote but the area is beautiful and serene. Wildlife included oryx, kudu and steenbok but desert-adapted elephant sightings are rare. We enjoyed watching a pair of yellow-billed hornbills doing a courtship display in a tree.
Very relaxing stay at Huab lodge
Fantastic staff, loved the communal meals and laid back atmosphere.Read more about the whole safari
Very relaxing and peaceful.
A lovely place with delightful staff and owners. Very little large wildlife but great if you are obsessed with birds.
The accommodation was beautiful and very well positioned to ensure privacy and outlook.
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Good early morning walks.Read more about the whole safari
Klipspringer at dawn
Jaap was a delightful guide - relaxed and enthusiastic for the animals and landscapes of Huab. Our favorite part was getting up for an early walk with Jaap, fueled with Rooibus tea and lovely homemade bread, and seeing a Klipspringer silhouetted on a rocky hillside in the first light of the day.
I also found the hot springs to be quite the right thing to visit at the end of the day and loved getting to it via a path cut in the tall grass alongside the bank of the Huab River.
If you are driving yourselves, as we did, it is best to be aware that the road in from the highway is about 30kms. The road is fine but don't be in a hurry - there is much to enjoy in the scenery on the drive.
Excellent lodge short on game
This was a very pleasant and hospitable lodge set in magnificent mountain and valley scenery. Unfortunately it was at the end of a long drive in along a dirt road which was at the limit of a small 2WD following heavy rain. The food was excellent with a choice of two main dishes and good but different wines provided with each meal.
The area was short of game apart from over six hundred oryx, although we were provided with the spectacle of a rock python attacking the lodge dog. There were at least four species of rare succulent plants growing in the grounds.
Huab is the Place to Relax and Enjoy Namibia
We chose Huab Lodge as the place we most wanted to stay for our 40ieth Wedding Anniversary based on our previous two enjoyable visits. We were not disappointed as Jan and Suzi and staff went out of their way to make it a very special event for us.
We really enjoyed the early morning walks with Jan as it is not often that you get the chance to travel on foot while on safari in Africa. The morning and afternoon drives kept us well occupied during the day. Game viewing includes animals such as zebra, kudu, oryx, and a wide variety of birds, but don't expect to see the abundant variety of wildlife seen in places like Etosha Park.
Huab is a great place to relax and enjoy being in Africa!
Beautiful setting.
Can confirm approach road long and arduous for a small car.
Situation of hot water spring idyllic (sic).
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Spacious clean rooms, well laid out lapa, excellent food and good facilities. The management team were welcoming and good hosts with a great sense of humour.
The overall experience was let down by the quality of the guiding and the drives which compared poorly with our experience at other lodges.
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We were very surprised by the comment about the guiding, and passed it to Huab – who were very straightforward; they didn't try to make any excuses.
They explained that there is trainee guide at the lodge who doesn't usually take guests out on his own; but in this case, he did. They have apologized to us, and assure us that they have "already taken steps to ensure that there will be no recurrence in future."
The guiding at Huab is usually excellent – the owner, Jans, is one of Namibia's top wildlife guides – and so we are confident that future guests won't have cause for complaint about the standard of the guiding.
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2 August 2011
Karen and Bradley discuss Karen's OSCON keynote and her 2011 O'Reilly Open Source Award, as well as other happenings from OSCON.
This show was released on Tuesday 2 August 2011; its running time is 00:36:27.
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Segment 0 (00:35)
- Bradley and Karen just returned from the 2011 O'Reilly Open Source Software Convention (OSCON). (00:45)
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- Listener Michael Dexter let Bradley stay at his house for part of the time of OSCON, and Bradley later shared a room with listener Richard Fontana. (06:40)
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Equally important, the team developed a point guard, Marcus Paige, who made huge strides over the course of the year, and unlocked the talents of a budding major talent, P.J. Hairston. The team also got excellent leadership from Reggie Bullock and moments of brilliance or promise from no fewer than eleven players.
What this team didn't get, of course, was a signature win against an elite team. Carolina had three cracks at Miami, two at Duke, and one each against Indiana and Kansas. Three of those games (Indiana and one each against Miami and Duke) were disasters.
So was the second half Sunday in Kansas City against Kansas. But even in defeat Carolina had quite a bit to be proud of. An aggressive defensive strategy aimed at doubling down on Jeff Withey, plus an overall turbo-charged tempo, clearly rattled Kansas in the first half. With better shooting on the available looks in the first half, the Tar Heels might have built a huge halftime lead and perhaps induced the Jayhawks to panic.
Instead, Carolina went into the break ahead by nine points—still very good relative to pre-game expectations, but hardly insurmountable. As against Villanova on Friday night, Carolina allowed the lead to evaporate fairly quickly. Unlike Friday night, the Tar Heels had no meaningful response or second wind against Kansas. Once the shots started falling from outside and Withey re-found his comfort zone, Kansas looked like a typical No. 1 seed playing at home and Carolina looked like a typical No. 8 seed trying to keep pace.
Going small was clearly the right move for this team, and made the difference in making the year an overall success. But the Kansas game will probably reinforce Williams's view that it's awfully hard to beat elite teams, let alone win a championship, without a quality center-type player and without two quality bigs on the court for most of the game.
Carolina had no realistic chance of defending Withey straight up; by doubling down, you leave someone else open and gamble the opponent won't find him or the open man will miss. The strategy worked for a while, but against the best teams, it's not likely to work forever.
So whatever the personnel situation next year, the default assumption must be that Carolina is going to attempt to go big again, most of the time. Certainly, the Tar Heels are expected to have plenty of big bodies—the question is whether Joel James, Brice Johnson and Desmond Hubert can develop their games sufficiently to claim a regular role, or whether newcomers Kennedy Meeks and Isaiah Hicks might be ready to go directly into major roles.
Of course, no one is exactly sure who is going to be suiting up for the Tar Heels next year. Three players are thought likely to give at least some consideration to the NBA Draft: Bullock, James Michael McAdoo, and Hairston.
Of the three, Bullock's game is probably the closest to its fullest development. In a senior year, one can imagine continued incremental improvement but probably not major breakthroughs from the Kinston native. There is room to develop a more efficient in-between game, but basically the Reggie Bullock we see today is similar to the one likely to be seen playing professional basketball for years to come in the future.
Hairston still has quite a bit more to achieve in the college game—continuing to develop defensively and his overall floor game, and becoming not only a prolific but also a more efficient scorers. The way to do that is to continue to improve driving to the basket and also improve his ability to pull up and score in mid-range. In a junior year, Hairston would be a primary candidate for first team All-ACC and conceivably league MVP honors.
Of the three, it's McAdoo whose game needs the most work. An NBA-level face-the-basket forward needs to be able to convert stationary jump shots up to 17-18 feet, as well jump shots off one or two dribbles going in either direction, at a very high conversion rate. (For the better NBA forwards, these shots are practically automatic.) Such a forward also needs to shoot free throws at at least a 70-75 percent clip.
McAdoo is just not there yet, though at times late in the season he seemed to have really found a good stroke 12-15 feet from the basket. But against Kansas, as so often against the better quality opponents Carolina played this year, he too often seemed in a hurry and out of control taking it to the basket, as well as uncomfortable, rushed, and inaccurate on his jump shots. It's possible to shoot 5-for-19 just because all your shots are going in and out, but that's not the kind of 5-for-19 night McAdoo had Sunday.
McAdoo still has all the tools and potential to be a first-class pro. But the evidence of Sunday and of much of the season suggests he needs a lot more seasoning and a lot more improvement in his core offensive game before making the leap.
To be sure, as we all know players have to weigh many other circumstances beyond basketball in making the decision to leave early. In pure basketball terms, though, McAdoo's long-term career interests would almost certainly be better served by staying another year (or even two) in Chapel Hill, while continuing to work relentlessly on his core skill set.
One player who has definitely hung up the Tar Heel uniform for the last time is Dexter Strickland. Strickland is a throw-back player who probably would be perceived as far more valuable had he played in the pre-three-point era. A stellar defender, he excelled when driving to the basket and came to develop a quite reliable mid-range pull-up jumper. Despite not being a proficient shooter from deeper range, he made himself into a very valuable Tar Heel at both guard slots. Consider this improvement: as a freshman he had 71 assists against 62 turnovers; as a senior he finished with 146 assists against just 46 turnovers.
Strickland also dealt with more than his share of adversity: being a part of the 2009-10 team that fell apart and had to settle for the NIT; being a part of the 2010-11 team that overcame soap opera-worthy off-court drama and early struggles to win an ACC regular season title; losing the chance to be part of a potential Final Four team in his junior year due to injury, at a time he was playing sparkling basketball; and then the challenges of his senior season.
Through all the events of the last four years, the fact that Roy Williams could count on Strickland to play his butt off every single night has been one of the most constant facts about Carolina basketball. That's why his coaches and teammates respect him, and why it's likely in time he'll be recognized by the fan base as a somewhat underappreciated player.
Roy Williams likes to say you shouldn't have to coach effort. He certainly never had to with Dexter Strickland.
Thad is the author of "More Than a Game: Why North Carolina Basketball Means So Much To So Many" (now available to be read for free online here: More Than a Game - ONLINE). A Chapel Hill native, he operated the manual scoreboard formerly located at the end of the UNC bench between the 1982-83 and 1987-88 seasons in Carmichael and the Smith Center. Thad wrote regularly for Inside Carolina and UNCbasketball.com from 1995 to 2005. He's an associate professor of leadership studies at the University of Richmond.


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DISD Board Officially Approves Buyout Offer For At-Will Employees, Beginning This Saturday
Last week we asked: Will the Dallas Independent School District's board of trustees extend to at-will employees the same buyout deal given teachers a few weeks back in order to trim its budget in the way of the $86-million to $150-million budget shortfall expected over the next two years? To which the board just said: Absolutely.
This is who's allowed to take the early cash-out, per the district's announcement following today's called board meeting: "Eligible employees include maintenance staff, custodial staff, food services staff, teacher assistants, front office staff, central staff, and other support staff."
Those wishing to take the so-called "early resignation incentive" can begin lining up at 6 a.m. Saturday outside of 3700 Ross, with the cutoff right now scheduled for April 8. Those who take the deal will receive 15 percent of their salary -- up to $10,000. But the board has only allocated $2 million this go-round. From the district:
Hourly/biweekly employees may receive 15 percent of their base salary, which would be calculated as their required daily working hours multiplied by the number of required workdays multiplied by their hourly rate.
Employees who take advantage of the offer are being given the opportunity to work through Aug. 31, 2011, enabling them to maximize their retirement benefits. Employees who already may have used all of their sick leave/annual leave and who choose to leave the district prior to Aug. 31, 2011, may owe the district money.
Part-time and temporary employees, as well as alternative certification interns and probationary contract employees are excluded from this offer. Contract employees also are excluded.
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How's the progress on the Realms? I've been thinkin' of giving everyone about a months' break when that's over. Don't want to leap out of one RP right into another.
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530th Convocation
Saturday, June 10, 2017
The 530th Convocation will take place on Saturday, June 10, 2017 at 9:15 a.m., and will be held outdoors, rain or shine, on the University's Main Quadrangle. This is a university-wide ceremony and all candidates participate in this ceremony, during which the President will verbally confer degrees to groups of candidates by degree type and academic program. Tickets are not required for this ceremony.
Each school and division will hold separate ceremonies or receptions at which degree candidates will receive their diplomas individually from their deans. Please check back soon to view the lunch and diploma ceremony schedule for each Division and School.
The Convocation Brochure will be available for download in February 2017.
Saturday, June 10
7:00 a.m. Main Quadrangle opens
8:15 - 8:55 a.m. Degree candidates assemble in designated areas
9:00 a.m. All guests are requested to be in their seats
9:15 a.m. 530th Convocation, Main Quadrangle
11:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Please check back soon to view the lunch and diploma ceremony schedule for each Division and School.
Ceremony Webcast
The University Convocation ceremony will be broadcasted via the University's website at news.uchicago.edu/webcast.
"Convocation brings campus together to celebrate scholarship and community"


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The Present is a short animation by Jacob Frey, about a boy who would rather spend his time playing video games instead of discovering what's outside. One day his mom brings him a little surprise which makes it hard for him to concentrate on his games.
Memory and Identity
Some are kept in shoe boxes in a forgotten closet corner. Others are glued carefully into albums and kept on the family bookshelf. Many have been lost forever, destroyed out of panic or indifference. In Ukraine, whose tumultuous 20th-century history has spilled over into a bloody battle for its 21st-century identity, every picture tells a story. RFE/RL's Daisy Sindelar traveled to six Ukrainian cities to talk to people about what their old family photographs say to them about who they, and their country, are today. [more inside]
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Thanks to science, most of us accept the deep past – so why are our imagined futures so shallow? [more inside]
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Best birthday gift ever: the secret treasure room.
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Ghosts of the past revisit little-changed streets and avenues of New York City in Famous Daily News photos brought back to life.
Everything is fleeting
"It feels strange to be active and highly visible on the Web for 15 years but it was only when I joined Facebook that someone from elementary school or high school ever contacted me." In which on Ev Williams's platform, Mr Haughey compares his experiences of Facebook and Twitter. [more inside]
Going (London) Underground
The London Underground. Every Londoner has used it, but has everyone really seen it? The old map is looking a bit dusty. Perhaps its time for Geographic precision or maybe 3D projection. If we add bicycles to the map, is it still an underground? [more inside]
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The Secret Powers of Time An animation of a lecture by Philip G. Zimbardo (previously). [more inside]
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Like Philip K. Dick said, "It's not just 'what if?', it's 'my god, what if?'." By all major accounts, the Zombie War (was | will be) a real bitch. And Fitzpatrick didn't do much better. If some writers have anything to say about it, the future probably wont look too good. Some hit a little close to home. On the other hand, some other writers think our future might be a little brighter. Who knows? It's just a guess. So is looking backwards and wondering "what if?". And if that's not enough, maybe you wonder what it's like to be someone else...
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What should we get Erich for his birthday? How about a desk set with a radio, a thermometer disguised as a TV mast, a clock topped with a tank, a calendar, and four ballpoint pens disguised as missiles. Iconographia socialistica from the GDR.
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