Vol. 6 No. 3 (2012)

This paper presents a performance analysis and comparison of several pre-processing methods used in a hand gesture recognition system. The preprocessing methods are based on the combinations ofseveral image processing operations, namely edge detection, low pass filtering, histogram equalization, thresholding and desaturation. The hand gesture recognition system is designed to classify an input image into one of six possibleclasses. The input images are taken with various background conditions. Our experiments showed that the best result is achieved when the pre-processing method consists of…

This paper investigates the performance of wavelet-based multiresolution motion estimation (MRME) for inbetweening in old animated films using three different MRME schemes. The three schemes are: coarse-to fine with a wavelet-based MRME, one of Zhang

If a communication network N with n stations has every station linked with at least [n/2] other stations, then the edge-connectivity of N equals its minimum degree. Also, in general, this limitation is stated to be the best possibility, as was proved by Chartrand in 1966. A more developed notion of edge-connectivity is introduced, which is called k-component order edge connectivity. It is the minimum number of edges required to be removed so that the order of each disconnected component is less than k.

In order to assist researchers in addressing time constraint and low relevance in using scientific articles, an automatic tailored multi-paper summarization (TMPS) is proposed. In this paper, we extend Teufel