Merging methodology videos and sounds for monitoring insect behavior

Este trabalho apresenta uma nova abordagem para fusão de vídeo e som diretamente no espaço de atributos visando otimizar a identificação do comportamento de insetos. Foi utilizado o detector de Harris para rastreamento dos insetos, assim como a técnica inovadora Wavelet-Multifractal para análise de som. No caso da Wavelet-Multifractal, foram testadas várias Wavelet-mães, sendo a Morlet a melhor escolha para sons de insetos. Foi proposto a Wavelet Módulo Máximo para extrair atributos multifractais dos sons para serem utilizados no reconhecimento de padrões de comportamento de insetos. A abordagem Wrapper de mineração de dados foi usada para selecionar os atributos relevantes. Foi constatado que a abordagem Wavelet-multifractal identifica melhor os sons, particularmente no caso de distorções provocadas por ruídos. As imagens foram responsáveis pela identificação de acasalamento e os sons pelos outros comportamentos. Foi também proposto um novo método do triângulo como representação simplificada do espectro multifractal visando simplificação do processamento.This work presents an innovative video and sound fusion approach by feature subset selection under the space of attributes to optimally identify insects behavior. Harris detector was used for insect movement tracking and an innovative technique of Multifractal-Wavelet was used to analyze the insect sounds. In the case of Multifractal-Wavelet, more than one mother-wavelet was tested, being the Morlet wavelet the best choice of mother-wavelet for insect sounds. The wavelet modulus maxima was proposed to extract multifractal sound attributes to be used in pattern recognition of an insect behavior. The wrapper data mining approach was used to select relevant attributes. It has been found that, in general, wavelet-multifractal based schemes perform better for sound, particularly in terms of minimizing noise distortion influence. The image features only determine the mating and the sound other behaviors. A new triangle representation of multifractal spectrum was proposed as a processing simplification

MS FT-2-2 7 Orthogonal polynomials and quadrature: Theory, computation, and applications

Quadrature rules find many applications in science and engineering. Their analysis is a classical area of applied mathematics and continues to attract considerable attention. This seminar brings together speakers with expertise in a large variety of quadrature rules. It is the aim of the seminar to provide an overview of recent developments in the analysis of quadrature rules. The computation of error estimates and novel applications also are described

Generalized averaged Gaussian quadrature and applications

A simple numerical method for constructing the optimal generalized averaged Gaussian quadrature formulas will be presented. These formulas exist in many cases in which real positive GaussKronrod formulas do not exist, and can be used as an adequate alternative in order to estimate the error of a Gaussian rule. We also investigate the conditions under which the optimal averaged Gaussian quadrature formulas and their truncated variants are internal