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Removing the texture feature response to object boundaries
Texture is a spatial property and thus any features used to describe it must be calculated within a neighbourhood. This process of integrating information over a neighbourhood leads to what we will refer to as the texture boundary response problem, where an unwanted response is observed at object boundaries. This response is due to features being extracted from a mixture of textures and/or an intensity edge between objects. If segmentation is performed using these raw features this will lead to the generation of unwanted classes along object boundaries. To overcome this, post processing of feature images must be performed to remove this response before a classification algorithm can be applied. To date this problem has received little attention with no evaluation of the alternative solutions available in the literature of which we are aware. In this work we perform an evaluation of known solutions to the boundary response problem and discover separable median filtering to be the curre nt best choice. An in depth evaluation of the separable median filtering approach shows that it fails to remove certain parts or types of object boundary response. To overcome this failing we propose two alternative techniques which involve either post processing of the separable median filtered result or an alternative filtering technique
Topological Consistent Generalization of OpenStreetMap
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Preliminary Results of a Spatial Analysis of Dublin City’s Bike Rental Scheme
We present some initial observations on the usage and flow patterns of the DublinBikes (DB) bicycle
rental scheme across Dublin city. In September 2009 Dublin City in conjunction with outdoor
advertising company JC Decaux made 450 bicycles publicly available from 40 locations around the
city in a scheme called DublinBikes (DB). Cycling, as a commuting mode forms an important part of
the Irish Government's Transport policy for Ireland up to 2020 stating that "a culture of cycling will
be developed by 2020 to envisage around 160,000 people cycling for their daily commute, up from
35,000 in 2006"(DOT, 2009). We follow Froehlich et al (2008) who find usage patterns from these
bike rental schemes can "infer cultural and geographical aspects of the city and predict future bike
station usage behaviour" when combined with geographical information and local knowledge. Data
captured on DB and presented in this paper covers the period of September 20th 2009 to February 15th
2010 inclusive
Complementary texture and intensity gradient estimation and fusion for watershed segmentation
In this paper, we identify two current challenges
associated with watershed segmentation algorithms which
attempt to fuse the visual cues of texture and intensity. The
first challenge is that most existing techniques use a competing
gradient set which does not allow boundaries to be
defined in terms of both visual cues. The second challenge
is that these techniques fail to account for the spatial uncertainty
inherent in texture gradients. We present a watershed
segmentation algorithm which provides a suitable solution
to both these challenges and minimises the spatial uncertainty
in boundary localisation. This is achieved by a novel
fusion algorithm which uses morphological dilation to integrate
intensity and texture gradients.Aquantitative and qualitative
evaluation of results is provided demonstrating that our
algorithm outperforms three existing watershed algorithms
Topological Consistent Generalization of OpenStreetMap
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Evaluating Twitter for Use in Environmental Awareness Campaigns
Many studies have shown that the effective harnessing
of ICTs is critical in local, national, and global efforts to
adapt and mitigate the effects of climate change. Citizens must be
provided with accurate information about environmental issues
and should receive this through the most effective communication
channels available. In this paper we describe work in progress
in evaluating Twitter as a means of distributing environmental
information to citizens. This work will attempt to measure how
effective the Twitter medium can be in environmental awareness
campaigns for issues such as climate change by carrying out an
analysis of a regularly updated database of Twitter messages.
This work will also look to establish if users are environmental
issues through their Twitter networks
Preliminary Results of a Spatial Analysis of Dublin City’s Bike Rental Scheme
We present some initial observations on the usage and flow patterns of the DublinBikes (DB) bicycle
rental scheme across Dublin city. In September 2009 Dublin City in conjunction with outdoor
advertising company JC Decaux made 450 bicycles publicly available from 40 locations around the
city in a scheme called DublinBikes (DB). Cycling, as a commuting mode forms an important part of
the Irish Government's Transport policy for Ireland up to 2020 stating that "a culture of cycling will
be developed by 2020 to envisage around 160,000 people cycling for their daily commute, up from
35,000 in 2006"(DOT, 2009). We follow Froehlich et al (2008) who find usage patterns from these
bike rental schemes can "infer cultural and geographical aspects of the city and predict future bike
station usage behaviour" when combined with geographical information and local knowledge. Data
captured on DB and presented in this paper covers the period of September 20th 2009 to February 15th
2010 inclusive
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Potential Therapeutic Strategies to Overcome Acquired Resistance to BRAF or MEK Inhibitors in BRAF Mutant Cancers
Recent clinical trials with selective inhibitors of the BRAF and MEK kinases have shown promising results in patients with tumors harboring BRAF V600 mutations. However, as has been observed previously with similarly successful targeted therapies, acquired resistance to these agents is an emerging problem that limits their clinical benefit. Several recent studies from our laboratory and others have investigated the causes of acquired resistance to BRAF and MEK inhibitors, and multiple resistance mechanisms have been identified. Here, we review these mechanisms and suggest that they can be broadly grouped into two main classes: ERK-dependent and ERK-independent. We also propose distinct therapeutic strategies that might be employed to overcome each class of acquired resistance
Effective Vector Data Transmission and Visualization Using HTML5
In this paper we evaluate the potential of the next major revision of HTML (Hypertext
Markup Language), that is HTML5, to provide an effective platform for the transmission
and visualization of vector based geographical data. Relative to the current version of HTML,
HTML 4.01, HTML5 offers an improved platform to perform these tasks through greater interoperability
with existing technologies and the introduction of many new API’s. Visualization of
vector data can be achieved using the new methods of inline-SVG and the Canvas API. An analysis
of the pros and cons of each method is presented. HTML5 introduces a novel WebSocket
API which defines a full-duplex communication channel between client and server. This provides
improved data communication both in terms of bandwidth utilization and network latency
relative to existing push technologies. To demonstrate the effectiveness of HTML5 for vector
data delivery a novel selective progressive transmission methodology is implemented using the
WebSocket and Canvas API’s
Polygon Processing on OpenStreetMap XML Data
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