455 research outputs found
Histogram of Oriented Principal Components for Cross-View Action Recognition
Existing techniques for 3D action recognition are sensitive to viewpoint
variations because they extract features from depth images which are viewpoint
dependent. In contrast, we directly process pointclouds for cross-view action
recognition from unknown and unseen views. We propose the Histogram of Oriented
Principal Components (HOPC) descriptor that is robust to noise, viewpoint,
scale and action speed variations. At a 3D point, HOPC is computed by
projecting the three scaled eigenvectors of the pointcloud within its local
spatio-temporal support volume onto the vertices of a regular dodecahedron.
HOPC is also used for the detection of Spatio-Temporal Keypoints (STK) in 3D
pointcloud sequences so that view-invariant STK descriptors (or Local HOPC
descriptors) at these key locations only are used for action recognition. We
also propose a global descriptor computed from the normalized spatio-temporal
distribution of STKs in 4-D, which we refer to as STK-D. We have evaluated the
performance of our proposed descriptors against nine existing techniques on two
cross-view and three single-view human action recognition datasets. The
Experimental results show that our techniques provide significant improvement
over state-of-the-art methods
Action Classification with Locality-constrained Linear Coding
We propose an action classification algorithm which uses Locality-constrained
Linear Coding (LLC) to capture discriminative information of human body
variations in each spatiotemporal subsequence of a video sequence. Our proposed
method divides the input video into equally spaced overlapping spatiotemporal
subsequences, each of which is decomposed into blocks and then cells. We use
the Histogram of Oriented Gradient (HOG3D) feature to encode the information in
each cell. We justify the use of LLC for encoding the block descriptor by
demonstrating its superiority over Sparse Coding (SC). Our sequence descriptor
is obtained via a logistic regression classifier with L2 regularization. We
evaluate and compare our algorithm with ten state-of-the-art algorithms on five
benchmark datasets. Experimental results show that, on average, our algorithm
gives better accuracy than these ten algorithms.Comment: ICPR 201
The homogeneous q-difference operator and the related polynomials
We create the homogeneous q-difference operator Ee(a, b; θ) as an extension of the exponential operator E(bθ). A new polynomials hn(a, b, x|q−1) are defined as an extension of the q−1-Rogers-Szegö polynomial hn(a, b|q−1). We provide an operator proof of the generating function and its extension, Rogers formula and the invers linearization formula, and Mehler’s formula for the polynomials hn(a, b|q−1). The generating function and its extension, Rogers formula and the invers linearization formula, and Mehler’s formula for the polynomials hn(a, b|q−1) are deduced by giving special values to parameters of a new polynomial hn(a, b, x|q−1).Publisher's Versio
Análisis de los ensayos argumentativos del alumno pakistanÃ: un enfoque multidimensional
The present study is a corpus based research using a statistical approach multi-dimensional analysis (MDA) by Biber to study linguistic patterns of learner language. MDA has gained much appreciation due to its objective and empirical nature. It not only systematically arranges common linguistic patterns but also elaborates the functional association of these patterns. The MDA is performed at two levels known as old MD and New MD. The present researchis only about second level (New MD). The results show that in Pakistani learners’ writing the prominent linguistic patterns are characteristically informational rather than argumentative. Instead of building arguments, learners are more interested in sharing information. Pakistani English has historical roots from pre-partitioned India, therefore, it has under gone through communal, traditional and dogmatic apexes. In the beginning, people started learning English as a second language that was inevitably entering in their social and cultural life.El presente estudio es una investigación basada en corpus que utiliza un enfoque estadÃstico de análisis multidimensional (MDA) de Biber para estudiar los patrones lingüÃsticos del lenguaje del alumno. MDA ha ganado mucha apreciación debido a su naturaleza objetiva y empÃrica. No solo organiza sistemáticamente patrones lingüÃsticos comunes, sino que también elabora la asociación funcional de estos patrones. El MDA se realiza en dos niveles conocidos como MD antiguo y MD nuevo. La presente investigación es solo sobre el segundo nivel (Nuevo MD). Los resultados muestran que en la escritura de los aprendices paquistanÃes, los patrones lingüÃsticos prominentes son caracterÃsticamente informativos más que argumentativos. En lugar de construir argumentos, los alumnos están más interesados ​​en compartir información. El inglés paquistanà tiene raÃces históricas de la India pre-dividida, por lo tanto, ha pasado por vértices comunales, tradicionales y dogmáticos. Al principio, la gente comenzó a aprender inglés como un segundo idioma que inevitablemente entraba en su vida social y cultural
From Fiscal Decentralisation to Economic Growt The Role of Complementary Institutions
Decentralisation is theoretically expected to be a platform
towards efficient provision of the local public goods and services. This
is expected to boost economic growth due to efficient and effective
utilisation of scarce fiscal resources. Nevertheless, the existing
empirical studies present mixed results on this expected positive
relationship among decentralisation and economic growth. Recently, the
theories of fiscal federalism have also pressed upon the enabling
environment for effective decentralisation; talking explicitly, an
enabling institutional setup is required. The current study explores the
complementarity between fiscal decentralisation and other institutions
for stimulating growth and the study uses rich crosscountry panel data
for the period 1984 to 2012, covering both the developing and developed
countries of the world. The results suggest that positive relationship
exist between fiscal decentralisation and economic growth for the
developed countries while evidence was not found in the case of
developing countries. Further, it was found that fiscal decentralisation
and quality institutions are complementary for economic growth. JEL
Classification: C22, H11, H77, O40 Keywords: Fiscal Decentralisation,
Institutions, Economic Growth, Panel Data, unequally spaced panel
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