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Evaluation of Decision Fusion Methods for Multimodal Biometrics in the Banking Application
PublicationAn evaluation of decision fusion methods based on Dempster-Shafer Theory (DST) and its modifications is presented in the article, studied over real biometric data from the engineered multimodal banking client verification system. First, the approaches for multimodal biometric data fusion for verification are explained. Then the proposed implementation of comparison scores fusion is presented, including details on the application...
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Ranking ecosystem services delivered by trees in urban and rural areas
PublicationPolicies and strategies for tree management and protection on a national, regional, and local level have not sufficiently considered differences between rural and urban areas. We used expert knowledge to compare rural and urban areas in a case study evaluating the relative importance of ecosystem services (ES) in policy development. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and focus group discussions were used to rank 17 ES, representing...
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Semantic segmentation training using imperfect annotations and loss masking
PublicationOne of the most significant factors affecting supervised neural network training is the precision of the annotations. Also, in a case of expert group, the problem of inconsistent data annotations is an integral part of real-world supervised learning processes, well-known to researchers. One practical example is a weak ground truth delineation for medical image segmentation. In this paper, we have developed a new method of accurate...
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Maturity Mismatch in the Polish Banking System and its Impact on the Economy
PublicationIn the article maturity mismatch in the Polish banking system is estimated based on the publicly available data. Then the impact on the economy is discussed. Based on Polish central bank’s data it may be estimated that between 1996 and 2012 the maturity gap increased significantly – average residual maturity of assets exceeds 6 years in 2012 (less than 2 years in 1996), while that of liabilities remains below 1 year. The gap...
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AUTOMATIC OPTIMIZATION OF ADAPTIVE NOTCH FILTER’S FREQUEN CY TRACKING
PublicationEstimation of instantaneous frequency of narrowband com- plex sinusoids is often performed using lightweight algo- rithms called adaptive notch filters. However, to reach high performance, these algorithms require careful tuning. The paper proposes a novel self-tuning layer for a recently intr o- ducedadaptive notch filtering algorithm. Analysis shows th at, under Gaussian random-walk type assumptions, the resultin g solution converges...
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Visual Object Tracking System Employing Fixed and PTZ Cameras
PublicationThe paper presents a video monitoring system utilizing fixed and PTZ cameras for tracking of moving objects. First type of camera provides image for background modelling, being employed for foreground objects localization. Estimated objects locations are then utilised for steering of PTZ cameras when observing targeted objects with high close-ups. Objects are classified into several classes, then basic event detection is being...
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Pitting corrosion and stress-corrosion cracking of buffer tanks in a brewery
PublicationW pracy przedstawiono wyniki ekspertyzy zbiornika magazynowego na ciepłą wodę do produkcji piwa w browarze. Zbiornik uległ przyśpieszonym procesom korozyjnym, które doprowadziły do jego perforacji. Podczas eksploatacji zbiornika wystąpił proces korozji wżerowej oraz pękania korozyjnego. Przyśpieszone procesy korozyjne zbiornika związane były z wysoką zawartością jonów chlorkowych w wodzie oraz statycznymi naprężeniami mechanicznymi....
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Increasing the Efficiency of Ontology Alignment by Tracking Changes in Ontology Evolution
PublicationIn this paper we present a development of our ontology alignment framework based on varying semantics of attributes. Emphasising the analysis of explicitly given descriptions of how attributes change meanings they entail while being included within different concepts have been proved useful. Moreover, we claim that it is consistent with the intuitive way how people see the real world and how they find similarities and correspondences...
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Estimation of Stresses in a Dry Sand Layer Tested on Shaking Table
PublicationTheoretical analysis of shaking table experiments, simulating earthquake response of a dry sand layer, is presented. The aim of such experiments is to study seismic-induced compaction of soil and resulting settlements. In order to determine the soil compaction, the cyclic stresses and strains should be calculated first. These stresses are caused by the cyclic horizontal acceleration at the base of soil layer, so it is important...
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Resolving conflicts in object tracking for automatic detection of events in video
PublicationAn algorithm for resolving conflicts in tracking of moving objects is presented. The proposed approach utilizes predicted states calculated by Kalman filters for estimation of trackers position, then it uses color and texture descriptors in order to match moving objects with trackers. Problematic situations, such as splitting objects, are addressed. Test results are presented and discussed. The algorithm may be used in the system...
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Distributed Framework for Visual Event Detection in Parking Lot Area
PublicationThe paper presents the framework for automatic detection of various events occurring in a parking lot basing on multiple camera video analysis. The framework is massively distributed, both in the logical and physical sense. It consists of several entities called node stations that use XMPP protocol for internal communication and SRTP protocol with Jingle extension for video streaming. Recognized events include detecting parking...
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Music query and annotation processes supported by gaze fixation tracking
PublicationCelem referatu jest przegląd kluczowych zagadnień związanych z automatycznym wyszukiwaniem informacji muzycznej MIR - Music Information Retrieval. W pierwszej kolejności przedstawiono aktualne kierunki badań i rozwiązań systemowych związane z wyszukiwaniem i rekomendacją muzyki. Następnie zaprezentowano eksperymenty przeprowadzone na skonstruowanej bazie muzycznej. Pokazano również propozycję wspomagania procesu wyszukiwania i...
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Music query and annotation processes supported by gaze fixation tracking
PublicationCelem artykułu jest przegląd kluczowych zagadnień związanych z automatycznym wyszukiwaniem informacji muzycznej MIR - Music Information Retrieval. W pierwszej kolejności przedstawiono aktualne kierunki badań i rozwiązań systemowych związane z wyszukiwaniem i rekomendacją muzyki. Następnie zaprezentowano eksperymenty przeprowadzone na skonstruowanej bazie muzycznej. Pokazano również propozycję wspomagania procesu wyszukiwania i...
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Comparison of Tracking Methods in Respect of Automation of Animal Behavioral Test
PublicationAutomation in experiments carried out on animals is getting more and more important in research. Computers take over laborious and time-consuming activities like recording and analysing images of experiment scene. The first step in an image analysis is finding and distinguishing between the observed animals, and then tracking all objects during the experiment. In this paper four tracking methods are presented. Quantitative and...
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Employing Blended E-Learning to Improve Rate of Assignments Handing-In
PublicationIt has been observed that students hand in homework assignments at a notably low rate in introductory C programming course. A survey has revealed that the real issue was not student learning but instructor work organization. Based on survey results, the physical course has been complemented with an e-learning component to guide the homework process. Assignment handing-in rate significantly improved, as e-learning allowed the homework...
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Banking concentration in the Baltic and Western Balkan states — selected issues
PublicationResearch background: In a rapidly changing economic environment companies deepen their cooperation, which entails in all sectors of the economy. The progressive increase in market concentration, especially in the banking sector, is caused by various reasons. Purpose of the article: The purpose of this article is to compare the tendencies within market structures in few countries which origin from similar political systems and...
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Development of banking sectors in Kosovo and Montenegro in the years 2000 - 2010
PublicationThe article presents main aspects of development of banking markets in two Balkan countries - Kosovo and Montenegro. Both of them are charaterised by similar recent history, both in political and economical fields. Their financial sectors have had to be built almost from scretch. The author describes stages of development of competition in the banking sectors, using the following ratios: performace, structure, liquidity. The data...
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Evaluation of susceptibility of high-strength steels to hydrogen delayed cracking
PublicationPrzedstawiono wyniki badań podatności na opóźnine pękanie wodorowe stali o wysokiej wytrzymałości w oparciu o próbę stałego obciążenia. Badano stal do pracy w podwyższonych temperaturach 26H2MF oraz stal do ulepszania cieplnego 34HNM w środowisku przepracowanego oleju silnikowego. Badano również stal 14HNMBCu i jej złącza spawane w środowisku wody morskiej przy polaryzacji katodowej.
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Fuzzy logic gain scheduling for non - linear servo tracking
PublicationArtykuł zawiera propozycję strojenia jako metodę sterowania serwomechanizmem z silnie nieliniowymi elementami. Serwomechanizm steruje dwoma elementami układu śledzącego zamontowanymi na okręcie znajdującym się w morzu. W układzie występuje tarcie spoczynkowe przy zerowej prędkości oraz nieliniowe tarcie przeciwdziałające ruchowi w każdej z osi układu śledzącego. Zastosowany został podwójny układ sterowania ze sprzężeniem zwrotnym....
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Dissolved oxygen tracking and control of blowers at fast time scale.
PublicationNapowietrzanie jest bardzo ważnym i drogim procesem w oczyszczalni ścieków. Tlen jest podstawowym składnikiem dla procesów biologicznych. System napowietrzania jest skomplikowanym, hybrydowym, nieliniowym, dynamicznym systemem z dynamiką szybszą w porównaniu z wewnętrzną dynamiką tlenu rozpuszczonego w reaktorze biologicznym. Obecnie stosowane systemy sterowania są dalekie od zadowalających. Koszt pompowania powietrza do reaktora...
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Applications of electrochemical noise technique in stress corrosion cracking diagnosis
PublicationW pracy przedstawione zostały rezultaty analizy prądowego szumu elektrochemicznego, generowanego podczas korozji naprężeniowej próbek stali stopowej. W przeciwieństwie do tradycyjnych metod analizy nie zakładano stacjonarności analizowanych sygnałów. Zamiast tego analizie poddana została zmodyfikowana widmowa odpowiedź szumowa o charakterze zależnym od czasu. Rezultaty badań skonfrontowano z wynikami otrzymanymi za pomocą techniki...
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Evaluation of wow defects based on tonal components detection and tracking
PublicationReferat przedstawia opis metody wyznaczania charakterystyki pasożytniczego kołysania dźwięku. W metodzie wykorzystuje się informacje o zmianach tonalnych składowych dźwięku wyszukiwanych w kolejnych ramkach czasowych. Komponenty tonalne z poszczególnych ramek łączone są w ścieżki. Na podstawie tych trajektorii tworzona jest krzywa PVC obrazująca pasożytnicze zmiany dźwięku. Krzywa PVC może być wykorzystana do usunięcia pasożytniczego...
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Estimation and tracking of complex-valued quasi-periodically varying systems
PublicationW artykule rozważany jest problem identyfikacji obiektów o parametrach zmieniających się w sposób pseudookresowy. Przedstawiono w nim algorytm oparty o metodę funkcji bazowych umożliwiający śledzenie takich obiektów oraz pokazano atrakcyjne z punktu widzenia złożoności obliczeń jego wersje zdekomponowane. Przydatność rozważanych algorytmów uzasadniono porównując je z rozwiązaniami innych autorów.
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Hydrogen delayed cracking of high-strength 14hnmbcu steel in seawater
PublicationOceniano podatność na niszczenie wodorowe stali o wysokiej wytrzymałości i jej połączeń spawanych przy stałym obciążeniu w wodzie morskiej. Badania przeprowadzono na próbkach okrągłych z karbem w środowisku wody morskiej przy potencjale korozyjnym oraz przy polaryzacji katodowej. Badano stal gatunku 14HNMBCu o minimalnej granicy plastyczności 690 MPa oraz jej połączenia spawane automatycznie łukiem krytym i ręcznie łukowo elektrodą...
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Surgical tool tracking by on-line selection of structural correlation filters
PublicationIn visual tracking of surgical instruments, correlation filtering finds the best candidate with maximal correlation peak. However, most trackers only consider capturing target appearance but not target structure. In this paper we propose surgical instrument tracking approach that integrates prior knowledge related to rotation of both shaft and tool tips. To this end, we employ rigid parts mixtures model of an instrument. The rigidly...
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Enhanced visible light photocatalytic activity of Pt/I-TiO2 in a slurry system and supported on glass packing
PublicationHighly photoactive I/TiO2, Pt/I-TiO2 nanocomposites were obtained using a hydrothermal and wet impregnation method. The incorporation of iodine and modification with 0.05 mol% of platinum leads to enhanced photocatalytic activity as compared to singly doped TiO2 due to the presence of impurity energy level in the structure of TiO2. X-ray diffraction, TEM microscopy, UV–Vis spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and BET...
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Decision making techniques for electronic communication: an example for Turkey
PublicationCommunication is the way for people exchanging information with each other by using various tools. Electronic communication or Ecommunication is the process of sending, receiving and processing information or messages electronically. Electronic communication that is closely related to the development levels of countries, has made considerable progress especially in terms technology, innovation and entrepreneur. In this study, it...
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Stream Reasoning to Improve Decision-Making in Cognitive Systems
PublicationABSTRACT Cognitive Vision Systems have gained a lot of interest from industry and academia recently, due to their potential to revolutionize human life as they are designed to work under complex scenes, adapting to a range of unforeseen situations, changing accordingly to new scenarios and exhibiting prospective behavior. The combination of these properties aims to mimic the human capabilities and create more intelligent and efficient...
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Selected problems of decision making modelling in power engineering
PublicationThe paper presents the selected problems of decision making modelling in power engineering specially investment risk evaluation methods. The proposed model can be used in the range programming the development and investing process in power engineering. Decision making problems in power engineering and the evaluation of investment effectiveness in particular are closely related to modelling which relatively accurately reflects...
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Concept of managing quality in baking industry, in vector representation
PublicationThe author introduced an innovative metrisable method of describing a manufacturing process. The idea of vector structure of a manufacturing process allows to formulate quantitative relations between the activity of input streams, elements of product quality, and measurable effects of losses. The structure was basis for the formulation of the concept of the process of managing product quality in the baking industry in a vector...
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Decision Making Methods for the Selection of ICT Project Manager
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Autonomous Driver Based on an Intelligent System of Decision-Making
PublicationThe paper presents and discusses a system (xDriver) which uses an Intelligent System of Decision-making (ISD) for the task of car driving. The principal subject is the implementation, simulation and testing of the ISD system described earlier in our publications for the task of autonomous driving. The design of the whole ISD system is a result of a thorough modelling of human psychology based on an extensive literature study. Concepts...
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Decomposition of the wall force acting on the single bubble motion.
PublicationW referacie skupiono uwagę na rozkładzie siły hydrodynamicznej działającej na kulę (uproszczony model pęcherzyka) na kierunku prostopadłym do ścianki kanału. Pokazano stanowisko badawcze, omówiono procedurę pomiarową oraz zamiszczono przykładowe wyniki badań eksperymentalnych i modelowania matematycznego.
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Investigations of the passive layer cracking by means of Dynamic Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy
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Detection of stress corrosion cracking dynamics by dynamic electrochemical impedance spectroscopy
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Investigation into Locking Point of Asphalt Mixtures Utilizing Superpave and Marshall Compactors
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Planning optimised multi-tasking operations under the capability for parallel machining
PublicationThe advent of advanced multi-tasking machines (MTMs) in the metalworking industry has provided the opportunity for more efficient parallel machining as compared to traditional sequential processing. It entailed the need for developing appropriate reasoning schemes for efficient process planning to take advantage of machining capabilities inherent in these machines. This paper addresses an adequate methodical approach for a non-linear...
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Using Eye-tracking to get information on the skills acquisition by the radiology residents
PublicationThis paper describes the possibility of monitoring the progress of knowledge and skills acquisition by the students of radiology. It is achieved by an analysis of a visual attention distribution patterns during image-based tasks solving. The concept is to use the eye-tracking data to recognize the way how the radiographic images are read by recognized experts, radiography residents involved in the training program, and untrained...
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Deep learning based thermal image segmentation for laboratory animals tracking
PublicationAutomated systems for behaviour classification of laboratory animals are an attractive alternative to manual scoring. However, the proper animals separation and tracking, especially when they are in close contact, is the bottleneck of the behaviour analysis systems. In this paper, we propose a method for the segmentation of thermal images of laboratory rats that are in close contact during social behaviour tests. For this, we are...
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An Optimal Power Point Tracking Algorithm in a Solar PV Generation System
PublicationThe non-linearity in I-V characteristics of a PV panel requires to be operated at knee point to extract maximum power. In order to operate the panel at optimal point, maximum power point tracking (MPPT) algorithm is employed in the control structure. The main objective of MPP tracking is to keep the operation at knee point of I-V characteristics under varying condition of temperature and solar insolation. Under non uniform solar...
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Performance evaluation of the parallel object tracking algorithm employing the particle filter
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Influence of Aggregate Gradation on the Compactability of Asphalt Mixtures Utilizing Locking Point
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Stress corossion cracking susceptibility of dissimilar stainless steels welded joints
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono wyniki badań odporności na naprężeniowe pękanie korozyjne złączy różnoimiennych stali odpornych na korozję; austenitycznej 316L oraz typu duplex 2205. Badania próbek przeprowadzono techniką odkształcania z małą prędkością w agresywnym środowisku roztworu chlorku magnezowego. Wyniki badań korozyjnych uzupełniono analizą metalograficzną z obszarów przełomów.
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Perfect hashing with pseudo-minimal bottom-up deterministic tree automata
PublicationWe describe a technique that maps unranked trees to their hash codes using a bottom-up deterministic tree automaton (DTA). In contrast to techniques implemented with minimal tree automata, our procedure builds a pseudo-minimal DTA. Pseudo-minimal automata are larger than the minimal ones but in turn the mapping can be arbitrary, so it can be determined prior to the automaton construction. We also provide procedures to build incrementally...
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Comparative study of selected fluids for use in supercritical Organic Ranking Cycles
PublicationIn view of increasing interest in improving energy efficiency of energy conversion devices, there is an increasing requirement of combined production of heat and electricity as well as demand for increased implementation of renewable energy resources. The micro cogenerative units utilizing the Organic Rankine Cycle are focusing the attention of many research centres around the world. In the present paper calculations of ORC cycles...
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Environmental stress cracking in e-glass and aramid/glass epoxy composites
PublicationKompozyty epoksydowe wzmocnione włóknami szklanymi są dość odporne na wpływy środowiskowe w stanie nieobciążonym, jednak po przyłożeniu obciążeń łatwo pękają w środowisku wody i rozcieńczonych kwasów. Charakterystyki propagacji pęknięć środowiskowych w laminatach szklano/epoksydowych były przedmiotem szeregu prac, jednak brak jest danych na temat zachowania laminatów o wzmocnieniu hybrydowym aramidowo-szklanym stosowanych w budowie...
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Effect of welding conditions on susceptibility to cold cracking of underwater welded joints
PublicationPrzedstawiono wybrane aspekty spawalności stali przy spawaniu pod wodą metodą lokalnej komory suchej. Zwrócono szczególną uwagę na skłonność do tworzenia peknięć zimnych w SWC. Przy pomocy planowania doświadczeń określono ilościowy wpływ parametrów spawania na naprężenia krytyczne z próby implant.
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Influence of Asphalt Binder on the Compactability of Asphalt Mixtures Using Locking Point
PublicationCompaction is an important process for the asphalt mixture service life. A properly compacted mixture is crucial for long-lasting pavement. The objective of this study was to evaluate the influence of asphalt binders on the compactability of the asphalt mixtures by utilizing the concept of the locking point. To achieve this objective, two compaction methods (impact and gyration), different temperatures and asphalt content, and...
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Stacking and rotation-based technique for machine learning classification with data reduction
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Banking Sector’s Profitability and Its Transformation in the Selected Western Balkan Countries
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