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The Method of a Two-Level Text-Meaning Similarity Approximation of the Customers’ Opinions
PublikacjaThe method of two-level text-meaning similarity approximation, consisting in the implementation of the classification of the stages of text opinions of customers and identifying their rank quality level was developed. Proposed and proved the significance of major hypotheses, put as the basis of the developed methodology, notably about the significance of suggestions about the existence of analogies between mathematical bases of...
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CONSUMERS’ APPROACH TO THE CREDIBILITY OF THE INFLATION FORECASTS PUBLISHED BY CENTRAL BANKS: A NEW METHODOLOGICAL SOLUTION
PublikacjaModern monetary policy focuses on credibility and shaping inflation expectations. In keeping with the concept of inflation forecast targeting, the inflation forecasts published by central banks play a crucial role in the instrument rate decision-making process and may be treated as a specific intermediate target. This study proposes an inflation forecast credibility index, the scope of which is narrowed to non-specialists’ approach...
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Proximity and the Cluster Organization
PublikacjaIncluding the category of proximity in theoretical considerations and empirical analyzes in cluster organizations is an attempt to integrate existing approaches to understand and explain the specificity of inter-organizational cooperation developed in geographical proximity. The importance of geographical proximity to create a competitive advantage is emphasized in all theories on the establishment and development of industrial...
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Profesor Stanisław Trzetrzewiński – polski prekursor niepewności pomiaru
PublikacjaArtykuł ma na celu przybliżenie sylwetki Profesora Stanisława Trzetrzewińskiego, jako pierwszego kierownika Katedry Miernictwa Elektrycznego na Wydziale Elektrycznym Politechniki Gdańskiej, odpowiedzialnego za organizację Katedry po wojnie, dydaktyka, ale przede wszystkim wybitnego metrologa. Profesora Stanisława Trzetrzewińskiego można nazwać polskim prekursorem teorii niepewności pomiaru, co potwierdza wygłoszony w 1952 roku...
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Unusual structural properties of water within the hydration shell of hyperactive antifreeze protein
PublikacjaMany hypotheses can be encountered explaining the mechanism of action of antifreeze proteins. One widespread theory postulates that the similarity of structural properties of solvation water of antifreeze proteins to ice is crucial to the antifreeze activity of these agents. In order to investigate this problem, the structural properties of solvation water of the hyperactive antifreeze protein from Choristoneura fumiferana were...
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Significant Production of Thermal Energy in Partially Ionized Hyperbolic Tangent Material Based on Ternary Hybrid Nanomaterials
PublikacjaNanoparticles are frequently used to enhance the thermal performance of numerous materials. This study has many practical applications for activities that have to minimize losses of energy due to several impacts. This study investigates the inclusion of ternary hybrid nanoparticles in a partially ionized hyperbolic tangent liquid passed over a stretched melting surface. The fluid motion equation is presented by considering the...
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Electromagnetic Control and Dynamics of Generalized Burgers’ Nanoliquid Flow Containing Motile Microorganisms with Cattaneo–Christov Relations: Galerkin Finite Element Mechanism
PublikacjaIn our research work, we have developed a model describing the characteristics of the bio-convection and moving microorganisms in the flows of a magnetized generalized Burgers’ nanoliquid with Fourier’s and Fick’s laws in a stretchable sheet. Considerations have been made to Cattaneo–Christov mass and heat diffusion theory. According to the Cattaneo–Christov relation, the Buongiorno phenomenon for the motion of a nanoliquid in...
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Highlighting interlanguage phoneme differences based on similarity matrices and convolutional neural network
PublikacjaThe goal of this research is to find a way of highlighting the acoustic differences between consonant phonemes of the Polish and Lithuanian languages. For this purpose, similarity matrices are employed based on speech acoustic parameters combined with a convolutional neural network (CNN). In the first experiment, we compare the effectiveness of the similarity matrices applied to discerning acoustic differences between consonant...
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Wykorzystanie miar dywergencji Csiszara do oecny podobieństwa struktury ludności krajów regionu Morza Bałtyckiego
PublikacjaStudies of socio-economic phenomena often touch on the issues concerning similarity between demographic structures. The measures usually used in the evaluation of structure similarity or in the investigation of the extent of structural changes are functions of distance metrics of their partial indicators. The study points out the possibility of using Csiszar divergence measures (f-divergences) in the quantification of the extent...
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Accelerating Video Frames Classification With Metric Based Scene Segmentation
PublikacjaThis paper addresses the problem of the efficient classification of images in a video stream in cases, where all of the video has to be labeled. Realizing the similarity of consecutive frames, we introduce a set of simple metrics to measure that similarity. To use these observations for decreasing the number of necessary classifications, we propose a scene segmentation algorithm. Performed experiments have evaluated the acquired...
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INVESTIGATION OF THE LOMBARD EFFECT BASED ON A MACHINE LEARNING APPROACH
PublikacjaThe Lombard effect is an involuntary increase in the speaker’s pitch, intensity, and duration in the presence of noise. It makes it possible to communicate in noisy environments more effectively. This study aims to investigate an efficient method for detecting the Lombard effect in uttered speech. The influence of interfering noise, room type, and the gender of the person on the detection process is examined. First, acoustic parameters...
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MERPSYS: An environment for simulation of parallel application execution on large scale HPC systems
PublikacjaIn this paper we present a new environment called MERPSYS that allows simulation of parallel application execution time on cluster-based systems. The environment offers a modeling application using the Java language extended with methods representing message passing type communication routines. It also offers a graphical interface for building a system model that incorporates various hardware components such as CPUs, GPUs, interconnects...
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Compact global association based adaptive routing framework for personnel behavior understanding
PublikacjaPersonnel behavior understanding under complex scenarios is a challenging task for computer vision. This paper proposes a novel Compact model, which we refer to as CGARPN that incorporates with Global Association relevance and Adaptive Routing Pose estimation Network. Our framework firstly introduces CGAN backbone to facilitate the feature representation by compressing the kernel parameter space compared with typical algorithms,...
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Fuzzy Divisive Hierarchical Clustering of Solvents According to Their Experimentally and Theoretically Predicted Descriptors
PublikacjaThe present study describes a simple procedure to separate into patterns of similarity a large group of solvents, 259 in total, presented by 15 specific descriptors (experimentally found and theoretically predicted physicochemical parameters). Solvent data is usually characterized by its high variability, dierent molecular symmetry, and spatial orientation. Methods of chemometrics can usefully be used to extract and explore accurately...
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Characterization of exceptionally thermostable single-stranded DNA-binding proteins from Thermotoga maritima and Thermotoga neapolitana
PublikacjaBACKGROUND: In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in SSBs because they find numerous applications in diverse molecular biology and analytical methods.RESULTS: We report the characterization of single-stranded DNA binding proteins (SSBs) from the thermophilic bacteria Thermotoga maritima (TmaSSB) and Thermotoga neapolitana (TneSSB). They are the smallest known bacterial SSB proteins, consisting of 141 and 142 amino...
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Simulation of parallel similarity measure computations for large data sets
PublikacjaThe paper presents our approach to implementation of similarity measure for big data analysis in a parallel environment. We describe the algorithm for parallelisation of the computations. We provide results from a real MPI application for computations of similarity measures as well as results achieved with our simulation software. The simulation environment allows us to model parallel systems of various sizes with various components...
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Towards Increasing Density of Relations in Category Graphs
PublikacjaIn the chapter we propose methods for identifying new associations between Wikipedia categories. The first method is based on Bag-of-Words (BOW) representation of Wikipedia articles. Using similarity of the articles belonging to different categories allows to calculate the information about categories similarity. The second method is based on average scores given to categories while categorizing documents by our dedicated score-based...
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Analysis and evaluation of grouping methods for effective cutting tool operation
PublikacjaThis article presents the possibilities for using cluster analysis in the assignment of machine tools in automated manufacturing systems. Based on the similarity of manufacturing processes in the system, cutting tools have been grouped. The objective was to obtain groups of similar objects, which could potentially ensure the reduction of the frequency and time of setups, optimizing the maintenance of tool resources and improving...
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Benchmarking Performance of a Hybrid Intel Xeon/Xeon Phi System for Parallel Computation of Similarity Measures Between Large Vectors
PublikacjaThe paper deals with parallelization of computing similarity measures between large vectors. Such computations are important components within many applications and consequently are of high importance. Rather than focusing on optimization of the algorithm itself, assuming specific measures, the paper assumes a general scheme for finding similarity measures for all pairs of vectors and investigates optimizations for scalability...
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Investigation of long-range dependencies in the stochastic part of daily GPS solutions
PublikacjaThe long-range dependence (LRD) of the stochastic part of GPS-derived topocentric coordinates change (North, East, Up) results with relatively high autocorrelation values with a focus on self-similarity. One of the reasons for such self-similarity in the GPS time series are noises that are commonly recognised to prevail in the form of the flicker noise model. To prove the self-similarity of the stochastic part of GPS time series...
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Evaluating Asymmetric N-Grams as Spell-Checking Mechanism
PublikacjaTypical approaches to string comparing marks two strings as either different or equal without taking into account any similarity measures. Being able to judge similarity is however required for spelling error corrections, as we want to find the best match for a given word. In this paper we present a bi2quadro-grams method for spelling errors correction. The method proposed uses different n-grams dimension for the source (checked)...
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General Mechanism of Osmolytes’ Influence on Protein Stability Irrespective of the Type of Osmolyte Cosolvent
PublikacjaThe stability of proteins in an aqueous solution can be modified by the presence of osmolytes. The hydration sphere of stabilizing osmolytes is strikingly similar to the enhanced hydration sphere of a protein. This similarity leads to an increase in the protein stability. Moreover, the hydration sphere of destabilizing osmolytes is significantly different. These solutes generate in their surroundings so-called “structurally different...
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Text-mining Similarity Approximation Operators for Opinion Mining in BI tools
PublikacjaThe concept of the Text-mining Similarity Approximation Operators for Opinion Mining as extensions to Natural Language Interface Database is defined. The new operators: “keywords of” dimension; subsetting operator “about C is q”; aggregation operator “by similar C” are proposed. These operators are based on the Latent Semantic Analysis and Social Network Analysis
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Application of principal component and hierarchical cluster analysis in classifying defects of trolleybuses
PublikacjaThe failure rate of vehicles is a relevant task, which is strictly connected with the reliability of transportation systems. Methods of data analysis allow us to find similarity and differences between failure rates of several parts of trolleybuses. This paper deals with the statistic of failure of trolleybuses from the municipal transport company of Gdynia (Poland).
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A new method of presosns identification based on comparative analysis of 3D face models
PublikacjaThe article presents the use of modern close range photogrammetry for possessing highly accurate 3D models of the human face (including the ears). Modern methods used to obtain precise data describing the construction of a human face, and even the whole human body, should allow to get finished measurement material in a very short time. Those features belong to the optical scanning technology. Comparative analysis of models of the...
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Things You Might Not Know about the k-Nearest Neighbors Algorithm
PublikacjaRecommender Systems aim at suggesting potentially interesting items to a user. The most common kind of Recommender Systems is Collaborative Filtering which follows an intuition that users who liked the same things in the past, are more likely to be interested in the same things in the future. One of Collaborative Filtering methods is the k Nearest Neighbors algorithm which finds k users who are the most similar to an active user...
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Compact broadband multi-way 1:6 power divider
PublikacjaThis paper introduces a design flow of a microstrip multi-way 1:6 power divider incorporating photonic bandgap (PBG) structures. Themethod proposed has enabled the achievement of considerable miniaturization (15%) together with transmission characteristics enhancement(141% bandwidth). Measured results show significant similarity to theoretical characteristics, which proves the attractiveness of presented design methodology.
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Comparison of Selected Neural Network Models Used for Automatic Liver Tumor Segmentation
PublikacjaAutomatic and accurate segmentation of liver tumors is crucial for the diagnosis and treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma or metastases. However, the task remains challenging due to imprecise boundaries and significant variations in the shape, size, and location of tumors. The present study focuses on tumor segmentation as a more critical aspect from a medical perspective, compared to liver parenchyma segmentation, which is the...
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Characterization of a single-stranded DNA-binding-like Protein from Nanoarchaeum equitans - a nucleic acid binding protein with broad substrate specificity
PublikacjaBackground SSB (single-stranded DNA-binding) proteins play an essential role in all living cells and viruses, as they are involved in processes connected with ssDNA metabolism. There has recently been an increasing interest in SSBs, since they can be applied in molecular biology techniques and analytical methods. Nanoarchaeum equitans, the only known representative of Archaea phylum Nanoarchaeota, is a hyperthermophilic, nanosized,...
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Characterization of a cryptic plasmid pSFKW33 from Shewanella sp. 33b
PublikacjaA cryptic plasmid pSFKW33 from psychrotrophic bacterium Shewanella sp. 33B, an isolate from the Gulf of Gdansk (the Baltic Sea), was sequenced and characterized. It is an 8021 bpcircular molecule with 38% GC content, which shows a distinctive nucleotide sequence without homology to other known plasmids. The nucleotide sequence analysis predicts eight open reading frames. The deduced amino acid sequence of ORF-1 shared significant...
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Lexicon Based Algorithm for Domain Ontology Merging and Alignment
PublikacjaMore and more systems contain some kind of knowledge describing their field of operation. Such knowledge in many cases is stored as an ontology. A need arises for ability to quickly match those ontologies to enable interoperability of such systems. The paper presents a lexicon based algorithm for merging and aligning of OWL ontologies. The proposed similarity levels are being presented and the proposed algorithm is being described....
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The parallel environment for endoscopic image analysis
PublikacjaThe jPVM-oriented environment to support high performance computing required for the Endoscopy Recommender System (ERS) is defined. SPMD model of image matching is considered and its two implementations are proposed: Lexicographical Searching Algorithm (LSA) and Gradient Serching Algorithm (GSA). Three classes of experiments are considered and the relative degree of similarity and execution time of each algorithm are analysed....
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A method for evaluating durability of porous slide bearings
PublikacjaThe article presents the structures of porous bearings bushes and greasy lubricants, and the similarity criterion resulting from this structures. A phisical model is proposed which describes the operation of the porous slide bearing bush taking into account, via analogy, the phenomena taking place in the grease lubricant nodes instead of those observed in the bush structures.Included are the result of experimental tests of three...
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Assessment of particular abdominal aorta section extraction from contrast-enhanced computed tomography angiography
PublikacjaThe aim of this work is to improve the accuracy of extraction of a particular abdominal aorta section and to reduce the distortion in three-dimensional Computed Tomography Angiography (CTA) images. Imaging modality and quality plays crucial role in the medical diagnostic process, thus ensuring high quality of images is essential at every stage of acquisition and processing.Noise is defined as a disturbance of the image quality...
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Words context analysis for improvement of information retrieval
PublikacjaIn the article we present an approach to improvement of retrieval informationfrom large text collections using words context vectors. The vectorshave been created analyzing English Wikipedia with Hyperspace Analogue to Language model of words similarity. For test phrases we evaluate retrieval with direct user queries as well as retrieval with context vectors of these queries. The results indicate that the proposed method can not...
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Software Tools to Measure the Duplication of Information
PublikacjaData stored in average computer system usually is not unique, portions of stored data are duplicated. When duplicated data are stored in separate files containing source code of computer program of student homework, a possibility of cheating should be seriously considered. This paper presents software tools built, in order to detect re-use of pieces of code in supplied text files. Three aspects of information atching are considered:...
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Dynamic OWL Ontology matching Using Lexical Wordnet-based Measures
PublikacjaOntologies are often used as a means of describing knowledge and the domain of operation of modern applications. S need arises for the ability to quickly match those ontologies to enable interoperability of such systems. This paper presents an extension to Noy and McGuiness ontology construction methodology which should improve ontology interoperability and a lexicon-based algorithm for merging and aligning of such ontologies stored...
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MEAN SHIFT BASED SEGMENTATION FOR BLEEDING REGIONS IN ENDOSCOPIC VIDEOS
PublikacjaWith a set of 38 manually marked bleeding regions form endoscopic videos, the authors attempted to find an optimal image segmentation method for reproducing doctor’s markup. Mean shift segmentation combined with HSV histogram segmentation were used as a segmentation method, which was then optimized by tuning the parameters of the method using global optimization algorithm. A target function for measuring the quality of segmentation was...
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Quantum entanglement in time
PublikacjaIn this paper we present a concept of quantum entanglement in time in a context of entangled consistent histories. These considerations are supported by presentation of necessary tools closely related to those acting on a space of spatial multipartite quantum states. We show that in similarity to monogamy of quantum entanglement in space, quantum entanglement in time is also endowed with this property for a particular history....
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Fast Approximate String Search for Wikification
PublikacjaThe paper presents a novel method for fast approximate string search based on neural distance metrics embeddings. Our research is focused primarily on applying the proposed method for entity retrieval in the Wikification process, which is similar to edit distance-based similarity search on the typical dictionary. The proposed method has been compared with symmetric delete spelling correction algorithm and proven to be more efficient...
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Influence and selection of basic concepts on ontology design
PublikacjaOntologies as entities representing individual point of view on surrounding world introduce heterogeneity to knowledge representation. Common set of core concepts can introduce similarity big enough for further interoperability between ontologies. In this paper an experiment is presented proving that despite differences in detail ontologies stay similar in regard of core concepts. During the experiments NOIA methodology enhanced...
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Comprehensive Comparison of a Few Variants of Cluster Analysis as Data Mining Tool in Supporting Environmental Management
PublikacjaA few variants of hierarchical cluster analysis (CA) as tool of assessment of multidimensional similarity in environmental dataset are compared. The dataset consisted of analytical results of determination of metals (Na, K, Ca, Sc, Fe, Co, Zn, As, Br, Rb, Mo, Sb, Cs, Ba, La, Ce, Sm, Hf and Th) in ambient air dried and kept alive, by the means of hydroponics, moss baskets collected in 12 locations on the area of Tricity (Poland)....
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Image Classification Based on Video Segments
PublikacjaIn the dissertation a new method for improving the quality of classifications of images in video streams has been proposed and analyzed. In multiple fields concerning such a classification, the proposed algorithms focus on the analysis of single frames. This class of algorithms has been named OFA (One Frame Analyzed).In the dissertation, small segments of the video are considered and each image is analyzed in the context of its...
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Towards classification of patients based on surface EMG data of temporomandibular joint muscles using self-organising maps
PublikacjaThe study considers the need for an effective method of classification of patients with a temporomandibular joint disorder (TMD). The self-organising map method (SOM) was applied to group patients and used together with the cross-correlation approach to interpret the processed (rectified and smoothed by using root mean square (RMS) algorithm) surface electromyography signal (sEMG) obtained from testing the muscles (two temporal...
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A method for testing the wide-sense stationary uncorrelated scattering assumption fulfillment for an underwater acoustic channel
PublikacjaWide-sense stationary and uncorrelated scattering (WSSUS) assumptions are often applied for the statistical description of wireless communication channels. However, in the case of underwater acoustic channels the WSSUS model is of limited value. The degree of similarity of in-phase and quadrature components of the channel impulse response, measured with the use of bandpass modulated signals, can be used as an indicator of WSSUS...
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Audio-visual aspect of the Lombard effect and comparison with recordings depicting emotional states.
PublikacjaIn this paper an analysis of audio-visual recordings of the Lombard effect is shown. First, audio signal is analyzed indicating the presence of this phenomenon in the recorded sessions. The principal aim, however, was to discuss problems related to extracting differences caused by the Lombard effect, present in the video , i.e. visible as tension and work of facial muscles aligned to an increase in the intensity of the articulated...
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Multicriteria Decision Analysis and Grouping of Analytical Procedures for Phthalates Determination in Disposable Baby Diapers
PublikacjaThis study presents the application of one of the tools from the multicriteria decision analysis set (MCDA), the Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS). Selected green analytical chemistry metrics were used to rank analytical procedures for the phthalate determination in disposable baby diapers. Nine analytical procedures were assessed in order to find one that has the lowest environmental impact...
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Exact-match Based Wikipedia-WordNet Integration
PublikacjaAbility to link between WordNet synsets and Wikipedia articles allows usage of those resources by computers during natural language processing. A lot of work was done in this field, however most of the approaches focus on similarity between Wikipedia articles and WordNet synsets rather than creation of perfect matches. In this paper we proposed a set of methods for automatic perfect matching generation. The proposed methods were...
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SDF classifier revisited
PublikacjaArtykuł dotyczy problemów związanych z konstruowaniem klasyfikatorów wykorzystujących tzw. dyskryminacyjną funkcję samopodobieństwa (ang. Similarity Discriminant Function - SDF), w których tradycyjna, wektorowa reprezentacja obrazu została zastąpiona przez dane o strukturze macierzowej. Zaprezentowano możliwości modyfikowania macierzowych struktur danych i zaproponowano nowe warianty kryterium SDF. Przedstawione algorytmy zostały...
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Multidimensional Scaling Analysis Applied to Music Mood Recognition
PublikacjaThe paper presents two experiments aimed at categorizing mood associated with music. Two parts of a listening test were designed and carried out with a group of students, most of whom where users of online social music services. The initial experiment was designed to evaluate the extent to which a given label describes the mood of the particular music excerpt. The second subjective test was conducted to collect the similarity data...