Search results for "Engineering sciences"

Propagation des distributions - Détermination des incertitudes par la méthode de Monte Carlo

2013

Le supplément 1 [JCGM 101:2008] du guide pour l'expression des incertitudes de mesure de 2008 complète le GUM (Guide to the expression of uncertainty in measurement) [JCGM 100:2008] en proposant une nouvelle approche pour l'estimation des incertitudes de mesure. Il concerne la propagation des distributions des variables (paramètres) d'entrée à travers un modèle mathématique du processus de mesure. C'est une alternative pratique du GUM lorsque celui-ci n'est pas facilement applicable, par exemple, si la propagation sur la base du développement de Taylor au premier ordre n'est pas satisfaisante (linéarisation du modèle inadéquate) ou si la fonction de densité de probabilité pour la grandeur d…

Towards automated and operational forest inventories with T-Lidar

2011

International audience; Forest inventory automation has become a major issue in forestry. The complexity of the segmentation of 3D point cloud is due to mutual occlusion between trees, other vegetation, or branches. That is why, the applications done until now are limited to the estimation of the DBH (Diameter at Breast Height), the tree height and density estimation. Furthermore other parameters could also be detected, such as volume or species of trees (Reulke and Haala) . . . This paper presents an effective approach for automatic detection, isolation of trees and DBH estimation. Tree isolation is achieved using an innovative approach based on a clustering methodology followed by a skele…

Les joueurs africains rêvent d'Angleterre

2008

Aliasing free for stable random fields

2002

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Tests and Asymptotic Normality for certain mixture of bivariate measure

2010

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Evolutionary Spectrum for Random Fields and missing observations

2012

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Multi-focus image fusion using Laplacian Pyramid technique based on Alpha-Stable filter

2019

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Excitons in few-layer hexagonal boron nitride: Davydov splitting and surface localization

2018

Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has been attracting great attention because of its strong excitonic effects. Taking into account few-layer systems, we investigate theoretically the effects of the number of layers on quasiparticle energies, absorption spectra, and excitonic states, placing particular focus on the Davydov splitting of the lowest bound excitons. We describe how the inter-layer interaction as well as the variation in electronic screening as a function of layer number $N$ affects the electronic and optical properties. Using both \textit{ab initio} simulations and a tight-binding model for an effective Hamiltonian describing the excitons, we characterize in detail the symmetry of t…

A Robust Multi Stage Technique for Image Binarization of Degraded Historical Documents

2017

International audience; Document image binarization is a central problem in many document analysis systems. Indeed, it represents one of the basic challenges, especially in case of historical documents analysis. In this paper, we propose a novel robust multi stage framework that combines different existing document image thresholding methods for the purpose of getting a better binarization result. CLAHE technique is introduced to significantly enhance contrast in some poor images. The proposed method then uses a hybrid algorithm to partition image into foreground and background. A special procedure is finally applied in order to remove small noise and correct characters morphology. Experime…

Mapping routine measles vaccination in low- and middle-income countries

2021

The safe, highly effective measles vaccine has been recommended globally since 1974, yet in 2017 there were more than 17 million cases of measles and 83,400 deaths in children under 5 years old, and more than 99% of both occurred in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)1–4. Globally comparable, annual, local estimates of routine first-dose measles-containing vaccine (MCV1) coverage are critical for understanding geographically precise immunity patterns, progress towards the targets of the Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP), and high-risk areas amid disruptions to vaccination programmes caused by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)5–8. Here we generated annual estimates of routine childhoo…