NONLINEAR DIFFUSION FOR ORIENTATION ESTIMATION

This letter presents an image orientation estimation method which is based on a combination of two techniques： quadrature filtering and nonlinear diffusion. The quadrature filters are used to get the orientation tensors for edges, then the orientation tensors are smoothed through nonlinear diffusion. Experimental resuits and analysis show the robustness of the proposed method.

FAST CAPACITY ESTIMATION ALGORITHMS FOR MANETS USING DIRECTIONAL ANTENNAS

In this letter,capacity estimation for Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs) using direc- tional antennas are studied.Two Matrix-based Fast Calculation Algorithms (MFCAs) are proposed to estimate the network capacity in a network scenario in which there is no channel sharing among multiple sessions and traffic is sensitive to delay with an end-to-end delay constraint.The first algo- rithm MFCA-1 is used to estimate network capacity in a situation where all links have the same delay. It estimates the maximum number of k-hop sessions in a network based on the k-hop adjacency matrix of the network.The second algorithm MFCA-2 is used to estimate network capacity in a situation where different links may have different delays.It calculates the maximum number of sessions in a network with an end-to-end delay constraint based on the adjacency matrix and the link-delay matrix of the network.Numerical and simulation results show that both MFCA-1 and MFCA-2 can calculate network capacity much faster than the well-known Brute-Force Search Algorithm (BFSA) but with the same accuracy.

Simultaneous Position Estimation and Omnidirectional Camera Parameter Calibration for Multiple Mobile Robots

This paper proposed an algorithm on simultaneous position estimation and calibration of omnidirectional camera parameters for a group of multiple mobile robots. It is aimed at developing of exploration and information gathering robotic system in unknown environment. Here, each mobile robot is not possible to know its own position. It can only estimate its own position by using the measurement value including white noise acquired by two omnidirectional cameras mounted on it. Each mobile robot is able to obtain the distance to those robots observed from the images of two omnidirectional cameras while making calibration during moving but not in advance. Simulation of three robots moving straightly shows the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

Central limit theorem for integrated square error of kernel estimators of spherical density

LetX 1,…,X n be iid observations of a random variableX with probability density functionf(x) on the q-dimensional unit sphere Ωq in Rq+1,q ? 1. Let $f_n (x) = n^{ - 1} c(h)\sum\nolimits_{i = 1}^n {K[(1 - x'X_i )/h^2 ]} $ be a kernel estimator off(x). In this paper we establish a central limit theorem for integrated square error off n under some mild conditions.

An Inverse Problem for Maxwell's Equations in Anisotropic Media

The authors consider Maxwell＇s equations for an isomagnetic anisotropic and inhomogeneous medium in two dimensions, and discuss an inverse problem of determining the permittivity tensor （ε1,ε2,ε2,ε3 ） and the permeability μ in the constitutive relations from a finite number of lateral boundary measurements. Applying a Carleman estimate, the authors prove an estimate of the Lipschitz type for stability, provided that ε1,ε2,ε3,μ satisfy some a priori conditions.