The increasing growth of electricity usage in buildings points out the significant role of reside... more The increasing growth of electricity usage in buildings points out the significant role of residential users in the programs for the efficient control and management of electrical energy. The shaving of consumption peaks in household is becoming an integral part of the national energy strategies to reduce the risk of blackouts and ensure environmental sustainability of new urban context. This paper investigates the use of the paradigm of swarm intelligence to scheduling the operation of household appliances in order to reduce to smooth the variation and reduce the peak-to-average ratio of total electricity demand at home. Simulation results confirm the proposed approach.
ABSTRACT A novel version of the popular SSIM image quality assessment technique, specifically des... more ABSTRACT A novel version of the popular SSIM image quality assessment technique, specifically designed to yield uniform MOS prediction in presence of different types of image distortions is presented. Response equalization is obtained through the polynomial combination of a basic SSIM metric with an auxiliary metric characterized by a diverse sensitivity. Accuracy and consistency of this composite index, called E-SSIM, are demonstrated with experiments conducted on two independent archives annotated with MOS values.
In this work a novel technique for selecting key points is proposed. Key points are used in many ... more In this work a novel technique for selecting key points is proposed. Key points are used in many image processing applications and should be robust with respect to noise, rotation, blurring, and so on. The selection is based on the amount of local Fisher's information about location, orientation and scale. Based on the relationship between Taylor polynomials in Cartesian coordinates
In this contribution a procedure of eye detection and localization for biometric applications is ... more In this contribution a procedure of eye detection and localization for biometric applications is presented. It is essentially based on the calculus of two polar moments whose values are employed for detection and localization of pupils. The polar moments are calculated using a bank of mono-dimensional Hermite filters whose outputs can be easily converted to give the local expansion of
In this work the authors propose a classification method based on Support Vector Machine (SVM) an... more In this work the authors propose a classification method based on Support Vector Machine (SVM) and key frames features extraction to classify historical sport video contents. In the context of the Italian Project, IRMA (Information Retrieval in Multimedia Archives), with the goal to recover and preserve historical videos of proven cultural interest, a data set made up of several hours
In this paper the authors present the CHIP tool, an image processing software specifically design... more In this paper the authors present the CHIP tool, an image processing software specifically designed for Cultural Heritage applications. The tool offers a wide range of functionalities to carry out analysis and virtual restoration of cultural objects, and fine tuning of the parameters to customize the performance. Simple operations such as color histograms or image features extraction and visualization are made possible for experts in a very simple graphic interface, together with sophisticated and efficient image processing algorithms such as enhancement, dynamic compression and inpainting.
The increasing growth of electricity usage in buildings points out the significant role of reside... more The increasing growth of electricity usage in buildings points out the significant role of residential users in the programs for the efficient control and management of electrical energy. The shaving of consumption peaks in household is becoming an integral part of the national energy strategies to reduce the risk of blackouts and ensure environmental sustainability of new urban context. This paper investigates the use of the paradigm of swarm intelligence to scheduling the operation of household appliances in order to reduce to smooth the variation and reduce the peak-to-average ratio of total electricity demand at home. Simulation results confirm the proposed approach.
ABSTRACT A novel version of the popular SSIM image quality assessment technique, specifically des... more ABSTRACT A novel version of the popular SSIM image quality assessment technique, specifically designed to yield uniform MOS prediction in presence of different types of image distortions is presented. Response equalization is obtained through the polynomial combination of a basic SSIM metric with an auxiliary metric characterized by a diverse sensitivity. Accuracy and consistency of this composite index, called E-SSIM, are demonstrated with experiments conducted on two independent archives annotated with MOS values.
In this work a novel technique for selecting key points is proposed. Key points are used in many ... more In this work a novel technique for selecting key points is proposed. Key points are used in many image processing applications and should be robust with respect to noise, rotation, blurring, and so on. The selection is based on the amount of local Fisher's information about location, orientation and scale. Based on the relationship between Taylor polynomials in Cartesian coordinates
In this contribution a procedure of eye detection and localization for biometric applications is ... more In this contribution a procedure of eye detection and localization for biometric applications is presented. It is essentially based on the calculus of two polar moments whose values are employed for detection and localization of pupils. The polar moments are calculated using a bank of mono-dimensional Hermite filters whose outputs can be easily converted to give the local expansion of
In this work the authors propose a classification method based on Support Vector Machine (SVM) an... more In this work the authors propose a classification method based on Support Vector Machine (SVM) and key frames features extraction to classify historical sport video contents. In the context of the Italian Project, IRMA (Information Retrieval in Multimedia Archives), with the goal to recover and preserve historical videos of proven cultural interest, a data set made up of several hours
In this paper the authors present the CHIP tool, an image processing software specifically design... more In this paper the authors present the CHIP tool, an image processing software specifically designed for Cultural Heritage applications. The tool offers a wide range of functionalities to carry out analysis and virtual restoration of cultural objects, and fine tuning of the parameters to customize the performance. Simple operations such as color histograms or image features extraction and visualization are made possible for experts in a very simple graphic interface, together with sophisticated and efficient image processing algorithms such as enhancement, dynamic compression and inpainting.
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