: A large body of research shows that familiarity between speakers makes their use of referring expressions more effective. This paper presents two studies that suggest that it’s...
A trapdoor based on an extension of the RSA trapdoor is proposed. The same function as in the RSA cryptosystem is used, i.e. x modn, but there is no restriction for the exponent t...
The paper compares six conventional binarization methods for the special purpose of subsequent analysis of scanned insect footprints. We introduce a new performance criterion for p...
Abstract The performance of stochastic optimisers can be assessed experimentally on given problems by performing multiple optimisation runs, and analysing the results. Since an opt...
Viviane Grunert da Fonseca, Carlos M. Fonseca, And...
Gait is a new biometric aimed to recognise a subject by the manner in which they walk. Gait has several advantages over other biometrics, most notably that it is non-invasive and ...