scholarly journals Measurement Bias Estimation in the Problem of Target Tracking

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Honglin Ren ◽  
Zhihua Lu
Keyword(s):  
Target Tracking ◽  
Expectation Maximization ◽  
Expectation Maximization Algorithm ◽  
Estimation Algorithm ◽  
Measurement Bias ◽  
Bias Estimation ◽  
Extended Kalman Filtering ◽  
Iterative Estimation ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Impact

In the problem of target tracking, different types of biases can enter into the measurement collected by sensors due to various reasons. In order to accurately track the target, it is essential to estimate and correct the measurement bias. Considering practical backgrounds, the bias is assumed to be locally stationary Gaussian distributed and an iterative estimation algorithm is proposed. Firstly, a mechanism is established to detect whether the bias switches between different Gaussian distributions. Secondly, the expectation maximization algorithm with the assistance of extended Kalman filtering and smoothing is proposed to iteratively estimate the bias and target state in an offline manner. Simulations show the proposed algorithm can suppress the impact of the measurement bias on target tracking.

scholarly journals Environmental Sensitivity and Awareness as Differentiating Factors in the Purchase Decision-Making Process in the Smartphone Industry—Case of Polish Consumers

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 348
Author(s):  
Lukasz Skowron ◽  
Monika Sak-Skowron
Keyword(s):  
Expectation Maximization ◽  
Cross Validation ◽  
Expectation Maximization Algorithm ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Environmental Sensitivity ◽  
Significance Level ◽  
On Line ◽  
Purchase Process ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Fold Cross Validation

The first of the research objectives discussed in this article was to analyze the differences related to the valuation of particular factors influencing the purchase process in the smartphone industry, expressed by respondents with different sensitivity and environmental awareness, as well as the assessment of their knowledge about the impact of smartphones on the natural environment. The second objective of the research was to determine whether the level of environmental sensitivity, awareness and knowledge about the impact of smartphones on the environment has a statistically significant influence on the respondents’ choice of smartphone brand. The survey was conducted using an on-line questionnaire, distributed by a specialized research agency on a representative sample of over 1000 Polish residents. In order to identify the various customers clusters, the expectation-maximization algorithm and the v-fold cross-validation were used. Additionally, in order to analyze the significance level of differences between clusters the nonparametric Mann-Whitney U-test was carried out. The results show unequivocally that people with a different approach to ecological issues demonstrate statistically significant differences in their purchasing behaviors in the smartphone industry. Furthermore, it was noticed that in the case of comparing some smartphones brands, there is a statistically confirmed difference in the environmental sensitivity and awareness of the customers who use them. Moreover, the research has shown that in Polish customers’ consciousness smartphones are mistakenly considered to be relatively safe and environmentally friendly products.

Quota Women Are Threatening to Men

2017 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 107-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klea Faniko ◽  
Till Burckhardt ◽  
Oriane Sarrasin ◽  
Fabio Lorenzi-Cioldi ◽  
Siri Øyslebø Sørensen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Perceived Threat ◽  
Preferential Treatment ◽  
Public Sector Employees ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Women In Decision Making ◽  
The Impact

Abstract. Two studies carried out among Albanian public-sector employees examined the impact of different types of affirmative action policies (AAPs) on (counter)stereotypical perceptions of women in decision-making positions. Study 1 (N = 178) revealed that participants – especially women – perceived women in decision-making positions as more masculine (i.e., agentic) than feminine (i.e., communal). Study 2 (N = 239) showed that different types of AA had different effects on the attribution of gender stereotypes to AAP beneficiaries: Women benefiting from a quota policy were perceived as being more communal than agentic, while those benefiting from weak preferential treatment were perceived as being more agentic than communal. Furthermore, we examined how the belief that AAPs threaten men’s access to decision-making positions influenced the attribution of these traits to AAP beneficiaries. The results showed that men who reported high levels of perceived threat, as compared to men who reported low levels of perceived threat, attributed more communal than agentic traits to the beneficiaries of quotas. These findings suggest that AAPs may have created a backlash against its beneficiaries by emphasizing gender-stereotypical or counterstereotypical traits. Thus, the framing of AAPs, for instance, as a matter of enhancing organizational performance, in the process of policy making and implementation, may be a crucial tool to countering potential backlash.

Ordered subset expectation maximization algorithm for image reconstruction applied to zero-flow or low-flow mimicking brain phantom

2005 ◽  
Vol 25 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. S678-S678
Author(s):  
Yasuhiro Akazawa ◽  
Yasuhiro Katsura ◽  
Ryohei Matsuura ◽  
Piao Rishu ◽  
Ansar M D Ashik ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Image Reconstruction ◽  
Expectation Maximization ◽  
Expectation Maximization Algorithm ◽  
Low Flow ◽  
Brain Phantom ◽  
Zero Flow

Human Ear Pattern Recognition System

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (8) ◽  
pp. 117 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Jagan Naveen ◽  
K. Krishna Kishore ◽  
P. Rajesh Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Pattern Recognition ◽  
Expectation Maximization Algorithm ◽  
Recognition System ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Person Identification ◽  
Biometric Systems ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Recognition Systems ◽  
Human Ear ◽  
Pca Algorithm

In the modern world, human recognition systems play an important role to   improve security by reducing chances of evasion. Human ear is used for person identification .In the Empirical study on research on human ear, 10000 images are taken to find the uniqueness of the ear. Ear based system is one of the few biometric systems which can provides stable characteristics over the age. In this paper, ear images are taken from mathematical analysis of images (AMI) ear data base and the analysis is done on ear pattern recognition based on the Expectation maximization algorithm and k means algorithm.  Pattern of ears affected with different types of noises are recognized based on Principle component analysis (PCA) algorithm.

Situational Breakdowns

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Nassauer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Contextual Factors ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Outcomes ◽  
Dynamic Processes ◽  
Collective Decisions ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Impact

This book provides an account of how and why routine interactions break down and how such situational breakdowns lead to protest violence and other types of surprising social outcomes. It takes a close-up look at the dynamic processes of how situations unfold and compares their role to that of motivations, strategies, and other contextual factors. The book discusses factors that can draw us into violent situations and describes how and why we make uncommon individual and collective decisions. Covering different types of surprise outcomes from protest marches and uprisings turning violent to robbers failing to rob a store at gunpoint, it shows how unfolding situations can override our motivations and strategies and how emotions and culture, as well as rational thinking, still play a part in these events. The first chapters study protest violence in Germany and the United States from 1960 until 2010, taking a detailed look at what happens between the start of a protest and the eruption of violence or its peaceful conclusion. They compare the impact of such dynamics to the role of police strategies and culture, protesters’ claims and violent motivations, the black bloc and agents provocateurs. The analysis shows how violence is triggered, what determines its intensity, and which measures can avoid its outbreak. The book explores whether we find similar situational patterns leading to surprising outcomes in other types of small- and large-scale events: uprisings turning violent, such as Ferguson in 2014 and Baltimore in 2015, and failed armed store robberies.

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