The purpose of this paper is threefold: firstly, the local Successive Mean Quantization Transform features are proposed for illumination and sensor insensitive operation in object recognition. Secondly, a split up Sparse Network of Winnows is presented to speed up the original classifier. Finally, the features and classifier are combined for the task of frontal face detection. Detection results are presented for the MIT+CMU and the BioID databases. With regard to this face detector, the Receiver Operation Characteristics curve for the BioID database yields the best published result. The result for the CMU+MIT database is comparable to state-of-the-art face detectors. A Matlab version of the face detection algorithm can be downloaded from
This paper presents a new extended active set strategy for optimizing antenna arrays by semi-infinite quadratic programming. The optimality criterion is either to maximize the directivity of the antenna or to minimize its sidelobe energy when subjected to a specified peak sidelobe level. Additional linear constraints are used to form the mainlobe. The design approach is applied to a numerical example that deals with the design of a narrow-band circular antenna array for the far field.
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