An Efficient Algorithm for Earth Surface Interpretation from Satellite Imagery
ENGINEERING JOURNAL-THAILAND
Authors: Soimart, Lawankorn; Ketcham, Mahasak
Abstract
Many image segmentation algorithms are available but most of them are not fit for interpretation of satellite images. Mean-shift algorithm has been used in many recent researches as a promising image segmentation technique, which has the speed at O(kn(2)) where n is the number of data points and k is the number of average iteration steps for each data point. This method computes using a brute-force in the iteration of a pixel to compare with the region it is in. This paper proposes a novel algorithm named First-order Neighborhood Mean-shift (FNM) segmentation, which is enhanced from Mean-shift segmentation. This algorithm provides information about the relationship of a pixel with its neighbors; and makes them fall into the same region which improve the speed to O(kn). In this experiment, FNM was compared to well-known algorithms, i.e., K-mean (KM), Constrained K-mean (CKM), Adaptive K-mean (AKM), Fuzzy C-mean (FCM) and Mean-shift (MS) using the reference map from the Landsat. FNM provided better results in terms of overall error and correctness criteria.
Symmetry constrained two Higgs doublet models
EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C
Authors: Alves, Joao M.; Botella, Francisco J.; Branco, Gustavo C.; Cornet-Gomez, Fernando; Nebot, Miguel; Silva, Joao P.
Abstract
We study two-Higgs-doublet models (2HDM) where Abelian symmetries have been introduced, leading to a drastic reduction in the number of free parameters in the 2HDM. Our analysis is inspired in BGL models, where, as the result of a symmetry of the Lagrangian, there are tree-level scalar mediated Flavour-Changing-Neutral-Currents, with the flavour structure depending only on the CKM matrix. A systematic analysis is done on the various possible schemes, which are classified in different classes, depending on the way the extra symmetries constrain the matrices of couplings defining the flavour structure of the scalar mediated neutral currents. All the resulting flavour textures of the Yukawa couplings are stable under renormalisation since they result from symmetries imposed at the Lagrangian level. We also present a brief phenomenological analysis of the most salient features of each class of symmetry constrained 2HDM.