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3 Citations
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15 March 2021

To reconstruct point geometry from multiple images, computation of the fundamental matrix is always necessary. With a new optimization criterion, i.e., the re-projective 3D metric geometric distance rather than projective space under RANSAC (Random S...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,254 Views
17 Pages

19 June 2022

A fundamental matrix estimation based on matching points is a critical problem in epipolar geometry. In this paper, a global fundamental matrix estimation method based on inlier updating is proposed. Firstly, the coplanar constraint was incorporated...

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  • Open Access
2,335 Views
18 Pages

A Novel Error Criterion of Fundamental Matrix Based on Principal Component Analysis

  • Yuxia Bian,
  • Shuhong Fang,
  • Ye Zhou,
  • Xiaojuan Wu,
  • Yan Zhen and
  • Yongbin Chu

25 October 2022

Estimating the fundamental matrix (FM) using the known corresponding points is a key step for three-dimensional (3D) scene reconstruction, and its uncertainty directly affects camera calibration and point-cloud calculation. The symmetric epipolar dis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,316 Views
18 Pages

Existence of Absolutely Continuous Fundamental Matrix of Linear Fractional System with Distributed Delays

  • Hristo Kiskinov,
  • Ekaterina Madamlieva,
  • Magdalena Veselinova and
  • Andrey Zahariev

12 January 2021

The goal of the present paper is to obtain sufficient conditions that guaranty the existence and uniqueness of an absolutely continuous fundamental matrix for a retarded linear fractional differential system with Caputo type derivatives and distribut...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,318 Views
74 Pages

22 September 2017

In this article, as a new mathematical approach to origin of the laws of nature, using a new basic algebraic axiomatic (matrix) formalism based on the ring theory and Clifford algebras (presented in Section 2), “it is shown that certain mathematical...

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  • Open Access
3,311 Views
29 Pages

24 August 2020

This document focuses attention on the fundamental solution of an autonomous linear retarded functional differential equation (RFDE) along with its supporting cast of actors: kernel matrix, characteristic matrix, resolvent matrix; and the Laplace tra...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,527 Views
34 Pages

The paper studies a class of nonlinear disturbed neutral linear fractional systems with derivatives in the the Riemann–Liouville sense and distributed delays. First, it is proved that the initial problem for these systems with discontinuous ini...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
655 Views
18 Pages

25 April 2025

In the present work, a Cauchy (initial) problem for a fractional linear system with distributed delays and Caputo-type derivatives of incommensurate order is considered. As the main result, a new straightforward approach to study the considered initi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,831 Views
29 Pages

11 May 2018

The problem of feature matching comprises detection, description, and the preliminary matching of features. Commonly, these steps are followed by Random Sample Consensus (RANSAC) or one of its variants in order to filter the matches and find a correc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,393 Views
15 Pages

On a Matrix Formulation of the Sequence of Bi-Periodic Fibonacci Numbers

  • Mustapha Rachidi,
  • Elen V. P. Spreafico and
  • Paula Catarino

30 August 2024

In this study, we investigate some new properties of the sequence of bi-periodic Fibonacci numbers with arbitrary initial conditions, through an approach that combines the matrix aspect and the fundamental Fibonacci system. Indeed, by considering the...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,659 Views
21 Pages

26 January 2023

We consider an initial problem (IP) for a linear neutral system with distributed delays and derivatives in Caputo’s sense of incommensurate order, with different kinds of initial functions. In the case when the initial functions are with bounde...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,175 Views
9 Pages

Embedding of Unimodular Row Vectors

  • Tao Wu,
  • Jinwang Liu and
  • Jiancheng Guan

14 September 2023

In this paper, we mainly study the embedding problem of unimodular row vectors, focusing on avoiding the identification of polynomial zeros. We investigate the existence of the minimal syzygy module of the ZLP polynomial matrix and demonstrate that t...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,153 Views
26 Pages

13 December 2023

Although numerous effective Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems have been developed, complex dynamic environments continue to present challenges, such as managing moving objects and enabling robots to comprehend environments. This pa...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,145 Views
20 Pages

17 December 2020

In computer vision, estimating geometric relations between two different views of the same scene has great importance due to its applications in 3D reconstruction, object recognition and digitization, image registration, pose retrieval, visual tracki...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,488 Views
19 Pages

27 June 2023

The aim of the present paper is to study the asymptotic properties of the solutions of linear fractional system with Riemann–Liouville-type derivatives and distributed delays. We prove under natural assumptions (similar to those used in the cas...

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  • Open Access
696 Views
29 Pages

Polarization-Interference Jones Matrix Sensors of Layer-by-Layer Scanning of Polycrystalline Dehydrated Blood Films. Fundamental and Applied Aspects

  • Oleksandr Ushenko,
  • Yuriy Ushenko,
  • Olexander Bilookyi,
  • Alexander Dubolazov,
  • Mykhaylo Gorsky,
  • Iryna Soltys,
  • Yuriy Rohovy,
  • Viacheslav Bilookyi,
  • Natalia Pavlyukovich and
  • Jun Zheng
  • + 3 authors

10 October 2025

To date, visual analysis is mainly used to evaluate images of dehydrated films (facies) of biological fluids—microscopy at various magnifications, illumination with white or polarized light, as well as using a dark field. At the same time, impo...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,390 Views
9 Pages

Asymptotic Behavior of Solutions in Nonlinear Neutral System with Two Volterra Terms

  • Mouataz Billah Mesmouli,
  • Abdelouaheb Ardjouni and
  • Hicham Saber

13 June 2023

In this manuscript, we generalise previous results in the literature by providing sufficient conditions for the matrix measure to guarantee the stability, asymptotic stability and exponential stability of a neutral system of differential equations. T...

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  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,769 Views
24 Pages

An Improved RANSAC Outlier Rejection Method for UAV-Derived Point Cloud

  • Bahram Salehi,
  • Sina Jarahizadeh and
  • Amin Sarafraz

1 October 2022

A common problem with matching algorithms, in photogrammetry and computer vision, is the imperfection of finding all correct corresponding points, so-called inliers, and, thus, resulting in incorrect or mismatched points, so-called outliers. Many alg...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,158 Views
20 Pages

An Efficient Point-Matching Method Based on Multiple Geometrical Hypotheses

  • Miguel Carrasco,
  • Domingo Mery,
  • Andrés Concha,
  • Ramiro Velázquez,
  • Roberto De Fazio and
  • Paolo Visconti

Point matching in multiple images is an open problem in computer vision because of the numerous geometric transformations and photometric conditions that a pixel or point might exhibit in the set of images. Over the last two decades, different techni...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
10,793 Views
18 Pages

Radial Distortion from Epipolar Constraint for Rectilinear Cameras

  • Ville V. Lehtola,
  • Matti Kurkela and
  • Petri Rönnholm

Lens distortion causes difficulties for 3D reconstruction, when uncalibrated image sets with weak geometry are used. We show that the largest part of lens distortion, known as the radial distortion, can be estimated along with the center of distortio...

  • Review
  • Open Access
59 Citations
17,106 Views
15 Pages

Photonic Matrix Computing: From Fundamentals to Applications

  • Junwei Cheng,
  • Hailong Zhou and
  • Jianji Dong

26 June 2021

In emerging artificial intelligence applications, massive matrix operations require high computing speed and energy efficiency. Optical computing can realize high-speed parallel information processing with ultra-low energy consumption on photonic int...

  • Review
  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,469 Views
16 Pages

Starch as a Matrix for Incorporation and Release of Bioactive Compounds: Fundamentals and Applications

  • Lucas de Souza Falcão,
  • Deborah Bento Coelho,
  • Priscilla Carvalho Veggi,
  • Pedro Henrique Campelo,
  • Patrícia Melchionna Albuquerque and
  • Mariana Agostini de Moraes

10 June 2022

Due to its abundance in nature and low cost, starch is one of the most relevant raw materials for replacing synthetic polymers in a number of applications. It is generally regarded as non-toxic, biocompatible, and biodegradable and, therefore, a safe...

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  • Open Access
513 Views
25 Pages

17 December 2025

RGB-guided spectral recovery algorithms include both spectral reconstruction (SR) methods that map image RGBs to spectra and pan-sharpening (PS) methods, where an RGB image is used to guide the upsampling of a low-resolution spectral image. In this p...

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  • Open Access
2,842 Views
11 Pages

16 August 2021

We introduce the fourth fundamental form of a Dini-type helicoidal hypersurface in the four dimensional Euclidean space E4. We find the Gauss map of helicoidal hypersurface in E4. We obtain the characteristic polynomial of shape operator matrix. Then...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,288 Views
15 Pages

Physicochemical Fundamentals of the Synthesis of a Cu@BN Composite Consisting of Nanosized Copper Enclosed in a Boron Nitride Matrix

  • Elena A. Malinina,
  • Ivan I. Myshletsov,
  • Grigorii A. Buzanov,
  • Irina V. Kozerozhets,
  • Nikolay P. Simonenko,
  • Tatiana L. Simonenko,
  • Svetlana E. Nikiforova,
  • Varvara V. Avdeeva,
  • Konstantin Yu. Zhizhin and
  • Nikolay T. Kuznetsov

The thermal reduction of the copper(II) complexes [CuII(N2H4)3][B10H10]·nH2O (I·nH2O) and [CuII(NH3)4][B10H10]·nH2O (II·nH2O) has been studied in an argon atmosphere at 900 °C. It has been found that the annealing of b...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
752 Views
13 Pages

29 September 2025

The solution of a nonhomogeneous linear Caputo fractional differential equation of order nq,(n−1)<nq<n with Caputo fractional initial conditions can be expressed using suitable Mittag–Leffler functions. In order to extend this resul...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,522 Views
19 Pages

A Deep Learning-Based Visual Map Generation for Mobile Robot Navigation

  • Carlos A. García-Pintos,
  • Noé G. Aldana-Murillo,
  • Emmanuel Ovalle-Magallanes and
  • Edgar Martínez

6 June 2023

Visual map-based robot navigation is a strategy that only uses the robot vision system, involving four fundamental stages: learning or mapping, localization, planning, and navigation. Therefore, it is paramount to model the environment optimally to p...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
719 Views
16 Pages

28 December 2024

Fractional calculus provides tools to model systems with memory effects; when coupled with delays, they model process histories inspired by two independent sources—the memory of the fractional derivative and the impact conditioned by the delays. This...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,599 Views
1 Page

3 August 2022

“Advances in the Welding of Aluminum Matrix Composites” is a new open Special Issue of Materials that aims to publish original research and review papers on new scientific and applied research and to make great contributions to advances i...

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  • Open Access
1,182 Views
24 Pages

24 September 2024

Algebraic expressions and equalities can be constructed arbitrarily in a given algebraic framework according to the operational rules provided, and thus it is a prominent and necessary task in mathematics and applications to construct, classify, and...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,935 Views
22 Pages

General Image Manipulation Detection Using Feature Engineering and a Deep Feed-Forward Neural Network

  • Sajjad Ahmed,
  • Byungun Yoon,
  • Sparsh Sharma,
  • Saurabh Singh and
  • Saiful Islam

3 November 2023

Within digital forensics, a notable emphasis is placed on the detection of the application of fundamental image-editing operators, including but not limited to median filters, average filters, contrast enhancement, resampling, and various other opera...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,861 Views
17 Pages

2 December 2022

The present work considers the initial problem (IP) for a linear neutral system with derivatives in Caputo’s sense of incommensurate order, distributed delay and various kinds of initial functions. For the considered IP, the studied problem of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,322 Views
20 Pages

High-Dimensional Covariance Estimation via Constrained Lq-Type Regularization

  • Xin Wang,
  • Lingchen Kong,
  • Liqun Wang and
  • Zhaoqilin Yang

17 February 2023

High-dimensional covariance matrix estimation is one of the fundamental and important problems in multivariate analysis and has a wide range of applications in many fields. In practice, it is common that a covariance matrix is composed of a low-rank...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,376 Views
25 Pages

Riemann–Hilbert Problem for the Matrix Laguerre Biorthogonal Polynomials: The Matrix Discrete Painlevé IV

  • Amílcar Branquinho,
  • Ana Foulquié Moreno,
  • Assil Fradi and
  • Manuel Mañas

7 April 2022

In this paper, the Riemann–Hilbert problem, with a jump supported on an appropriate curve on the complex plane with a finite endpoint at the origin, is used for the study of the corresponding matrix biorthogonal polynomials associated with Lagu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,593 Views
12 Pages

30 May 2024

Split quaternions have various applications in mathematics, computer graphics, robotics, physics, and so on. In this paper, two useful, real representations of a split quaternion matrix are proposed. Based on this, we derive their fundamental propert...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
26 Citations
3,272 Views
3 Pages

1 September 2022

“Synthetic and Natural Fiber Reinforced Polymer Matrix Composites for Advanced Applications” is a recently opened Special Issue (SI) of Materials that focuses on the fundamentals, characterization, and applications of fiber-reinforced polymer composi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,550 Views
17 Pages

Skeletal Dysplasias Caused by Sulfation Defects

  • Chiara Paganini,
  • Chiara Gramegna Tota,
  • Andrea Superti-Furga and
  • Antonio Rossi

Proteoglycans (PGs) are macromolecules present on the cell surface and in the extracellular matrix that confer specific mechanical, biochemical, and physical properties to tissues. Sulfate groups present on glycosaminoglycans, linear polysaccharide c...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,906 Views
13 Pages

4 April 2023

This study focused on electron microscopy studies of microstructural defects formed in an additively manufactured (AM) AlSi10Mg alloy as a result of post-deformation by equal channel angular pressing (ECAP), with the aim of elucidating the fundamenta...

  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,782 Views
30 Pages

15 May 2023

The production of closed-cell metallic foams has been of interest to the scientific community and industry for decades, owing to their unique properties, which include high specific strength and stiffness, buoyancy, shock absorption, and crash worthi...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
869 Views
24 Pages

10 March 2025

This paper provides a high-accuracy and efficient method for addressing antiplane piezoelectricity problems with multiple inclusions. The method of fundamental solutions is a boundary-type meshless method that applies the linear combination of fundam...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,714 Views
15 Pages

Ruled and Quadric Surfaces Satisfying ΔIIN = ΛN

  • Hassan Al-Zoubi,
  • Tareq Hamadneh,
  • Ma’mon Abu Hammad,
  • Mutaz Al-Sabbagh and
  • Mehmet Ozdemir

21 January 2023

In the 3-dimensional Euclidean space E3, a quadric surface is either ruled or of one of the following two kinds z2=as2+bt2+c,abc≠0 or z=a2s2+b2t2,a>0,b>0. In the present paper, we investigate these three kinds of surfaces whose Gauss map N s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,677 Views
21 Pages

30 October 2021

Due to the rapid advancement in power electronic devices in recent years, there is a fast growth of non-linear loads in distribution networks (DNs). These non-linear loads can cause harmonic pollution in the networks. The harmonic pollution is low, a...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,012 Views
8 Pages

6 February 2025

The problem of determining the conditions under which a random rectangular matrix is of full rank is a fundamental question in random matrix theory, with significant implications for coding theory, cryptography, and combinatorics. In this paper, we s...

  • Review
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41 Citations
13,677 Views
14 Pages

Chitosan-Based Hyaluronic Acid Hybrid Polymer Fibers as a Scaffold Biomaterial for Cartilage Tissue Engineering

  • Norimasa Iwasaki,
  • Yasuhiko Kasahara,
  • Shintarou Yamane,
  • Tatsuya Igarashi,
  • Akio Minami and
  • Shin-ichiro Nisimura

27 December 2010

An ideal scaffold material is one that closely mimics the natural environment in the tissue-specific extracellular matrix (ECM). Therefore, we have applied hyaluronic acid (HA), which is a main component of the cartilage ECM, to chitosan as a fundame...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,202 Views
16 Pages

Controllability of Fractional Complex Networks

  • Xionggai Bao,
  • Weiyuan Ma and
  • Xin Li

Controllability is a fundamental issue in the field of fractional complex network control, yet it has not received adequate attention in the past. This paper is dedicated to exploring the controllability of complex networks involving the Caputo fract...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,177 Views
9 Pages

Center of Biomedical Research Excellence in Matrix Biology: Building Research Infrastructure, Supporting Young Researchers, and Fostering Collaboration

  • Julia Thom Oxford,
  • Ken A. Cornell,
  • Jared J. Romero,
  • Diane B. Smith,
  • Tracy L. Yarnell,
  • Rhiannon M. Wood,
  • Cheryl L. Jorcyk,
  • Trevor J. Lujan,
  • Allan R. Albig and
  • Matthew W. Turner
  • + 19 authors

The Center of Biomedical Research Excellence in Matrix Biology strives to improve our understanding of extracellular matrix at molecular, cellular, tissue, and organismal levels to generate new knowledge about pathophysiology, normal development, and...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,320 Views
6 Pages

20 January 2019

Calculating nodal voltages and branch current flows in a meshed network is fundamental to electrical engineering. This work demonstrates how such calculations can be performed using the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the Laplacian matrix which descr...

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