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This paper presents a new measure method of stereo matching algorithm, which is based on image structure and pixel’s feature, named CGDSM. The matching cost calculate step consist of three similarity measure factors: pixel gradient similarity measure factor, pixel feature similarity measure factor and...

This article examines the how Apple Store employs the endowment effect to enhance their profits. While touching is proved to be able to enhance people’s psychological ownership and further contributes to higher evaluations, We hypothesized that endowment effect could be either activated or enhanced after...

Evaluation methods of advertisement design are important in Advertising, This paper proposed a novel approach to advertisement evaluation based on visual attention. Firstly saliency detection algorithm is used to detect the salient region of advertisement, then an advertisement is determined as attractive...

Frequency-tuned saliency detection analyzes image saliency from the perspective of frequency domain and fully combines image segmentation method, which outputs well-defined boundaries of salient objects. However, the method ignores spatial relationships across image parts. This paper proposes an improved...

Developing marine eco-tourism as an alternative source of livelihood. To accelerate poverty alleviation in Karangasem regency, where 6.88% of the population of 27,800 people are classified as poor (CBS of Bali, 2014), various efforts have been made by the Regional Government such as developing marine...

Stock options are usually sold in bundles of 100 units, and their price can be quoted either per unit or per bundle. In this paper, the effect of different methods of quoting financial asset prices on the subjective value of a contract was examined experimentally. In particular, we examined differences...

Municipal solid waste (MSW) management has become common problem in regional development especially in developing countries. In Indonesia, waste management still relies on landfilling system which generate both positive and negative externalities. Odour pollution is one of the negative externalities....

The purpose is to study an improved cuckoo search algorithms in target assignment via the analysis of the characteristics of air defense interception and the demand for weapon target assignment (WTA). As for the threat of multi-batches and saturating targets, the random coding method based on the minimum...

Marine tourism activities that have been encouraged put more emphasis on the economic aspect, in which tourism activities are expected to provide maximum positive economic impact. Meanwhile, conservation aspects are less considered so that the condition of coral reefs and other marine life that become...

The management or development of TNKS nature tourism in addition to taking economic benefits, must also simultaneously preserve the environment and, bring benefits to the surrounding community. The development of nature tourism (ecotouriem) in KSNP will support the preservation of the area and is expected...

The phenomenon of forced consumption by travel agencies and tour guides is endless. This not only has a great impact on the reputation of tourism destinations, but also reduces the tourists experience utility. The purpose of this paper is to study the influence of the forced consumption of travel agencies...

The maximum price that someone is willing to pay for a good is usually much less than the minimum price that the person is willing to accept to give up the same good (the WTA-WTP gap). This is known at the endowment effect. Loss aversion is the main reason of endowment effect. This study investigates...

A new image reconstruction method using the WTA-ICA model in contourlet transform domain is discussed in this paper. WTA-ICA is in fact an sparse ICA algorithm, and is simpler and faster under high dimensional computational requirements. Contourlet transform can offer a flexible multi-resolution and...