基于样块改进的图像修复算法

图像修复是指对图像破损区域进行填充或者将图像中多余物体进行移除。在Criminisi算法的基础上进行改进,在待修复块优先权的计算过程中,由于等照度线的曲率可以反映图像的局部特征,块与块之间的方差值可以反映图像的边缘信息,因此,将二者考虑进来,确保修复过程能够准确有序地进行。在寻找最佳匹配块时,将等照度线的曲率也作为一个因素增加进来,有效地提高了最佳匹配块搜索的精确性。经过仿真实验证明,改进后的算法不仅在PSNR值上比原算法有所提高,而且修复结果也比原算法更加准确可靠。     

无源雷达截获概率建模与窗口变量影响仿真

在截获概率概念和截获条件的基础上,综合时域、空域、频域等窗口函数构建截获概率模型,分别建立截获过程的4个窗口函数子模型,研究截获概率与窗口函数变量的影响关系。以SPS-48雷达为辐射源,仿真分析各窗口函数变量对截获概率的影响程度,讨论分区策略下无源雷达参数优化对截获概率的影响并总结截获概率提高方法,为无源雷达设计、研制、试验以及使用提供技术支撑。     

电子干扰条件下基于攻击区指挥引导效能评估

针对传统指挥引导效能评估方法缺少对电子干扰因素定量分析的问题,在基于攻击区空战态势评估的基础上,提出了一种考虑电子干扰因素的超视距空战指挥引导效能评估模型。分析电子干扰对导弹攻击区的影响,从指挥引导目的态势分析入手,选取空战能力指数威胁函数和基于空空导弹攻击区的空战态势威胁函数两个指标,进行加权综合建立指挥引导效能评估函数,通过仿真计算验证了该模型的有效性。     

战术导弹制导控制系统一体化设计仿真平台

对战术导弹的制导控制系统的设计阶段和特点进行了分析研究,对设计流程及所用到的方法进行了研究,在研究的基础上提出了制导控制系统一体化设计仿真分析平台的思路,该平台可用于常规导弹制导控制系统的一体化设计,包括导弹的控制系统设计分析、制导律设计、制导控制系统的数学建模与仿真、半实物仿真分析以及系统性能评估等,具有可扩展性,为战术导弹制导控制系统研究提供模块化手段,加速战术导弹的研制进度。     

维修性试验验前信息融合方法

针对小子样维修性试验因数据异总体而导致验前信息融合精度低的问题,提出了基于信息可用度的验前信息折合模型,解决了因数据异总体无法融合的问题;利用随机加权法对验前分布参数进行了拟合,准确地表述了验前分布;提出了基于支持度的融合权值确定方法,提高了各验前分布融合权值分配的合理性;最后,通过某装备维修性试验验前信息融合实例,表明了该方法具有一定的工程应用价值。     

Civilian protection in Africa: How the protection of civilians is being militarized by African policymakers and diplomats

This article explores how the protection of civilians is being militarized by African policymakers and diplomats. I draw on practice approaches to analyze what social groups are doing when they claim to “protect civilians.” I show how innovative protection mechanisms can be seen as a function of officials and diplomats coping with the changing circumstances of increasingly militarized politics in Africa. Specifically, accountability mechanisms for unintended and intended civilian harm by African security operations have originated in connection with this development. I argue that these are results of anchoring practices, which means that everyday informal interactions in one context become linked to another context. I argue that these emerging accountability mechanisms represent a new combination of practices, with the potential of changing the routine activities and mutual learning between policymakers and diplomats.     

The NATO Response Force: A qualified failure no more?

With much fanfare, NATO declared its rapid reaction force—the NATO Response Force (NRF)—an Initial Operational Capability in 2004. This article addresses four questions: Where did the NRF come from? What does it look like in 2017? What have been the major obstacles for the NRF fulfilling its promises? And where is the NRF likely to go? The article holds two main arguments. First, due to inadequate fill-rates and disagreements as to the force’s operational role, the NRF was for many years a “qualified failure.” The force failed to become the operational tool envisioned by the allies in 2002. While not without effect, it fell hostage to the harsh reality of the expeditionary wars of Iraq and Afghanistan. Second, the NRF is off to a fresh beginning and will likely be considered at least a partial success by the allies in the years to come.     

Soldiers as victims: behind military barracks in the post-colonial African army

This paper examines the ways in which the military infringes on the social and political rights of soldiers who joined the Zimbabwe National Army in post-independence Zimbabwe. Contrary to the scholarly and policy debates that present Zimbabwean soldiers as the silent prop behind President Robert Mugabe and the perpetrators of political violence, this paper argues that these soldiers have also been victimised in army barracks. The victimhood of soldiers has been explicit in the ways in which they are forced to execute their duties beyond their professional expectations. In substantiating this argument, the paper explores the unethical military training and the ways in which soldiers are disciplined and punished through Chapter 11:02 of the draconian Defence Act. The paper’s contribution stems from a ‘rights’ perspective that emphasises the right to freedom, justice and protection, which is usually quite silent in the military. But the question is how can soldiers’ concerns be translated into new practices without compromising so-called ‘state security’?     

The human consequences of foreign military intervention

The empirical international conflict literature has given much recent attention to interstate armed force’s impact on human well-being. While empirical research has advanced our understanding of the phenomenon considerably, we argue that one conclusion that many studies have reached is preliminary. Some recent research contends that only full-scale war, and not force short of war, has a discernable impact on human welfare or physical quality of life (PQOL). We develop theory on one type of force short of war, large-scale foreign military intervention (FMI), and its potential effects on PQOL. Using interrupted time series and panel corrected standard error methodologies, we find that from 1960 to 2005 large-scale FMI had a statistically and substantively significant impact on the PQOL of populations in 106 developing countries. The specific effect that this type of armed force has depended in large part on the regime type of the target country.