... worth pointing out that dealing with stereo data introduces a new perspective; in fact instead of dealing with quality assessment we should refer to quality of experience Indeed, since 3D involves ... such as viewing experience and visual comfort are not taken into account Therefore, in this paper, we enhance the preliminary study made in [15] by including also the depth information in order ... obtained by viewing a scene from slightly different viewing positions From a physiological point of view, given a scenein the real world, 2D slightly different scenes are projected on the retina...
... and Video Processing for their effort in the preparation of this special issue We hope that this issue will allow you to get an insight in the recent advances on object tracking for video surveillance ... the research community This initiative is supported by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), under grant EP/D033772/1 The aim of this initiative is to allow a widespread ... measures for target tracking that estimate the object localization precision and the accuracy of the results, and evaluate them on a series of multiple object tracking results Finally, the paper by...
... source localization for automatic camera pointing system in video conferencing,” in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP ’97), vol 1, pp ... has to be treated with great care in the context of beamforming and noise reduction In addition, increasing d may lead to a higher complexity since we may have to increase the block size to compute ... algorithm delivers the best performance This indicates that taking it into account in the signal model is an effective way in dealing with reverberation Comparing the MCCC, AMC, and fusion algorithms...
... random walk in random scenery converges in distribution to a stable process in random scenery For additional information on random walks in random scenery and stable processes in random scenery, ... brief outline of the paper is in order In §2 we prove a maximal inequality for a class of Gaussian processes, and we apply this result to stable processes in random scenery In §3 we introduce ... and, in this case, G is called Brownian motion in random scenery For each t Z = {Zt : t 0, define Z(t) = Y (X(t)) The process 0} is called iterated Brownian motion Our interest in investigating...
... will be used as guidelines in developing ordinal depth recovery strategy and applying ordinal depth information in the scene recognition task in later chapters The remainder of this chapter is ... Reference scenes in the IND database 97 5.2 Reference scenes in the UBIN database 98 5.3 Reference scenes in the NS database 99 5.4 Various challenging positive ... 48 Simple camera TBL motion 52 LIST OF FIGURES 3.3 xiv Recovered ordinal depth of feature points in indoor and outdoor scenes, depicted using the rainbow color coding scheme...
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... calculated to quantify the increase in risk according to an increase of 10 μg/m in PM 10 , NO , SO , and mg/m in CO exposure; 95% confidence intervals (CI) were calculated To examine the hazard period ... lag2 and in infants [49] On the contrary, no significant associations were reported, also in different groups of age, either in London [50] or in northern Alberta (Canada) [14] In our setting, NO2 ... participated in its design and coordination, and helped to draft the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests...
... recreational places, and housing areas) agree with the characterization made in Galindo’s (1994) study, which was used as a provisional instrument in this study In our opinion, this suggests that ... according to any other variable by the subjects interviewed Exploring the generality of such a categorization in other geographical scenes, incorporating the analysis of places considered ‘‘unattractive,’’ ... with the following criteria: (1) they had been born in Malaga or had been living there for a ´ minimum of years; (2) they expressed a strong sense of belonging to the city This information was...
... user specifies the beginning and ending of the character string to be recognized and translated In Figure 3, circles on both ends of the string denote the user specified points All the locations ... location module determines the size and position of the characters in the string Since the characters have their own regions delineated by rectangles and have x,y coordinates (as shown in Figure 2), ... Arakawa for providing us with the use of the OCR program References Ismail Haritaoglu 2001 InfoScope: Link from Real World to Digital Information Space In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference...
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... receding into the background as Macbeth is beginning to take front stage by acting of his own initiative without consulting his Lady In the third scene, the sun is setting and it is getting dark ... Macbeth are responsible for putting him in this fix As we watch these scenes, we can feel that Macbeth is gradually moving towards his inevitable doom but there's nothing we can about it except perhaps ... aided by its dark agents of evil in order to kill Banquo In this scene, it seems like Macbeth and Lady Macbeth have switched roles Lady Macbeth seems to be disintegrating from her former strong and...
... joint, my wrist joint My hand is used in holding, throwing, catching, and feeling: the palm of my hand, the back of my hand, my fingers, my thumb, my forefinger, my middle finger, my ring finger, ... thigh, and my lower leg; and three joints: my hip joint, my knee joint, my ankle joint My foot is used in standing, walking, running, skating, and jumping: my instep, my toes, the sole of my foot, ... joints has your arm?—"Three joints: my shoulder joint, my elbow joint, my wrist joint." How many joints has your leg?—"Three joints: my hip joint, my knee joint, my ankle joint." What are joints?—"Bending...
... rare-earth element, A’ = alkaline element) are attracting considerable interest because they reveal interesting phenomena such as magnetoresistance, MCE, charge ordering, spin-glass behaviour, and ... pre-sintered at 9000C for 15 h The heated samples were cooled to room temperature, reground to fine particles, and sintered at 12000C for 15 h The structure of samples was examined by using a ... substituted for Nd3+ ions in the sample, the ratio Mn4+/Mn3+ keeps unchanged So the decrease of TC with increasing x can be explained by the reduction of the double exchange interaction due to the...
... Health Insurance database is a centralized collection of detailed medical information for 2.7 million people, including visits to emergency rooms in major medical centers and small clinics in Taipei ... model and used it for examining the joint effect of PM2.5 in combination with gaseous pollutants We found that the risks of ER visits increased to 8.8% for respiratory disease in the children age group, ... Taiwan hwang@sinica.edu.tw Tsuey-Hwa Hu Institute of Statistical Science Academia Sinica Taipei, Taiwan jshwang6@stat.sinica.edu.tw Chang-Chuan Chan Institute of Occupational Medicine and Industrial...
... water; but then, since destiny willed it so, and since I aided in bringing a solemn truth to the surface as a truth, perhaps I have no right to complain Here, as in all things pertaining to life, ... Tuesday morning, at eight o'clock, I crossed the threshold of the White House for the first time I was shown into a waiting -room, and informed that Mrs Lincoln was at breakfast In the waiting -room I ... have disappointed you, Mrs Lincoln, for I intended to be in time Will you let me dress you? I can have you ready in a few minutes." "No, I won't be dressed I will stay in my room Mr Lincoln can...
... Automatic text-to -scene conversion in the traffic accident domain In IJCAI-05, Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 1073–1078, Edinburgh, Scotland ... Jianping Zhang 2003 Inferring temporal ordering of events in news In Human Language Technology Conference (HLT’03), Edmonton, Canada Inderjeet Mani 2003 Recent developments in temporal information ... set aside this type of link Subordinate links generally connect signals to events, for instance to mark polarity by linking a not to its main verb We identify these links simultaneously with...
... rate of spin grating as a function of q2 for two excitation powers: and 18mW (b) Kerr rotation dynamics obtained from homogenous spin excitation et al observed that Ds increases by increasing the ... This increase of the electron spin diffusion coefficient was interpreted in terms of heating of the excess electrons due to relaxation of energetic optically excited carriers Remarkably, in non-intentionally ... Eberl K: Spin transport in GaAs Appl Phys Lett 1998, 73:1580 Liu BL, Senes M, Couderc S, Bobo JF, Marie X, Amanda T, Fontaine C, Arnoult A: Optical and electrical spin injection in spin-LEDs Physica...
... for intravenous thrombolysis given the neurological findings and NIHSS of 2; however, the constellation of the above findings led to our clinical decision not to administer thrombolytics in the ... In summary, perfusion CT can serve an important role in differentiating acute stroke from an unusual presentation of status epilepticus in the emergency room setting Page of Consent Written informed ... NCCT in the emergency room setting There are data supporting the use of CT perfusion in acute stroke management [11] Relative MTT and absolute CBV are CT perfusion parameters that help define...