As vast channels for communication such as the Internet are becoming popular, the security of digital media becomes a greater concern. Steganography is one of the techniques used to make detecting the transmitted data...
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As vast channels for communication such as the Internet are becoming popular, the security of digital media becomes a greater concern. Steganography is one of the techniques used to make detecting the transmitted data over channels more difficult, as hiding a message reduces the probability of detecting this message. In this paper we suggest a new steganography algorithm for hiding a gray image in one another. The cover is divided into blocks of equal sizes. Each block size equals the size of the embedding image. The results drawn in this paper with the similarity = 0.9717 are more improved and give the clear picture of the object
Modern scientific experiments can generate large amounts of data, which may be replicated and distributed across multiple resources to improve application performance and fault tolerance. Whilst a number of different ...
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Sequential point trees provide the state-of-the-art technique for rendering point models, by re-arranging hierarchical points sequentially according to geometric errors running on GPU for fast rendering. This paper pr...
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Sequential point trees provide the state-of-the-art technique for rendering point models, by re-arranging hierarchical points sequentially according to geometric errors running on GPU for fast rendering. This paper presents a view dependent method to augment sequential point trees by embedding the hierarchical tree structures in the sequential list of hierarchical points. By the method, two kinds of indices are constructed to facilitate the points rendering in an order mostly from near to far and from coarse to fine. As a result, invisible points can be culled view-dependently in high efficiency for hardware acceleration, and at the same time, the advantage of sequential point trees could be still fully taken. Therefore, the new method can run much faster than the conventional sequential point trees, and the acceleration can be highly promoted particularly when the objects possess complex occlusion relationship and viewed closely because invisible points would be in a high percentage of the points at finer levels.
H.264 is the new multimedia compression standard developed by VCEG and MPEG. In order to maximize the compression performance, H.264 adopts RDO mode decision techniques at the cost of very remarkable computational com...
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Several different approaches to Situational Method engineering exist. They differ in terms of the primary element of the paradigm: the method fragment definition. Here, we introduce four method fragment definitions fr...
Several different approaches to Situational Method engineering exist. They differ in terms of the primary element of the paradigm: the method fragment definition. Here, we introduce four method fragment definitions from the literature and compare their metamodels according to structural and functional criteria. The structural comparison showed a general alignment of some concepts that are sometimes referred with different names while the study of the compositional aspects results in evidence of substantial differences.
XML information retrieval (XML-IR) systems differ from traditional information retrieval systems by using structure of XML documents to retrieve more specific units of information than the documents themselves. Users ...
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XML information retrieval (XML-IR) systems differ from traditional information retrieval systems by using structure of XML documents to retrieve more specific units of information than the documents themselves. Users interact with XML-IR systems via structured queries that express their content and structural requirements. Historically, it has been common belief within the XML-IR community that structured queries will perform better than traditional keyword-only queries. However, recent system-orientated analysis has show that this assumption may be incorrect when system performance is averaged over a set of queries. Here, we test this assumption with users via a simulated work task experiment. We compare a keyword only interface with two user friendly XML-IR interfaces: NLPX, a natural language interface and Bricks, a query-bytemplate interface. This is the first time that a XML-IR natural language interface has been tested in user experiments. We compare the retrieval performance of all three interfaces and the usability of the two structured interfaces. Our results correspond to those of the system-orientated evaluation and indicate that structured queries do not aid retrieval performance. They also show that in terms of retrieval performance and usability the structured interfaces are comparable.
Cut-and-paste operation for 3D models is a new geometry modelling method by examples. The method constructs a new model from two or more existed models by cutting some useful parts from source models and pasting to ta...
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Learning Objects is not a new approach in electronic learning system. It has been applied since more than seven years ago. It can be clearly seen in CanCore project [9] in Canada and the emerging of several standards ...
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Learning Objects is not a new approach in electronic learning system. It has been applied since more than seven years ago. It can be clearly seen in CanCore project [9] in Canada and the emerging of several standards of Learning Objects by well-known organizations such as IEEE. L3OP (Learning Objects technology in Object-Oriented Programming ELearning System) project applies the Learning Objects concept into electronic learning system focusing on digitalizing learning styles (especially among higher education students). The electronic learning systems have been used by these students since past few generations and many of them have been enhanced. However, some students still feel that the electronic learning systems are not as effective as they may seem. The reason is varieties of traditional methods of learning styles used by these students, for example, jotting down and highlighting notes cannot be done in the electronic learning systems. For example, some students prefer to use highlight pen or marker to underline the important notes. However, the electronic learning systems can not digitize the styles. The project is only concentrated on visual type of learners. The Learning Objects approach used in this project not only to ensure the organization of the database but also the reusability of the learning content itself.
The paper describes a study of how Japanese and Sinhala naive viewers use modifiers to describe differences in color tones. Three sequences of color tone stimuli were created for three hues, red, green and blue by var...
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(纸本)9781424400997
The paper describes a study of how Japanese and Sinhala naive viewers use modifiers to describe differences in color tones. Three sequences of color tone stimuli were created for three hues, red, green and blue by varying just two parameters, saturation and value. Two methods were employed to study how naive viewers use modifiers to describe differences in their perceptions and modifiers of color tones. A preliminary elicitation employed the methods of selection description, in which Japanese and Sinhala modifiers meaning -pale, bright, vivid, strong, dull, dark- constituted a high proportion of responses. These modifiers were employed in a triadic comparison. Dissimilarities of all pair wise comparisons of stimuli were submitted to MDS analysis in order to derive a multidimensional perceptual structure for the stimuli. A semantic differential structure was derived applying PCA for modifier responses provided for the same set of stimuli. The results revealed that Japanese and Sinhala native speakers perceptually discriminate the six color tone stimulus into six categories. Furthermore, the semantic structures for each hue were different from one a another. And it was observed that the semantic structures related differently to the dimensions of the perceptual structures.
The problem of water pollution has become more widespread and severe in Chinese estuarine and coastal areas, such as the Bohai Bay and the mouth of the Yangtze River. The Bohai Sea has experienced the highest increase...
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(纸本)0784408769
The problem of water pollution has become more widespread and severe in Chinese estuarine and coastal areas, such as the Bohai Bay and the mouth of the Yangtze River. The Bohai Sea has experienced the highest increase of pollution levels caused by rapid economic development and discharge of land waste. In order to recover the ocean environment in the Bohai Sea, it is necessary to understand the hydrodynamics of the sea. The present study focuses on the evolution of thermal stratification and the dispersion processes as a result of river water from the Yellow River discharging into the Bohai Sea. A three-dimensional baroclinic flow model was applied to simulate the current system and the density field, using the NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis (available from the NOAA Climate Diagnostics Center) and JCOPE reanalysis data (Miyazawa and Yamagata, 2003) as a boundary condition. A long-term hindcast simulation for 2003 was carried out. This simulation makes the spatial variability of the density stratification clear in the Bohai Sea. Moreover, the detailed particulars of the behavior of suspended solids in the Yellow River water are investigated using a modified Lagrangian particle tracking method. The present model can predict well the distribution of high turbidity water mass which can be seen in the southwestern sea area in the Laizhou Bay in Landsat satellite images. Wind effects on the sediment distribution were evaluated. Copyright ASCE 2006.
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