We present a spectral comp.rison theorem between the second and the fourth order equations of conservative type with non-local terms. Nonlocal effects arise naturally due to the long-range spatial connectivity in poly...
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We present a spectral comp.rison theorem between the second and the fourth order equations of conservative type with non-local terms. Nonlocal effects arise naturally due to the long-range spatial connectivity in polymer problems or to the difference of relaxation times for phase separation problems with stress effect. If such nonlocal effects are built into the usual Cahn-Hilliard dynamics, we have the fourth order equations with nonlocal terms. We introduce the second order conservative equations with the same nonlocal terms as the fourth order ones. The aim is to show that both the second and the fourth order equations have the same set of steady states and their stability properties also coincide with each other. This reduction from the fourth order to the second order is quite useful in applications. In fact a simple and new proof for the inst.bility of n-layered solution of the Cahn-Hilliard equation is given with the aid of this reduction.
Metamorphosis is a powerful visual technique, for producing interesting transition between two images or volume data. Image or volume metamorphosis using simple features provides flexible and easy control of visual ef...
Metamorphosis is a powerful visual technique, for producing interesting transition between two images or volume data. Image or volume metamorphosis using simple features provides flexible and easy control of visual effect. The feature-based image warping proposed by Beier and Neely is a brute-force approach. In this paper, first, we propose optimization methods to reduce their warping time without noticeable loss of image quality. Second, we extend our methods to 3D volume data and propose several interesting warping operators allowing global and local metamorphosis of volume data.
A new design methodology of embedded systems based on a user defined application specific processor, called a soft-core processor, and a new programming language, Valen-C, is proposed. In the initial design phase, a d...
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A new design methodology of embedded systems based on a user defined application specific processor, called a soft-core processor, and a new programming language, Valen-C, is proposed. In the initial design phase, a designer designs a system with a soft-core processor, RAM, ROM and logic circuits. Software on the system is written in Valen-C, in which the designer can specify the word length of each variable required tor accurate comp.tation in the program. After verifying the functionality of the initial design, we can optimize the system by changing several parameters of the soft-core processor. The total area of a system including the soft-core processor, ROM and RAM can be optimized by changing the word length. The proposed design method enables the designer to tune up the processor architecture for his application easily.
A flexible block matching motion estimation chip is described. The block size can be adaptively refined for variable size block matching algorithms with blocks of 8 × 8, 16 × 16 and 32 × 32 pixels or ca...
A flexible block matching motion estimation chip is described. The block size can be adaptively refined for variable size block matching algorithms with blocks of 8 × 8, 16 × 16 and 32 × 32 pixels or can be set to one of these sizes without significant loss in efficiency. The chip performs block matching on a search area of ±15 vertically and horizontally for a block size of 32 × 32 pixel. For larger search areas of, e.g., ±128 horizontally and ±32 vertically identical devices can be cascaded. Full search can be processed as well as other fast search strategies with an additional external RAM and a standard RISC processor. Sub-pel precision motion vectors can be derived using a smaller search area or cascading identical devices. The chip performes more than 200 GOPS on a die size of 220 mm2 in a 0.5-μm CMOS technology. With an additional masking unit the processor is prepared for future object or region-based algorithms.
The nature of map generalization may be non-uniform along the length of an individual line, requiring the application of methods that adapt to the local geometry and the geographical context. Geographical databases ne...
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The nature of map generalization may be non-uniform along the length of an individual line, requiring the application of methods that adapt to the local geometry and the geographical context. Geographical databases need to be enriched in terms of shape description structures (geometrical knowledge), knowledge of appropriate order of operations and of appropriate algorithms (procedural knowledge). Stored knowledge should take account of semantic and morphological characteristics, and of cartographic constraints. This paper proposes and discusses three experiments on knowledge acquisition using unsupervised and supervised learning techniques. In order to exploit geometrical shape knowledge, classifications were comp.ted according to a set of morphological measures using unsupervised learning. Choice of appropriate operations was determined by the results of a test with IGN cartographers considering line characteristics. These results were given to a supervised learning algorithm, along with corresponding comp.ted measures in order to discover rules. The approach and the resulting rules are presented and discussed. Tests have also been conducted on the tuning of parameter values, applying a Gaussian smoothing tolerance value to a set of lines using the supervised learning algorithm. The values obtained by means of the learning algorithm have been comp.red with interactive choices of an expert. Results are promising with a prediction rate higher than 80% having been obtained.
Bromine ion-beam-assisted etching produces smooth vertical sidewalls in GaAs wafers with substrate temperatures in the range of 20-200°C and smooth vertical sidewalls in InP wafers with substrate temperatures in ...
We present the first results of a project called LOOP, on formal methods for the object-oriented language Java. It aims at verification of program properties, with support of modern tools. We use our own front-end too...
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We present the first results of a project called LOOP, on formal methods for the object-oriented language Java. It aims at verification of program properties, with support of modern tools. We use our own front-end tool (which is still partly under construction) for translating Java classes into higher order logic, and a back-end theorem prover (namely PVS, developed at SRI) for reasoning. In several examples we demonstrate how non-trivial properties of Java programs and classes can be proven following this two-step approach.
We study the problem of representing images within a multimedia Database Management System (DBMS), in order to support fast retrieval operations without comp.omising storage efficiency. To achieve this goal, we propos...
We study the problem of representing images within a multimedia Database Management System (DBMS), in order to support fast retrieval operations without comp.omising storage efficiency. To achieve this goal, we propose new image coding techniques which combine a wavelet representation, embedded coding of the wavelet coefficients, and segmentation of image-domain regions in the wavelet domain. A bitstream is generated in which each image region is encoded independently of other regions, without having to explicitly store information describing the regions. Simulation results show that our proposed algorithms achieve coding performance which comp.res favorably, both perceptually and objectively, to that achieved using state-of-the-art image/video coding techniques while additionally providing region-based support.
It is convenient to select a reference point for recording ECG potentials on the torso or EEG potentials on the scalp. The body is a bounded, insulated volume conductor. As such, it is meaningless to seek a point whos...
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It is convenient to select a reference point for recording ECG potentials on the torso or EEG potentials on the scalp. The body is a bounded, insulated volume conductor. As such, it is meaningless to seek a point whose potential is at true zero. The choice of a particular reference, and hence the amplitude assigned to a contour, does not change in any way the biophysical information contained in the potential distribution. It does not in any way change the relation between source and potential, except for an additive constant of no physical significance. Standardization of a reference is useful for comp.ring, more directly, data from different laboratories. An agreed upon reference is necessary when a limited number of leads are used for diagnosis. In the case of the electrocardiogram, the generally agreed upon reference is the WCT. The issue of the zero of potential seems to arouse passions that may sometimes inhibit sci.ntific discourse.
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