A Natural Fit

3-d Imaging and Compression { Synthetic Hybrid or Natural Fit?

International Workshop on Synthetic Natural Hybrid Coding and Three Dimensional Imaging IWSNHC3DI'99, Santorini, Greece, September 1999. This paper highlights recent advances in image compression aided by 3-D geometry information. As two examples, we present a modelaided video coder for e cient compression of head-and-shoulder scenes and a geometry-aided coder for 4-D light elds for image-based...

- D Image Models and Compression { Synthetic Hybrid or Natural Fit ?

Fit Body, Fit Mind?

I N B R I E F We are used to thinking of intelligence as largely a matter of genetic inheritance, but that is not the whole picture. What we do aff ects our mental wellbeing: staying physically and mentally active helps us stay sharp as we age. Nevertheless, our personal eff orts to bolster cognitive enhancement cannot forestall all declines in our cognitive performance. What is especially surp...

A Linear Least Squares Fit Mapping Method For Information Retrieval From Natural Language Texts

This paper describes a unique method for mapping natural language texts to canonical terms that identify the contents of the texts. This method learns empirical associations between free-form texts and canonical terms from human-assigned matches and determines a Linear Least Squares Fit (LLSF) mapping function which represents weighted connections between words in the texts and the canonical te...

Small Molecule Ion Channel Match Making: A Natural Fit for New ASIC Ligands

ASICs (acid-sensing ion channels) are proton-gated channels that are important for pain sensation. New work by Yu and coworkers in this issue of Neuron identifies synthetic ligands and related small molecules found in the inflammatory soup that activate ASICs. These new findings highlight the power of small molecule screening to find new compounds that can control channel function. They also de...