Illuminating elite patches of chemical space

Illuminating a space for women and rhetoric

Combined Object Detection and Segmentation by Using Space-Time Patches

This paper presents a method for classifying the direction of movement and for segmenting objects simultaneously using features of space-time patches. Our approach uses vector quantization to classify the direction of movement of an object and to estimate its centroid by referring to a codebook of the space-time patch feature, which is generated from multiple learning samples. We segmented the ...

Mesh saliency via ranking unsalient patches in a descriptor space

This paper presents a novel mesh saliency detection approach based on manifold ranking in a descriptor space. Starting from the over-segmented patches of a mesh, we compute a descriptor vector for each patch based on Zernike coefficients, and the local distinctness of each patch by a center-surround operator. Patches with small or high local distinctness are named as background or foreground pa...

Illuminating Nature

At the base level of creative practice, artists often reap inspiration from their surroundings. Writers might eavesdrop on a conversation in a coffee shop and then use it in a novel, and a composer might transform sounds from his urban environment into an orchestral work. In Kelly Lanphier’s case, working at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, California, early on created a substantial i...

Illuminating Illumination

We introduce an active imaging method to measure scene illumination. The system implementation is divided into four steps. First, the system acquires two images: one is an ordinary image of the scene under ambient light and the other is a corresponding image in which light from the camera flash is added to the scene. Second, the image pair is analyzed to obtain an image that represents the scen...