This research features parameterized depth edge detection using structured light imaging that exploits a single color stripes pattern and an associated binary stripes pattern. By parameterized depth edge detection, we refer to the detection of all depth edges in a given range of distances with depth difference greater or equal to a specific value. While previous research has not properly dealt ...

The local resonances of a free isotropic elastic plate are investigated using laser ultrasonic techniques. Experimental results are interpreted in terms of zero group velocity Lamb modes and edge mode. At a distance from the edge larger than the plate thickness a sharp resonance is observed at the frequency where the group velocity of the first symmetrical Lamb mode vanishes. Close to the edge ...

methods are proposed to develop idealized moment-curvature response curves of slender rectangular rc wall sections with uniformly distributed longitudinal reinforcement, using limit states, namely, cracking of concrete in tension, tensile yielding of reinforcement layers, and compression failure of concrete. it is recommended that tensile yielding of an inner layer of reinforcement is considere...

Various measures of distance between (the isomorphism classes of) two graphs have been proposed. These include measures proposed by Zelinka [6],[7], Baláž, Koča, Kvasńıčka & Sekanina [1] and Johnson [4]. Further, there is the edge rotation distance of Chartrand, Saba & Zou [3] and the edge shift distance of Johnson [5]. It is on the latter two that we build. For terminology and notation not exp...

Geometric trees can be formalized as unordered combinatorial trees whose edges are endowed with geometric information. Examples are skeleta of shapes from images; anatomical tree-structures such as blood vessels; or phylogenetic trees. An inter-tree distance measure is a basic prerequisite for many pattern recognition and machine learning methods to work on anatomical, phylogenetic or skeletal ...

Changes in the distribution and abundance of bird and small mammal species at urban-wildland edges can be caused by different factors. Edges can affect populations directly if animals respond behaviorally to the edge itself or if proximity to edge directly affects demographic vital rates (an ‘‘ecotonal’’ effect). Alternatively, urban edges can indirectly affect populations if edges alter the ch...

The distance transform has been proposed for use in computer vision for a number of applications such as matching and skeletonisation. This paper proposes two things: (1) a multi-scale distance transform to overcome the need to choose edge thresholds and scale and (2) the addition of various saliency factors such as edge strength, length and curvature to the basic distance transform to improve ...

A graph X is said to be distance–balanced if for any edge uv of X , the number of vertices closer to u than to v is equal to the number of vertices closer to v than to u. A graph X is said to be strongly distance–balanced if for any edge uv of X and any integer k, the number of vertices at distance k from u and at distance k+1 from v is equal to the number of vertices at distance k + 1 from u a...

Evolutionary biologists have long been fascinated by both the ways in which species respond to ecological conditions at the edges of their geographic ranges and the way that species' body sizes evolve across their ranges. Surprisingly, though, the relationship between these two phenomena is rarely studied. Here, we examine whether carnivore body size changes from the interior of their geographi...

—Edge effects on grassland-nesting birds should be less pronounced or absent near cropland edges of grasslands that lack wooded-edge habitat often used by nest predators and brood parasites. We compared nest predation, brood parasitism and densities of dickcissel (Spiza americana) nests in relation to distance from woodland and cropland edges of Kansas tallgrass prairie. Daily nest predation ra...