In this paper we introduce finite automata as a tool for specification and compression of gray-scale image. We describe, what are interests points in pictures and idea if they can hang together with resultant finite automata.

These Kaffirs have another musical instrument, also called an ambira, very similar to that just described, but it is all made of iron instead of gourds, being composed of narrow flat rods of iron about a palm in length, tempered in the fire so that each has a different sound. There are only nine of these rods, placed in a row close together, with the ends nailed to a piece of wood like the brid...

Color gamut mapping plays a crucial role in color management. Depending on the application, it is sometimes desirable to perform color gamut mapping by shifting the lightness and compressing the chroma of an out-of-gamut color while preserving the perceived hue of the color. The term Òperceived hueÓ is used to distinguish between the visual sensation of hue and metric hue angle (e.g., CIELAB hu...

He started elementary school in the Fall of 1940 and enjoyed a few months of school, when, suddenly, one morning in the Spring of 1941 a barrage of bombs engulfed the apartment house where his family resided; the Second World War arrived in Serbia, and especially Belgrade, with fury and destruction. For the next four years, his life and the life of his family would hang in the balance. Hunger, ...

How can we promote the kinds of reflection needed for deep and lasting learning and the development of disposition toward scientific reasoning in the context of an informal learning community? In our research, we’ve discovered that learners have a greater appreciation of what they are learning when we give them the goal of helping others outside their community. This appreciation is demonstrate...

The first painting hangs in my family’s living room. If you look at the painting from the bottom up, you see, at first, nothing at all: fully a third of the total surface seems empty; then there is some green; not much at first, but then more and more as you gaze up into a wonderfully simple and distinct landscape: ordinary nature it is. But this is ordinary nature as seen by (1) an arduously s...

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