Degraded documents are frequently obtained in various situations. Examples of degraded document collections include historical document depositories, document obtained in legal and security investigations, and legal and medical archives. Degraded document images are hard to to read and are hard to analyze using computerized techniques. There is hence a need for systems that are capable of enhan...

We present an interactive method to restore severely damaged historical parchments. When damaged by heat in a fire, such manuscripts undergo a complex deformation and contain various geometric distortions such as wrinkling, buckling, and shrinking, rendering them nearly illegible. They cannot be physically flattened due to the risk of further damage. We propose a virtual restoration framework t...

Historical documents contain facts that family history enthusiasts are interested in extracting. In addition to fact extraction, organizing these facts into disambiguated entity records is also of interest. This paper shows how facts from an excerpt of a page in an OCRed book can be gathered automatically with some expert knowledge.

Modern lifestyles are disrupting the human senses-primarily sight, sound, and smell. Noise-induced hearing loss has been noted for centuries and increasing over time following the industrial era. From the mid-20th century, the numbers of individuals with myopia (the leading visual impairment) have been increasing globally. Historical evidence for olfactory dysfunction is not known but its etiol...

BACKGROUND Sight impairment increases with age and, compared with the general older population, older people with sight impairment are more likely to fall. There is a growing body of evidence on the views and perceptions of older people about falls, but little is published on the views of older people with sight impairment. OBJECTIVE To explore what older people with sight impairment believe ...

Given ω ≥ 1, let Z2(ω) be the graph with vertex set Z 2 in which two vertices are joined if they agree in one coordinate and differ by at most ω in the other. (Thus Z2(1) is precisely Z .) Let pc(ω) be the critical probability for site percolation in Z2(ω). Extending recent results of Frieze, Kleinberg, Ravi and Debany, we show that limω→∞ ωpc(ω) = log(3/2). We also prove analogues of this resu...

1. Post Graduate Student, Department of Oral Pathology & Microbiology, Institute of Dental Sciences & Technology, Modinagar 2. Senior Lecturer, Department of Orthodontics, Institute of Dental Sciences & Technology, Modinagar 3. Senior Lecturer, Department of Oral Pathology & Microbiology, Eklavya Dental College & Hospital, Kotputli, Rajasthan 4. Senior Lecturer, Department of Prosthodontics, Ko...

We consider decision-making and game scenarios in which an agent is limited by his/her computational ability to foresee all the available moves towards the future – that is, we study scenarios with short sight. We focus on how short sight affects the logical properties of decision making in multi-agent settings. We start with single-agent sequential decision making (SSDM) processes, modeling th...