| In this paper, we proposed a video coding technique which adopts motion estimation and compensation with temporal layering to provide temporal scala-bility. In this proposed video coding scheme, motion estimation is performed over temporal hierarchy of frames. Various motion estimation intervals of diierent layers lead to storage of multiple frames as references. These multiple references are...

[1] Using an unusually large earthquake near the big island of Hawaii, we study the core mantle boundary (CMB) beneath the north‐northeastern Pacific between Hawaii and North America. A dense sampling of the CMB is achieved using the core‐reflected phase PcP recorded at a large number of high‐quality stations in North America, including networks in California, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska, as...

We propose a method for recognizing pollen types from images. Unlike other methods that measure visual characteristics directly on the pollen image, our method decomposes the images into layers prior to performing feature extraction. The method measures texture and geometrical characteristics in each layer. We tested our method on 1,060 samples of 30 species of pollen. The same dataset is also ...

Direct composites in posterior teeth are a part of the standard therapy spectrum in modern dentistry. The excellent performance of this form of restoration in the masticatory load-bearing posterior region has now been demonstrated in numerous clinical studies. The procedure is usually carried out in an elaborate layering technique. Aside from the possibilities that highly aesthetic composites o...

We present a new system for visualizing and merging differences in diagrams that uses animation, dual views, a storyboard, relative re-layout, and layering. We ran two user studies investigating the benefits of the system. The first user study compared pairs of hierarchical diagrams with matching node positions. The results underscore that naïve dual-view visualization is undesirable. On the po...