Marching with essential survival equipment is a fundamental military exercise. A consequence of this increased load is an increased risk of dehydration. Dehydration may have fatal consequences in a combat situation where performance must be optimal. This risk can be minimized with an understanding of the additional fluid needs of soldiers marching when loaded compared to unloaded. The aim of th...

OBJECTIVE The purpose was to determine if Soldier rucksack load, marching distance, and average heart rate (HR) during shooting affect the probability of hitting the target. BACKGROUND Infantry Soldiers routinely carry heavy rucksack loads and are expected to engage enemy targets should a threat arise. METHOD Twelve male Soldiers performed two 11.8 km marches in forested terrain at 4.3 km/h...

Many commonly used models for the fundamental image processing task of noise removal can deal with Gaussian white noise. However such Gaussian models are not effective to restore images with Poisson noise, which is ubiquitous in certain applications. Recently Le-Chartrand-Asaki derived a new data-fitting term in the variational model for Poisson noise. This paper proposes a multilevel algorithm...

Marching triangles is a method for producing a polygon mesh surface approximation composed of triangular facets which are approximately equilateral. This paper improves the Marching Triangles algorithm where the inputs are multiple range images of scenes. C discontinuities (fold edges) are detected and used to constrain the final triangulation, thus increasing the accuracy of the mesh at sharp ...

Volumetric samples on Cartesian lattices are less efficient than samples on body-centred cubic (BCC) lattices. We show how to construct isosurfaces on BCC lattices using several different algorithms. Since the mesh that arises from BCC lattices involves a large number of cells, we show two alternate methods of reducing the number of cells by clumping tetrahedra into either octahedra or hexahedr...