Judges assume that gruesome evidence can influence juror verdicts, but little is known about the manner in which the influence is manifested. In a 2 x 3 study that varied the gruesome content of photographic and verbal evidence, gruesome verbal evidence did not influence mock juror emotional states, and had no impact on the conviction rate. Mock jurors who saw gruesome photographs, compared wit...

This paper presents a method for extraction and recognition of trucks from aerial photographs. A new method, mean shift image segmentation, is employed to extract truck shadow and boundary information. After a conversion of the boundaries into vector data, an enclosing minimum area rectangle is fit to each boundary. These rectangles are input as candidates into a designed Hopfield Neural Networ...