This paper describes a method for the detection of tracking of elongated structures that is robust under changes of scale and orientation. This method is based on extending the concept of scale invariant natural interest points to include elongated ridge structures. An operator is proposed that directly detects ridge points and provides an estimation of their elongation and orientation. A track...

This paper introduces a novel method for constructing and selecting scale-invariant object parts. Scale-invariant local descriptors are first grouped into basic parts. A classifier is then learned for each of these parts, and feature selection is used to determine the most discriminative ones. This approach allows robust part detection, and it is invariant under scale changes—that is, neither t...

We discuss a rigorous foundation of the pure scale relativity theory for a one-dimensional space variable. We define several notions as ‘‘representation’’ of a continuous function, scale law and minimal resolution. We define precisely the meaning of a scale reference system and space reference system for non-differentiable one-dimensional manifolds. 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.

There are several perspectives which have motivated the work. One of the most important is that of "linguistic relativity". This paper definitely falls in the tradition started by Herder (1772), continued by Humboldt (1836), Boas (1911), Sapir (1921), Whorf (1956), Weissgerber (1953), Kainz (1946), and Leise (1975), to mention only a few of the historically important contributors to the investi...

the decision of court and public prosecution in criminal matter has a absolute res judicats. the main conditions of res judicats (cause, object and person unity) become mooted in criminal law again, but criminal law is differ from civil law in this matter. in civil law, res judicats consider according to general conditions but criminal law can not consider upon those conditions. many cases, spe...