Texton models have proven to be very discriminative for the recognition of grayvalue images taken from rough textures. To further improve the discriminative power of the distinctive texton models of Varma and Zisserman (VZ model) (IJCV, vol. 62(1), pp. 61-81, 2005), we propose two schemes to exploit color information. First, we incorporate color information directly at the texton level, and app...

We present a study of quasar selection using the supernova fields of the Dark Energy Survey (DES). We used a quasar catalog from an overlapping portion of the SDSS Stripe 82 region to quantify the completeness and efficiency of selection methods involving color, probabilistic modeling, variability, and combinations of color/ probabilistic modeling with variability. In all cases, we considered o...

Consider the multicolored urn model where after every draw, balls of the different colors are added to the urn in proportion determined by a given stochastic replacement matrix. We consider some special replacement matrices which are not irreducible. For three and four color urns, we derive the asymptotic behavior of linear combinations of number of balls. In particular, we show that certain li...

This experimental study investigates the effects of animated graphic colors on attention and perceived usability of users from two cultural groups, American and Thai. The experiment employs a three-way split-plot design with one between-subjects factor and two repeated-measures factors. The between-subjects factor contains two cultural groups, American and Thai. The two repeated-measures variab...

The demand of milk product is increasing. Among all the milk products chocolate is mostly preferred confectionary product. In the present research the beany flavour of soymilk was reduced to a greater extent by autoclaving and washing. Various combinations of ingredients were tried for preparation of soymilk chocolate. Among the entire formulations sample ‘O’ had excellent appearance, color, gl...

The fundamental degrees of freedom of QCD, i.e., quarks and gluons, have never been observed in experiments. Only the color singlet combinations, hadrons (mesons and baryons) and glueballs, are expected to be observed. We wish to answer the question why color confinement occurs. In particular, we wish to clarify what the mechanism for quark confinement is. Dual superconductivity picture propose...

This paper presents a new noise model and its application to Bayer color filter array (CFA). We investigate the effect of various noise models. In addition, we study three possible Bayer patterns. For example, current Bayer CFA utilizes RGGB pattern. However, one may consider other color combinations such as RRGB or RGBB patterns. To prove RGGB pattern’s superiority, we investigate each pattern...

Four experiments examined how differences in the properties of the target and surround affect the time required for perceptual filling-in. They examined differences in luminance, orientation, spatial frequency, and color. A larger target/surround difference delayed filling-in ('feature difference effect'). Interestingly, exchanging the target and surround properties significantly varied the tim...