Due to the inherent discrete nature of sensing, interpolation is a key activity in sensing. Interpolation in urban computing faces an unprecedented inference issue that was not present in large scale traditional sensing environments. Obstacles such as buildings and walls are prevalent in urban sensing, and it is important to consider them in urban sensing interpolation. This paper introduces an...

The problems of distressed urban areas are getting worse year after year. Due to limited resources and Amenities of municipal organizations for solving every problem concerning urban distressed textures, it is essential to determine the priorities of each area based on identified factors and criteria. In distressed areas, there are different circumstances and distinctive citizens with their nee...

The carotenoids that make carrots orange also produce the golden hue of Staphylococcus aureus. Such pigments appear to be a golden armor, shielding this pathogen from oxidants that mammalian neutrophils release, thus accounting for some of this microorganism’s virulence, according to Victor Nizet at the University of California, San Diego (USCD) and his collaborators. Perhaps these colorful vir...

2014 Experimental results on the conductivity and rupture properties of two-dimensional continuum crack deteriorated model systems are presented. Two different systems are considered. In case 1, cracks are randomly positioned on the bonds of a regular square lattice drawn on the continuous system. Our finite size systems barely reach the critical percolation regime. The results rather correspon...

Modeling and reconstruction of urban environments is currently the subject of intensive research. There is a wide range of possible applications, including virtual environments like cyber-tourism, computer games, and the entertainment industries in general, as well as urban planning and architecture, security planning and training, traffic simulation, driving guidance and telecommunications, to...

This work studies the preattentive discrimination of achromatic textures composed of mixtures of different (Weber) contrasts. These textures differ not at all in local spatial structure, but only in the relative proportions of different contrasts they comprise. It is shown that, like chromatic discrimination, preattentive discrimination of such textures is three-dimensional. The current results...

Textures appear in most natural images, but there is no precise mathematical definition of a texture. However, there are various descriptions of textures available in the literature. These approaches can be broadly classified as structural or deterministic, and stochastic [5, 7, 12, 19, 29]. The structural approach is more suitable for describing textures that can be formed by repeating a unit ...

Tomioka Town, which is the location of nuclear power plant and disaster-stricken municipality, became main player in urban planning modern times gathered population center, but finances deteriorated decreased. The changed, a hydrogen explosion caused entire town to evacuate for six years. has plummeted, half are short-term workers. They live single-person apartments land readjustment project ar...

Textures have been used in various applications, such as carpet quality control, region recognition in satellite images, and body painting control in the vehicle industry. This paper studies texture synthesis. We survey the algorithms for synthesizing textures that have proposed over the past two decades. A variety of algorithms associated with synthesized textures are given. The goal is to fur...

Genetic programming is used to automatically synthesize procedural textures for 3D surfaces. The GP system evolves textures with similar colour and surface characteristics as training textures sampled on 3D models. The texture language includes mathematical operators, colour and noise functions, as well as surface information for the point being rendered, such as coordinates, normal, and gradie...