Video cameras offer the unique capability of collecting high density spatial data from a distant scene of interest. They can be employed as remote monitoring or inspection sensors for structures because of their commonplace availability, simplicity, and potentially low cost. An issue is that video data is difficult to interpret into a format familiar to developed for visualizing exaggerated ver...

Volume visualization of large data sets suffers from the same problem that many other visualization modalities suffer from: either one can visualize the entire data set and loose small details or visualize a small region and loose the context. In this paper, we present a magnification lens technique for volume visualization. While the notion of a magnification-lens is not new, and other techniq...

Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the importance of enhanced visual acuity in evaluation of polishing composite resins. Material and Methods: Forty-five composite samples were used. Finishing and polishing discs were used to produce samples with different surface roughness values (Ra). The observers examined the resin surfaces according to the following scale: 1: Smooth (0.01-0....

This paper adds depth to motion magnification. With the rise of cheap RGB+D cameras depth information is readily available. We make use of depth to make motion magnification robust to occlusion and large motions. Current approaches require a manual drawn pixel mask over all frames in the area of interest which is cumbersome and errorprone. By including depth, we avoid manual annotation and magn...

This paper presents some interesting results obtained by the algorithm by Bauer, Der and Hermann (BDH) [1] for magnification control in Self-Organizing Maps. Magnification control in SOMs refers to the modification of the relationship between the probability density functions of the input samples and their prototypes (SOM weights). The above mentioned algorithm enables explicit control of the m...

We see currently the trend of having larger and larger displays in our living rooms and that more and more computer oriented applications which are usually controlled by a mouse are displayed by them. Examples for the latter are web browsing, picture browsing, chatting and email. This leads to two problems. Firstly, most applications and web pages are not designed for situations in which the us...

Preoperative planning for total hip arthroplasty includes templating on anteroposterior radiographs. It is necessary to consider radiographic magnification in order to scale templates accurately. Studies dealing with hip templating report different values of radiographic magnification. It is not clear if the observed difference in magnification between the studies is caused by variability in st...

scope (DOM) was introduced to endodontics, offering significantly improved magnification and illumination. Bellizzi and Loushine advocated the benefits of optical magnification for posterior surgery.1 Carr stated that surgical and nonsurgical applications for the DOM have revolutionized the practice of endodontics.2 The advantage of the combined use of the DOM and visual guidance has been repor...

In this research, image analysis was used to optimize the visual output of a traditional Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) magnifying system and a head-mounted display (HMD) for people with low vision. There were two purposes: (1) To determine the benefit of using an image analysis system to customize image quality for a person with low vision, and (2) to have people with low vision evaluate a t...

The twin of this paper, “Forbidden Magnification? I.” [1], presents systematic SOM simulations with the explicit magnification control scheme of Bauer, Der, and Herrmann [2] on data for which the theory does not guarantee success, namely data that are n-D, n > 2 and/or data whose components in the different dimensions are not statistically independent. For the unsupported n = 2 cases that we in...