Existing Shape from Shading algorithms are not robust enough to work reliably with real images. We present a new paradigm for Shape from Shading based upon & scale space surface representation. Using this representation, the Shape from Shading problem becomes one of forming a surface from gaussian basis functions in such a way that the shading in the original image is explained. The algorithm i...

Aims Land use management affects plant carbon (C) supply and soil environments and hence alters soil nitrogen (N) dynamics, with consequent feedbacks to terrestrial ecosystem productivity. The objective of this study was to better identify mechanisms by which land-use management (clipping and shading) regulates soil N in a tallgrass prairie, OK, USA. Methods We conducted 1-year clipping and sha...

Ray-traced global illumination (GI) is becoming widespread in production rendering but incoherent secondary ray traversal limits practical rendering to scenes that fit in memory. Incoherent shading also leads to intractable performance with production-scale textures forcing renderers to resort to caching of irradiance, radiosity, and other values to amortize expensive shading. Unfortunately, su...

We studied the effects of variation in shoot structure and needle morphology on the distributions of light and nitrogen within a Pacific silver fir (Abies amabilis (Dougl.) Forbes) canopy. Specifically, we investigated the role of morphological shade acclimation in the determination of resource use efficiency, which is claimed to be optimal when the distribution of nitrogen within the canopy is...

ture and needle morphology on the distributions of light and nitrogen within a Pacific silver fir (Abies amabilis (Dougl.) Forbes) canopy. Specifically, we investigated the role of morphological shade acclimation in the determination of resource use efficiency, which is claimed to be optimal when the distribution of nitrogen within the canopy is directly proportional to the distribution of inte...

Maize is one of the most important crops globally that provides food, feed, and bioenergy. However, shading stress threatens maize production. In this study, we investigated the effects of shading on photosynthate accumulation and distribution of summer maize in the field. Zhengdan958 (ZD958) and Denghai 605 (DH605) were used as experimental materials in a field experiment running from 2013 to ...

graphics workstations have rendering performances of more than one million polygons per second in This paper presents a graphics workstation for real­ conjunction with hardware supported transparency, time display of Phong shaded polygons. The applied anti-aliasing, perspective texture mapping, image shading method is based on normal vector compositing, etc. In spite of the fact that great stri...

Rice is an important staple crop throughout the world, but environmental stress like low-light conditions can negatively impact crop yield and quality. Using pot experiments and field experiments, we studied the effects of shading on starch pasting viscosity and starch content with six rice varieties for three years, using the Rapid Visco Analyser to measure starch pasting viscosity. Shading at...

A divide-and-conquer strategy in shape from shading is proposed for recovering book surface on fully perspective condition. It is shown that unique shape can be recovered despite of more unknowns than shade images by dividing original implicit SFS problem into explicit ones. Using invariance of shading, a transformed shading equation and a recurrence relation is derived for depth recovery. Whol...