Word familiarity effects on lexical decision times and recognition scores were investigated for two sets of 100 spoken Japanese words whose familiarity ratings ranged from middle (4.0) to high (7.0) taken from a recently-developed word familiarity database containing about 80,000 Japanese words. The results showed that the higher the word familiarity rating is, the shorter the reaction time is,...

Change detection between two images is challenging and needed in a wide variety of imaging applications. Several approaches have been yet developed, especially methods based on difference image. In this paper, we propose an original patch-based Markov modeling framework to detect spatial irregularities in the difference image with low false alarm rates. Experimental results show that the propos...

Abstract The signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) for quasi-circular binary black hole inspirals computed from restricted post-Newtonian waveforms are compared with those attained by more complete postNewtonian signals, which are superpositions of amplitude-corrected harmonics of the orbital phase. It is shown that if one were to use the best available amplitude-corrected waveforms for detection templ...