In DUC 2005, the pyramid method for content evaluation was used for the first time in a crosssite evaluation. We discuss the method used in creating pyramid models and performing peer annotation. Analysis of score averages for the peers indicates that the best systems score half as well as humans, and that systems can be grouped into better and worse performers. There were few significant diffe...

Fingerprint image segmentation is part of pre-processing in fingerprint image recognition system. It has a critical effect to the fingerprint image recognition system. Regardless of years of research in the area of general purpose image segmentation, it is still a very challenging task. A new image decomposition scheme, called the Adaptive and Orientation algorithm, is proposed to achieve effec...

Style transfer usually refers to the task of applying color and texture information from a specific style image to a given content image while preserving the structure of the latter. Here we tackle the more generic problem of semantic style transfer: given two unpaired collections of images, we aim to learn a mapping between the corpus-level style of each collection, while preserving semantic c...

We discuss CharToon, an interactive system to design and animate 2D cartoon talking heads. We give illustrations of the expressive and artistic effects which can be produced. It has been used with success by different types of users.

Many people show a left-right bias in visual processing. We measured spatial bias in neurotypical participants using a variant of the line bisection task. In the same participants, we measured performance in a social cognition task. This theory-of-mind task measured whether each participant had a processing-speed bias toward the right of, or left of, a cartoon agent about which the participant ...

Halyomorpha halys (Stål) is an invasive pest that attacks numerous crops. For growers to make informed management decisions against H. halys, an effective monitoring tool must be in place. We evaluated various trap designs baited with the two-component aggregation pheromone of H. halys and synergist and deployed in commercial apple orchards. We compared our current experimental standard trap, a...

A mirror pyramid consists of a set of planar mirror faces arranged around an axis of symmetry and inclined to form a pyramid. By strategically positioning a number of conventional cameras around a mirror pyramid, the viewpoints of the cameras’ mirror images can be located at a single point within the pyramid and their optical axes pointed in different directions to effectively form a virtual ca...

This paper presents a novel image representation, which incorporates the principles of Laplacian Pyramid into the irregular graph pyramid. The drawback of the regular Laplacian Pyramid is their lack to keep the topological structure of the image, due to the contraction process in building the Gaussian Pyramid. Irregular graph pyramid is able to hierarchically represent the topological structure...

We present a new supervised framework that learns to estimate automatic Pyramid scores and uses them for optimizationbased extractive multi-document summarization. For learning automatic Pyramid scores, we developed a method for automatic training data generation which is based on a genetic algorithm using automatic Pyramid as the fitness function. Our experimental evaluation shows that our new...

The pyramid network is a hierarchy structure based on meshes. Chen et al. in 2004 proposed a new hierarchy structure, called the enhanced pyramid network, by replacing each mesh at layer greater than one of the pyramid network with a torus. This investigation demonstrates that the enhanced pyramid network with two faulty edges is Hamiltonian. The result is optimal because both edge connectivity...