A scene analysis system for automated 3–D modeling of buildings is presented. It combines surface reconstruction techniques with object recognition to generate 3–D models for computer graphics applications. The system permits the insertion of high level constraints, like a specific angle between two house walls, in an explicit knowledge base as a semantic net. The applicability of those constra...

A scene analysis system for the 3–D modeling of objects is presented. It combines surface reconstruction techniques with object recognition for the generation of 3–D models for computer graphic applications. The system permits the insertion of highlevel constraints, like a specific angle between two house walls, in an explicit knowledge base implemented as a semantic net. The applicability of t...

The currently available human tumor xenograft models permit modeling of human cancers in vivo, but in immunocompromised hosts. Here we report a humanized mouse (hu-mouse) model made by transplantation of human fetal thymic tissue plus hematopoietic stem cells transduced with a leukemia-associated fusion gene MLL-AF9. In addition to normal human lymphohematopoietic reconstitution as seen in non-...

The paper presents results on speaker identification with a population size of over 10000 speakers. Speaker modeling is accomplished via our Transformation Enhanced MultiGrained Models. Pursuing two goals, the first is to study the performance of a number of different systems within the modeling framework of multi-grained models. The second is to analyze performance as a function of population ...

This article is about bias field correction in MR brain images. In the literature, most of the methods consist in modeling the imaging process before identifying its unknown parameters. After identifying two of the most widely used such models, we propose a third one and show that for these three models, it is possible to use a common estimation framework, based on the Maximum Likelihood princi...

patients and methods we investigated the timing and frequency of acute rejection episodes related to long-term patient-graft survival in taleghani hospital between 1990 and 2011. recipients were divided into three groups as group-1 (no rejection), group-2 (early acute rejection [ear]: less than 3-months) and group-3 (late acute rejection [lar]: after 3 months of transplant). conclusions lar had...

The pivot friction of voice-coil-motor (VCM) actuator is measured for a 1.8-inch small disk drive with disk rotating and slider flying. The measurement is carried out under the conditions that the actuator is controlled and the head movement amplitude is growing by changing the references. The hysteresis of friction versus head position is then obtained. An operator based modeling approach is a...

Although rejection sensitivity may be an important feature of body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), no studies have examined rejection sensitivity in a clinical sample and compared types of rejection sensitivity in individuals with BDD. Personal and appearance-based rejection sensitivity scores in forty-six patients diagnosed with BDD were compared with published norms. Associations between rejection...

a r t i c l e i n f o Transactional associations of emotional sensitivity and coping with peer rejection were tested, whereby coping was expected to be a manifestation of sensitivity but also a player in the development of sensitivity. Early adolescents (N = 711, grades 5–7) completed three repeated questionnaires over 14 months. Using structural equation modeling, emotional sensitivity was ind...

Type 1 diabetic patients depend on external insulin delivery to keep their blood glucose within near-normal ranges. In this work, two robust closed-loop controllers for blood glucose regulation are developed to prevent the life-threatening hypoglycemia, as well as to avoid extended hyperglycemia. The proposed controllers are designed by using the sliding mode control technique in a Smith predic...