Abmact-In this correspondence, we show that images that could not have arisen from shading on a smooth surface with uniform reflecting properties and lighting exist. Much work has been done on recovering surface shape from images, and there has been some attention paid to the question of uniqueness. It has been shown, for example, that singular points curtail ambiguity. However, little has been...

Preface The Code of Practice for Energy Efficiency of Lighting Installations (Lighting Code) developed by the Electrical & Mechanical Services Department (EMSD) aims to set out the minimum design requirements on energy efficiency of lighting installations. It forms a part of a set of comprehensive Building Energy Codes (BEC) that addresses energy efficiency requirements in building services ins...

i Preface The Code of Practice for Energy Efficiency of Lighting Installations (Lighting Code) developed by the Electrical & Mechanical Services Department (EMSD) aims to set out the minimum design requirements on energy efficiency of lighting installations. It forms a part of a set of comprehensive Building Energy Codes (BEC) that addresses energy efficiency requirements in building services i...

With the development of such technologies as embedded systems, cloud databases and hardware components, detection cognitive in elderly can be made more convenient accurate. This work develops a novel assessment interactive system, which consists micro-controller unit (MCU), organic light-emitting diode (OLED) modules client identification circuit. The reliability proposed system is demonstrated...

Lighting estimation from face images is an important task and has applications in many areas such as image editing, intrinsic image decomposition, and image forgery detection. We propose to train a deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to regress lighting parameters from a single face image. Lacking massive ground truth lighting labels for face images in the wild, we use an existing method to...

This study examined whether 16-month-old walking infants take the material composition of a handrail into account when assessing its effectiveness as a tool to augment balance. Infants were encouraged to cross from one platform to another via bridges of various widths (10, 20, 40 cm) with either a "wobbly" (foam or latex) or a wooden handrail available for assistance. Infants attempted to walk ...

This communication deals with theoretical and experimental researches being carried out by the authors in order to model an actual wooden support, and its deformational behaviour, after a back frame has been applied by means of springs, in a Florentine restoration laboratory. Such a device is aimed to serve as a framing technique useful for conservation of one-sided painted boards of wooden art...

Foreign body ingestion is common, although perforation after ingestion is rare. We report a case of an ingested sharp wooden stick that perforated the proximal jejunum toward the renal vasculature, causing segmental renal artery thrombosis and renal infarct. The patient presented with severe abdominal pain and vomiting. A computed tomography scan revealed a linear opacity corresponding to the f...