There is growing interest in biological control as a sustainable and environmentally friendly way to control pest insects. Aphids are among the most detrimental agricultural pests worldwide, and parasitoid wasps are frequently employed for their control. The use of asexual parasitoids may improve the effectiveness of biological control because only females kill hosts and because asexual populat...

0167-8191/$ see front matter 2008 Elsevier B.V doi:10.1016/j.parco.2008.09.009 * Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (A. Merigot), Some meaningful hints about parallelization problems in image processing and analysis are discussed. The issues of the operation of various architectures used to solve vision problems, from the pipeline of dedicated operators to general purpose ...

contributing to the obesity epidemic: poor diet and eating habits, lack of physical activity options, and the impact of high fat and sugar food and beverage marketing targeted to children and poor communities of color (Alleyne & LaPoint, 2004; Ebbeling & Ludwig, 2008; Smith, Rhodes, Naylor, & McKay, 2008; Tirodkar & Jain, 2003). This article examines the impact of a nutrition education and phys...

This chapter presents image enhancement and image hiding approaches based on linear image fusion (LIF). Most of materials presented here have been published in (Hsieh et al., 2008; Hsieh et al., 2010; Kondo and Zhao, 2006). Apparently, image enhancement, image morphing, and image hiding are completely different technologies for different applications, they can actually be unified under the core...

ImageCLEFphoto 2008 is an ad-hoc photo retrieval task and part of the ImageCLEF evaluation campaign. This task provides both the resources and the framework necessary to perform comparative laboratory-style evaluation of visual information retrieval systems. In 2008, the evaluation task concentrated on promoting diversity within the top 20 results from a multilingual image collection. This new ...

0167-8655/$ see front matter 2008 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.patrec.2008.04.007 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +44 131 451 3423; fa E-mail address: [email protected] (A.M. Wall We present a method to recover the reflectance of objects and the parameters of multiple lights using a 3D image acquired by a depth sensor and a stereo intensity pair. Experimental evaluation shows the ability to r...

2008;70;85Neurology Pericles Maranhao-Filho, Ricardo Magalhaes Maron and Ana Lucia Zuma de Rosso arachnoid cyst: An exceptional surgical outcome : Waddling-steppage gait secondary to spinal Image Teaching Video Neuro This information is current as of May 12, 2008 http://www.neurology.org/cgi/content/full/70/20/e85 located on the World Wide Web at: The online version of this article, along with ...

The paper defines an automatic procedure for constructing a visually appealing collage from a collection of input images. The aim is that the resulting collage should be representative of the collection, summarising its main themes. It is also assembled largely seamlessly, using graph-cut, Poisson blending of alpha-masks, to hide the joins between input images. This paper makes several new cont...

In biomedical imaging, the image processing techniques using spatially invariant transformations, with fixed operational windows, give efficient and compact computing structures, with the conventional separation between data and operations. Nevertheless, these operators have several strong drawbacks, such as removing significant details, changing some meaningful parts of large objects, and crea...

Histology is the study of the microscopic anatomy of cells and tissues of organisms. Histological analysis is performed by examining a thin slice (section) of tissue under a light (optical) or electron microscope (Jungueira & Carneiro, 2005, Kiernan, 2008, Ross et al., 2002, Mills, 2006). After a sequence of technical procedures for tissue preparation (i.e., fixation, dehydration, clearing, inf...