This paper is concerned with very long-terms trends in poverty and inequality in England and Wales over the last century. It seeks, in particular, to provide a tentative quantitative answer to the question of whether relative poverty has become more or less extreme geographically (Dorling and Woodward 1996). Such a study is only possible through the application of novel methods for data analysi...

Textures have been used in various applications, such as carpet quality control, region recognition in satellite images, and body painting control in the vehicle industry. This paper studies texture synthesis. We survey the algorithms for synthesizing textures that have proposed over the past two decades. A variety of algorithms associated with synthesized textures are given. The goal is to fur...

Many interesting real-world textures are inhomogeneous and/or anisotropic. An inhomogeneous texture is one where various visual properties exhibit significant changes across the texture’s spatial domain. Examples include perceptible changes in surface color, lighting, local texture pattern and/or its apparent scale, and weathering effects, which may vary abruptly, or in a continuous fashion. An...

Magnetic resonance image (MRI) reconstruction is a severely ill-posed linear inverse task demanding time and resource intensive computations that can substantially trade off accuracy for speed in real-time imaging. In addition, state-of-the-art compressed sensing (CS) analytics are not cognizant of the image diagnostic quality. To cope with these challenges we put forth a novel CS framework tha...

With the rapid development of 3D somatosensory technology, human behavior recognition has become an important research field. Human behavior feature analysis has evolved from traditional 2D features to 3D features. In order to improve the performance of human activity recognition, a human behavior recognition method is proposed, which is based on a hybrid texture-edge local pattern coding featu...

The normal structure of human feet is optimized for shock dampening during walking and running. Foot binding was a historical practice in China aimed at restricting the growth of female feet for aesthetic reasons. In a bound foot the shock-dampening function normally facilitated by the foot arches is withdrawn, resulting in the foot functioning as a rigid extension of the lower leg. An interest...

In this paper we present modern texture mapping techniques and several applications of polynomial texture mapping in cultural heritage programs. We also consider some well‐known and some new methods for mathematical procedure that is involved in generation of polynomial texture maps.

A new generative multispectral texture model based on discrete distribution mixtures is introduced. Statistical texture properties are represented by a discrete distribution mixture of product components. A natural colour or multispectral texture is spectrally factorized and discrete mixtures models are learned and used to synthesize single orthogonal monospectral components. Texture synthesis ...