Stochastic local search can be used for the process of vectorization. In this project, local search is used to optimize the parameters of a set of smooth shapes to represent an image of the Mona Lisa. The shapes are made using quadratic piecewise parametric interpolation. The shapes are partially transparent and are defined by three vertices and a color. The method is successfully applied to a ...

objective: some data are available on the association between components of the insulin resistance syndrome and serum ferritin. insulin resistance is observed in patients with polycystic ovary syndrome (pcos) we hypothesize that body iron stores might be increased in these women. materials and methods: two hundred and six people (103 pcos patients and 103 healthy women who were matched for age)...

In this paper, we empirically examine how the revenue model (paid, free, or freemium) adopted for a given app affects the app revenue performance as measured by the app daily revenue rank. We also study the impact of in-app purchase on this measure of performance. Moreover, we study how such relationships are contingent upon the distribution platform where the app is marketed as well as the typ...

Many different formats exist for storing different types of images. Photographs of natural scenes usually are best suited to be stored as Raster images. But drawings are better off if stored as Vector graphics. Some formats can even store both types of images, but none of the existing formats can change itself to adopt a balance between both methods, based on the content of the image. This proj...

The rapid growth in the number of large-scale repositories has brought the need for efficient and effective content-based image retrieval (CBIR) systems. The state of the art in the CBIR systems is to search images in database that are “close” to the query image using some similarity measure. The current CBIR systems capture image features that represent properties such as color, texture, and/o...

Most image database prototypes and products focus mainly on similarity searches over syntactic features of images. DISIMA aims at providing querying on both syntactic and semantic features of images. The content of an image is viewed as a set of salient objects (regions of interest). Salient objects are organized into two levels: physical salient objects that store syntactic features and logica...

Telemedicine offers the potential to alleviate the severe shortage of medical specialists in developing countries. However lack of equipment and poor network connections usually rule out video-conferencing systems. This paper describes a software application to facilitate store-and-forward telemedicine by email of images from digital cameras. TeleMedMail is written in Java and allows structured...

Medical applications such as telediagnosis require information exchange over insecure networks. Therefore, protection of the integrity and confidentiality of the medical images is an important issue. Another issue is to store electronic patient record (EPR) in the medical image by steganographic or watermarking techniques. Studies reported in the literature deal with some of these issues but no...

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui, menganalisis dan menjelaskan Pengaruh Brand Awareness Image Terhadap Keputusan Pembelian Bullshirt Incorporated Store . dilakukan dengan metode deskriptif verifitatif, yaitu menganalisis, melakukan pengujian hipotesis, serta membuat kesimpulan saran. Sampel dalam penelitian sejumlah 183 responden menggunakan sampling purposive. Teknik analisis data yan...

Analysing and mining image data to derive potentially useful information is a very challenging task. Image mining concerns the extraction of implicit knowledge, image data relationships, associations between image data and other data or patterns not explicitly stored in the images. Another crucial task is to organise the large image volumes to extract relevant information. In fact, decision sup...