Depth-image-based rendering (DIBR) is a method to represent a stereoscopic content. The DIBR consists of a monoscopic center view and an associated per-pixel depth map. Using these two components and given depth condition from a user, the DIBR renders left and right views. The advantages of DIBR are numerous. The user can choose not only the monoscopic or stereoscopic view selectively, but also...

Here we describe a new reaction-transport model that quantitatively examines δ13C profiles of porewater methane and dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) (δCCH4 and δCDIC) in the anoxic sediments of the Santa Barbara Basin (California Borderland region). Best-fit solutions of the model to these data suggest that CO2 reduction is the predominant form of methanogenesis in these sediments. These soluti...

EEective veriication methods, both deductive and algorith-mic, exist for the veriication of global system properties. In this paper, we introduce a formal framework for the modular description and verii-cation of parameterized fair transition systems. The framework allows us to apply existing global veriication methods, such as veriication rules and diagrams, in a modular setting. Transition sy...

In this paper, we propose a method to extract depth from motion, texture and intensity. We first analyze the depth map to extract a set of depth cues. Then, based on these depth cues, we process the colored reference video, using texture, motion, luminance and chrominance content, to extract the depth map. The processing of each channel in the Y CRCB−color space is conducted separately. We test...

In recent years, outsourcing has become a ubiquitous phenomenon. Despite extensive research, several examples of outsourcing failure are prevalent. In this paper, complimenting the strategic and economic studies on outsourcing, we focus on the operational execution challenges by examining transition phase, which starts immediately after contract signing and involves the critical transfer of out...

A number of observations indicate that an upper stability transition occurs along well-developed faults, such as the San Andreas, as a result of unconsolidated gouge within shallow regions of these faults. These observations include the depth distribution of seismicity along faults with and without well-developed gouge zones, correlations between seismicity and shallow crustal structure, and mo...

We measured the electrical conductivity of Mg0.81Fe0.19O magnesiowüstite, one of the important minerals comprising Earth's lower mantle, at high pressures up to 135 GPa and 300 K in a diamond-anvil cell (DAC). The results demonstrate that the electrical conductivity increases with increasing pressure to about 60 GPa and exhibits anomalous behavior at higher pressures; it conversely decreases to...

The highly nonlinear many-body physics of a chain of mutually interacting atoms in contact with a periodic substrate gives rise to complex static and dynamical phenomena, such as structural phase transitions and friction. In the limit of an infinite chain incommensurate with the substrate, Aubry predicted a transition with increasing substrate potential, from the chain's intrinsic arrangement f...