This paper presents an algorithm for segmentation of image sequences where especially aspects for object oriented coding are taken into account. A fundamental requirement of such applications is the temporal stability of the seg-mentation. This is improved in this article compared to other existing approaches by including motion estimation into the segmentation process. Additionally a hierarchi...

1. Abstract We address the challenge of implementing reliable computation of Boolean functions in future nanocircuit fabrics. Such fabrics are projected to have very high defect rates. We overcome this limitation by using a combination of cheap but unreliable nanodevices and reliable but expensive CMOS devices. In our approach, defect tolerance is achieved through a novel coding of Boolean func...

We study Ca,b curves and their applications to coding theory. We show how Ca,b curves can be used to construct MDS codes and focus on some Ca,b curves with extra automorphisms, namely y 3 = x + 1, y = x − x, y − y = x. The automorphism groups of such codes are determined in most characteristics.

background breast augmentation is the most frequent procedure performed according to the 2009 quick facts report of the american society of plastic surgeons. this study presents the periareolar extra-glandular breast augmentation. methods from 2004 to 2010 among 32 female patients, peri-areolar incision was performed for breast augmentation. dissection was performed in subcutaneous plane toward...

Signals from non-primary modalities can influence neural activity in 'unimodal' sensory areas of the neocortex, but whether this 'extra-modal' influence has any relevant consequences for neural coding has been unclear. Recent findings show that vision enhances the information content of neural signals in auditory cortex, but in a counter-intuitive fashion.

Enterprise storage clusters increasingly adopt erasure coding to protect stored data against transient and permanent failures. Existing erasure code designs not only introduce extra parity information in a storage-inefficient manner, but also consume substantial cross-rack recovery bandwidth. To relieve both storage and recovery burdens of erasure coding, we adapt our previously proposed STAIR ...

As intelligent content management of IPTV moves popular material nearer to the end-user, applicationlayer channel coding schemes, involving retransmission of extra redundant data, become attractive as a result of the reduced latency. Application-layer, adaptive rateless channel coding is exploited in this paper’s scheme to reconstruct streamed video across an IEEE 802.16e (mobile WiMAX) channel...

We show that the average entropy of the distribution of valences in valence sequences for the class of manifold 3D triangle meshes and the class of manifold 3D polygon meshes is strictly less than the entropy of these classes themselves. This implies that, apart from a valence sequence, another essential piece of information is needed for valence-based connectivity coding of manifold 3D meshes....