This paper describes a new steganography algorithm based on a steerable pyramid transform of a digital image and the steganalysis of the existence of secret messages hidden by this new method. The data embedding process uses the elements of a Lee and Chen steganography algorithm which is adapted to the steerable pyramid transform domain. This article describes the Fisher Linear Disriminant (FLD...

The growth evolution of hexagonal GaN pyramids are investigated under various growth conditions. The hexagonal GaN pyramids were grown by hot-wall metal organic chemical vapor deposition – process (hot-wall MOCVD) on a (0001) oriented GaN template. We concluded the growth of the hexagonal GaN pyramids can be divided into two different regimes defined by the adsorption kinetics of the {1101} sur...

Detecting pedestrians in images and videos plays a critically important role in many computer vision applications. Extraction of effective features is the key to this task. Promising features should be discriminative, robust to various variations and easy to compute. In this work, we presents a novel feature, termed pyramid center-symmetric local binary/ternary patterns (pyramid CS-LBP/LTP), fo...

This report describes the conceptual design of a particle detector that could be deployed underground for tracking cosmic-ray muons to enable tomographic reconstruction of the overlying ground and structures. The concept of cosmic-ray muon tomography has been known for a long time but seldom used in practice since the first demonstration. Developments in technology and methods of particle detec...

A prototype photoelectrode has been fabricated using a GaN nano-pyramid array structure grown on a cost-effective Si (111) substrate, demonstrating a significant improvement in performance of solar-powered water splitting compared with any planar GaN photoelectrode. Such a nano-pyramid structure leads to enhanced optical absorption as a result of a multi-scattering process which can effectively...

A pyramid has expressed the idea of hierarchy of medical evidence for so long, that not all evidence is the same. Systematic reviews and meta-analyses have been placed at the top of this pyramid for several good reasons. However, there are several counterarguments to this placement. We suggest another way of looking at the evidence-based medicine pyramid and explain how systematic reviews and m...

Dietary guidance, as indicated by its extensive history, has long been a mainstay in efforts to ensure and improve public health. This guidance has been evolutionary in nature, as more has been learned about the science of health and nutrition over the years and has taken many forms through the years. Advice in the form of “food guides” dates all the way back to 1894 with what Dr. W.O. Atwater ...

INTRODUCTION Increasing evidence demonstrates that risk factors for chronic diseases are established during childhood and adolescence. Consensus about the need to increase prevention efforts makes the adoption of a healthy lifestyle seem desirable from early childhood onwards. After reviewing educational tools for children and adolescents aimed at promoting a healthy lifestyle, it was recognize...

In this paper we propose and analyze a new hierarchical direct access data structure, namely the up-down pyramid, for storing and processing efficiently large sets of 2-dimensional data. We use as performance measure the cost of storage accesses on a hierrchical memory model with different access cost functions of theoretical and practical significance. We analyze, for our structure, the time c...

Interest in multiresolution techniques for signal processing and analysis is increasing steadily. An important instance of such a technique is the so-called pyramid decomposition scheme. This paper presents a general theory for constructing linear as well as nonlinear pyramid decomposition schemes for signal analysis and synthesis. The proposed theory is based on the following ingredients: 1) t...