Digital Color Image required large amount of space to store and large bandwidth to transmit it. Due to limitations in bandwidth and in storage space, it is vital requirement to compresses digital color image. Color image compression is required with negligible loss in image quality for the effective use of further restored image. To meet this, numerous image compression techniques are developed...

The identification of geographic target markets is critical to the success of companies that are expanding internationally. Country borders have traditionally been used to delineate such target markets, resulting in accessible segments and cost efficient entry strategies. However, at present such ‘‘countries-as-segments’’ strategies may no longer be valid. In response to the accelerating trend ...

This study presents a multimodal interactive image retrieval system for smartphones (MirBot). The application is designed as a collaborative game where users can categorize photographs according to the WordNet hierarchy. After taking a picture, the region of interest of the target can be selected, and the image information is sent with a set of metadata to a server in order to classify the obje...

A fluorescence-based digital image correlation !DIC" technique is used to characterize the in-plane strain development of blanket sol-gel derived lead zirconate titanate thin films deposited on platinized silicon substrates. The in-plane strain is also measured within film line features patterned via a mediated octadecyltrichlorosilane !ODS" monolayer. The results indicate that the selective fi...

The tremendous need for mineral resources rooting from the rapid population growth and economical development in china has greatly accelerated exploitation of various minerals for last two decades, as a result, a broad array of environmental problems related to human mining activities, such as air and water pollution, land resources and inhabited environment devastation generated by land subsid...

The development of scalable architectures at store levels of a layered model has concentrated on processor parallelism balanced against scalable memory bandwidth, primarily through distributed memory structures of one kind or another. A great deal of attention has been paid to hiding the distribution of memory to produce a single store image across the memory structure. It is unlikely that the ...