In this paper, we present a common palette creation algorithm for multiple images with transparency information. The proposed algorithm supports creation of a common palette for multiple images, transparent alpha images and flexibility to the user to add a color to the palette. This method was extensively tested for natural and synthetic images and the results are reported here. The experimenta...

Figure 1 shows an additional result of self occlusion during a morph. In cases where regions from one image are not represented in the other image, blending artifacts can occur. We also show the halfway domain grid visualization, which demonstrates the warp that is required in order to get the images in alignment. Finally, figure 2 shows a complex occlusion example where one object occludes ent...

We present FORTE, a profile-profile comparison tool for protein fold recognition. Users can submit a protein sequence to explore the possibilities of structural similarity existing in known structures. Results are reported via email in the form of pairwise alignments.

Chlordane and heptachlor were considered together because of their close structural similarity and because technical-grade products each contain about 10–20% of the other compound. These substances were considered by previous working groups, in 1978 (IARC, 1979), 1987 (IARC, 1987) and 1990 (IARC, 1991). Since that time, new data have become available, and these have been incorporated into the m...

Two Way Shape Memory Effect (TWSME) involves thermomechanical routines which produce some plastic deformation or complex dislocation arrays during the training procedure. The results of TWSME obtained by these thermomechanical training routines are not as good as would be expected because new dislocations are generated during thermal cycling. These dislocations may interact with those that prov...

There has recently been considerable interest in quantum walks in connection with quantum computing. The walk can be considered as a quantum version of the so-called correlated random walk. We clarify a strong structural similarity between both walks and study limit theorems and absorption problems for correlated random walks by our PQRS method, which was used in our analysis of quantum walks.

The structural similarity index (SSIM) has been shown to be a superior objective image quality metric. A web-based pilot experiment was conducted with the goal of quantifying, through the use of a sample of human participants, a trend in SSIM values showing when the human visual system can begin to perceive distortions applied to reference images. The just noticeable difference paradigm was use...

time lower than other similar performing objective measures.

A structural similarity kernel is presented in this paper for SVM learning, especially for learning with imbalanced datasets. Kernels in SVM are usually pairwise, comparing the similarity of two examples only using their feature vectors. By building a neighborhood graph (kNN graph) using the training examples, we propose to utilize the similarity of linking structures of two nodes as an additio...

Culture is traditionally measured in international management research using indices of cultural values. We develop a new linguistic-based measure of cultural similarity which is more representative and more widely available than values surveys, and use a structural equation model to show how it is related to three of Hofstede’s four cultural dimensions.