Hidden encrypted volumes can cause problems in digital investigations since they provide criminal suspects with a range of opportunities for deceptive antiforensics and a countermeasure to legislation written to force suspects to reveal decryption keys. This paper describes how hidden encrypted volumes can be detected, and their size estimated. The paper shows how multiple copies of an encrypte...

Phenomenally strong visual illusions are described in which the motion of an object's cast shadow determines the perceived 3-D trajectory of the object. Simply adjusting the motion of a shadow is sufficient to induce dramatically different apparent trajectories of the object casting the shadow. Psychophysical results obtained with the use of 3-D graphics are reported which show that: (i) the in...

Recently, several soft shadow mapping algorithms have been introduced which extract micro-occluders from a shadow map and backproject them on the light source to approximately determine light visibility. To maintain real-time frame rates, these algorithms often have to resort to coarser levels of a multi-resolution shadow map representation which can lead to visible quality degradations. In par...

The Second Planck Catalogue of Compact Sources is a list of discrete objects detected in single-frequency maps from the full duration of the Planck mission and supersedes previous versions. It consists of compact sources, both Galactic and extragalactic, detected over the entire sky. Compact sources detected in the lower frequency channels are assigned to the PCCS2, while at higher frequencies ...

Recently, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and Near Field Communication (NFC) systems are found in various user-friendly services that all of us deal with in our daily lives. As these systems are ubiquitously deployed in different authentication and identification applications, inferring information about our behavior will be possible by monitoring our use of them. In order to provide priv...

A double-sided shadow minimization problem in the Boolean cube layer is investigated in this paper. The problem is to minimize the size of the union of the lower and upper shadows of a k-uniform family of subsets of [n]. It is shown that if 3 ≤ k ≤ n− 3, there is no total order such that all its initial segments have minimal double-sided shadow. Denote by ([n] k ) the family of all subsets of t...

For some computer vision tasks, the presence of shadows in images can cause problems. For example, object tracks can be lost as an object crosses over a shadow boundary. Recently, it has been shown that it is possible to remove shadows from images. Assuming that the location of the shadows are known, shadow-free images are obtained in three steps. First, the image is differentiated. Second, the...

The Second Planck Catalogue of Compact Sources is a catalogue of sources detected in single-frequency maps from the full duration of the Planck mission and supersedes previous versions of the Planck compact source catalogues. It consists of compact sources, both Galactic and extragalactic, detected over the entire sky. Compact sources detected in the lower frequency channels are assigned to the...

spectral decomposition or time-frequency representation (tfr) is a powerful tool for analyzing time varying nature of seismic data. mapping of a one dimensional seismic time trace to a two dimensional function of time and frequency reveals some characteristics of seismic signals that are not available in only time or frequency representations. this approach has been widely used in seismic explo...

Using data from a large, U.S. federal job training program, we investigate whether enrolment incentives that exogenously vary the ‘shadow prices’ for serving different demographic subgroups of clients influence case workers’ intake decisions. We show that case workers enroll more clients from subgroups whose shadow prices increase but select at the margin weaker-performing members from those su...