Exploring the significance of geo-tagged information of a satellite image and associated shadow information in the image to enable man-made infrastructure dimensional characterization, in this paper a novel approach has been developed to estimate the height of a man-made structure accurately. Our proposed method applies shadow detection and shadow feature along with geo-tagged information retri...

Rendering mist, haze or fog remains a challenge in current computer graphics since it is intrinsically a 3D problem. While the attenuation caused by fog is easy to implement, single scattering effects such as glows and shafts of light, that increase considerably the realism, are harder to render in realtime. This paper addresses the rendering of such effects along with volumetric shadows induce...

Shadow banking is a term that came out of the financial crisis of 2007-2009. There is a belief that shadow banking was one of the crisis reasons. Because the excessive expansion of shadow banking endangers the financial stability of countries, this paper examines the impact of shadow banking on financial stability using data from 14 countries of the G20 during 2002-2018. We divided countries in...