Animating pictures is an interesting and useful visual effect in entertainment industry. In this paper, we present a system that allow user to animate a character in pictures in 3D space by applying 3D motion data. We use a 3D character mesh with skeleton rigged as template model. The user need to cut out silhouette of the character in pictures, and assign correspondence points between 2D chara...

This paper demonstrates an automatic system for telling whether there are naked people present in an image. The approach combines color and texture properties to obtain a mask for skin regions, which is shown to be eeective for a wide range of shades and colors of skin. These skin regions are then fed to a specialized grouper, which attempts to group a human gure using geometric constraints on ...

Pseudoaneurysm of the cystic artery is a very rare entity; only a few cases have been reported in the literature (1). We present the case of a 74-year-old male admitted for pain in the right lower quadrant of the abdomen. The emergency abdominal CT scan showed abnormal structural findings in the gallbladder, with hypodense area, cholelithiasis, and involvement of the fat around the gallbladder....

Though pictures are often used to present mathematical arguments, they are not typically thought to be an acceptable means for presenting mathematical arguments rigorously. With respect to the proofs in the Elements in particular, the received view is that Euclid’s reliance on geometric diagrams undermines his efforts to develop a gap-free deductive theory. The central difficulty concerns the g...

We propose a simple two-state Markov modulated AR process to model the traffic created by a variable bit rate video coder. This model performs better than currently proposed models, especially for video coded with a variable group-of-pictures (GOP) structure.

The modified autoregressive index (mAR) describes the tendency of shots of similar length to cluster together in a motion picture but is not resistant to the influence of outliers if derived from the classical moment-based partial autocorrelation function. In this paper we calculate robust estimates of the modified autoregressive index based on outlier-resistant partial autocorrelation function...

Attention is captured more strongly by emotional pictures than by neutral pictures. This allocation of attention to emotional pictures is commonly indexed by the late positive potential (LPP). This event-related potential (ERP) is larger for negative and positive pictures than for neutral pictures. However, findings are mixed in regards to valence effects, that is, whether the LPP is larger for...