This paper presents a fragile watermarking scheme for authentication of 3D semi-regular meshes. After one wavelet decomposition, the watermark is inserted by slightly modifying the norms and orientations of the obtained wavelet coefficient vectors. The inserted watermark is robust to the so-called content-preserving attacks including vertex reordering and similarity transformations. However, it...

Urban facades regularly contain interesting variations due to allowed deformations of repeated elements (e.g., windows in different open or close positions) posing challenges to state-of-the-art facade analysis algorithms. We propose a semi-automatic framework to recover both repetition patterns of the elements and their individual deformation parameters to produce a factored facade representat...

The use of localization mechanism is essential in wireless sensor networks either for communication protocols (geographic routing protocol) or for application (vehicle tracking). The goal of localization mechanism is to determine either precisely or coarsely the node location using either a global reference (GPS) or a locale one. In this work, we introduce a new localized algorithm which classi...

Hidden regular variation defines a subfamily of distributions satisfying regular variation on E = [0,∞]\{(0, 0, · · · , 0)} and models another regular variation on the sub-cone E = E\∪di=1 Li, where Li is the i-th axis. We extend the concept of hidden regular variation to sub-cones of E (2) as well. We suggest a procedure for detecting the presence of hidden regular variation, and if it exists,...

We give a C0051JUCtion for new families of semi-regular divisible difference sets. The construction iJ a variation of McFarland's scheme [Sl tor nonc;yclic difference SCIS. • Let G be a group of order 11111 and N a subgroup of G of order n. If D is a k-subset of G then Dis a {m, n, le , >.1, >.2) divisible difference set in G relative to N provided that the differences dd'1 fur d, d ' ED, d ;e ...

Article history: Received 19 October 2007 Available online 16 April 2008 Communicated by Charles J. Colbourn

It is proved the following. Let R be a regular semi-local domain containing a field such that all the residue fields are infinite. Let K be the fraction field of R. If a quadratic space (R, q : R → R) over R is isotropic over K, then there is a unimodular vector v ∈ R such that q(v) = 0. If char(R) = 2, then in the case of even n we assume that q is a non-singular space in the sense of [Kn] and...