Information hiding techniques allow a player to hide secret information in some innocent-looking document. In this paper we present a novel approach to information hiding. We investigate the possibility of embedding information using the intrinsic entropy of some classes of cover-documents. In particular we provide algorithms for embedding any binary string in an image mosaic (i.e. an image con...

many procedures suggest for reduction of responses of riser to vortex induced vibrations (viv). natural frequencies of marine risers is an important parameter that can affect the responses of riser to viv. change of riser properties such as top tension and bending stiffness can alter natural frequencies. in this study effects of riser specifications on the responses and fatigue damage of marine...

No organism lives in a constant environment. Based on classical studies in molecular biology, many have viewed microbes as following strict rules for shifting their metabolic activities when prevailing conditions change. For example, students learn that the bacterium Escherichia coli makes proteins for digesting lactose only when lactose is available and glucose, a better sugar, is not. However...

We propose a local orientation and navigation framework based on visual features that provide location recognition, context augmentation, and viewer localization information to a human user. Mosaics are used to map local areas to ease user navigation through streets and hallways, by providing a wider field of view (FOV) and the inclusion of more decisive features. Within the mosaics, we extract...

The behavior in genetic mosaics of 86 EMS-induced sex-linked lethals has been studied. Seventy-five percent of them are autonomous in gynandromorphs. Forty-three lethals nonviable in sex mosaics have been analyzed in X-ray-induced spots in the abdominal tergites and the imaginal wing derivatives. Of the lethals, 90.7% are homozygous viable in mosaic spots, and only 9.3% have been classified as ...

The generation of high-resolution mosaics from multiple images is presented. The estimation of the high-resolution signal utilizes a motion-compensated filtering approach for video frames that are affected by spatial aliasing. For that, global motion models and the corresponding estimation algorithms are employed to provide a very accurate and continuous description of sub-pixel motion for the ...

To solve image mosaicing problem, this work first use the Harris-Laplace method to first find scaleinvariant keypoints. Through Gaussian-weighting the images intensities with a square window around each keypoint, it is possible to compute a finger print (descriptor) for each keypoint using the same method as the used in SIFT. Ransac, together with DLT algorithm, is used to robust estimate the p...

Much of the dynamics of coevolution may be driven by the interplay between geographic variation in reciprocal selection (selection mosaics) and the homogenizing action of gene flow. We develop a genetic model of geographically structured coevolution in which gene flow links coevolving communities that may differ in both the direction and magnitude of reciprocal selection. The results show that ...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to describe a previously unreported manifestation of the optical Stiles-Crawford effect (oSCE) in normal eyes. METHODS In a cohort of 50 normal subjects, the directional reflectance of cones in the retinal periphery was explored by flood-illuminated adaptive optics (FIAO) and optical coherence tomography (OCT). RESULTS In 32 eyes (64%), off-axis FIAO im...