Despite the attractiveness of low temperature hydrothermal processes, the synthesis of vertical ZnO nanostructures has mostly been limited to rigid substrates. Moreover, patterned growth of nanostructures is also commonly carried out on rigid substrates, since conventional optical lithography is not easily applied to polymeric substrates, as focusing and reaction of the substrate with the organ...

Soft lithography, a set of techniques for microfabrication, is based on printing and molding using elastomeric stamps with the patterns of interest in basrelief. As a technique for fabricating microstructures for biological applications, soft lithography overcomes many of the shortcomings of photolithography. In particular, soft lithography offers the ability to control the molecular structure ...

Stereo image is frequently used as preprocessing of stereo vision techniques. Although stereo image rectification is performed using look-up tables which are computed in advance, it takes a long time to do rectification transformation on mobile platforms. Thus stereo image rectification process can be burdensome in stereo vision applications on mobile platforms. This paper presents an approach ...

The nonlinear Talbot effect, in which self-images are formed by generated parametric light from the nonlinear optical process, is presented in this paper. The comparison is made between the conventional Talbot effect and the newly observed nonlinear case. The essence of such nonlinear self-images is provided and future work on this effect is also discussed. The conceptional extension achieved h...

In this paper, we formulate the problem of early classification of time series data, which is important in some time-sensitive applications such as healthinformatics. We introduce a novel concept of MPL (Minimum Prediction Length) and develop ECTS (Early Classification on Time Series), an effective 1-nearest neighbor classification method. ECTS makes early predictions and at the same time retai...

This paper proposes a novel technique to computing geometric information from images captured under parallel projections. Parallel images are desirable for stereo reconstruction because parallel projection significantly reduces foreshortening. As a result, correlation based matching becomes more effective. Since parallel projection cameras are not commonly available, we construct parallel image...

Nowadays, nanodevices like small fluidic channels, semiconductor lasers, nano contacts for solar cells, nano magnets or nano antennas for infrared detection (THz) are of great interest. The applications for these devices extend the fields of e.g. energy, computational or medical sciences. For example, by arranging nano dots consisting of a magnetic material, logical circuits can be designed whi...

Stereo matching is one of the most active research areas in computer vision. While a large number of algorithms for stereo correspondence have been developed, research in some branches of the field has been constrained due to the few number of stereo datasets with ground truth disparity maps available. Having available a large dataset of stereo images with ground truth disparity maps would boos...

Panoramas and object movies are popular image-based techniques for modeling and rendering 3D scenes and objects. In this paper, we present a method which allows the authors of virtual exhibition systems to produce an augmented stereo panorama by interactively integrating stereo object movies into a stereo panorama. When navigating in the augmented stereo panorama with a stereoscopic display, th...

This work investigates the use of finite abstractions to study the finite-horizon probabilistic invariance problem over Stochastic MaxPlus-Linear (SMPL) systems. SMPL systems are probabilistic extensions of discrete-event MPL systems that are widely employed in the engineering practice for timing and synchronisation studies. We construct finite abstractions by re-formulating the SMPL system as ...