A molecular bipaddled flipper based on a tetradentate chiral Cu complex has been designed. The paddling motion of this unprecedented molecular-scale machine can be controlled by reversible oxidation of the metal center. Kinetic and computational (density functional theory) analyses provide a detailed picture of the flipper motion at the molecular scale, rationalize the switching role of the met...

In this paper, we present two fast motion estimation techniques with adaptive variable search range using spatial and temporal correlation of moving pictures respectively. The first technique uses a frame difference between two adjacent frames which is used as a criterion for deciding search window size. The second one uses deviation between the past and the predicted current frame motion vecto...

We prove a boundary Harnack inequality for jump-type Markov processes on metric measure state spaces, under comparability estimates of the jump kernel and Urysohn-type property of the domain of the generator of the process. The result holds for positive harmonic functions in arbitrary open sets. It applies, e.g., to many subordinate Brownian motions, Lévy processes with and without continuous p...

Only small changes in soil organic carbon and charcoal concentrations found one year after experimental slash-and-burn in a temperate deciduous forest E. Eckmeier, R. Gerlach, J. O. Skjemstad, O. Ehrmann, and M. W. I. Schmidt University of Zurich, Department of Geography, Winterthurerstr. 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland Rheinisches Amt für Bodendenkmalpflege, Endenicher Str. 133, 53115 Bonn, Germ...

We prove a boundary Harnack inequality for jump-type Markov processes on metric measure state spaces, under comparability estimates of the jump kernel and Urysohn-type property of the domain of the generator of the process. The result holds for positive harmonic functions in arbitrary open sets. It applies, e.g., to many subordinate Brownian motions, Lévy processes with and without continuous p...

We propose a novel data embedding scheme for H.263 video coding. The proposed method, which can protect important information such as picture header and motion vector, is specifically suitable to noisy and bandwidth limited channels such as in wireless communications. The method can exactly recover the motion vectors of corrupted macroblocks, therefore has better performance than other error re...

In this paper we address the problem of motion estimation failure in degraded image sequences. This failure is caused by some complex events that take place in the image. As a result, the sequence of operations that rely on the motion estimation process, such as motion compensation and motion picture restoration, will fail as well. We present a statistical analysis of these complex event areas,...

A motion compensated de-interlacing method wirh adaptive global motion estimation and compensation is proposed to recover the defects of interlaced video sequence with camera panning, rotating or zooming. GME and GMC are used Io recover the change of the whole picture due to camera motions. Two local motion compensated de-interlacing methods are proposed and applied to de-interlace interlaced v...

In this paper we address the problem of motion estimation failure in degraded image sequences. This failure is caused by some complex events that take place in the image. As a result, the sequence of operations that rely on the motion estimation process, such as motion compensation and motion picture restoration, will fail as well. We present a statistical analysis of these complex event areas,...

In this paper we address the problem of motion estimation failure in degraded image sequences. This failure is caused by some complex events that take place in the image. As a result, the sequence of operations that rely on the motion estimation process, such as motion compensation and motion picture restoration, will fail as well. The statistical analysis of the complex event areas indicates t...