MOTIVATION Computational gene finding systems play an important role in finding new human genes, although no systems are yet accurate enough to predict all or even most protein-coding regions perfectly. Ab initio programs can be augmented by evidence such as expression data or protein sequence homology, which improves their performance. The amount of such evidence continues to grow, but computa...

BACKGROUND Neurocognitive disorders are an important societal challenge and the need for early prevention is increasingly recognized. Meta-analyses show beneficial effects of cognitive activities on cognition. However, high financial costs, low intrinsic motivation, logistic challenges of group-based activities, or the need to operate digital devices prevent their widespread application in clin...

The jigsaw puzzle assembly problem is significant in that it can be applied to diverse areas such as repair of broken objects , restoration of archaeological findings, molecular docking problem for drug design, etc. This paper describes a new pictorial jigsaw puzzle solver which, in contrast to previous apictorial jigsaw puzzle solvers, uses chromatic information as well as geometric shape. We ...

We present jigsaw parallelism constraints, a flexible formal tool for replacing parts of trees with other trees. Jigsaw constraints extend the Constraint Language for Lambda Structures, a language used in underspecified semantics to declaratively describe scope, ellipsis, and their interaction, and can be used to improve the coverage of ellipses represented by CLLS.

In this report we present our work on designing and implementing a mobile phone application that helps people solve jigsaw puzzles by locating the image of a single patch on the complete picture. Details of the algorithm and implementation are discussed and test results are presented. Keywords-component; Jigsaw Puzzle; Mobile Application; Template Matching; Image Segmentation; SURF; RANSAC

Sex differences are consistently reported in different visuospatial tasks with men usually performing better in mental rotation tests while women are better on tests for memory of object locations. In the present study, we investigated sex differences in solving jigsaw puzzles in children. In total 22 boys and 24 girls were tested using custom build tablet application representing a jigsaw puzz...

Neurons have been found in the primate brain that respond to objects in specific locations in hand-centered coordinates. A key theoretical challenge is to explain how such hand-centered neuronal responses may develop through visual experience. In this paper we show how hand-centered visual receptive fields can develop using an artificial neural network model, VisNet, of the primate visual syste...

Most jigsaw puzzles that are available today consist of several 100 pieces of a single image, and can take several hours to solve. This project proposes to solve the puzzle simply by using a picture of all of the pieces, and an image of the final solution. Keywords-component; jigsaw puzzle; Scale Invariant Feature Transform;SIFT

1.1. Jigsaw puzzles reimagined. I will describe jigsaw puzzles that are somewhat different to the familiar kind. A box, shown in Figure 1, contains an infinite supply of the three types of pieces pictured on its side: one five–sided and two four–sided, their edges coloured green, blue and red and directed by arrows. It also holds an infinite supply of red, green and blue rods, again directed by...

We consider the problem of reconstructing graphs or labeled graphs from neighborhoods of a given radius r. Special instances of this problem include DNA shotgun assembly, neural network reconstruction, and assembling random jigsaw puzzles. We provide some necessary and some sufficient conditions for correct recovery both in combinatorial terms and for some generative models including random lab...