offshore pipelines used for oil and gas transportation are often buried to avoid damage from fishing activities and to provide thermal insulation. thermal expansion and contraction of the pipeline during operation can lead to lateral or upheaval buckling. a safe buried pipeline design must take into account a reliable evaluation of soil uplift resistance and pipe embedment depth. while the cost...

We present a novel 3D facial feature location method based on the Spin Images registration technique. Three feature points are localized: the nose tip and the inner corners of the right and left eye. The points are found directly in the 3D mesh, allowing a previous normalization before the depth map calculation. This method is applied after a preprocess stage where the candidate points are sele...

Image sequences capturing Hurricane Luis through meteorological satellites (GOES-8 and GOES-9) are used to estimate hurricane-top heights (structure) and hurricane winds (motion). This problem is diicult not only due to the absence of correspondences but also due to the lack of depth cues in the 2D hurricane images (scaled orthographic projection). In this paper, we present a structure and moti...

T. Sadilek, University of Economics, Faculty of International Relations, Prague, Czech Republic The aim of the article is to present the regional distribution of the metallurgical industry in the Czech Republic and to describe the specific factors which determine the localization of the industry in Czech regions. In order to achieve that goal, traditional tools of regional analysis are used, su...

We present a method for estimating the complexity of an image based on the concept of logical depth. Unlike the application of the concept of algorithmic complexity by itself, the addition of the concept of logical depth results in a characterization of objects by organizational (physical) complexity. We use this measure to classify images by their information content. The method provides a mea...