By simulating motion and deformation of a set of 3D characteristic curves defining surfaces, we introduce a new skin deformation technique to animate skin deformation of character models. This technique consists of two parts, representation of characteristic curves and dynamic skin deformation. The first part is to extract characteristic curves of an existing model, that is a polygon model or a...

Let X be a smooth projective curve of genus g ≥ 2 defined over a field of characteristic two. We give examples of stable orthogonal bundles with unstable underlying vector bundles and use them to give counterexamples to Behrend’s conjecture on the canonical reduction of principal G-bundles for G = SO(n) with n ≥ 7. Let X be a smooth projective curve of genus g ≥ 2 and let G be a connected reduc...

RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves are ubiquitous in the analysis of imaging metrics as markers of both diagnosis and prognosis. While empirical estimation of ROC curves remains the most popular method, there are several reasons to consider smooth estimates based on a parametric model. MATERIALS AND METHODS A mixture model is considered for modeling the di...

Abstract The method of characteristics is extended to set-valued Hamilton-Jacobi equations. This problem arises from a calculus variations’ with multicriteria Lagrangian function: through an embedding into framework, equation derived, where the Hamiltonian function Fenchel conjugate function. In this paper described and some results are given for conjugate.