With the recent advancements in image processing techniques and the increasing availability of high resolution satellite imagery, one has an increased ability to characterize human attributes. This paper will study the effects that image fusion has on the classification of Quickbird satellite imagery over a rural area in Eastern India. Two panchromatic sharpening algorithms will be used and com...

21 young males were asked to "image" or to "associate" to 10 words from each of 3 categories representing sex, hostility, and family relationships. Imagery was found to produce heightened GSR activity, more primary process, more direct representation of drives, and less effective defense. The superiority of visual imagery over verbal association as an uncovering technique was attributed to the ...

A method for deformable shape detection and recognition is described. Deformable shape templates are used to partition the image into a globally consistent interpretation, determined in part by the minimum description length principle. Statistical shape models enforce the prior probabilities on global, parametric deformations for each object class. Once trained, the system autonomously segments...

Aims Mapping vegetation through remotely sensed images involves various considerations, processes and techniques. Increasing availability of remotely sensed images due to the rapid advancement of remote sensing technology expands the horizon of our choices of imagery sources. Various sources of imagery are known for their differences in spectral, spatial, radioactive and temporal characteristic...

Synthesis of visible spectrum faces from thermal facial imagery is a promising approach for heterogeneous face recognition; enabling existing face recognition software trained on visible imagery to be leveraged, and allowing human analysts to verify cross-spectrum matches more effectively. We propose a new synthesis method to enhance the discriminative quality of synthesized visible face imager...

Clustering is an unsupervised classification that aims to classify an image into homogeneous regions. We have proposed a hierarchical content based image clustering algorithm to automatically cluster the remote sensing satellite image. The performance evaluation of this algorithm is done with reference to the LISS 4 sensor imagery of IRS-P6 satellite. Centroid of the clusters is uniformly distr...

For the years 1997 to 2000 it is expected that a number of new satellites will be launched into orbit by private companies which are speciied to deliver panchromatic imagery of the earth surface with a spatial resolution as ne as 1 m. In contrast to the panchromatic band, the spectrally resolved bands will have a four times coarser ground resolution. Therefore, image fusion algorithms will cert...

recent studies on wavelet transform and fractal modeling applied on mammograms for the detection of cancerous tissues indicate that microcalcifications and masses can be utilized for the study of the morphology and diagnosis of cancerous cases. it is shown that the use of fractal modeling, as applied to a given image, can clearly discern cancerous zones from noncancerous areas. in this paper, f...

The performance benchmark process for discriminating between image fusion algorithms presented by Howell [3] and again by Moyer and Howell [6] establishes a performance goal for any aggregate function merging the source band imagery under investigation. It was reported by Moyer and Howell, in “Establishment of Human Performance Baseline for Image Fusion Algorithms in the LWIR and MWIR Spectra,”...

hafiz is among the few persian poets who transcended the social determinism of the eighth century (on the lunar calendar). disentangling himself from the extreme constraining order of his time, he began to critically analyze the social structure as represented in varied forms in poetic structures.  in this regard, this paper starts with a brief introduction of critical aesthetics as an achievem...