In this paper, we propose an interactive technique for constructing a 3D scene via sparse user inputs. We represent a 3D scene in the form of a Layered Depth Image (LDI) which is composed of a foreground layer and a background layer, and each layer has a corresponding texture and depth map. Given user-specified sparse depth inputs, depth maps are computed based on superpixels using interpolatio...

The efficiency of oxygen transfer depends on many factors including the type, size and shape of diffusers and the tank geometry. In this paper, the effect of the depth of water in the tank and, the extension of coverage area of diffusers on each of oxygen transfer capacity (OC), efficiency (E) and, on a percentage of oxygen absorption (delta) is tested. Experimental procedure is adopted to eval...

In this paper, I describe our approach to simplified process visualization based on user’s role in the process. During our work on reference process model for universities in the Czech Republic, we have identified two different user groups of business processes diagrams. While the management of a university and process analysts need to see the whole process, tasks of every participant and commu...

The presence of supernumerary teeth (ST) is a dental developmental anomaly of patterning and morphogenesis. Its variability of morphology, location and developmental timing can shed light on its etiology. In this work we report ST patterns. Orthopantomograms of 1,166 pediatric subjects were examined and the morphology, location and timing of the formation of ST were determined. The frequency of...

An electrophysiological experiment showed that spike timing was precise to less than one millisecond. This result indicates the possibility in the precise time codings. For a high accurate time coding, reconsideration of a neural mechanism which decides firing time is required. From such viewpoint, we quantitatively examined change in firing time with interference between two synaptic inputs th...

Few quantitative measures of genome architecture or organization exist to support assumptions of differences between microorganisms that are broadly defined as being free-living or pathogenic. General principles about complete proteomes exist for codon usage, amino acid biases and essential or core genes. Genome-wide shifts in amino acid usage between free-living and pathogenic microorganisms r...

Using molecular dynamic simulations we study the quench of a homopolymer chain into a poor solvent at finite temperature. We show that, depending on the quench depth, there are different relaxation pathways to the collapsed state. Solvent effects are introduced through an effective Lennard-Jones potential depending on the local monomer density. The various relaxation regimes are characterized b...