The purpose of this paper is to study the use of Quick Response Codes (QR codes) in the architecture framework and propose methods for evaluating future solutions that provide both the visualization of information as the adaptation of this information to the visual environment or to the user profile. Users can use the camera on their mobile device to capture the image of the QR codes and obtain...

Image hashing is a popular technique applied to large scale content-based visual retrieval due to its compact and efficient binary codes. Our work proposes a new end-to-end deep network architecture for supervised hashing which directly learns binary codes from input images and maintains good properties over binary codes such as similarity preservation, independence, and balancing. Furthermore,...

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Visuals carry cultural codes that communicate and reinforce cultural values and assumptions. Visual artifacts such as Powerpoint presentations are a ubiquitous feature in organizational life, but they are not yet widely studied. This paper presents a framework for analyzing visual artifacts that draws on concepts from visual and social science methods. In IT organizations and occupations, visua...

The international scope of computing, digital information interchange, and electronic publishing has created a need for world-wide character encoding standards. Unicode is a comprehensive standard designed to meet such a need. To be readable by humans, character codes require fonts that provide visual images glyphs corresponding to the codes. The design of a font developed to provide a portion ...

In 1966, P. Günther proved the following result: Given a continuous function f on a compact surface M of constant curvature −1 and its periodic lift f̃ to the universal covering, the hyperbolic plane, then the averages of the lift f̃ over increasing spheres converge to the average of the function f over the surface M . In this article, we prove similar results for functions on the vertices and ed...

With the ongoing loss of biodiversity, there is a great need for fast and effective ways to assess species richness and diversity: DNA barcoding provides a powerful new tool for this. We investigated this approach by focusing on the Tibetan plateau, which is one of the world's top biodiversity hotspots. There have been few studies of its invertebrates, although they constitute the vast majority...

I present evidence on the nature of object coding in the brain and discuss the implications of this coding for models of visual selective attention. Neuropsychological studies of task-based constraints on: (i) visual neglect; and (ii) reading and counting, reveal the existence of parallel forms of spatial representation for objects: within-object representations, where elements are coded as par...