Perceiving the three-dimensional (3D) properties of the environment relies on the brain bringing together ambiguous cues (e.g., binocular disparity, shading, texture) with information gained from short- and long-term experience. Perceptual aftereffects, in which the perception of an ambiguous 3D stimulus is biased away from the shape of a previously viewed stimulus, provide a sensitive means of...

Three-dimensional television systems using depth-image-based rendering techniques are attractive in recent years. In those systems, a monoscopic two-dimensional texture video and its associated depth map sequence are transmitted. In order to utilize transmission bandwidth and storage space efficiently, the depth map sequence should be compressed as well as the texture video. Among previous work...

abstract information on spatial and temporal variations of soil hydraulic conductivity (k) is essential to improve soil and water management. however several techniques have been proposed for measuring of soil hydraulic conductivity above water surface table, but reliability and easy use of these methods in various conditions were always concern for engineers. the purposes of this study are mea...

A stereo-based dense disparity estimation algorithm is proposed to build high quality dense disparity map of lunar surface under special illumination, weak texture and occlusion condition. To avoidance the serious shadow effect effectively, intrinsic image of stereo images are preprocessed. A color similarity probability based belief propagation algorithm (BP) is proposed to solve the depth dis...

Tire rolling resistance has a significant influence on fuel consumption in cars and trucks CO2 emissions. Rolling depends the tire construction, pavement texture stiffness, as well environmental traffic conditions. This article presents pilot study impact of passenger car tires. Reasons why Mean Profile Depth is not good descriptor characteristics from point view are presented, an experimental ...