The traditional and still pervasive way of access to image information is through descriptive keyword searching. However, many studies in image indexing and retrieval have reached a consensus on the difficulties and limitations of text-based image description. This situation is more obvious when the description involves subjective interpretation of the content of images. One of the best example...

This project idea is motivated from the image based lighting technique presented in the class, where a single spherical mirror is used as a light probe for image based lighting. The project used an array of spherical mirrors arranged in a fixed pattern to capture the light field of the surrounding. The main steps in the project involved construction of a spherical mirror array of a fixed patter...

children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (adhd) react explosively and inappropriately to emotional stimuli. it could be hypothesized that these children have some impairment in attending to emotional cues. based on this hypothesis, we conducted this study to evaluate visual directions of children with adhd towards paired emotional scenes.thirty boys between the ages of 6 and 11 ye...

A general-purpose neural model that challenges image understanding is presented in this paper. The model incorporates accumulative computation, lateral interaction and double time scale, and can be considered as biologically plausible. The model uses at global time scale t and in form of accumulative computation all the necessary mechanisms to detect movement from the grey level change at each ...

Content Based Image Retrieval is a technique that makes use of the visual content of an picture, to search for similar pictures in large-scale image databases, as per a user’s interest. The CBIR is driven by the requirement to go looking the exponentially increasing set of image and video databases expeditiously and effectively. The visual content of a picture is analyzed in terms of lowlevel o...

Little is known about what makes a peripheral or ambient display effective at presenting awareness information or simply, if one is better than another. Furthermore, techniques for evaluating these types of displays are just beginning to be developed. We conducted an evaluation of the InfoCanvas, a peripheral display that conveys awareness information graphically as a form of information art. W...

The ever-increasing interest in digital image retrieval has led to research into ways of reducing and if possible eliminating the cost of traditional image annotation. This report describes the development of an automatic image annotation and contentbased image retrieval system. The process documented in this paper has an initial training phase in which the associations between words and images...

Background Social relationships and interactions are largely based on mutual affection, trust and appreciation, as with friendship formation (Simmel 1964). When social relationships are based on mutual benefit and exchange, affection, trust and appreciation may play a significant role in shaping the relationships within a group (Lawler et al. 2000, 2008; Lawler 2001). In this case, the common t...

This paper presents a new Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS), called cbPACS which has content-based image retrieval resources. The cbPACS answers similarity queries (range and nearest-neighbor) taking advantage of a metric access method embedded into the image database manager. The images are compared through their features, which are extracted by the image processing system modu...

Pervasive environments can be hard to configure and interact with using handheld computing devices, due to the mismatch between physical and digital worlds. Usually, smart resources in the user’s vicinity are discovered and presented in a menu on the user’s device from where they can be accessed. However, in environments with many embedded resources it becomes hard to identify resources by mean...