With the decreasing audience of classical music performance, this research aims to develop a performance-enhancement system, called AIDA, to help classical performers better communicating with their audiences. With three procedures Input-Processing-Output, AIDA system can sense and analyze the body information of performers and further reflect it onto the responsive skin. Thus abstract and inta...

Visual recognition memory relies on long-term depression-like mechanisms within the perirhinal cortex and the activation of the lateral amygdala can enhance visual recognition memory. How the lateral amygdala regulates recognition memory is not known, but synaptic plasticity at amygdala-perirhinal synapses may provide a mechanism for the emotional enhancement of recognition memory. In this stud...

This experimental study evaluated the possible effects of textual input- based enhancement on the acquisition of passive form on Iranian pre-intermediate EFL learners. Sixty Iranian EFL learners at the pre-intermediate level of proficiency were randomly assigned into three groups; two experimental group and one comparison group. The first experimental group received passages in which the passiv...

Providing a satisfactory visual experience is one of the main goals for present-day electronic multimedia devices. All the enabling technologies for storage, transmission, compression, rendering should preserve, and possibly enhance, the quality of the video signal; to do so, quality control mechanisms are required. These mechanisms rely on systems that can assess the visual quality of the inco...

In this paper, a novel contrast enhancement technique for contrast enhancement of a low-contrast satellite image has been proposed based on the singular value decomposition (SVD) and discrete cosine transform (DCT). The singular value matrix represents the intensity information of the given image and any change on the singular values change the intensity of the input image. The proposed techniq...

Image Enhancement is one of the most important and complex techniques in image processing technology. The main aim of image enhancement is to improve the visual appearance of an image, or to offer a “better transform representation of the image. Various types of images like medical images, satellite images, aerial images and real life photographs suffer from different problems like poor contras...