Although quad-trees are not the most successful strategy in image coding, some generalized subdivision schemes have been proposed recently. This work exploits a moderate generalization of quad-trees where tiles are not restricted to be split in both dimensions, which leads to a previously developed graph of anisotropic tiles called “bush”. An algorithm is developed to find the minimal number of...

An aperiodic tiling is one which uses a nite set of prototiles to tile space such that there is no translational symmetry within any one tiling. These tilings are of interest to researchers in the natural sciences because they can be used to model and understand quasicrystals, a recently-discovered type of matter which bridges the gap between glass, which has no regular structure, and crystals,...

A Wang tile [12] is a unit square with each edge colored from a finite set of colors Σ. A set S of Wang tiles is said to tile a planar grid Z if copies of tiles from S can be placed, one at each grid position, such that abutting edges of adjacent tiles have the same color. Multiple copies of any tile may be used, with no restriction on the number. If we allow the tiles to be rotated or reflecte...

Video caption detection, and evtraction is an important step for information retrieval in video databases. In this paper, we extract test information in video by fully utilizing the temporal information contained in the video. First we'create a binary abstract sequence from a video segment. By analyzing the statistical pixel changes in the sequence, we can effectively locate the (dis)appearing ...

Network-on-Chips (NoCs) are used to connect large numbers of processors in many-core processor architecture because they perform better than less scalable methods such as global shared buses. Among all NoC design parameters, NoC topologies define how nodes are placed and connected and greatly affect the performance, energy efficiency, and circuit area of many-core processor arrays. Due to its s...

Conventional microscopy, electron microscopy, and imaging techniques such as MRI and PET commonly generate large stacks of images of the sectioned brain. In other domains, such as neurophysiology, variables such as space or time are also varied along a stack axis. Digital image sizes have been progressively increasing and in virtual microscopy, it is now common to work with individual image siz...

The emergence of the new generation video coding standard, Versatile Video Coding (VVC), has brought along novel features rendering standard more efficient and flexible than its predecessors. Aside from compression 8 k or higher camera-captured content, VVC also supports a wide range applications, including computer-generated high dynamic (HDR) multilayer multi-view coding, region extraction, a...

Ceramic tiles have become very popular and are used in the flooring of offices and shopping malls. As testing the quality of tiles manually in a highly polluted environment in the manufacturing industry is a laborintensive and time consuming process, analysis is carried out on the tile images. This paper discusses an automated system to detect the defects on the surface of ceramic tiles based o...

We used classification images to examine whether certain parts of a surface are particularly important when judging its colour, such as its centre, its edges, or where one is looking. The scene consisted of a regular pattern of square tiles with random colours from along a short line in colour space. Targets defined by a square array of brighter tiles were presented for 200ms. The colours of th...