The near-infrared (NIR) spectral region (700-2500 nm) is a fertile source of chemical information in the form of overtone and combination bands of the fundamental infrared absorptions and low-energy electronic transitions. This region was initially perceived as being too complex for interpretation and consequently was poorly utilized. Advances in chemometric techniques that can extract massive ...

Measuring brain activity is at task generally left for EEG or fMRI. However, there is a lesser known imaging technique known as near infrared spectrophotometry, in which near infrared light is shown into the patients head to measure changes in oxygenation that directly relate to brain activity. This paper describes a low-cost, wireless, portable near infrared spectrophotometry system that is ab...

Infrared spectrophotometry is rapidly assuming an important place in the biological sciences. Its value derives from the fact that each organic compound has a characteristic and distinct infrared spectrum that can be used to identify it (Randall et al., 1949). The biologist working with cells or tissues is confronted by a highly complex mixture of substances. The infrared spectrum of a cell, th...

This paper deals with the problem of tracking an object from a sequence of images captured from a camera moving towards the object. Many conventional image based trackers trace key reference points over an image sequence using simple correlation processes 1]. However, the presence of noise and the magniication of image features as the camera approaches the object may cause a tracked point to dr...