Multiple color stripes have been employed for structured light-based rapid range imaging to increase the number of uniquely identifiable stripes. The use of multiple color stripes poses two problems: (1) object surface color may disturb the stripe color and (2) the number of adjacent stripes required for identifying a stripe may not be maintained near surface discontinuities such as occluding b...

Introduction of S-ethyl groups in all four ortho positions of azobenzene prevents reduction of the azo group by intracellular glutathione, while enhancing the absorptivity to ~10,000 M(-1) cm(-1) in the blue and green regions of the visible spectrum. cis-to-trans isomerization occurs thermally on the minutes timescale. Further, this substitution pattern permits switching with red light, a color...

5G networks are conceived to be highly flexible and programmable end-to-end connect-and-compute infrastructures. In that context, the concept of network slicing is of particular importance [1]. From a network infrastructure point of view, network slicing refers to the provisioning and assignment of physical substrate network resources to tenants. To enable an efficient resource allocation, suit...

This paper presents a system for the normalization of concept mentions in clinical narratives. We evaluate and compare it against a popular, open-source solution that is frequently used for natural language processing of clinical text. The evaluation is based on a manually annotated dataset of 72 discharge summaries taken from the i2b2-corpus. Besides the demonstration and evaluation of our sys...

A cylindrical metallic plasmonic nano-antenna consisting of a shell supporting a disk, named capped shell, is proposed and studied by frequency domain finite element analysis. This new topology is shown to be weakly dependent on the radius of the structure and is therefore suitable for fabrication by parallel processes such as island lithography which generates a pseudo-random array with a dist...

We propose a simple yet powerful regularization framework for robust light transport simulation. It builds on top of existing unbiased methods and resorts to a consistent estimation using regularization only for paths which cannot be sampled in an unbiased way. To introduce as little bias as possible, we selectively regularize individual interactions along paths, and also derive the regularizat...

In this paper, we propose a method which detects salient moving objects with lightcomputational load. Though Gaussian Mixture Model is widely used for object detection, it is computationally heavy. On the other hand, basic methods like temporal difference are simple and fast but they have constraints as hole or ghost problems. We have combined these algorithms to overcome each one’s weakness. W...

The paper presents a new mutation strategy for the Metropolis light transport algorithm, which works in the space of uniform random numbers used to build up paths. Thus instead of mutating directly in the path space, mutations are realized in the infinite dimensional unit cube of pseudo-random numbers and these points are transformed to the path space according to BRDF sampling, light source sa...

Most text processing systems need to compare lexical units – words, entities, semantic concepts – with each other as a basic processing step within large and complex systems. A significant amount of research has taken place in formulating and evaluating multiple similarity metrics, primarily between words. Often, such techniques are resourceintensive or are applicable only to specific use cases...