Recent developments in 3D technologies and measurement instrumentation combined with multimedia databases offer today new possibilities for the integrated and complete description of Cultural Heritage objects. A first attempt is made to develop a database for archaeological ceramic and glass artifacts where in addition to the digitized 2D and 3D images, description, typological characteristics ...

One way to characterize configurations of points up to congruence is by considering the distribution of all mutual distances between points. This paper deals with the question if point configurations are uniquely determined by this distribution. After giving some counterexamples, we prove that this is the case for the vast majority of configurations. In the second part of the paper, the distrib...

A cascading pattern is a sequential pattern characterized by an item following another item in order. Recent research has investigated a challenge of dealing with cascading patterns, namely, the exponential time dependence of database scanning with respect to the number of items involved. We propose a normalized-mutual-information-based mining method for cascading patterns (M3Cap) to address th...

The symbol-wise mutual information between the binary inputs of a channel encoder and the soft-outputs of a LogAPP decoder, i.e., the a-posteriori log-likelihood ratios (LLRs), is analyzed. This mutual information can be expressed as the expectation of a function of solely the absolute values of the a-posteriori LLRs. This result provides a simple and elegant method for computing the mutual inf...

Mutual information has been used for matching and registering 3D models to 2D images. However, in Viola’s original framework [1], surface albedo variance is assumed to be minimal when measuring similarity between 3D models and 2D image data using mutual information. In reality, most objects have textured surfaces with different albedo values across their surfaces, and direct application of this...