Magnification: Magnifying the point

Can we see photosynthesis? Magnifying the tiny color changes of plant green leaves using Eulerian video magnification

Plant aliveness is proven through laboratory experiments and special scientific instruments. In this paper, we aim to detect the degree of animation of plants based on the magnification of the small color changes in the plant’s green leaves using the Eulerian video magnification. Capturing the video under a controlled environment, e.g., using a tripod and direct current (DC) light sources, redu...

The Magnifying Power of Microscopes

ANDRUBIS: Android Malware Under The Magnifying Glass

The smartphone industry has been one of the fastest growing technological areas in recent years. Naturally, the considerable market share of the Android OS and the diversity of app distribution channels besides the official Google Play Store has attracted the attention of malware authors. To deal with the increasing numbers of malicious Android apps in the wild, malware analysts typically rely ...

Large-scale collections under the magnifying glass

Institutions that perform web crawls in order to gather heritage collections have millions – or even billions – of files encoded in thousands of different formats about which they barely know anything. Many of these heritage institutions are members of the International Internet Preservation Consortium, whose Preservation Working Group decided to address the web archive format identification is...

Sensor Network Bugs under the Magnifying Glass

If the vision of large, long-lived wireless sensor networks serving the society is to become reality, deployment and durable maintenance need much more attention. Both these issues require the ability to first diagnose, and then fix occurring problems. While there are solutions for fixing problems, an appropriate diagnostic infrastructure is essentially still lacking. Our position is that diagn...