New visual phenomena

Investigating CAPTCHAs Based on Visual Phenomena

We propose and evaluate several novel types of CAPTCHAs (test to tell computers and humans apart) that exploit characteristics of the human visual system. Perceptions caused by the effect of lightness constancy or grouping phenomena due to transparent motion are hard to emulate on computers and may thus provide novel authentication mechanisms.

Visual Modeling and Simulation of Multiscale Phenomena

RAHUL NARAIN: Visual Modeling and Simulation of Multiscale Phenomena (Under the direction of Ming C. Lin) Many large-scale systems such as human crowds, fluids, and granular materials exhibit complicated motion at many different scales, from a characteristic global behavior to important small-scale detail. Such multiscale systems are computationally expensive for traditional simulation techniqu...

Explaining New Phenomena in Terms of Previous Phenomena

It has become increasingly clear that natural phenomena cannot be formally deduced from laws but that almost every phenomenon has its own particular way of being linked to higher-level generalizations, usually via approximations, normalizations and corrections. This article deals with the following problem: if there are no general principles to link laws to phenomena, and if each phenomenon has...

New approaches to neglected phenomena

Equity crowdfunding: A new phenomena

Crowdfunding has recently become available for entrepreneurs. Most academic studies analyse data from rewards-based (pre-selling) campaigns. In contrast, in this paper we analyse 636 campaigns, encompassing 17,188 investors and 64,831 investments between 2012 and 2015, from one of the leading European equity crowdfunding platforms. We provide descriptive statistics and carry out cross-campaign ...