Special Section on Ratcheting

Special Section on CHANS

Central to the concept of coupled human and natural systems (CHANS), humans and nature are organized into interacting subsystems of a cohesive whole at multiple spatial and temporal scales. Following an overview of the challenges in implementing the CHANS concept, we used widely available measures of social, economic, and ecological systems, including gross domestic product, population size, ne...

Special Section on Wireless networking

In this Special Section on Wireless networking, we are pleased to present a diverse set of papers covering a range of topics within the area of wireless networking. While the huge proliferation of wireless devices and technologies enables a rich set of new applications, it also raises many new research challenges. This section addresses some of these open research challenges. The proliferation ...

Special Section on Wavelet Applications

In covering a field such as video compression, it would be logical that we begin with the compression lessons learned in (1) and (2) and then define wavelets in (3). Afterwards, we can better delineate the contribution of wavelets to the image and video compression. (1) Syntactic and Semantic Singularity Maps: Lossless data compression is at most a few factor of 2 and is not addressed here. Ima...

Special section on medical bionics.

Special Section on Cultural Heritage

Over the last two decades, there have been many high profile success stories where cutting edge computer graphics (CG) technology was used in collaboration with cultural heritage (CH) professionals to unlock the secrets of humanity’s legacy. Well known examples include the empirical 3D acquisition of Michelangelo’s David, the laser scan-based 3D mapping of the tombs found in the Valley of the K...