A. Detection 1) Edge clustering result: Three examples of clustering results are shown in the first row of Figure 1, in which each cluster is bounded by a rectangular box and each edge segment is shown in different color. The second row shows the extracted regions-of-interest bounded by boxes overlaid on the color images. From Figure 1, we observe that the ear region is correctly identified. 2)...

Shape Arrays allow propagating arrays of shapes that adapt the number of elements to the surrounding geometry with a single placement propagation. The choice between scaling or repeating shapes to fill the bounding box of a placement can be specified separately for the width and height dimensions. To implement shape arrays, we specify a minimum spacing between shapes and find the maximum number...

designed shapes incorporating typedesign tradition, the rules related to visual appearance, and the design ideas of a skilled character designer. The typographic design process is structured and systematic: letterforms are visually related in weight, contrast, space, alignment, and style. To create a new typeface family, type designers generally start by designing a few key characters—such as o...

Since their inception in the early nineties with the seminal work of Cootes et al. [5], Active Shape Models (ASMs) have become one of the most popular segmentation paradigms, thanks to their robustness and versatility. Basically, the ASM algorithm can be described as an iterative process in which two statistical models are sequentially applied to drive the segmentation process. A statistical ap...

We study the fault-tolerance of the recently proposed nubot model of molecular-scale self-assembly, which generalizes asynchronous cellular automata to have non-local movement. In particular, we propose a set of rules that ensures that a particular shape saves its information and its shape forever even when independently of each other, certain cells change their state or die with some small pro...

In this paper, we consider the problem of computing, for a given rectilinear angle sequence, a “small” rectilinear polygon. A rectilinear angle sequence S is a sequence of left (90◦) turns and right (270◦) turns, that is, S = (s1, . . . , sn) ∈ {L, R}, where n is the length of S. As we consider only rectilinear angle sequences, we usually drop the term “rectilinear.” A polygon P realizes an ang...

This paper presents a novel approach to modelling time series datasets using fuzzy trend information. A time series is described using natural linguistic terms such as rising more steeply and falling less steeply. These natural shape descriptors enable us to produce a glass box model of the series. The linguistic shape descriptors are represented in our system by a new feature called the trend ...

We study the task of object part extraction and labeling, which seeks to understand objects beyond simply identifiying their bounding boxes. We start from bottom-up segmentation of images and search for correspondences between object parts in a few shape models and segments in images. Segments comprising different object parts in the image are usually not equally salient due to uneven contrast,...

Der Beitrag beschreibt das Gesamtkonzept eines technischen Systems zur Unterstützung logistischer Prozesse während eines Shutdowns einer großtechnischen Anlage. Am Beispiel eines intelligenten Behälters (IFF – Smart Box) wird der Einsatz im Umfeld des Anlagenbaus erläutert. Der Nutzen für die Anwender wird am Ende des Beitrags dargestellt.

Seit vielen Jahren werden Lösungen für Datawarehouse Themen schon nach dem gleichen Schema entwickelt. Dies ist nicht weiter verwunderlich, da doch die Anforderungen –eigentlichimmer ähnlich sind: Daten aus verschiedenen Quellsystemen sollen, unter diversen Randbedingungen, analysiert werden. Auch wenn sich Technologien weiter entwickelt haben, Schnittstellen nun bereits out-of-the-box verfügba...