statement of problem: the effect of mouth washes on discolouration of dental ceramics with different surface preparations is not well documented. objectives: this in-vitro study has been conducted to evaluate the effect of chlorhexidine (chx) mouth rinse on colour stability of overglazed (op), autoglazed, (ap) or polished porcelain (pop) specimens. materials and methods: the restorative materia...

23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 The frozen storage of Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus) is limited by lipid damage causing sensory quality losses, an important drawback to its commercialisation. This work deals with changes in functional and sensory properties during freezing and frozen storage of Atlantic mackerel pre-treated by high hydrostatic pressure processing (HPP)....

By considering 'coloured' braid group representation we have obtained a quantum group, which reduces to the standard GL q (2) and GL p,q (2) cases at some particular limits of the 'colour' parameters. In spite of quite complicated nature, all of these new quantum group relations can be expressed neatly in the Heisenberg-Weyl form, for a nontrivial choice of the basis elements. Furthermore, it i...

Although it seems counter-intuitive, categorical colours do not exist as external physical entities but are very much the product of our brains. Our cortical machinery segments the world and associate objects to specific colour terms, which is not only convenient for communication but also increases the efficiency of visual processing by reducing the dimensionality of input scenes. Although the...

800x600 congenital colour vision defects affect about 8% and 0.5% of the male and female population, respectively. pseudoisochromatic ishihara plates have shown to be successful in an early diagnosis of colour vision defects. this commonly used colour vision test was initially intended to identify those who suffered from red-green aspect of congenital colour blindness; however, it may be of use...

The paper describes ongoing research in computer vision based gestural interfaces. The aim of the research is to develop a novel, multi-user gesture recognition system that addresses key factors of human computer interaction; the latter is not fully addressed in computer vision research. The focus of current work has been on efficient and accurate skin colour detection. Skin colour based segmen...

Inspired by a type of synesthesia where colour typically induces musical notes the MusiCam project investigates this unusual condition, particularly the transition from colour to sound. MusiCam explores the potential benefits of this idiosyncrasy as a mode of Human Computer Interaction (HCI), providing a host of meaningful applications spanning control, communication and composition. Colour dat...

Chromatic aberration is observable especially with wide angle lenses. This paper presents a study on chromatic aberration of two fisheye lenses. Both tested lenses produce images with obvious colour aberration. Four different mathematical models were tested to compensate the aberration of distinct colour channels; shift and scale, affine, projective and polynomial. The model parameters were obt...