background: angiogenesis, the development of new blood vessels, is an important process in tissue development and wound healing, but becomes pathologic when associated with solid tumor growth, proliferative retinopathies, and rheumatoid arthritis. accurate and reliable qualification of neovascular (angiogenic) response, both in vitro and in vivo, is an essential requirement for the study of new...

In this paper, we present a new method for face recognition using range data. The proposed method is based on both global statistics of geometrical features and local statistics of correlative features of facial surfaces. Firstly, we analyze the performances of common geometrical representations by using global histograms for matching. Secondly, we propose a new method to encode the relationshi...

An integral imaging system is employed as part of a three dimensional imaging system, allowing display of full colour images with continuous parallax within a wide viewing zone. A novel approach to the problem of compressing the significant quantity of data required to represent integral 3D video is presented and it is shown that the reduction in bit cost achieved makes possible transmission vi...

Biometric data have been integrated in all new European passports, since the member states of the European Commission started to implement the EU Council Regulation No 2252/2004 on standards for security features and biometrics in passports. The additional integration of three-dimensional models promises significant performance enhancements for border controls. By combining the geometryand text...

This paper studies how the performance of a 3D face recognition system is affected by compression. A novel lossy compression technique tailored for registered 3D data along with a scheme for 3D face registration and recognition are presented and the results discussed. The proposed scheme achieves a significant compression ratio (factor of 35) without the loss of recognition performance. 2009 El...

We investigate the utility of 3D facial landmark localisation in addressing the varying pose problem in 3D face recognition. We do not focus on the 3D landmark localisation problem itself, rather, we ask: Given the set of salient landmarks visible at some specific pose, what 3D face recognition performance can we expect, given that statistical training was performed at some other (canonical) po...

A model is developed for a non-uniform piezoelectric beam suitable for analyzing energy harvesting behavior. System dynamics are projected onto a numerically developed basis to produce energy functions which are used to derive equations of motion for the system. The resulting model reproduces the experimentally observed transition to chaos while providing a conservative estimate of power output...