Sports betting is becoming more popular every year and more people are betting now than ever. With the growth of the betting market comes the growth of research done on match prediction. Research done in the 1950s has been the basis for match predictions up until the 1980s. Since then prediction techniques have shifted from distribution prediction towards a more modern data mining predicting. U...

Recently, studies of adaptive color variation have become popular as models for examining the genetics of natural selection. We examined color pattern polymorphism and genetic variation in a population of side-blotched lizards (Uta stansburiana) that is found in habitats with both dark (lava) and light colored (granite) substrates. We conducted a limited experiment for adult phenotypic plastici...

Background Endometrial receptivity is one of parameters which determine the reproductive outcome in in vitro fertilization programs. A good blood supply towards the endometrium is usually considered to be an essential requirement for implantation. Blood vessels of the endometrium can be detected by transvaginal color and pulse Doppler sonography. Color Doppler assessment permits better visualiz...

A simple and effective object recognition scheme is to represent and match images on the basis of color histograms. To obtain robustness against varying imaging circumstances (e.g. a change in illumination, object pose, and viewpoint), color histograms are constructed from color invariants. However, in general, color invariants are negatively affected by sensor noise due to the instabilities of...

Skin Color segmentation plays an important role in various applications such as face recognition, gesture recognition, human computer interaction etc. Face recognition is of main concern in skin color segmentation. There are various color models used for skin color segmentation (YCbCr, HSV and CIELAB) but appropriate method should be used for skin color segmentation. In real time the main probl...

In this paper, we study a color reproduction method to match the appearance of skin color images on CRT with a hardcopy under various viewing illuminants. Three color appearance models, von Kries, Fairchild and CIELAB, were applied to predict color reproduction on CRT display. Optimum color appearance model to predict color reproduction was estimated by psychophysical experiments based on the m...

Most color indexing techniques proposed in the literature are similar: Images are represented by color histograms, and a metric on the color histogram space is used to determine the similarity of images. In this paper we determine the limits of these color indexing techniques. We propose two functions to measure the discrimination power of indexing techniques: The capacity (how many distinguish...