Digital image watermarking algorithms have been designed for intellectual property, copyright protection, medical data management, and other related fields; furthermore, in real-world applications such as official documents, banknotes, etc., they are used to deliver additional information about the documents’ authenticity. In this context, imperceptible–visible (IVW) algorithm has a digital rep...

of thesis entitled: Statistical Machine Learning for Bridging the Semantic Gap in Image Retrieval Submitted by HOI, Chu Hong (Steven) With the explosive growth of multimedia data, more and more research attentions have been devoted to visual information retrieval. Image retrieval, particularly content-based image retrieval (CBIR), has been actively studied in multimedia information retrieval co...

Turning oV a Wxation point, typically for 200 ms, before the onset of a peripheral target substantially reduces saccadic reaction times. This facilitatory eVect generated by an inserted temporal gap between Wxation oVset and the target appearance is called the “gap” eVect [J Opt Soc Am 57:1030–1033, 1967]. We show that the gap reduces the initial latency of both saccades and manual pointing in ...

To achieve complex missions an autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operating in dynamic environments must have and maintain situational awareness. This can be achieved by continually gathering information from many sources, selecting the relevant information for current tasks, and deriving models about the environment and the UAV itself. It is often the case models suitable for traditional...

The propagation of molecules, ions and electrochemical signals in various cell types occurs through hundreds gap junction channels. A channel is composed units which are further decomposed to hemichannels. From the computational modeling perspective, each acts as a state machine, switching between different permeability states at known rates. Both permeabilities rates jointly depend on transmem...