We present a method, based on the idea of salient points, for locating corresponding features between two different faces independently of scale, orientation and position. Salient points are those which have a low probability of being mistaken with other points in the face, and therefore are more likely to be correctly located in a second face. The local image structure at each image point is d...

Research in psychology has shown that when people are told not to think about a pink elephant they cannot avoid doing just that. Similar results are found for language production in that people leak information about hidden figures when instructed to ignore those figures. It is argued that the salience of information plays a crucial role in these effects. The present study investigates how diff...

This paper proposes new methodology for the detection and matching of salient points over several views of an object. The process is composed by three main phases. In the first step, detection is carried out by adopting a new perceptually-inspired 3D saliency measure. Such measure allows the detection of few sparse salient points that characterize distinctive portions of the surface. In the sec...

The hiARK III detector is shown in Figs. l(a) and l(b). The detector is described in Ref. 1 and its main subsystems are described in Refs. 2-6. Briefly, working out from the interaction point, the detector consists of an inner trigger chamber, followed by a large drift chamber, a time-of-flight (TOF) counter system, a gas sampling cylindrical shower counter, a solenoidal coil which generates an...

A highly practical and efficient preparation of 3,4-Dihydropyrimidin-2(1H)-one derivatives was developed via an efficient and simple nanocatalyst and promoted multi-component reaction of ethyl acetoacetate, aromatic aldehyde, and urea in the presence of a catalytic amount of (CTA)3[SiW12]-Li+-MMT under solvent-free conditions. In comparison to the conve...

The advantage of fuzzy controllers in working with inaccurate and nonlinear inputs is that there no need for an accurate mathematical model fast convergence minimal fluctuations the maximum power point detector. capability online tracking systems power, resistance to radiation temperature changes, external sensors measure intensity temperature. However, most important issue constant changes amo...

Full waveform data recording the reflected laser signal from ground objects have been provided by some commercial airborne LIDAR systems in the last few years. Waveform data enable users to explore more information and characteristics of the earth surface than conventional LIDAR point cloud. An important application is to extract extra point clouds from waveform data in addition to the point cl...

In this paper we compare the performance of interest point descriptors. Many different descriptors have been proposed in the literature. However, it is unclear which descriptors are more appropriate and how their performance depends on the interest point detector. The descriptors should be distinctive and at the same time robust to changes in viewing conditions as well as to errors of the point...

A muon range detector (MRD) has been constructed as a near detector for the KEK-to-Kamioka long-baseline neutrino experiment (K2K). It monitors the neutrino beam properties at the near site by measuring the energy, angle and production point of muons produced by charged-current neutrino interaction. The detector has been working stably since the start of the K2K experiment.