Once a catch-all taxon for various small, greenish passerines (Sclater 1881), today the genus Hylophilus Temminck contains 15 species of Neotropical greenlets in the avian family Vireonidae (Clements et al. 2013). Although Hylophilus species do share some common anatomical proportions and plumage features (Baird 1866; Ridgway 1904), some striking and concordant differences in habitat, voice, an...

1. Ryszard Kozera and Lyle Noakes. Optimal Knots Selection for Sparse Reduced Data 2. Bingshu Wang at al. Moving Cast Shadow Detection using Joint Color and Texture Features with Neighboring Information 3. Leszek J Chmielewski et al. Detection of surface defects of type `orange skin' in furniture elements with conventional image processing methods 4. Paul L. Rosin and Jovisa Zunic Measuring Con...

In this review article we summarize current knowledge on how variation on the DNA level influences human pigmentation including color variation of iris, hair, and skin. We review recent progress in the field of human pigmentation genetics by focusing on the genes and DNA polymorphisms discovered to be involved in determining human pigmentation traits, their association with diseases particularl...

in the current iris recognition systems, noise removing step is only used to detect noisy parts of the iris region and features extracted from there will be excluded in matching step. whereas depending on the filter structure used in feature extraction, the noisy parts may influence relevant features. to the best of our knowledge, the effect of noise factors on feature extraction has not been c...

with an increasing emphasis on security, automated personal identification based on biometrics has been receiving extensive attention. iris recognition, as an emerging biometric recognition approach, is becoming a very active topic in both research and practical applications. in general, a typical iris recognition system includes iris imaging, iris liveness detection, and recognition. this rese...

BACKGROUND Congenital sensorineural deafness has been reported frequently in experimental mixed-breed white cats but there is a paucity of data on occurrence of deafness in client-owned pure-breed white cats. OBJECTIVE To describe hearing status in client-owned pure-breed white cats. ANIMALS Eighty-four pure-breed client-owned cats with white coat color of 10 registered breeds presented for...

©2002, IS&T—The Society for Imaging Science and Technology outer thin layer, epidermis, and an inner, relatively thick layer, dermis. For normal human skin, the absorption of the epidermis is dominated by a black pigment called melanin, though there are five different pigments in the skin.6 The spectral characteristics of different races or different individuals are due only to variation in the...

Biometric Authentication works on some human characteristics, such as, finger print, voice, pattern of lines in the iris of eye or face. I represent a multiple face detection method based on skin color information and the Lines of Separability (LS) face model and recognition method based on principle component analysis and neural network. Face detection method uses YCbCr color model and sigma c...

purpose: to demonstrate an approach to the problems of cataract surgery in extensive iridoschisis methods: four eyes of 2 patients with extensive iridoschisis had cataract surgery by the same surgeon using the techniques that resembled techniques for phacoemulsification in intraoperative floppy iris syndrome (ifis). we used low flow parameters on phacoemulsification, used super-cohesive ophthal...

Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) techniques are quite popular and effective for chronic diseases. Iridology is more than 150 years old CAM technique which analyzes the patterns, tissue weakness, color, shape, structure, etc. for disease diagnosis. The objective of this paper is to validate the use of iridology for the diagnosis of the diabetes. The suggested model was applied in a s...