Improve the understanding of cloud and boundary layer processes within the littoral through the use of the Coupled Ocean/Atmosphere Mesoscale Prediction System (COAMPS) and relevant observations. Improve the moist and boundary layer physics schemes used in COAMPS based on knowledge gained through extensive testing and verification of high-resolution (1-20 km horizontal grid spacing) numerical s...

This paper presents a system that combines large pointset implicit surfaces with fast line-based rendering. We devised a new process for extracting suggestive contours quickly by using particles scattered throughout the surface to identify areas of interest, followed by clustering and linefitting. Furthermore, we improve on state-of-the-art methods for extracting silhouettes and feature-lines b...

We provide a system that will serve as a high quality pencil media line reproduction agent for creating aesthetically pleasing lines that mimic human-drawn lines. The method avoids computationally expensive techniques and large storage space. The system is not intended to replace artists or illustration, but to provide a tool for users with no training to produce traditional images using a penc...

Super-resolution is a process that combines information from some low-resolution images in order to produce an image with higher resolution. In most of the previous related work, the blurriness that is associated with low resolution images is assumed to be due to the integral effect of the acquisition device’s image sensor. However, in practice there are other sources of blurriness as well, inc...

Supply chain management is an important competitive strategies used by modern enterprises. Effective design and management of supply chains assists in the production and delivery of a variety of products at low costs, high quality, and short lead times. Recently, data envelopment analysis DEA has been extended to examine the efficiency of supply chain operations. Due to the existence of interme...

We investigate the problem of automatically identifying speaking faces for video analysis using only the visual information. Intuitively, mouth should be first accurately located in each face, but this is extremely challenging due to the complicated condition in video, such as irregular lighting, changing face poses and low resolution etc. Even though we get the accurate mouth location, it’s st...

Chromosome four of the Drosophila species melanogaster and virilis is of interest to investigators because the first is mostly heterochromatic while the second is mostly euchromatic. Obtaining high quality sequences for both species will enable comparative analysis of chromosome four, providing sequence information about the basis of gene packaging. My project contributes to the final sequence ...

Manufacturers and retailers have chosen varied brand portfolio structures for business performance. This study surveys consumer attitudes toward manufacturers’ brands and retailers’ store brands chosen from Taiwan retailing outlets. Research findings indicate that manufacturers’ brands intensify high quality and high price strategies, pursue appropriate promotion activities, and develop brand e...