Acquiring image data of bone biopsies by a micro-CT scanner is today a common technique. The amount of data to be assessed is huge. The task to assess quantitative measures requires a concise visualization. We present visualization techniques that can be used interactively on state-of-the-art PCs and demonstrate how the frontier can be pushed further. A skeletonization process is applied to the...

Is it possible to reason by means of images? If it is, then with what kind of images can we organize thoughts? How can the rules governing the relations between images be established? Could these relations be as complex and productive as those defined within the grammar of the verbal language? The basic construction of any language, especially a developed one, is a structure of formal rules whi...

Over the past two decades, manga has exploded in readership beyond Japan, and its style has captured the interest of young artists all over. But, what exactly are the properties of this "style" beyond the surface of big eyes and "backward" reading? This paper explores the structural elements of the Japanese Visual Language (JVL) that comprises the "manga style" — ranging from looking at the “bi...

The small visual area known as MT or V5 has played a major role in our understanding of the primate cerebral cortex. This area has been historically important in the concept of cortical processing streams and the idea that different visual areas constitute highly specialized representations of visual information. MT has also proven to be a fertile culture dish--full of direction- and disparity-...

Visual simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) uses cameras to recover a representation of the environment that concurrently enables accurate pose estimation. Although there have been significant recent advances in visual SLAM, these have been primarily concerned with the localisation aspect of the problem and progress in developing more meaningful maps of the environment has been somewhat...

The problem of learning the class identity of visual objects has received considerable attention recently. With rare exception, all of the work to date assumes low variation in appearance, which limits them to a single depictive style usually photographic. The same object depicted in other styles — as a drawing, perhaps — cannot be identified reliably. Yet humans are able to name the object no ...

Most existing visual analytical tools that incorporate knowledge are tailored for specific analytical tasks. Although these tools are useful and powerful, it is often difficult to generalize the approaches utilized in these tools for knowledge incorporation to new problems or domains. In this paper, we propose a method for integrating a visual analytical tool with an ontological knowledge struc...

the present study aims to investigate the system of the visual transitivity by analyzing the images of american english file (2014) and cutting edge (2005) series based on halliday’s (1976) systemic functional linguistics and kress and van leuween’s (1997-2006) social semiotics. the system of visual transitivity refers to a type of process which determines how represented participants are label...

among abundant image denoising methods proposed so far, the use of patchbased algorithms have attracted a lot of attention from image processingcommunity. although these methods are very powerful in presentation of highquality results, the impact of human visual system (hvs) is ignored in sole of them.in this paper the human visual geometry is used in preparation of a new method forimage denois...

In music education, inexperienced students have great difficulty making a connection between the sounds they are hearing and the actions taken to produce those sounds. This is the primary hurdle that must be overcome before these students can move on to more advanced concepts such as music notation, creation, and composition. To this end, we introduce AudioSavant, a visualization tool that allo...