The promise of a zero failure quote (0%) through a fast and touch less inspection system [4], which can be integrated directly in the production line, has made Machine Vision Systems very popular among quality inspection and industrial automation. However, by looking in detail at the available solutions on the market, it can be notice, that most of them are based on simple image processing prin...

This article presents a mathematical de nition of texture { the Julesz ensemble (h), which is the set of all images (de ned on Z) that share identical statistics h. Then texture modeling is posed as an inverse problem: given a set of images sampled from an unknown Julesz ensemble (h ), we search for the statistics h which de ne the ensemble. A Julesz ensemble (h) has an associated probability d...

BACKGROUND Choice of food is an imperative aspect of quality of life for residents in Residential Aged Care Homes (RACHs), where overall choice and control is diminished upon entering a home to receive care. The purpose of this study was to examine the current strategies of menu planning in a range of RACHs in Australia, and whether this facilitated appropriate levels of choice for residents re...

Novel results elucidating the magnitude, binocularity and retinotopicity of aftereffects of visual texture density adaptation are reported as is a new contingent aftereffect of texture density which suggests that the perception of visual texture density is quite malleable. Texture aftereffects contingent upon orientation, color and temporal sequence are discussed. A fourth effect is demonstrate...

Secondary surface texture is of great significance to morphological variety and further expands the application areas of electrospun nanofibers. This paper presents the possibility of directly electrospinning grooved polystyrene (PS) fibers using both single and binary solvent systems. Solvents were classified as low boiling point solvent (LBPS): dichloromethane (DCM), acetone (ACE), and tetrah...

Ultrasonography is an invaluable and widely used medical imaging tool. Nevertheless, automatic texture analysis on ultrasound images remains a challenging issue. This work presents and investigates a texture representation scheme on thyroid ultrasound images for the detection of hypoechoic and isoechoic thyroid nodules, which present the highest malignancy risk. The proposed scheme is based on ...

The primate orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) is a site of convergence from taste, olfactory, and somatosensory cortical areas. We describe a population of single neurons in the macaque OFC that responds to the texture of food in the mouth. Use of oral viscosity stimuli consisting of carboxymethylcellulose (CMC) in the range 1-10,000 centipoise showed that the responses of one subset of these neurons ...

The range space of dynamic textures spans spatiotemporal phenomena that vary along three fundamental dimensions: spatial texture, spatial texture layout, and dynamics. By describing each dimension with appropriate spatial or temporal features and by equipping it with a suitable distance measure, elementary distances (one for each dimension) between dynamic texture sequences can be computed. In ...

Projected texture based 3D sensing modalities are being increasingly used for a variety of 3D computer vision applications. However, these sensing modalities, exemplified by the Microsoft Kinect Sensor, suffer from severe drawbacks that hamper the quality of the range estimate output from the sensor. It is well known that the quality of reconstruction of the 3D projected texture for range estim...

Patch-based texture synthesis algorithms produce reasonable results for a wide variety of texture classes. They preserve global structure, but often introduce unwanted visual artifacts along patch boundaries. Pixel-based synthesis algorithms, on the other hand, tend to blur out small objects while maintaining a consistent texture impression, which in return doesn’t necessarily resemble the inpu...