This thesis addresses the problem of Bayer-pattern video communications using Wyner-Ziv video coding (WZVC). It is studied how to take advantage of the low encoding complexity and the inherent error resiliency of WZVC for video compression and transmission. Moreover, it is investigated how to optimize the coding process specifically for Bayer-pattern video in order to improve the coding efficie...

Digital Still Color Cameras sample the color spectrum using a monolithic array of color filters overlaid on a charge coupled device array such that each pixel samples only one color band. The resulting mosaic of color samples is processed to produce a high resolution color image such that the values of the color bands not sampled at a certain location are estimated from its neighbors. This proc...

A new Bayer pattern demosaicking scheme for single-sensor digital cameras is introduced. The raw output from a sensor, mostly a charge coupled device (CCD) or a complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) sensor, with a Bayer filter represents a mosaic of red, green and blue pixels of different intensity. To interpolate the two missing color components in each spatial location and constitute...

Drug development is time consuming, resource intensive, risky, and heavily regulated. To ensure that it makes the best drug-development decisions, Bayer Pharmaceuticals (Pharma) uses a structured process based on the principles of decision analysis to evaluate the technical feasibility and market potential of its new drugs. In July 1999, the biological products leadership committee composed of ...

Canada in the mid-1980s, we know virtually nothing about contraceptive use among Canadians during the 1990s.2 The 1995 General Social Survey (GSS-95) collected detailed information on contraceptive use, as well as fertility and union histories, from a nationally representative sample of Canadian women and men aged 15 and older. The main objective of this article is to use these data to update o...