Automatic Image Cropping is a challenging task with many practical downstream applications. The often divided into sub-problems - generating cropping candidates, finding the visually important regions, and determining aesthetics to select most appealing candidate. Prior approaches model one or more of these separately, combine them sequentially. We propose novel convolutional neural network (CN...

Despite recent significant advancement in the area of pedestrian detection in images, little effort has been devoted to algorithm evaluation for practical purposes. Typically, detectors are evaluated only on color images. It is not clear how the performance would be affected if other modalitites are used e.g. thermal or near infrared. Also, detectors are evaluated on cropped images that have th...

Physalis minima is an herbaceous plant and inhabitant of the porous and organic matter containing soil of bunds in crop fields, wastelands, around the houses, and on the roadsides. S. rolfsii is soil borne and it can infect over 500 plant species of different families. It is of interest to study the pathogenesis of S. rolfsii on P. minima. The S. rolfsii isolated from P. minima (physr1) was cha...

Concern over nonpoint source P losses from agricultural lands to surface waters in frigid climates has focused attention on the role of freezing and thawing on P loss from catch crops (cover crops). This study evaluated the effect of freezing and thawing on the fate of P in bare soils, soils mixed with dairy manure, and soils with an established catch crop of annual ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum...

Pitfall traps were used to sample Carabidae in agricultural land of the Spercheios valley, Fthiotida, Central Greece. Four pairs of cultivated fields were sampled. One field of each pair was located in a heterogeneous area and the other in a more homogeneous area. Heterogeneous areas were composed of small fields. They had high percentages of non-cropped habitats and a high diversity of land us...

To recognize face sketch through face photo database is a challenging task for today’s researchers. Because face photo images in training set and face sketch images in testing set have different modality. Difference between two face photos of difference person is smaller than the difference between same person in a face photo and face sketched. In this paper, for reduction of the modality betwe...