Metamorphosis is generally known as the continuous evolution of a source into a target. There is frame-to-frame camera or object motion most of the time when either the source or the target is an image sequence. It would be desirable to make smooth morphing transitions simultaneously along with the original motion. In this paper, we describe a novel semi-automatic morphing technique for image s...

Abstract: The optical flow can be viewed as the assignment problem between the pixels of consecutive video frames. The problem to determine the optical flow is addressed for many decades because of its central relevance. This paper gives a short resume about classical methods. Afterwards advanced Markov random fields are developed. The challenge and beauty of this approach consists of the large...

Velocity fields for Poiseuille flow through tubes having general cross section are calculated using a path integral method involving the first-passage times of random walks in the interior of the cross sectional domain B of the pipe. This method is applied to a number of examples where exact results are available and to more complicated geometries of practical interest. These examples include a...

[1] Ocean flow moves sea water through the Earth’s magnetic field, inducing electric fields, currents and secondary magnetic fields. These motionally induced magnetic fields have a potential for the remote sensing of ocean flow variability. A first goal must be to gain a better understanding of magnetic field generation by tidal ocean flow. We predict the motionally induced magnetic fields for ...

BACKGROUND Characterizing the spatial patterns of gene flow from transgenic crops is challenging, making it difficult to design containment strategies for markets that regulate the adventitious presence of transgenes. Insecticidal Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) cotton is planted on millions of hectares annually and is a potential source of transgene flow. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Here we m...

The problem of potential flow of a second-order fluid around an ellipsoid is solved, following general expressions in Lamb (1993), and the flow and stress fields are computed. The flow fields are determined by the harmonic potential but the stress fields depend on viscosity and the parameters of the second-order fluid. The stress fields on the surface of a tri-axial ellipsoid depend strongly on...