An alternative technique for shape morphing using a surface generating method using partial differential equations is outlined throughout this work. The boundaryvalue nature that is inherent to this surface generation technique together with its mathematical properties are hereby exploited for creating intermediate shapes between an initial shape and a final one. Four alternative shape morphing...

Vocal effort modification of natural speech is an asset to various applications, in particular, for adding flexibility to concatenative voice synthesis systems. Although decreasing vocal effort is not particularly difficult, increasing vocal effort is a challenging issue. It requires the generation of artificial harmonics in the voice spectrum, along with transformation of the spectral envelope...

Computer Music Journal Kelly Fitz,* Lippold Haken, Susanne Lefvert,†† Corbin Champion,§ and Mike O’Donnell *Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Washington State University kŽ [email protected] †CERL Sound Group University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [email protected] ††Lulea University of Technology and Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago slefv...

BACKGROUND Chemical space is virtual space occupied by all chemically meaningful organic compounds. It is an important concept in contemporary chemoinformatics research, and its systematic exploration is vital to the discovery of either novel drugs or new tools for chemical biology. RESULTS In this paper, we describe Molpher, an open-source framework for the systematic exploration of chemical...

Visual morphing is a class of techniques that deal with the metamorphosis of one image into another, which generates a series of smoothly continuous intermediate images between two given images. Over the past few years, a number of computable models of visual morphing have been developed. However, most of these models are based on the pixel domain. Little theoretical and computational work of v...

Monitoring the shape of morphing structures is essential for their effective and safe operation. However, current sensing systems such as fiber optic ensors are expensive, brittle, and unsuitable for monitoring large shape changes without being susceptible to failure or performance degradation. herefore, a new class of sensors that does not suffer from these serious limitations is presented. Th...

Despite recent advances in software for meshing specimen-specific geometries, considerable effort is still often required to produce and analyze specimen-specific models suitable for biomechanical analysis through finite element modeling. We hypothesize that it is possible to obtain accurate models by adapting a pre-existing geometry to represent a target specimen using morphing techniques. Her...

This position paper describes how the mobile internet is changing the face of the transportation cyberphysical system at a rapid pace and what impact this has on urban travel. In the last five years, cellular phone technology has leapfrogged several attempts to construct dedicated infrastructure systems to monitor traffic. Today, GPS equipped smartphones are progressively morphing into a ubiqui...

The main aim of this thesis work is to find/implement various methods that convert Conventional Stereoscopic 3D Video (CSV) to Multiview video (MVV). The work investigates different methods that can produce multiple views given a stereoscopic pair from a frame of a particular video sequence and continues with the process of selecting the best among investigated methods that has optimum quality ...

In this paper, soft-morphing, deformation control by fabric structures and soft-jumping mechanisms using magnetic yield points are studied. The durability adaptability of existing rigid-base jumping improved a soft-morphing process that employs the residual stress polymer. Although rigid body-based used, they driven multiple components complex structures. Therefore, have drawbacks in terms shoc...