In this paper, we develop a novel framework for robust recovery of three-dimensional (3-D) surfaces of faces from single images. The underlying principle is shape from recognition, i.e., the idea that pre-recognizing face parts can constrain the space of possible solutions to the image irradiance equation, thus allowing robust recovery of the 3-D structure of a specific part. Parts of faces lik...

in this report, synthesis, characterization and application of silica perchloric acid nanosphere as a novel and heterogeneous catalyst is described. these nanospheres have been characterized by xrd, ft-ir, bet and tga spectra and also by sem and tem images. the results show that it has a spherical shape and the particles size are between 75 and 100 nm. the catalytic activity has been investigat...

UNLABELLED The human visual system must extract reliable object information from cluttered visual scenes several times per second, and this temporal constraint has been taken as evidence that the underlying cortical processing must be strictly feedforward. Here we use a novel rapid reinforcement paradigm to probe the temporal dynamics of the neural circuit underlying rapid object shape percepti...

Despite considerable efforts, description of molecular shape is still largely an unresolved problem. Given the importance of molecular shape in the description of spatial interactions in crystals or ligand-target complexes, this is not a satisfying state. In the current work, we propose a novel application of alpha shapes to the description of the shapes of small molecules. Alpha shapes are par...