This paper proposes a method for helping to identify adult web sites by using the imagecontent as means of detecting erotic material. The image content is classified by investigating probable skin-regions, and extracting their feature vectors. These feature vectors are based on color-, texture-, contour-, placement-, and relative size-information for a given region. The importance of the differ...

Global population growth and increasing demand for pig meat will continue to place pressure on the world’s pork supply. To meet demand the pig industry must become more efficient. One way to increase production efficiency would be to raise boars rather than castrates . However, pork from some boars can have an offensive smell and taste, known as ‘boar taint’. Because of this most of the world’s...

Since the Law of Offensive Odor Control was enacted, many enterprises have made efforts to prevent odor nuisance. Odor survey was conducted at each factory and characteristics of odor emission for each kind of business were made clear. And many researches and developments have been carried out to confirm reliable technique. In order to remove odorants from exhaust gas, deodorizing plants have b...