We determined the blood meal size-fecundity relationship in Anopheles gambiae in the laboratory. Our primary interest was to determine whether the fecundity curve has a non-linear component, i.e.. does it decelerate towards an asymptote? Small and large adult females in their second gonotrophic cycle were fed on human hosts for predetermined lengths of time. Blood meal size was ascertained by w...

3-D curve moments and curve moment invariants under similarity transformation are defined in this paper. 3-D curve moment invariants can be used as shape descriptors for the representation of parametric curves. We use them to describe some commonly used parametric curves and test the invariance of them in the experiment.

Classification performance is often not uniform over the data. Some areas in the input space are easier to classify than others. Features that hold information about the ”difficulty” of the data may be nondiscriminative and are therefore disregarded in the classification process. We propose a meta-learning approach where performance may be improved by post-processing. This improvement is done b...

Can the organization of local edge measurements into curves be directly related to natural image structure? By viewing curve organization as a statistical estimation problem, we suggest that it can. In particular, the classical Gestalt perceptual organization cues of proximity and good continuation—the basis of many current curve organization systems—can be statistically measured in images. As ...

Most of the applications in image analysis are based on Freeman chain code. In this paper, for the first time, vertex chain code (VCC) proposed by Bribiesca is applied to improve length estimation of the 2D digitized curve. The chain code has some preferences such as stable in shifting, turning, mirroring movement of image and has normalized starting point. Due to the variety of length estimato...

H. Lin ·W. Chen ( ) ·G. Wang State Key Laboratory of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, 310027 [email protected] Abstract Curve reconstruction that generates a piece of centric curve from a piece of planar stripshaped point cloud is a fundamental problem in reverse engineering. In this paper, we present a new curvereconstruction algorithm based on an interval B-spline curve. The...

We extend the notion of an invalid-curve attack from elliptic curves to genus 2 hyperelliptic curves. We also show that invalid singular (hyper)elliptic curves can be used in mounting invalid-curve attacks on (hyper)elliptic curve cryptosystems, and make quantitative estimates of the practicality of these attacks. We thereby show that proper key validation is necessary even in cryptosystems bas...

The standard derivation of the accelerationist Phillips curve relates expected real wage in ation to the unemployment rate and invokes a constant price markup and adaptive expectations to generate the accelerationist price in ation formula. Blanch ower and Oswald (1994) argue that microeconomic evidence of a low autoregression coe cient in real wage regressions invalidates the macroeconomic Phi...

Intersection points of curves are the basic elements for many algorithms in the CAD/CAM area. In most circumstances, the key property of an intersection point is the behavior of the curves in a neighborhood of that intersection point. This paper presents the classi3cation of intersection pointsfiom the differential geometric point of view in terms of the movement ofparticles along curves. The m...