conclusions pc-rplnd is one the major operations in the field of urology, which is associated with significant adjunctive surgeries. in appropriate cases, pc-rplnd was associated with good cancer specific survival in tertiary oncology center. results twenty-one patients underwent bilateral pc-rplnd. mean age was 26.3 years (ranged 16 - 47). mean size of retroperitoneal mass after chemotherapy w...

Using a reformulation of the Eichler-Selberg trace formula, due to Frechette, Ono and Papanikolas, we consider the problem of the vanishing (resp. non-vanishing) of traces of Hecke operators on spaces of even weight cusp forms with trivial Nebentypus character. For example, we show that for a fixed operator and weight, the set of levels for which the trace vanishes is effectively computable. Al...

We wish to determine whether design engineers commonly use central projections (convergence of parallel lines to a vanishing point) when sketching new shapes, rather than draw physically parallel lines as parallel. This paper describes a pilot experiment carried out to determine the presence and importance of central projections. Results suggest that designers rarely use vanishing points when s...

This work was partially funded by the French Space Agency (CNES) and Cognitech Inc. We would like to specially thank JeanMichel Morel for his encouragement, support, ideas, and for introducing us to Gestalt-based image analysis. A. Almansa would also like to thank Lenny Rudin and Pascal Monasse for useful discussions, references, and motivation to address this problem, as well as for adapting a...

This paper presents a novel technique for the estimation of the height of an object using a single camera view. In the proposed method, the only information required is the knowledge about the pose of the camera with respect to the world (i.e., height and pitch angle of the camera with respect to the ground) and a vanishing point. In the developed theory, the focal length may also be known, but...

The perspective projection models the way a 3D scene is transformed into a 2D image, usually through a camera or an eye. In a projective transformation, parallel lines intersect in a point called vanishing point. This paper presents in detail two calibration methods that exploit the properties of vanishing points. The aim of the paper is to offer a practical tool for the choice of the appropria...

This paper proposes a method for buildings change detection. Vertical edges of buildings are extracted in pairs of aerial images respectively, taking advantage of the character that vertical edges intersect at their vanishing point without fail. The ground coordinates of the vertices on each vertical edge are calculated according to projection difference and the principle of frontage intersecti...

Recovering the spatial layout of cluttered indoor scenes is a challenging problem. Current methods generate layout hypotheses from vanishing point estimates produced using 2D image features. This method fails in highly cluttered scenes in which most of the image features come from clutter instead of the room’s geometric structure. In this paper, we propose to use human detections as cues to mor...