Decision makers have been found to bias their interpretation of incoming information to support an emerging judgment (predecisional information distortion). This is a robust finding in human judgment, and was recently also established and measured in physicians’ diagnostic judgments (Kostopoulou et al. 2012). The two studies reported here extend this work by addressing the constituent modes of ...

In this paper we obtain coefficient characterization‎, ‎extreme points and‎ ‎distortion bounds for the classes of harmonic $p-$valent functions‎ ‎defined by certain modified operator‎. ‎Some of our results improve‎ ‎and generalize previously known results‎.

The problem of asymptotic (i.e., low-distortion) behavior of the rate-distortion function of a random vector is investigated for a class of non-difference distortion measures. The main result is an asymptotically tight expression which parallels the Shannon lower bound for difference distortion measures. For example, for an input-weighted squared error distortion measure d(x; y) = kW (x)(y x)k2...

In photogrammetric applications, the measurements are conducted on images given by optical imaging systems (cameras). In order to ensure the demanded accuracy, those cameras have to be well calibrated geometrically. A new method for measuring glass lens distortion based on using distortion-free pinhole lens is proposed, where the measure of the distortion progress is derived by comparing two im...

FeedForward (FF-) Blind Source Separation (BSS) systems have some degree of freedom in the solution space. Therefore, signal distortion is likely to occur. First, a criterion for the signal distortion is discussed. Properties of conventional methods proposed to suppress the signal distortion are analyzed. Next, a general condition for complete separation and distortion-free is derived for multi...

Two experiments for evaluating psychophysical distortion metrics for JPEG-encoded images are described. The first is a threshold experiment, in which subjects determined the bit rate or level of distortion at which distortion was just noticeable. The second is a suprathreshold experiment in which subjects ranked image blocks according to perceived distortion. The results of these experiments we...

In order to achieve a 3D, either Euclidean or projective, reconstruction with high precision, one has to consider lens distortion. In almost all work on multiple-views problems in computer vision, a camera is modeled as a pinhole. Lens distortion has usually been corrected off-line. This paper intends to consider lens distortion as an integral part of a camera. We first describe the epipolar ge...

the mathematical aspect of cartographic mapping is a process which establishes a unique connection between points of the earth’s sphere and their images on a plane. it was proven in differential geometry that an isometric mapping of a sphere onto a plane with all corresponding distances on both surfaces remaining identical can never be achieved since the two surfaces do not possess the same gau...

With repeated exposure to a distorted visual environment, an individual perceives less distortion on each subsequent occasion. This positive advantage of repeated exposure is found to transfer to a different distortion, provided the subject has not had too much experience with the first distortion. Overtraining on one distortion cancels any positive transfer of advantage from one distortion to ...

Tungsten Inert Gas (TIG) welding is a widely applied manufacturing process. Angular distortion is a major problem and most pronounced among different types of distortion in the butt welded plates. This angular distortion is mainly due to nonuniform transverse shrinkage along the depth of the plates welded. Restriction of this distortion by restraint may lead to higher residual stresses. However...