In this paper, we propose a digital watermarking algorithm based on the Slant transform for the copyright protection of images. Our earlier research work associated with the fast Hadamard transform for robust watermark embedding and retrieval of images and characters suggests that this transform could also provide a good “hidden” space for digital watermarking. The Slant transform has many simi...

The contribution of interocular orientation differences to depth perception, at either the neuronal or the psychophysical level, is unclear. To understand the responses of binocular neurons to orientation disparity, we extended the energy model of Ohzawa et al. (1990) to incorporate binocular differences in receptive-field orientation. The responses of the model to grating stimuli with interocu...

We present a new design of plasmonic nanoantenna with slant gap for optical chirality engineering. At resonance, the slant gap provides highly enhanced electric field parallel to external magnetic field with a phase delay of π/2, resulting in enhanced optical chirality. We show by numerical simulations that upon linearly polarized excitation our nanoantenna can generate near field with enhanced...

Subjects were examined for practice effects in a stereoscopic slant-estimation task involving surfaces that comprised a large portion of the visual field. In most subjects slant estimation was significantly affected by practice, but only when an isolated surface (an absolute disparity gradient) was present in the visual field. When a second, unslanted, surface was visible (providing a second di...

BACKGROUND/PURPOSE It has been observed that disruptions in skin patterns are larger for malignant melanoma (MM) than benign lesions. In order to extend the classification results achieved for 2D skin patterns, this work intends to investigate the feasibility of lesion classification using 3D skin surface texture, in the form of surface normals acquired from a previously built six-light photome...

Gigantic size of multimedia data and images being generated stored and transmitted across the digital web today, which has raised new research concerns in computing field. One of such concerns is compression of such data with minimal quality distortion. In recent work, the hybrid wavelet transforms (HWT) are proven to be better in image compression as compared to the constituent transforms cons...

Subjects adjusted a local gauge figure such as to perceptually "fit" the apparent surfaces of objects depicted in photographs. We obtained a few hundred data points per session, covering the picture according to a uniform lattice. Settings were repeated 3 times for each of 3 subjects. Almost all of the variability resided in the slant; the relative spread in the slant was about 25% (Weber fract...

Inter-ocular differences in spatial frequency occur during binocular viewing of a surface slanted in depth. Cortical cells with inter-ocular differences in preferred spatial frequency (dif-frequency cells) are expected to detect surfaces slanted in depth or vertical surface slant. Using our reaction-diffusion model, we obtain receptive fields and responses of simple cells in layer IV in cat V1....

In this paper, a fast geometric rectification method for space-borne SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) digital image in slant range with no ground control point is introduced , which is based on the imaging principle of SAR and the law of geometric distortion in slant range image. The main idea is at first to resample a slant range SAR image to a ground range image with a definite ground spacing b...