This paper presents an improved template matching method that combines both spatial and orientation information in a simple and effective way. The spatial information is obtained through a generalized distance transform (GDT) that weights the distance transform more on the strong edge pixels and the orientation information is represented as an orientation map (OM) which is calculated from local...

Both face recognition and biological-motion perception are strongly orientation-dependent. Recognition performance decreases if the stimuli are rotated with respect to their normal upright orientation. Here, the question whether this effect operates in egocentric coordinates or in environmental coordinates is examined. In addition to the use of rotated stimuli the observers were also rotated an...

A strong inhomogeneous static electric field is used to spatially disperse a rotationally cold supersonic beam of 2,6-difluoroiodobenzene molecules according to their rotational quantum state. The molecules in the lowest-lying rotational states are selected and used as targets for 3-dimensional alignment and orientation. The alignment is induced in the adiabatic regime with an elliptically pola...

heat treated In2O3 nanowalls using FULLPROF. [1] A Thompson-Cox-Hastings pseudo-Voigt profile function was used to simulate the In2O3 as well as the SnO2 phase resulting from the FTO substrate. Preferred orientation has been taken into account in all refinements. The final Rietveld refinement plots are shown in Figure 2c-d in the main text. The FTO substrate in both patterns showed a strong pre...

In the visual cortex, orientation domains are arranged in complex patterns, assumed to exhibit a high degree of interindividual variability. In the present study, we quantitatively analyzed this variability using 2-deoxyglucose (2-DG) labeled patterns of orientation domains in area 17 of cat visual cortex. We calculated wavelengths, correlation-lengths, anisotropy parameters and band-parallelis...

In the present work, we perform molecular dynamics simulations corroborated by experimental validations to elucidate the underlying deformation mechanisms of single-crystalline aluminum under direct imprint using a rigid silicon master. We investigate the influence of crystallographic orientation on the microscopic deformation behavior of the substrate materials and its correlation with the mac...

We provide novel evidence for a two-stage model of visual search applied to the selection based on top-down cues to stimulus colour and orientation. The model supposes that visual displays are first parsed into colour based groups, a process that is modulated by the presence of an initial cue to the target's colour. Subsequently search is directed to other featural properties represented within...