The current paper provides methods to correct the artifact known as “red eye” by means of digital color image processing. This artifact is typically formed in amateur photographs taken with a built-in camera flash. To correct red eye artifacts, an image mask is computed by calculating a colorimetric distance between a prototypical reference “red eye” color and each pixel of the image containing...

Non-linear vibration of the CRT shadow mask with impact damping wires is analyzed in consideration of the mask tension distribution and the effect of wire impact damping. A reduced order FEM model of the shadow mask is obtained from dynamic condensation of the mass and stiffness matrices, and damping wire is modelled using the lumped parameter method to effectively describe its contact interact...

results the mean heart rate values were significantly less in the sevoflurane group (p value < 0.05) at 25 minutes after the surgery. the mean blood pressure in the isoflurane group was significantly higher compared with the sevoflurane group in 10, 20 and 30 minutes after the surgery (p values = 0.0131, 0.0373 and 0.0028, respectively). these differences were clinically unimportant because hea...

PMAC is a simple and parallel block-cipher mode of operation, which was introduced by Black and Rogaway at Eurocrypt 2002. If instantiated with a (pseudo)random permutation over n-bit strings, PMAC constitutes a provably secure variable input-length (pseudo)random function. For adversaries making q queries, each of length at most ` (in n-bit blocks), and of total length σ ≤ q`, the original pap...

In this article, we approach the ExaminationTimetabling Problem (ETP) from a student-centric point of view. We allow for multiple versions of an exam to be scheduled to increase the spreading of exams for students. We propose two Column Generation (CG) algorithms. In the first approach, a column is defined as an exam schedule for every unique student group, and two Pricing Problems (PPs) are de...

In this paper we report on a series of user trials carried out to assess the performance and usability of the MASK prototype kiosk. The aim of the ESPRIT Multimodal Multimedia Service Kiosk (MASK) project was to pave the way for more advanced public service applications with user interfaces employing multimodal, multi-media input and output. The prototype kiosk, was developed after analysis of ...

The customized multiple arrays are becoming vastly used in microarray experiments for varies purposes, mainly for its ability to handle a large quantity of data and output high quality results. However, experimenters who use customized multiple arrays still face many problems, such as the cost and time to manufacture the masks, and the cost for production of the multiple arrays by costly machin...

Several types of countermeasures against side-channel attacks are known. The one called masking is of great interest since it can be applied to any protocol and/or algorithm, without nonetheless requiring special care at the implementation level. Masking countermeasures are usually studied with the maximal possible entropy for the masks. However, in practice, this requirement can be viewed as t...