This work focuses on the automatic monitoring of the natural environment using images of animals. An unsupervised 3D colour texture segmentation and recognition algorithm is developed and applied in the recognition of natural patterns (monkeys) in outdoor image scenes (Amazon Forest). We present an unsupervised segmentation algorithm, which uses 3D Graph-theoretical clustering for colour images...

As duration of snow cover decreases owing to climate change, species undergoing seasonal colour moults can become colour mismatched with their background. The immediate adaptive solution to this mismatch is phenotypic plasticity, either in phenology of seasonal colour moults or in behaviours that reduce mismatch or its consequences. We observed nearly 200 snowshoe hares across a wide range of s...

We investigated the figural dynamics of filling-in processes in figures with more than one possible figure-ground organisation. Using a central disk and two concentric rings as well as similar stimuli consisting of three nested squares or parallel stripes, we tested for filling-in with different equiluminant colour combinations. We observed four modes of filling-in: First, in most of the cases,...

The article describes a colour based recognition system with three novel features. Firstly, the proposed system can operate in environments where spectral characteristics of illumination change in both space and time. Secondly, benefits in terms of speed and quality of output are gained by focusing processing to areas of salient colour. Finally, an automatic model acquisition procedure allows r...

This study developed sensory polymeric materials for the colorimetric sensing of TNT in aqueous media. Solid films and coated fabrics permitted the detection of TNT, through colour change, and its quantification, by taking a picture of the materials and processing their RGB parameters to define the evolved colour.

This paper describes a colour-based recognition system with three novel features. Firstly, the proposed system can operate in environments where spectral characteristics of illumination change in both space and time. Secondly, benefits in terms of speed and quality of output are gained by focusing processing to areas of salient colour. Finally, an automatic model acquisition procedure allows ra...