We present a semi-parametric approach to photographic image synthesis from semantic layouts. The approach combines the complementary strengths of parametric and nonparametric techniques. The nonparametric component is a memory bank of image segments constructed from a training set of images. Given a novel semantic layout at test time, the memory bank is used to retrieve photographic references ...

The agricultural information resources is an important data assets, how to rationally plan, share and use of distributed storage of agricultural information resources, efficiently develop agricultural information resources, is the important issue of agricultural information resources needed to resolve. Based on the fully research on the current status of agricultural information systems, manage...

iran’s registration office which was established with the aim of registering four major life events (birth, death, marriage and divorce) made it clear that it was essential to gather the information on the country’s population and establish an agency in charge of gathering and producing statistics. consequently in 1924 a rule was passed in six articles whereby interior ministry became in charge...

The capacity of long-term memory is thought to be virtually unlimited. However, our memory bank may need to be pruned regularly to ensure that the information most important for behavior can be stored and accessed efficiently. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging of the human brain, we report the discovery of a context-based mechanism for determining which memories to prune. Specifically...

Thought disorder in schizophrenia may involve abnormal semantic activation or faulty working memory maintenance. Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded while sentences reading "THE NOUN WAS ADJECTIVE/VERB" were presented to 34 schizophrenic and 34 control subjects. Some nouns were homographs with dominant and subordinate meanings. Their sentence ending presented information crucial for i...

Non-Uniform Cache Architectures (NUCA) have been proposed as a solution to overcome wire delays that will dominate on-chip latencies in Chip Multiprocessor designs in the near future. This novel means of organization divides the total memory area into a set of banks that provides non-uniform access latencies and thus faster access to those banks that are close to the processor. A NUCA model can...