This paper presents an approach to localizing functional objects in surveillance videos without domain knowledge about semantic object classes that may appear in the scene. Functional objects do not have discriminative appearance and shape, but they affect behavior of people in the scene. For example, they “attract” people to approach them for satisfying certain needs (e.g., vending machines co...

Environmental enrichment (EE) is a non-pharmacological manipulation that promotes diverse forms of benefits in the central nervous system of captive animals. It is thought that EE influences animal behavior in a specie-(strain)-specific manner. Since rodents in general present different behaviors during distinct periods of the day, in this study we aimed to investigate the influence of time-of-...

abhar-al asheghin is full of imageries. the active mind of roozbahan has rendered the work with a chain of connected similes . in this paper, inspired by the conceptual metaphor theory and in a framework called as “ domain simile” these similes were studied. in “ domain simile” , the elements of one domain or category are in concordance with elements of another domain;a simile is considered as ...

Dark energy is the constituent with an enormous abundance in present Universe, responsible for Universe's accelerated expansion. Therefore, it plausible that dark may interact within any compact astrophysical object. The author [S. S. Yazadjiev, Phys. Rev. D 83, 127501 (2011)] constructs exact star solution consisting of ordinary matter and a phantom field from constant density (CDS) known as S...

Recent studies on visuomotor processes using virtual setups have suggested that actions are affected by similar biases as perceptual tasks. In particular, a strong lack of depth constancy is revealed, resembling biases in perceptual estimates of relative depth. With this study we aim to understand whether these findings are mostly caused by a lack of metric accuracy of the visuomotor system or ...

DSP/IC LAB, Graduate Institute of Electronic Engineering, National Taiwan University {mpemial, ztdjbdy, kevin, penal, lgchen}@video.ee.ntu.edu.tw Do not type page numbers; Full papers are limited to 3 (minimum) to 5 (maximum) pages. Abstract This paper provides 2D to 3D conversion system based on dark channel prior. This method has low computation and high performance on outdoor scene. However ...

An observation of the gravitationally lensed system 2016+112 with the Chandra X-ray Observatory has resolved a mystery regarding the proposed presence of a dark matter object in the lens plane of this system. The Chandra ACIS observation has clearly detected the lensed images of 2016+112 with positions in good agreement with those reported in the optical and also detects 13 additional X-ray sou...