This paper introduces a novel shape representation which performs shape analysis in a hierarchical fashion using Gaussian and Laplacian pyramids. A background on hierarchical shape analysis is given along with a detailed explanation of the hierarchical method, and results are shown on natural contours. A comparison is performed between the new method and our proposed approach using Point Distri...

Taking up and extending earlier suggestions, we show how twoand three-dimensional shapes of secondorder HBT correlations can be described in a multivariate Edgeworth expansion around Gaussian ellipsoids, with expansion coefficients, identified as the cumulants of pair momentum difference q, acting as shape parameters. Off-diagonal terms dominate both the character and magnitude of shapes. Cumul...

In this technical report we derive the analytic form of the Hessian matrix for shape matching energy. Shape matching (Fig. 1) is a useful technique for meshless deformation, which can be easily combined with multiple techniques in real-time dynamics (refer to [MHTG05, BMM15] for more details). Nevertheless, it has been rarely applied in scenarios where implicit (such as backward differentiation...

We describe a logic of preference in which modal connectives reflect reasons to desire that a sentence be true. Various conditions on models are introduced and analyzed.

Numerous reasons for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system acquisitions in organizations have been proposed in the prior research. In this paper these different reasons for ERP system acquisitions are synthesized and categorized into technological and business reasons. Further, the prevalence of the different reasons is explored with an empirical data concerning the ERP acquisition in 41 Fi...