This paper studied the different impacts of two compensation frames, “giving refunds” and “offering discounts”, on consumer’s perceived fairness in the recovery of online pricing error. We found that people perceived more fairness from a negative frame “offering discounts” than from a positive frame “giving refunds” in general. Then we introduced the regulatory fit theory to elucidate the compe...

Three-dimensional visual communications, made through the use of stereoscopic images, are able to achieve total display realism. In order to create a 3D system with two images (left and right) that should be transmitted simultaneously, the large amount of information contained in the images should be reduced, and an e$cient coding appropriate for stereoscopic images is developed. Stereoscopic i...

Modern optical imaging techniques demonstrate significant potential for high resolution in vivo angiography. Optoacoustic angiography benefits from higher imaging depth as compared to pure optical modalities. However, strong attenuation of optoacoustic signal with depth provides serious challenges for adequate 3D vessel net mapping, and proper compensation for fluence distribution within biotis...

Depth image-based representation (DIMR) has recently been adopted into MPEG-4 Animation Framework eXtension (AFX). However, how to compress depth image sequences is not addressed. In this paper, we discuss the compression of the depth image sequences. Since depth maps should be kept accurate for many application scenarios, they are compressed losslessly using run-length like coding scheme. One ...

Patient motion compensation is challenging for dynamic 2D/3-D overlay in interventional procedures. A first motion compensation approach based on depth-layers has been recently proposed, where 3-D motion can be estimated by tracking feature points on 2-D X-ray images. However, the sparse depth estimation introduces a systematic error. In this paper, we present a theoretical analysis on the syst...

OBJECTIVES The most common occupational disease that is compensated by Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance (IACI) in Korea is musculoskeletal disease (MSD). Although complaints about the workers' compensation system have been raised by injured workers with MSD, studies that examine workers' experiences with the Korean system are rare. This paper is a qualitative study designed to examine...