Video rewrite is a new field of research aiming to utilize the photo-realism of real video input to synthesize new video output without having three dimensional (3D) information of the scene. It can be categorized under the emerging field of image-based rendering (IBR) or more specifically videobased rendering. The main advantage of video rewrite is the realism it offers because it directly use...

Introduction: The California Coastal Sediment Management Workgroup (CSMW) has requested proposals from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Western Coastal and Marine Geology Team (WCMG) to evaluate the transport and fate of fine sediments discharged into California coastal waters. The rationale for this proposed work is a need to better understand the environmental consequences of beach nourishme...

On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) is an analytical technology used to analyse multidimensional data and evaluate complex queries. OLAP is part of a broader technology suite, known as Business Intelligence (BI), which identifies trends in data sets and facilitates better informed choices. The size of data sets requiring processing is growing very fast; this is due to the nature of the data (h...

ion [39, 20] The main idea behind abstraction is to attempt to simplify the system (creating the abstracted model), which, if a temporal property holds on the abstracted system, then it also holds on the concrete system. Abstraction has been looked at from a MAS point of view by simplifying the local states, the local protocol and the local evolution function of each agent [22], the result bein...

Video is incredibly stimulating in electronic commu-nications and multimedia applications. Video can do a great deal to enhance a presentation, illustrate a proper technique, or advertise a new product. Video files are photographic images played at speeds that make it appear to the human eye as if the images or frames are in full motion. Such files can be extremely large because of the number o...

From a single two-dimensional image of a three-dimensional object or scene it is possible to extract substantial information about the original object or even partially reconstruct the image of the object from a different viewing angle.[4] This has many applications in the fields of architecture, archaeology, forensic science and many others. This analysis can provide, in the case of metrology,...

Rock mass description and characterisation is a basic task for exploration, mining work-flows and ground-water studies. Rock analysis can be performed using borehole logs that are created using a televiewer. Planar discontinuities in the rock appear as sinusoidal curves in borehole logs. The aim of this project is to develop a fast algorithm to analyse borehole imagery using image processing te...