In this paper we present a novel slanted-plane model which reasons jointly about occlusion boundaries as well as depth. We formulate the problem as one of inference in a hybrid MRF composed of both continuous (i.e., slanted 3D planes) and discrete (i.e., occlusion boundaries) random variables. This allows us to define potentials encoding the ownership of the pixels that compose the boundary bet...

In this paper we study the hyperbolic and Euclidean area distortion of measurable sets under some classes of K-quasiconformal mappings from the upper half-plane and the unit disk onto themselves, respectively.

The retinal image of a figure on a slanted picture is narrower than that of a figure on a frontal picture. In this study, the perceived width of various figures (horizontal line segments, ellipses, faces, symbolic faces, and artistic pictures) on a slanted picture plane was measured. The width of the figures was magnified or reduced in order to vary the naturalness of the original figures. The ...

A temporal integration model is proposed that predicts the results reported in 4 psychophysical experiments. The main findings were (a) the initial part of a structure-from-motion (SFM) sequence influences the orientation evoked by the final part of that sequence (an effect lasting for more than 1 s), and (b) for oscillating SFM sequences, perceived slant is affected by the oscillation frequenc...

We propose a right triangular prism-shaped microdevice with serpentine microchannels fabricated on its slanted plane, and apply the device for on-chip flow-through PCR employing a single heater. The inclined nature of the qiandu-shaped microdevice enables the formation of a surface temperature gradient along the slanted plane of the microchannel by the use of a single heater. A 409 bp lung canc...