Images are the standard input for vision algorithms, but one-shot infield reflectance measurements are creating new opportunities for recognition and scene understanding. In this work, we address the question of what reflectance can reveal about materials in an efficient manner. We go beyond the question of recognition and labeling and ask the question: What intrinsic physical properties of the...

Abstrac t . We employ a specification and refinement technique based on stream.q to solve the RPC-memory specification problem. Streams are used to represent the communication histories of channels. We distinguish between input and output streams. Each input stream represents the communication history of an input channel; each output stream represents the communication history of an output chan...

In an interconnected world such as the one envisioned by pervasive computing, systems should be able to react to stimuli received from the environment in a streaming fashion. Reactions may include not only performing local updates, but also sending and asking for information from other systems, waiting for responses, and requesting for changes. In this paper we give a short introduction to the ...

To define whether the beta diversity of stream invertebrate communities in New Zealand exhibits geographical variation unexplained by variation in gamma diversity and, if so, what mechanisms (productivity, habitat heterogeneity, dispersal limitation, disturbance) best explain the observed broad-scale beta diversity patterns. We sampled 120 streams across eight regions (stream catchments), spann...

~ The major effect of removing riparian vegetation and wood from streams has been the changes in channel form (widening, deepening and straightening) that have occurred. It is important to consider that we are returning vegetation to a channel system that now has a much larger flow capacity. ~ The major hydrological effect of returning vegetation to streams is via its influence on roughness and...

We examined the effect of decomposing leaf litter and dissolved inorganic nutrients on the heterotrophic biofilm of submerged wood in streams with and without leaves. Leaf litter was excluded from one headwater stream in August 1993 at Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory in the southern Appalachian Mountains. We compared microbial processes on wood in the litter-excluded stream to a reference stream ...

Social semantic data are becoming a reality, but apparently their streaming nature has been ignored so far. Streams, being unbounded sequences of time-varying data elements, should not be treated as persistent data to be stored “forever” and queried on demand, but rather as transient data to be consumed on the fly by queries which are registered once and for all and keep analyzing such streams,...

FaceMe is an accessible head-tracker vision-based interface for users who cannot use standard input methods for mobile devices. We present two user studies to evaluate FaceMe as an alternative to touch input. The first presents performance and satisfaction results for twelve able-bodied participants. We also describe a case study with four motorimpaired participants with multiple sclerosis. In ...

The spatial occupancy patterns and activity of cattle grazing three riparian pastures was investigated in northeastern Oregon using Global Positioning System (GPS) collars logging at 1-sec intervals. Cattle consistently selected plant communities as grazing areas that had forage in sufficient volume to meet their requirements and favored communities as resting areas that were dry and open. Catt...

Anthropogenic land-cover change is driving biodiversity loss worldwide. At the epicenter of this crisis lies Southeast Asia, where biodiversity-rich forests are being converted to oil-palm monocultures. As demand for palm oil increases, there is an urgent need to find strategies that maintain biodiversity in plantations. Previous studies found that retaining forest patches within plantations be...