We used an equivalent noise (EN) paradigm to examine how the human visual system pools local estimates of direction across space in order to encode global direction. Observers estimated the mean direction (clockwise or counter-clockwise of vertical) of a field of moving band-pass elements whose directions were drawn from a wrapped normal distribution. By measuring discrimination thresholds for ...

The recent booming of multiphoton imaging of collagen fibrils by means of second harmonic generation microscopy generates the need for the development and automation of quantitative methods for image analysis. Standard approaches sequentially analyse two-dimensional (2D) slices to gain knowledge on the spatial arrangement and dimension of the fibrils, whereas the reconstructed three-dimensional...

Gene flow through dispersal has traditionally been thought to function as a force opposing evolutionary differentiation. However, directional gene flow may actually reinforce divergence of populations in close proximity. This study documents the phenotypic differentiation over more than two decades in body size (tarsus length) at a very short spatial scale (1.1 km) within a population of pied f...

It is a great challenge to obtain narrowband and photomultiplication (PM) type organic photodetectors (OPDs) without optical filters due to the broad absorption range and large exciton binding energy of organic materials. Narrowband OPDs with the special structure of ITO/PFN-OX/P3HT : PC61BM (100 : 1,wt/wt)/Al were successfully fabricated with different active layer thicknesses, exhibiting a tu...

A deeper understanding of a distribution support, being able to determine regions certain (possibly high) probability content is an important task in several research fields. Package HDiR for R designed exact computation directional (circular and spherical) highest density level sets when the fully known. Otherwise, implements nonparametric plug-in methods based on different kernel estimates re...

Directional antennas have been proposed to improve the performance and capacity of Wireless MAC protocols for use in Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs). Such antennas focus their beams in the direction of their receiver, allowing more of the signal power to be used in the direction of the transmission and simultaneously reducing the interference in other directions. However, several challenges and...

In this project report, we design a MAC protocol for direction-t0-directional (DtDMAC) transmission. We study the issues that face this type of transmission and then design an efficient protocol that is derived from the IEEE 802.11 DCF MAC protocol to address these issues. We present some preliminary simulation results that prove the feasibility of the proposed protocol.

Issue of the iterated filters in the directional filter bank is examined. The result is called pyramidal directional filter bank PDFB. Recently.NDFB with a new multiscale pyramid, we propose the surfacelet transform, which. A Frequency partitioning of the directional filter bank with 3 levels.In this paper, multiscale directional filter bank MDFB is investigated for texture characterization. Te...

The information divergence of a probability measure P from an exponential family E over a nite set is de ned as in mum of the divergences of P from Q subject to Q ∈ E . All directional derivatives of the divergence from E are explicitly found. To this end, behaviour of the conjugate of a log-Laplace transform on the boundary of its domain is analysed. The rst order conditions for P to be a maxi...