A comprehensive compilation of published optical properties (absorption, scattering, total attenuation, effective attenuation, andlor anisotropy coefficients) of various biological tissues at a variety of wavelengths is presented. The theoretical foundations for most experimental approaches are outlined. Relations between Kubelka-Munk parameters and transport coefficients are listed. The optica...

A feature extraction technique for face verification is proposed. It utilises polynomial coefficients derived from 2D discrete cosine transform (DCT) coefficients of neighbouring blocks. Experimental results suggest that the technique is more robust against illumination direction changes than 2D Gabor wavelets, 2D DCT and eigenface methods. Moreover, compared to Gabor wavelets, the proposed tec...

Today, image fusion as one kind of information integrated technology has played an important role in many fields. This paper presents a novel wavelet based technique for image fusion, which is developed by taking into account the physical meaning of the wavelet coefficients. The images to be fused are firstly decomposed into high frequency and low frequency bands by wavelet transform. Then, by ...

In this paper fusion of visual and thermal images in wavelet transformed domain has been presented. Here, Daubechies wavelet transform, called as D2, coefficients from visual and corresponding coefficients computed in the same manner from thermal images are combined to get fused coefficients. After decomposition up to fifth level (Level 5) fusion of coefficients is done. Inverse Daubechies wave...

Wavelet shrinkage is an image denoising technique based on the concept of thresholding the wavelet coefficients. The key challenge of wavelet shrinkage is to find an appropriate threshold value, which is typically controlled by the signal variance. To tackle this challenge, a new image shrinkage approach, called AntShrink, is proposed in this paper. The proposed approach exploits the intra-scal...

in the procedure of designing an underwater vehicle or robot, its maneuverability and controllability must be simulated and tested, before the product is finalized for manufacturing. since the hydrodynamic forces and moments highly affect the dynamic and maneuverability of the system, they must be estimated with a reasonable accuracy. in this study, hydrodynamic coefficients of an autonomous un...

Three-factor interaction for the two-level, three-level, and four-level factorial designs was studied. A new technique and formula based on the coefficients of orthogonal polynomial contrast were proposed to calculate the effect of the three-factor interaction The results show that the proposed technique was in agreement with the least squares method. The advantages of the new technique are 1) ...

In [AO] the authors study Steiner bundles via their unstable hyperplanes and proved that (see [AO], Tmm 5.9) : A rank n Steiner bundle on Pn which is SL(2,C) invariant is a Schwarzenberger bundle. In this note we give a very short proof of this result based on Clebsch-Gordon problem for SL(2,C)modules.

We analyse a supersymmetric string-inspired model of all fermion masses and mixing angles based on the Pati-Salam SU(4)×SU(2)L×SU(2)R gauge group supplemented by a U(1)X flavour symmetry. The model involves third family Yukawa unification and predicts the top mass and the ratio of the vacuum expectation values tanβ. The model also provides a successful description of the CKM matrix and predicts...

Dynamical quantum groups were recently introduced by Etingof and Varchenko as an algebraic framework for studying the dynamical Yang–Baxter equation, which is precisely the Yang–Baxter equation satisfied by 6j-symbols. We investigate one of the simplest examples, generalizing the standard SU(2) quantum group. The matrix elements for its corepresentations are identified with Askey–Wilson polynom...