This paper describes the use of a low level, computationally inexpensive closed form motion detector to define regions of interest within an image, based upon statistical measures. The algorithm requires only the first order properties of the image intensities and does not require known camera motion. It has been tested on a variety of real imagery. A b-spline snake is initialised on the occlud...

Societies with low-level food production economies occupy the vast and diverse middle ground between hunting–fishing–foraging and agriculture. Efforts by Ford, Harris, Rindos, Zvelebil, and others to characterize this “in-between” territory are discussed, and a new conceptual framework is proposed. Domestication, the central landmark of this middle ground, is situated well away from the boundar...

We introduce a novel approach to specify and edit volumes of interest (VOI for short) interactively. Enhancing the capabilities of standard systems we provide tools to edit the VOI by defining a not necessarily convex polyhedral bounding object. We suggest to use low-level editing interactions for moving, inserting and deleting vertices, edges and faces of the polyhedron. The low-level operatio...

Resource depletion is a universal indicator of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. In this paper, we propose a ratio based control algorithm for detection and throttling of DDoS attacks. We use the sliding mode control (SMC) control theory to formulate and optimize the traffic control conditions for DDoS defense. A cluster-based control model is developed for the environment of an ope...

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Although elevated plasma cortisol levels and a reduction in food intake are common features of the response to stress in fish, the potential role of cortisol in the regulation of food intake in these animals is poorly understood. In this study, goldfish (Carassius auratus) were fed ad libitum for 21 days diets prepared to contain 0 (Control), 50 (Low) or 500 (High) microg cortisol/g of food. Wh...

Nowadays, the heterogeneity of networks, terminals, and users is growing. At the same time, the availability and usage of multimedia content is increasing, which has raised the relevance of content adaptation technologies able to fulfill the needs associated to all usage conditions. For example, mobile displays tend to be too small to allow one to see all the details of an image. This paper pre...

The floating gate technique (FGT) is a very sensitive method to measure very low level leakage currents in MOS capacitors. This indirect technique requires the precise knowledge of the capacitance of the structure under test. We have studied the impact of the capacitance model (classic or quantum) and of polysilicon gate depletion effect. We have shown that for 7.2 nm thin EEPROM tunnel oxides,...

Ship detection has been playing a significant role in the field of remote sensing for a long time, but it is still full of challenges. The main limitations of traditional ship detection methods usually lie in the complexity of application scenarios, the difficulty of intensive object detection, and the redundancy of the detection region. In order to solve these problems above, we propose a fram...

BACKGROUND Methylmercury (MeHg) exposure assessments among average fish consumers in the United States may underestimate exposures among U.S. subpopulations with high intakes of regionally specific fish. OBJECTIVES We examined relationships among fish consumption, estimated mercury (Hg) intake, and measured Hg exposure within one such potentially highly exposed group, recreational anglers in ...