This paper investigates combining video frames of different spatial resolutions to model and study sub-object dropping based on the concept of Quality Shaping in the Distributed Multimedia Plays (DMP) architecture for future networked collaboration. It is aimed at reducing the data rate needed to stream video data over a network while keeping the perceived video quality as high as possible. Fra...

Independent Component Analysis (ICA) has proved a powerful exploratory analysis method for fMRI. In the ICA model, the fMRI data at a given time point are modeled as the linear superposition of spatially independent (and spatially stationary) component maps. The ICA model has been recently applied to positron emission tomography (PET) data with some success (Human Brain Mapping 18:284-295(2003)...

Using a viewer-centered frame of reference (VCFR) paradigm, we examined whether the necessity to mentally manipulate the frame of reference can explain why older adults were found to be impaired on a variety of spatial memory tasks. Twenty-four younger participants (18-35 years of age) and 24 older participants (65-78 years of age) performed a pointing task under four conditions in which a phys...

There is evidence that global visual context affects orientation perception in later stages of processing than local context. We measured the relative time courses of two orientation illusions: The Tilt Illusion (TI) involves dense gratings in close proximity; the Rod and Frame Illusion (RFI) involves a solitary bar surrounded by a distant frame. We also varied whether the context was flashed b...

In order to accurately evaluate the video quality and make it consistent with the subjective evaluation result, a saliency region and motion characteristics combined video quality assessment is proposed in this paper. This method is based on traditional SSIM and improves its assessment performance. According to the relationship between human visual attention and video’s region of saliency, fram...

Perceptual video quality evaluation plays important roles in multimedia applications, such as video teleconferencing, video on demand and Internet streaming media. Most of the traditionally objective video quality assessment attempted to quantify the predefined artifacts of the coded video sequences. In this paper, we present a new no reference perceptual video quality evaluation model based on...

Pyoderma gangrenosum is a rare autoinflammatory syndrome manifested by skin lesions eventually creating ulcers. Surgical management can lead to scarring and contracture at the site of the lesion due to the pathergy phenomenon. A 43-year-old woman presented with a 5-year history of severe equinovarus deformity due to chronic pyoderma gangrenosum on her posteromedial ankle. She underwent a staged...

Filters in a convolutional network are typically parametrized in a pixel basis. As an orthonormal basis, pixels may represent any arbitrary vector in R. In this paper, we relax this orthonormality requirement and extend the set of viable bases to the generalized notion of frames. When applying suitable frame bases to ResNets on Cifar-10+ we demonstrate improved error rates by substitution only....

In this study, video super-resolution using particle swarm optimization (PSO) is proposed to super-resolve low-resolution (LR) frames. The proposed super-resolution method consists of three main modules, i.e., supersampling, spatio-temporal classification, and frame fusion using PSO. In the proposed method, the LR frames are super-resolved to high-resolution frames through the fusion of four fu...

In this paper packet loss error concealment for video sequences compressed using spatial scalability is investigated. Slice support is implemented into the JSVM reference codec of the scalable extension to H.264/AVC video coding standard. The nonnormative error concealment scheme introduced in the codec is developed further, adding to it the capability to also consider correctly received slice ...