Overview The structure of these patterns is similar to the one introduced by Andreas Rueping [6] . The problem section formulates an issue as a question. The forces are the considerations that lead to the solution. The solution answers the question of the problem section. In the discussion section, some examples are presented or drawbacks of the solution are discussed. Some of the patterns have...

Current experimental investigation deals with the effects of asymmetrical rolling parameters on the inhomogeneity, microstructure, mechanical, and geometrical properties of rolled brass wire. Toward this end, a roll machine with three different roll radii ratios was set up. The asymmetrical conditions are arranged using three different sets of rolls with different diameters that result into dif...

Title of dissertation: Techniques for Image Retrieval: Deformation Insensitivity and Automatic Thumbnail Cropping Haibin Ling, Doctor of Philosophy, 2006 Dissertation directed by: Professor David W. Jacobs Department of Computer Science We study several problems in image retrieval systems. These problems and proposed techniques are divided into three parts. Part I: This part focuses on robust o...

We introduce PileBars, a new class of animated thumbnail-bars supporting browsing of large image datasets (hundreds or thousands of images). Since the bar is meant to be just one element of a GUI, it covers only a small portion of the screen; yet it provides a global view of the entire dataset, without any scrolling panel. Instead, thumbnails are dynamically rearranged, resized and reclustered ...

Procedural modeling allows for the generation of innumerable variations of models from a parameterized, conditional or stochastic rule set. Due to the abstractness, complexity and stochastic nature of rule sets, it is often very difficult to have an understanding of the diversity of models that a given rule set defines. We address this problem by presenting a novel system to automatically gener...

Thumbnails of archived web pages as they appear in common browsers such as Firefox or Chrome can be useful to convey the nature of a web page and how it has changed over time. However, creating thumbnails for all archived web pages is not feasible for large collections, both in terms of time to create the thumbnails and space to store them. Furthermore, at least for the purposes of initial expl...

In order to overcome poor readability of text and recognizability of image features in low resolution thumbnails, a novel image representation of compound document images a SmartNail representation is presented. SmartNails are replacements or supplements to traditional thumbnails for compound documents and contain cropped and scaled image and text segments. Image-based analysis and text-based a...

In this project, we investigate retransmission-based robust video streaming over lossy packet networks. We propose to send a low-rate video thumbnail, which is a projected representation of the video content, along with the video packets. The receiver decodes the video with the help of error concealment to compensate packet loss. Upon receiving the thumbnails, the receiver can estimate the loca...