To estimate the locations and intensities of pixels that would appear in the nonexistent int,ermediate slices. This paper presents a new method for generation of the missing medical slices from give two slices. It uses the contours of organs as the control paramet,ers to the intensity information in t,he physical gaps of serial medical slices. The snake model are used for generating the control...

Mobility is considered a key technology of the next generation Internet and has been standardized within the IETF. Rapidly emerging multimedia group applications such as IPTV, MMORPGs and video conferencing increase the demand for mobile group communication, but a standard design of mobile multicast is still awaited. The traditional Internet approach of Any Source Multicast (ASM) routing remain...

This paper describes an animation for multi-scale representation of spatial data. More specifically, morphing technique is employed to animate the operations for the geometric transformations in digital map generalization. Operations required for the geometric transformations are first introduced; morphing technique is then described; the animation of these operations with morphing technique is...

A new concept called defocus morphing in real aperture images is introduced. View morphing is an existing example of shape-preserving image morphing based on the motion cue. It is proved that images can also be morphed based on the depth-related defocus cue. This illustrates that the morphing operation is not necessarily a geometric process alone; one can also perform a photometry-based morphin...

Dynamic hardware reconfiguration is becoming a key technology in embedded system design that offers among others new potentials in dependable computing. To make system designers benefit from this new technology, powerful infrastructures and programming environments are needed. In this paper, we will propose new concepts of an operating system (OS) infrastructure for reconfigurable networks that...

Given two different drawings of a planar graph we consider the problem of morphing one drawing into the other. We designed and implemented an algorithm for intersection-free morphing of planar graphs. Our algorithm uses a combination of different techniques to achieve smooth transformations: rigid morphing, compatible triangulations, as well as morphing based on interpolation of the convex repr...

We introduce a novel method for three-dimensional metamorphosis between two polyhedral objects with different topologies. The 3D objects are represented as multiple 2D images and well-understood 2D morphing techniques are used to morph between their 2D representations. The resulting 2D morphs are used to reconstruct the intermediate 3D objects. The user controls the metamorphosis by matching fe...

In the field of aeronautics, shape morphing has been used to identify those aircraft that undergo substantial geometrical changes in their external shape to enhance or adapt to their mission profiles during flight. This creates superior system capabilities not possible without morphing shape changes. The objective of morphing concepts is to develop high performance aircraft with lifting surface...

Low temperature (cold) plasma finds an increasing number of applications in biology, medicine and agriculture. In this paper, we report a new effect of plasma induced morphing and movements of Venus flytrap and Mimosa pudica. We have experimentally observed plasma activation of sensitive plant movements and morphing structures in these plants similar to stimulation of their mechanosensors in vi...

We have developed a new disparity mapping technique for image morphing which prevents synthesized images from blurring and a fast rendering technique which realizes interactive morphing animation. In the image morphing rendering process, all pixels are moved according to their disparity maps and then distorted images are mixed with each other. Calculation costs of this process tend to be high b...