We consider the problem of estimating the shape and radiance of an object from a calibrated set of views under the assumption that the reflectance of the object is non-Lambertian. Unlike traditional stereo, we do not solve the correspondence problem by comparing image-to-image. Instead, we exploit a rank constraint on the radiance tensor field of the surface in space, and use it to define a dis...

Ballistic photon models of radiative transfer in discrete absorbing random media have demonstrated deviations from the Beer–Lambert–Bouguer law of exponential attenuation. A number of theoretical constructs to quantify the deviation from the Beer–Lambert– Bouguer law have appeared in the literature, several of which rely principally on a statistical measure related to the statistics of the abso...

PURPOSE To evaluate the relationship between electrophysiological, psychophysical, and structural measurements in normal and glaucomatous eyes and to test the hypothesis that there is a continuous structure-function relationship between ganglion cell numbers and visual field sensitivity. METHODS Thirty-four normal subjects and 40 patients with glaucoma were examined with the pattern electrore...

This paper summarizes recent research on an approach for the analytical solution to systems of delay differential equations developed using the Lambert W function [26, 29], and its applications [25, 28]. Also, several outstanding research problems associated with the solution of systems of delay differential equations using the matrix Lambert W function are highlighted. The solution has the for...

I present a parametric, bijective transformation to generate heavy tail versions of arbitrary random variables. The tail behavior of this heavy tail Lambert W × F X random variable depends on a tail parameter δ ≥ 0: for δ = 0, Y ≡ X, for δ > 0 Y has heavier tails than X. For X being Gaussian it reduces to Tukey's h distribution. The Lambert W function provides an explicit inverse transformation...

In 1962, Elizabeth Peal and Wallace Lambert of McGill University published a monograph entitled “The Relation of Bilingualism to Intelligence.”The research, conducted in Montreal with 10-year-old children, compared the performance of monolinguals t o that of bilingual, French/English-speaking subjects on a variety of standard tests of intelligence. In contrast to previous research on bilinguali...