Bovine mastitis (BM) is a prevalent condition on dairy farms, affecting both livestock health and reducing profitability. This study investigated the feasibility of diagnosing BM in Holstein dairy cattle using thermography. To increase the detection between healthy cattle and unhealthy one and to better compare the results from thermal images, a number of parameters including somatic cell count...

Despite recent advances in face recognition systems, they suffer from serious problems because of the extensive types of changes in human face (changes like light, glasses, head tilt, different emotional modes). Each one of these factors can significantly reduce the face recognition accuracy. Several methods have been proposed by researchers to overcome these problems. Nonetheless, in recent ye...

Quantum information processing (QIP) is a field concerned with technological applications of quantum mechanical phenonomena. In many cases, photons are an ideal quantum system for such applications. Photons exhibit superb coherence properties, are robust to environmental noise, and can be transmitted over long distances. One of the main difficulties of photon based quantum information processin...

PENG Light is a controlled natural language designed to write unambiguous specifications that can be translated automatically via discourse representation structures into a formal target language. Instead of writing axioms in a formal language, an author writes a specification and the associated background axioms directly in controlled natural language. In this paper, we first review the contro...

The analysis of three-dimensional structures of tissues and cellular constituents is a fundamental task in Biology and Medicine. Although three-dimensional images, acquired by light microscopes, play an important role in such knowledge domains, their analysis has not been much exploited compared to other imaging technologies, such as X-ray radiography, computerized tomography or magnetic resona...

Advances in microscopy now enable researchers to easily acquire multi-channel three-dimensional (3D) images and 3D time series (4D). However, processing, analyzing, and displaying this data can often be difficult and time- consuming. We discuss some of the software tools and techniques that are available to accomplish these tasks.

The paper1 presents a lightweight knowledgebased reasoning framework for the JAVELIN open-domain Question Answering (QA) system. We propose a constrained representation of text meaning, along with a flexible unification strategy that matches questions with retrieved passages based on semantic similarities and weighted relations between words.

We propose to enhance the capabilities of the human visual system by performing optical image processing directly on an observed scene. Unlike previous work which additively superimposes imagery on a scene, or completely replaces scene imagery with a manipulated version, we perform all manipulation through the use of a light modulation display to spatially filter incoming light. We demonstrate ...

A method is described wherein optical processing and holography using transparencies are performed using point source white light. The method is coherent, in that the optical systems are linear in amplitude rather than intensity. Perfect wavelength compensation is achieved, with no restriction on the source spectral width.

M icroscopy has historically been an observational technique. In recent years, however, the development of automated microscopes, digital sensing technologies, and novel labeling probes have turned microscopy into a predominantly quantitative technique. In this context, the management and analysis of automatically extracted information calls for the involvement of signal and image processing ex...