AIM This study aimed to determine the efficacy of trays made with and without reservoirs, in conjunction with time and cost evaluations, by measuring color change with home whitening procedures. MATERIALS AND METHODS Extracted human maxillary teeth (central incisors n = 20; canines n = 20; molars n = 20) and 60 artificial teeth (lateral n = 20; premolar n = 40) were mounted into ten typodonts...

The main objective of this letter is to present an e cient algorithm for robust whitening in the presence of temporally uncorrelated additive noise that may be spatially correlated. This whitening is introduced as a pre-processing step in the blind source separation process. The robust whitening consists in the eigenvalue decomposition of a positive de nite linear combination of a set a correla...

Whitened Neural Network (WNN) is a recent advanced deep architecture, which improves convergence and generalization of canonical neural networks by whitening their internal hidden representation. However, the whitening transformation increases computation time. Unlike WNN that reduced runtime by performing whitening every thousand iterations, which degenerates convergence due to the ill conditi...

In natural image understanding, the whitening step plays an important role, especially within many unsupervised feature learning algorithms. Examples of these algorithms include ICA, TICA, Auto-encoder, and so forth. Current whitening techniques include Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Zero-phase Component Analysis (ZCA). However, the drawbacks of these approaches are obvious: the time co...

In this paper we present a class of linear whitening filters termed linear extended whitening filters (EWFs) which are whitening filters that have desirable secondary properties and can be used for simplifying algorithms, or achieving desired side-effects on given secondary matrices, random vectors or random processes. Further, we present an application of EWFs for simplification of QR decompos...

We investigate the cryptanalysis of reducedround RC6 without whitening. Up to now, key recovery algorithms against the reduced-round RC6 itself, the reduced-round RC6 without whitening, and even the simplified variants have been infeasible on a modern computer. In this paper, we propose an efficient and feasible key recovery algorithm against reducedround RC6 without whitening. Our algorithm is...