Multiple sequence alignment remains a crucial method for understanding the function of groups of related nucleic acid and protein sequences. However, it is known that automatic multiple sequence alignments can often be improved by manual editing. Therefore, tools are needed to view and edit multiple sequence alignments. Due to growth in the sequence databases, multiple sequence alignments can o...

Imposing a very slight deviation from the isotropic random distribution of macromolecules in solution in an NMR sample tube permits the measurement of residual internuclear dipolar couplings (RDCs). Such interactions are very sensitive functions of the time-averaged orientation of the corresponding internuclear vectors and thereby offer highly precise structural information. In recent years, ad...

The Active Wavelet Network (AWN) [9] approach was recently proposed for automatic face alignment, showing advantages over Active Appearance Models (AAM), such as more robustness against partial occlusions and illumination changes. In this paper, we (1) extend the AWN method to a view-based approach, (2) verify the robustness of our algorithm with respect to unseen views in a large dataset and (...

This research addresses the question of explaining the Internet-related performance of a firm by relying on the Strategic Alignment Model. Following a contingent approach, the conceptual framework sheds light on the coherence between Internet use, business, organization and technology. The research model is applied to the main companies of the French tourism sector. The adopted methodology is b...

This paper presents techniques for constructing full view panoramic mosaics from sequences of images. Our representation associates a rotation matrix (and optionally a focal length) with each input image, rather than explicitly projecting all of the images onto a common surface (e.g., a cylinder). In order to reduce accumulated registration errors, we apply global alignment (block adjustment) t...

Electric Vehicles are increasingly common, with inductive chargepads being considered a convenient and efficient means of charging electric vehicles. However, drivers typically poor at aligning the vehicle to necessary accuracy for charging, making automated alignment two plates desirable. In parallel electrification vehicular fleet, parking systems that make use surround-view camera becoming p...

This paper examines the role that social capital plays in organisations in creating alignment between the business and IT communities. The paper reports on an interpretative study in financial services looking at the impact that network associations, social norms, trust, reciprocity-expectation and collective efficacy have on alignment within four firms. The study found that firms with high lev...

Graph-based methods are currently popular for dimensionality reduction. However, most of them suffer from over-simplified assumption of pairwise relationships among data. Especially for multi-view data, different relationships from different views are hard to be integrated into a single graph. In this paper, we propose a novel semi-supervised dimensionality reduction method for multi-view data....

Multi-view video sequences are recorded by multiple cameras simultaneously. In view direction the images captured by different cameras in the same time instant form the view image sequences. The view sequence represents the geometry changes of the scene in space. The compression of view sequence provides the great contribution to the whole multi-view video compression. This paper discusses the ...