Enzyme-linked immunoassays based on an antibody-antigen interaction are widely used in biological and medical sciences. However, the conjugation of an enzyme to antibodies needs an additional chemical process, usually resulting in randomly cross-linked molecules and a loss of the binding affinity and enzyme activity. Herein, we present the development of an alkaline phosphatase-fused repebody a...

This paper presents an efficient image enhancement method by fusion of two different exposure images in low-light condition. We use two degraded images with different exposures: one is a long-exposure image that preserves the brightness but contains blur and the other is a short-exposure image that contains a lot of noise but preserves object boundaries. The weight map used for image fusion wit...

This work proposes a robust visual odometry method for structured environments that combines point features with line and plane segments, extracted through an RGB-D camera. Noisy depth maps are processed by a probabilistic depth fusion framework based on Mixtures of Gaussians to denoise and derive the depth uncertainty, which is then propagated throughout the visual odometry pipeline. Probabili...

New SLAM Approach Dense map format: ƒ 3D voxel map ƒ Voxels contain occupancy and color information Localization in the map: ƒ Scan matching ƒ Additional incorporation of color information for better localization in environments with straight geometry ƒ Comparison of sampling methods for subsetting of points to reduce computational demand Fusion: ƒ Motion estimate, observation likelihood, and l...

We show how a series of satellite images used in conjunction with data derived from a digital terrain model can be used to monitor salinity in farmland. Using these data, a conditional probability network (CPN) is constructed to produce salinity maps. The maps are the result of combining uncertain information in images with uncertain knowledge or rules, where the rules are of a temporal and spa...

Results of content based copy detection task ID Profile Brief description IMG.v.nofa.CN NOFA Video only, ScoreTimes=1.5 IMG.v.balanced.CB BALANCED Video only, ScoreTimes=1.3 IMG.m.nofa.NOFA NOFA Video + audio, ScoreTimes=1.5, AND(video_result, audio_result) IMG.m.balanced.BALANCED BALANCED Video + audio, ScoreTimes=1.3, OR(video_result, audio_result) Results of high level feature extract task I...

In the past few years several systems for object reconstruction based on the analysis of 2D images have been proposed. In order for such systems to be of practical use, the 3D data extraction process is expected to be fast and reliable. In this paper we propose a general approach for the reconstruction of complete objects based on a mesh fusion algorithm. Every surface patch is obtained as a de...

Sterols are vital components of eukaryotic cell membranes. Defects in sterol biosynthesis, which result in the accumulation of precursor molecules, are commonly associated with cellular disorders and disease. However, the effects of these sterol precursors on the metabolism, signaling, and behavior of cells are only poorly understood. In this study, we show that the accumulation of only ergoste...

MRC, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2QH, UK Now that complete genome sequences are available for a variety of organisms, the elucidation of potential gene products function is a central goal in the post-genome era. Domain fusion analysis has been proposed recently to infer the functional association of the component proteins. Here, we took a new approach to the analy...

In this paper we present an approach for quality inspection and quality improvement of spatial data that is based on map matching and map fusion. Two different datasets (GDF/TeleAtlas and OpenStreetMap) are used in this study. At first, the edges in the two datasets are matched manually with a tool developed in VBA and ArcGIS. Then, the form of the matching pairs in both datasets is calculated ...