We present and implement an efficient algorithm for performing nearest-neighbor queries in topological spaces that usually arise in the context of motion planning. Our approach extends the Kd tree-based ANN algorithm, which was developed by Arya and Mount for Euclidean spaces. We argue the correctness of the algorithm and illustrate its efficiency through computed examples. We have applied the ...

We present an algorithm and a hardware architecture for block-based motion estimation that involves transforming video sequences from a multibit to a one-bit/pixel representation and then applying conventional motion estimation search strategies. This results in substantial reductions in arithmetic and hardware complexity and reduced power consumption, while maintaining good compression perform...

SUMMARY Proton MR spectroscopy is a powerful noninvasive method that enables measurement of certain brain metabolites in healthy subjects and patients with diseases. A major difficulty with clinical and research applications of in vivo proton MR spectroscopy is the variability of metabolite concentrations, especially in regions with substantial physiologic motion. In our preliminary evaluation,...

Starting with the experiments of Ramachandran and Gregory (Nature, 275, 55-56, 1978), several psychophysical studies in apparent motion (AM) have established that the perception of motion is significantly impaired at equiluminance. Still debated, however, is whether color alone can resolve ambiguities in AM. We report here on several psychophysical experiments, the quantitative results of which...

Two classes of rotaxanes are described in which photoinduced processes modulate a large-amplitude motion. In the first type, E–Z-isomerization of a fumaric diamide unit to a maleic diamide leads to a substantial weakening of the hydrogen bonds between the diamide and the macrocyclic ring that surrounds it. As a result, the rate of the pirouetting motion is increased approximately by six orders ...

Multihypothesis motion compensation is extended into the transform domain by using a redundant wavelet transform to produce multiple predictions that are diverse in transform phase. The corresponding inverse transform implicitly combines the multihypothesis predictions into a single spatial-domain prediction for motion compensation such that no side information is needed to describe the combina...

Many analysis goals involving human motion capture (MoCap) data require the comparison of motion patterns. Pioneer works in visual analytics recently recognized visual comparison as substantial for visual-interactive analysis. This work reflects the design space for visual-interactive systems facilitating the visual comparison of human MoCap data, and presents a taxonomy comprising three primar...

reincarnation (tan?sokh) and return (raj?t) are two similar, and at the same time controversial, issues in religious beliefs domain. the first is an important doctrine among great number of religions and philosophical and theosophical schools in world; and the second has also a significant position in some religions. this similarity is so that some people consider them as one doctrine. but this...