This paper studies the effects of desynchronization attacks such as delay and warping on the performance of watermark detection systems. First, we quantify the connection between attack channel estimation accuracy and detection performance. Second, we show how to design watermarks that minimize probability of error of the detector. Evaluation of the optimal likelihood ratio test is often comput...

Spatially-varying, non-linear image warping has gained growing interest due to the appearance of image domain warping applications such as aspect ratio retargeting or stereo remapping/stereo-to-multiview conversion. In contrast to the more common global image warping, e.g., zoom or rotation, the image transformation is now a spatially-varying mapping that, in principle, enables arbitrary image ...

Grafts obtained from peripheral regions of costal cartilage have an inherent tendency to warp over time. Laser irradiation provides a potential method to control the warping process, thus yielding stable grafts for facial reconstructive surgery. In our current study, we propose a simple and well-fitting model that numerically describes the degree of warping of laser irradiated costal cartilage ...

Conventional Time-Frequency and Time-Scale Representations are often too rigid to capture fine details of sound or musical signals. Adaptation of ideal time-frequency tilings is often desirable in order to represent the signal in terms of components that are meaningful from a physical or perceptual point of view. Remapping of the time and frequency axes by means of time and frequency warping ca...

The ultimate aim of virtual reality is to present the user with an illusion of reality within a virtual environment. Visual artefacts that appear in a virtual reality system’s computer generated graphics can easily destroy this artificial sense of reality. Therefore in order to maintain an illusion of reality, it is essential to eliminate or hide such visual artefacts from the user. This paper ...

The accurate comparison of inter-individual 3D image brain datasets requires non-affine transformation techniques (warping) to reduce geometric variations. Constrained by the biological prerequisites we use in this study a landmark-based warping method with weighted sums of displacement vectors, which is enhanced by an optimization process. Furthermore, we investigate fast automatic procedures ...

We have developed a highly e cient, high delity approach for parallel volume rendering that is called permutation warping. Permutation warping may use any one pass lter kernel, an example of which is trilinear reconstruction, an advantage over the shear warp approach. This work discusses experiments in improving permutation warping using data dependent optimizations to make it more competitive ...

This paper discusses an effective processing of similarity search that supports time warping in large sequence databases. Time warping enables finding sequences with similar patterns even when they are of different lengths. Previous methods for processing similarity search that supports time warping fail to employ multi-dimensional indexes without false dismissal since the time warping distance...

SUMMARY Time-warping is a signal processing technique that, when applied to an isolated measurement of transient that propagates in waveguide, allows contributions from individual mode numbers be and extracted. Dispersion curves for can, turn, recovered. Isolation associated with possible because after time-warping—a special environmentally dependent non-uniform sampling—is applied, the energy ...