Fully convolutional networks (FCNs) have been proven very successful for semantic segmentation, but the FCN outputs are unaware of object instances. In this paper, we develop FCNs that are capable of proposing instance-level segment candidates. In contrast to the previous FCN that generates one score map, our FCN is designed to compute a small set of instance-sensitive score maps, each of which...

This article describes a multilayer model-based approach for text compression. It uses linguistic information to develop a multilayer decomposition model of the text in order to achieve better compression. This new approach is illustrated for the case of the Arabic language, where the majority of words are generated according to the Semitic root-and-pattern scheme. Text is split into three ling...

The powder-blasting method is used to fabricate structures with a three-dimensional topography in glass using elastomeric masks. The relation between the mask opening width and the erosion depth is exploited to fabricate microstructures with varying depth in a single micropatterning step. As an application, planar three-dimensional micro-mixers were fabricated, which consist of a repeating conv...

In natural visual situations, unlike most psychophysical experiments, when a new stimulus appears in a portion of the visual field, the surrounding background changes simultaneously. In recordings from macaque V1 we found that a visual stimulus presented simultaneously with a background change evokes a response that is qualitatively different from the response to the same stimulus flashed on a ...

and Applied Analysis 3 For the analysis of subdivision scheme with mask α, it is very practical to consider the z-transform of the mask,

We present a practical approach to Anstreicher and Lee’s masked spectral bound for maximum-entropy sampling, and we describe favorable results that we have obtained with a Branch-and-Bound algorithm based on our approach. By representing masks in factored form, we are able to easily satisfy a semidefiniteness constraint. Moreover, this representation allows us to restrict the rank of the mask a...

Technology, not as a collection of devices, but as a disinterested, scientifically based process of management system, provided a framework for "thinking about" the identification and solution to a predefined problem. Behind the mask of neutrality, disinterest, and a modernist notion of "truth," an ideology of control and a consciousness of process earmarked the development of western thinking ...

In this paper we propose a novel method for detecting and removing shadows from a single image thereby obtaining a high-quality shadow-free image. With minimal user assistance, we first identify shadowed and lit areas on the same surface in the scene using an illumination-invariant distance measure. These areas are used to estimate the parameters of an affine shadow formation model. A novel pyr...

This paper suggests an efficient image segmentation algorithm in 3 steps for grayscale images. First step is the segmentation as homogenous region on image. And, second step is merging of region without meaningful boundary between segmented regions. At the final step, region, which is considered as meaningless due to composition with minute region, is merged by consideration of similarity with ...

We consider solutions of a system of refinement equations written in the form φ = ∑ α∈Z a(α)φ(2 · −α), where the vector of functions φ = (φ1, . . . , φr)T is in (Lp(R)) and a is a finitely supported sequence of r × r matrices called the refinement mask. Associated with the mask a is a linear operator Qa defined on (Lp(R)) by Qaf := ∑ α∈Z a(α)f(2 · −α). This paper is concerned with the convergen...