of the human population reveals variation corresponding to several hundred independent degrees-of-freedom. Morphogenetic randomness in the texture expressed phenotypically in the iris trabecular meshwork ensures that a test of statistical independence on two coded patterns originating from different eyes

that certain local binary patterns, termed "uniform," are fundamental properties of local image texture and their occurrence histogram is proven to be a very powerful texture feature. We derive a generalized gray-scale and rotation invariant operator presentation that allows for detecting the "

error). Two widely used statistical tests are shown to have high probability of type I error in certain situations and should never be used: a test for the difference of two proportions and a paired-differences t test based on taking several random train-test splits. A third test, a paired

Active Appearance Models (AAMs) and the closely related concepts of Morphable Models and Active Blobs are generative models of a certain visual phenomenon. Although linear in both shape and appearance, overall, AAMs are nonlinear parametric models in terms of the pixel intensities. Fitting an AAM

Abstract In this talk, I will discuss joint work with John Lewis and Andrew Vogel on minimizer of a certain variational problem. Namely, let u be a minimizer of the functional whose integrand is f (∇w), where w ∈ W 1,p (Ω) and ∇u(z) = 0 for z ∈ Ω. Then we show that log f (∇u) is a sub, super

, potentials, affordances, and constraints that make them more suitable for certain tasks than others Social and contextual factors also complicate the relationships between teaching and technology. Social and institutional contexts are often unsupportive of teachers' efforts to integrate technology use

that deals with this problem by specifying that certain procedures cause a conditioned stimulus (CS) to lose effectiveness; in particular, we argue that a CS will lose associability when its consequences are accurately predicted. In contrast to other current models, the effectiveness of the reinforcer

magnitude measured in watts per square meter. The consistency of the response among different forcings is higher, within 20 % or better, for most of the globally distributed forcingsuspected of influencinglobal mean temperature in the past century, but exceptions occur for certain changes of ozone

Knowledge, once generated, spills only imperfectly among firms and nations. We positthat since institutions and labor networks vary by region, there should be regional variations in the localization of spillovers. We investigate the relationship between the mobility of major patent holders

A new bottom-up visual saliency model, Graph-Based Visual Saliency (GBVS), is proposed. It consists of two steps: rst forming activation maps on certain feature channels, and then normalizing them in a way which highlights conspicuity and admits combination with other maps. The model is simple