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... generally at peace, the new strategic center of concern appears to be shifting to East Asia The missions for America s armed forces have not Today, America diminished so spends less than much as shifted ... United States must In Southeast maintain and Asia, American tighten its ties forces are too with the Republic of Korea sparse to address and Japan In rising security Southeast Asia, requirements only ... considered as pressing a mission as preparing for today s potential theater wars or constabulary missions – indeed, it must receive a significant, separate allocation of forces and budgetary resources...

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... lifestyles, and more stable societies Some had lower tax rates Japan s stock market was booming, while the U .S market was stagnant The interest in overseas havens decreased through the 198 0s as ... wealth outside the U .S markets as they search for a way to avoid the steady declines in U .S stocks and housing prices that some are forecasting Think again If the U .S has problems from an aging ... could change their spending, saving, and investing patterns in ways that avoid the big problems Many forecasters assume that any anticipatory changes would make the situation worse, such as selling...

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... India [http:// www.avert.org/aidsindia.htm] Rogaly B, Coppard D, Rafique A, Rana K, Sengupta A, Biswas J: Seasonal migration and welfare/illfare in eastern India: a social analysis J Dev Stud ... free care is officially available, states and international agencies and donors need to formulate programs to specifically address internal migrants' needs Crucially, cross-regional linkages need ... China AIDS Behav 2006, 10:421-30 UNAIDS, Global Business Coalition on HIV/ AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, China HIV/ AIDS Media Partnership: AIDS-related knowledge, attitudes, behavior, and practices:...

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... function SH Stochastic Differential Equations SQP Sequential Quadratic Program SR Success Rate SSE Sum of Squared Errors TAC Total Annual Cost TAV Total Absolute Violation TLS Tabu List Size TS Tabu ... and energy costs of separation and purification strategies (Wakeham and Stateva, 2004) Phase equilibrium calculations are usually executed thousands of times in process simulators, and are especially ... 237 8.4 Stream and Cost Data for Case Study (Briones and Kokossis, 1999) 237 8.5 Comparison of Results for Case Study 239 8.6 Heat Exchanger Reassignments and Area Distribution in Case Study 239...

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... geometric alignment step; and 2) a post-processing step that computes optimal seam-cuts between overlapping images to hide misalignment artifacts In this thesis, we re-examine this established panoramic ... show that instead of selecting an alignment based on the geometric fit of matched points between images, we can use the seam-cut step to evaluate several possible geometric transformations and select ... the alignment that gives the most “perceptually optimal” seam We demonstrate several cases where this seamdriven image stitching is able to produce better results than existing methods Lastly, for...

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... mosaicing approaches use a perspective planar transform, as called a Input images Aligned result homography, as the transformation between each pair of image This is because the camera motion can be ... second step is to apply a post-processing to achieve a seamless composite result Figure 1.3 shows an illustration of the traditional image mosaicing pipeline In the first step, classical image mosaicing ... input image assumptions are not easy to achieve by using a hand-held camera in daily imaging As a result, noticeable artifacts usually exist in the stitched results In this thesis, we use the...

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... Thus, it is necessary to have a set of correspondences that share the same transformation This can be done by applying a random sample consensus (RANSAC) [24] process to the correspondences set ... compute a sampled transformation, and finding a solution that has the most consensus within the data Specifically, for each trial of the drawing procedure, k (4 is at least necessary to estimate an ... transformations 2.3.2 Rotation Model Estimation A similar nested hierarchy exists for 3D coordinate transformations that can be denoted using A more constrained case is when the camera is rotating...

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... parallax, a natural solution is to compute a homography for each plane and assign the ambiguous regions a smooth interpolating transformations Following this idea, our approach models the relationship ... these homographies to align the images As demonstrated by our results, this approach can produce more seamless results than those obtained using current state-of-the-art methods that rely on a single ... of a scene that contains stair structures between two dominant planes As we can see that, these stair structures breaks the assumption of only two dominant 39 CHAPTER Dual-Homography Image Stitching...

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... pipeline that selects a best fit transform There are still noticeable artifacts even after seamcutting In contrast, our seam-driven strategy is able to obtain perceptually better results (also see supplemental ... candidate homographies Apply seam-cut to all possible transformations Final result Figure 4.2: A comparison between the traditional image stitching process and our seam-driven process homography ... Stitching Seam-cut result I1 s s - s ( - s) s I2 Search for the most similar patch in the overlapping region of source images Figure 4.4: This illustrates how seams are evaluated For each pixel along...

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... proposed by [59] 70 5.2 System start end Before start local region New Seam After end local region Before New Seam After Figure 5.3: This example shows how local seam adjustment works The user stroke ... defines a local processing region and a new seam is computed such that pixels under the stroke have the same label as the stroke s starting point Figure (a) and (b) show that different markup can ... by seam-cutting applied in the overlapping regions An interactive post-processing tool allows the user to locally adjust the initial seams as well as locally warp the imagery in a content-aware...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:25

... techniques • The post-processing step used by image mosaicing techniques to hide misalignment artifacts is often critical in producing a seamless mosaic For some input series the post-processing plays ... can be used to align panoramic scenes containing a dominant distant and ground plane We have presented a method to estimate this dual-homography transformation and demonstrated 82 6.1 Assessment ... overlapping images Based on this perceptual ranking we are able to select from a set of potential geometric transforms the transformation that results in the most perceptually seamless result thus...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:25

... seam processing ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), 2012 5.2.2 [60] R Szeliski Fast surface interpolation using hierarchical basis functions IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine ... Dana, M.W Hansen, and G .S van der Wal Real-time scene stabilization and mosaic construction 1994 2.1 [5] Rakesh Kumar Anandan, Rakesh Kumar, P An, Michal Irani, James Bergen, and Keith Hanna ... Vision (IJCV), 88(1):85–110, 2010 2.5 [10] Sebastiano Battiato, Giovanni Gallo, Giovanni Puglisi, Salvatore Scellato, and Scuola Superiore Di Catania Sift features tracking for video stabilization...

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... twice as large as the share of respondents in the US who say the same, and Þve times that in Germany.) There is some taste for adventure When it comes to choosing investment targets, traditional strategies ... specialists Sovereign wealth funds 17 Industry experts 32 11 Corporates 11 Banks Financial analysts 18 Investment professionals 13 Hedge funds 10 Turnaround specialists 12 Private individuals Strategy ... please specify Slow decision making process Internal politics Excessive internal focus Don’t know Other, please specify What assets does your organisation have under management in US dollars?...

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... toward success in these efforts A decade later, after a review of its accreditation standards, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) recommended that business school ... Faculty: Renew efforts at gaining acceptance of business ethics as a stand-alone course and integrating across curriculum Encourage students to actively engage in business ethics discussions across the ... foundational ethics course in the business curriculum Diane Swanson is the von Waaden Professor of Business Administration at Kansas State University where she teaches undergraduate and graduate...

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... every possible sign of weakness and disintegration in Soviet Russia, to open all guns in press releases and from "reliable sources," to create a propaganda against peace and for more and more forced ... that Russia, China and Japan fought two wars for its possession, has been rendered strategically insignificant by the development of the bombing airplane Today the same japanese strategists who ... before the 1950 communist attack, that present-day Korea is a military liability and not an asset to the United States This Asian peninsula,considered so strategically vital half a century ago...

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... N i N Ai N aN Jr , Main Results For the sake of convenience, we list the assumptions to be used in this paper as follows i E is a strictly convex Banach space which has uniformly Gateaux differentiable ... Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol 241, no 1, pp 46–55, 2000 12 S Reich, “Asymptotic behavior of contractions in Banach spaces,” Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol 44, ... the results in is replaced by a finite family of mappings Preliminaries and Lemmas A Banach space E is said to have Gateaux differentiable norm if the limit lim t→0 x ty − x t 2.1 exists for each...

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... managed debtors system is critical for a successful business Ensure your debtors system has preventative measures as well as a step by step plan to recover overdue accounts Some examples of how to ... reducing a sales person may cause that advantage to be lost  Require quotes from various suppliers  Rearrange annual payments into small payments This generally costs more and should only be used ... of sales If the tax paid was 10% of your sales then put 10% of your sales into a separate account that returns high interest If your business has had a significant increase or decrease in its...

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