Abstract--In this paper, we deal with the performance of nonorthogonal Amplify-and-Forward protocols over block-fading channels (BFNAF), where the source retransmits the same data ...
Ioannis Krikidis, John S. Thompson, Steve McLaughl...
We present a novel method to estimate an approximation of the reflectance characteristics of optically thick, homogeneous translucent materials using only a single photograph as ...
In this study we measure the impact of pre-existing social capital on the efficiency of collaboration among Wikipedia editors. To construct a social network among Wikipedians we l...
When a curved mirror-like surface moves relative to its
environment, it induces a motion field—or specular flow—
on the image plane that observes it. This specular flow is
r...
Guillermo D. Canas, Yuriy Vasilyev, Yair Adato, To...
Online photo sharing systems, such as Flickr and Picasa, provide a valuable source of human-annotated photos. Textual annotations are used not only to describe the visual content ...