In this paper a fully automatic scheme for embedding visually recognizable watermark patterns to video objects is proposed. The architecture consists of 3 main modules. During the first module unsupervised video object extraction is performed, by analyzing stereoscopic pairs of…

Attempts to recognize ‘information’ as an asset have led to an increased awareness of why and how this invisible valuable resource does not appear in the financial statements. This paper aims to develop a model based on three-circled sets of…

[by] A. Eisenstein., "Reprinted from Journal of applied physics, vol. 17, No. 11, 874-878, November, 1946.", Includes bibliographical references.

This paper focuses on the role of food tourism in delivering sustainability agendas by examining how the agriculture and tourism sectors have struggled to realise measurable successes because of constraints, conflicting ambitions and low levels of social capital. It focuses…

Introduction -
In his paper, Dissent and Dissensus:
Making a Difference in the Corporate
University, Professor of Nursing at the
University of Swansea and Master of
Controversy, Gary Rolfe, announced
during a seminar at the University of
Cambridge on…

The Workshop of Physical Agents intends to be a forum for information and experience exchange in different areas regarding the concept of agent in physical environments, especially applied to the control and coordination of autonomous systems: robots, mobile robots, industrial…

To examine whether the observed diversity between national patterns of smoking prevalence could require modification of the World Health Organization (WHO) linear model for an international `smoking pandemic' (a worldwide epidemic) to address data from non-western countries.

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The aim of this study is to develop a color visualization system for multispectral images in the near-infrared region (NIR, 800–1000 nm). Samples with the same color or appearance in the visible region, which are therefore indistinguishable to the human

The purpose of this paper is to present a specific testing protocol for monitoring upper-body strength using medicine ball throws. The protocol is composed of three tests: throw without countermovement, throw with countermovement, and throw with countermovement of a medicine…

The growth of China’s outbound tourism is a source of both threats and opportunities for European countries. Therefore, European tourism institutions and companies should focus their attention on this emerging market. The objective of this paper is to analyze the…