Image stitching

Genealogists photograph tombstones to document the birth, death and burial information of their ancestors. This post will give you some tips on how to get the best possible results when taking those important pictures. Locating Cemeteries Your first challenge might well be just getting to the cemetery. Hopefully you have an obituary or burial record for your ancestor that gives the name of the cemetery. Depending on how old the record is, finding the cemetery can be very easy or impossible.…

This step completes the segmentation removing static objects from the grayscale images $T_i$ using Eigen-Background decomposition. First, each image $T_i \in \mathbb{R}^{n_x\times n_y} $ is reshaped into a column vector $I_i \in \mathbb{R}^{n_p\times 1}$. These $n_t$ vectors become the $i-th$ column of a video matrix $A(n_p\, , \, n_t)$, after having removed the average image: \begin{equation} A_{(n_s \times n_t)}=\begin{pmatrix} \hat{I}_1 & \hat{I}_2 & \cdots & \hat{I}_{n_t}…

The type of scanner is a modality-dependent feature. For example, MRIs and CT scanners are differ in size and functions. In medical ultrasounds, patients are not required to enter a scanner to be tested for CAD. These intrinsic modality-dependent differences were therefore considered as important test-specific attributes. In a DCE on scanning modalities to diagnose focal liver lesions, the type of scanner used was studied and shown to influence patient preferences for diagnostic tests (Whitty et…

people to utilize. Through their frequent use, people will get influenced by the messages that the media sends. The “perfect image” projected by the media promotes a negative body image in individuals and can lead to lower self­esteem. Body image could be defined as the way people picture themselves and how they think other people picture them. However, negative body image is a thought that is influenced by the…

When looking at the selecting or filtering of information it seems natural to discuss Broadbent’s bottleneck theory of attention (as cited in Broadbent, 1958). Broadbent proposed that incoming information is filtered out early based on physical characteristics, thus suggesting the majority of received information is not consciously processed. In the aforementioned procedure Broadbent discovered participants were able to recall information (sets of numbers) simultaneously presented to each ear…

and were, at one time, the main source of entertainment for most women. The covers of many magazines feature exceptionally thin females, and average women who look at these visual images become disheartened because they want to be just as slim and beautiful. Although men do not read magazines as much as women do, the images of physically fit men in certain male magazines, such as GQ, can have the same effect. In this manner, magazines have the ability to influence disordered eating. There is a…

Bulimia Nervosa is a mental disorder where a person consumes food, but uses laxatives or purges their food to lose weight. This form of losing weight can cause damage to the body by damaging the esophagus, stomach, and teeth. They have a distorted body image, a low self-esteem, and may possibly harm themselves in extreme cases. Bulimia and Anorexia are the most common eating disorders, but there is also another disease identified as a Binge Eating Disorder. The difference of this eating disorder…

Because of all of the images of feminine beauty produced by the media, girls see these images and start to believe that they are huge compared to those tall, thin models. Also these girls start to develop negative body image and poor self-esteem without even realizing it. In Candis McLean’s article “It Sucks Being a Teenage Girl” she gives the comments of a psychiatrist Leora…

the girls in the magazine, when the girl on the magazine does not even like the girl on the magazine. As women we let society pick the way we should look like, but we should just learn to accept the beauty of uniqueness. The media make us have an image in our mind, that make us look at ourselves in the mirror, and see nothing but imperfection. The media display beauty has…

that takes decisions. (2) There is the ‘me’ that is reacted to by others as being a particular sort of person, of a given degree of esteem; these reactions are gradually accepted and become self-image and self-worth” (Argyle 1969). It is with this second part that we are most concerned, and the…