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Herd Mentality
It would be nice to get some independent thinkers in management positions at some of the large retail pharmacy chains. Unfortunately, they are either non-existent or outnumbered by the herding masses of group think.
One of the more frustrating things about working for a large company that operates multiple pharmacies is the concept of corporate level herd mentality. Why do all major pharmacy chains copy bad ideas from their peers in the industry?
Just because one company comes out with a ridiculous pricing structure like Walmart's $4 generic list doesn't mean the rest of the community pharmacy world is somehow required to follow suit. Let the bad ideas and the companies that birth them fail on their own. The rest of us should be able to safely watch the implosion from a distance.
But reality tells us that if Walmart or whomever thinks blister packs is a good idea, we all somehow end up with long flat packages of 30 pills that our elderly patients constantly complain are difficult to open. Why is that?
Chains don't dare contemplate being different because of a fear of losing precious revenue dollars. But what if the ideas they so deperately want to mimic actually hurt the bottom line?
My company clings to their $25 transfer coupon promotion like our future depends on it despite obvious flaws to the program. Have you ever calculated how much front end merchandise a customer needs to buy to make up for the $25 you just gave away at the pharmacy? The numbers are staggering and unrealistic.
That's why the recent surprise CVS announcement that they are going to phase out cigarette sales from their stores by this October interests me so much. I can't help but wonder what the other big chains will do in response.
Independent thinking is a dying breed in the business world. But if the unique challenges of community pharmacy should teach us one thing, wouldn't that lesson be a willingness to look beyond the white noise of our competitive landscape to find better ways to serve our patients and customers?
I guess I just get frustrated by the herd mentality on this kind of grand scale. And I admire the small independent pharmacies that think outside the box and implement new ideas out of a necessity to compete with their bigger competitors.
The herd mentality has resulted in bad ideas surviving way past their expiration date. And in my mind it's time to move on to bigger and better things in our world of community pharmacy.
Are you ready to put on your thinking caps and come up with some original ideas? The better question might be will anyone hear your thoughts through all of the noise of the herd? I sure hope so!
The Redheaded Pharmacist
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By LD50placeboeffect, March 23, 2014 @ 9:46 pm
Herd mentality and 'group-think' are concepts applicable to all sorts of categories of people. One might think there's more diversity in a pharmacy college-educated crowd, that they've less of the herd 'mentality' than other groups, just because of increased exposure to different sorts of educators in the pharmacist curriculum. Could it be that pharmacists surround themselves by the generally less well-educated, and less diverse, and allow decisions made for their profession by those less-informed. and why is that, then?
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Chemistry, in common with every other subject is a subject which requires a lot of hard work and effort to fully understand. There are so many equations, formulas and diagrams which have to be learned by heart. Chemistry demands a lot of patience, enthusiasm and most importantly, a good relationship with the subject.
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1Love the subject of chemistry. Irrespective of which area of chemistry you want to learn and get good marks in, the first and foremost thing you have to do is to love chemistry.
2Be attentive in the class and concentrate on your lecture. You'll enjoy it more when you can understand the concepts.
- Avoid the company of those students who do not take interest in chemistry.
- Be regular to get to the class and do not skip any lectures.
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Having sufficient resources
1Have the latest version of the modern periodic table. It will help you a lot, as you will get many important resources in it.
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Doing well in chemistry
1Listen to your chemistry teacher. In order to understand the concepts, you have to pay attention to the teacher. It makes your learning work lot easier since you get a rough idea of what the chapter is about.
2Ask if you have any doubts. Even if you have a small doubt about any topic, you must ask either your teacher, peers, tutor or your parents. Don't be hesitant.
- Discuss with your teacher or with your classmates if you have any problems with the chemistry topic.
3Write down every lecture as you learn. The more you write, the better you will remember.
4Make a summary. Pin down the important points after understanding a paragraph. This helps you to revise the topic very easily.
5Study chemistry daily. Whatever the teacher teaches on a day, you should learn it on that day itself. Otherwise you may forget what the teacher taught.
6Give special care to the chemical formulas and chemical equations which are of utmost importance in chemistry.
7Prepare the chapter as well as exercises especially for organic chemistry.
8Practice drawing any diagrams in your lectures, then label them.
9Make your concepts clear and avoid making muddled statements.
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1Revise. At the end of every week and every month you should definitely revise the topics taught during that time.
2Solve sample question papers. This will surely improve your performance on the subject. It also makes you confident once you answer one or two sample papers.You can easily get those question papers from the Internet.In this way you can improve your preparation.
3Test yourself. This will help you remember things you have previously learned.
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Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) fue uno de los intelectuales más importantes del siglo veinte y podría decirse que fue el escritor cristiano más influyente de su tiempo. Fue profesor particular de literatura inglesa y miembro de la junta de gobierno en la Universidad Oxford hasta 1954, cuando fue nombrado profesor de literatura medieval y renacentista en la Universidad Cambridge, cargo que desempeñó hasta que se jubiló. Sus contribuciones a la crítica literaria, literatura infantil, literatura fantástica y teología popular le trajeron fama y aclamación a nivel internacional. C. S. Lewis escribió más de treinta libros, lo cual le permitió alcanzar una enorme audiencia, y sus obras aún atraen a miles de nuevos lectores cada año. Sus más distinguidas y populares obras incluyen Las Crónicas de Narnia, Los Cuatro Amores, Cartas del Diablo a Su Sobrino y Mero Cristianismo.Pauline Baynes has produced hundreds of wonderful illustrations for the seven books in The Chronicles of Narnia. In 1968 she was awarded the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal for her outstanding contribution to children's literature.
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The chronicle, written by the well-know Christian figure, very explicitly claims in the last book ('The final battle of Narnia') that Aslan (as you may have heard, there are obviously clear references to Jesus throughout the Chronicles) and "Tars" (some other "god") are the same.
Sounds tough, right? Hard to believe it, since so many believers have shared it with their children? Here's the translation of that claim found in chapter 15, with my translation from the Finnish version: "[Aslan says:] My child, all that you've made to serve Tars, I take it as your service to me". That's some bizarre teaching! So, it clearly states that believing in any other god is the same as believing in Jesus Christ and His Father. (If you dont believe me on this, you might have the book in your kids book shelf, so that you can take a look at it yourself). So Lewis totally opposes the message of the Bible and the Gospels.
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates in general to stereo reconstruction, and in particular, to a system and method for extracting structure from multiple images of a scene by representing the scene as a group of image layers, including reflection and transparency layers.
2. Related Art
Many natural images contain mixtures of reflected (reflections) and transmitted light (transparencies). Many natural images will typically contain one or both, i.e., contain mixtures of reflected and transmitted light. For example, shiny or glass-like surfaces typically create a reflected image of other surfaces in its immediate environment. Also, surfaces like glass and water are (at least partially) transparent, and hence will transmit the light from the surfaces behind it. Although it should be noted that the transmitted light is usually attenuated to some degree by the glass (or frontal surface), and thus, the notion of partial transparency or "translucency" is more general. However, following common usage in the field, the term "transparency" is used to indicate both complete transparency and translucency.
As such, many natural images are composed of reflected and transmitted images, which are super-imposed on each other. When viewed from a moving camera, these component layer images appear to move relative to each other. Techniques to recover the multiple motions are commonly referred to as multiple motion recovery techniques. The problem of multiple motion recovery and the reflection and transmission of light on surfaces in visual images has been addressed in several physics-based vision studies. Likewise, a number of techniques for recovering multiple motions from image sequences have been developed.
These techniques can recover multiple motions even in the presence of reflections and transparency. A subclass of these techniques also extract the individual component layer image from the input composite sequence, but only in the absence of reflections and transparency (i.e., all the layers are opaque). Although several studies locked onto each component motion, they actually created a "reconstructed" image of each layer through temporal integration and fell short of being a proper extraction of the component layers. This is because the other layers were not fully removed, but rather appeared as blurred streaks.
The detection of transparency in single images has been studied, but these studies do not provide a complete technique for layer extraction from general images. Thus, current and previous systems have not demonstrated how to accurately recover the component images themselves and the extraction of component layers images in the presence of reflections and transparency remains a problem. Therefore, what is needed is an optimal approach to recovering layer images and their associated motions from an arbitrary number of composite images. Also, there is a need for techniques that estimate the component layer images given known motion estimates.
To overcome the limitations in the prior art described above, and to overcome other limitations that will become apparent upon reading and understanding the present specification, the present invention is embodied in a system and method for extracting structure from multiple images of a scene by representing the scene as a group of image layers, including reflection and transparency layers.
In general, the present invention performs layer extraction from multiple images containing reflections and transparencies. The present invention includes an optimal approach for recovering layer images and their associated motions from an arbitrary number of composite images. The present invention includes image formation equations, the constrained least squares technique used to recover the component images, a novel method to estimate upper and lower bounds on the solution using min- and max-composites, and a motion refinement method.
Specifically, the present invention includes two different techniques for estimating the component layer images given known motion estimates. The first approach uses constrained least squares to optimally recover the layer images. The second approach iteratively refines lower and upper bounds on the layer images using two novel compositing operations, namely minimum and maximum composites of aligned images. These layer extraction techniques are combined with a dominant motion estimator and a subsequent motion refinement stage. This produces a completely automated system that recovers transparent images and motions from a collection of input images.
In one embodiment, the present invention involves first computing a primary motion estimate, second estimating a primary layer associated with the primary motion estimate, third computing a secondary motion estimate, fourth estimating a secondary layer associated with the secondary motion estimate and then iteratively refining lower and upper bounds on the primary and secondary layers to estimate the layers. In another embodiment motion estimates are improved by using motion re-estimation. Also, estimating the layers can be accomplished by using constrained least squares to optimally recover the layer images.
The present invention as well as a more complete understanding thereof will be made apparent from a study of the following detailed description of the invention in connection with the accompanying drawings and appended claims.
Referring now to the drawings in which like reference numbers represent corresponding parts throughout:
In the following description of the invention, reference is made to the accompanying drawings, which form a part hereof, and in which is shown by way of illustration a specific example in which the invention may be practiced. It is to be understood that other embodiments may be utilized and structural changes may be made without departing from the scope of the present invention.
I. Exemplary Operating Environment
With reference to
A number of program modules may be stored on the hard disk, magnetic disk 120, optical disk 124, ROM 110 or RAM 112, including an operating system 132, one or more application programs 134, other program modules 136, and program data 138. A user may enter commands and information into the computer 100 through input devices such as a keyboard 140 and pointing device 142. Other input devices (not shown) may include a microphone, joystick, game pad, satellite dish, scanner, or the like. These and other input devices are often connected to the processing unit 102 through a serial port interface 144 that is coupled to the system bus 106, but may be connected by other interfaces, such as a parallel port, game port or a universal serial bus (USB). A monitor 146 or other type of display device is also connected to the system bus 106 via an interface, such as a video adapter 148. In addition to the monitor 146, computers may also include other peripheral output devices (not shown), such as speakers and printers.
The computer 100 may operate in a networked environment using logical connections to one or more remote computers, such as a remote computer 150. The remote computer 150 may be a personal computer, a server, a router, a network PC, a peer device or other common network node, and typically includes many or all of the elements described above relative to the personal computer 100, although only a memory storage device 152 has been illustrated in
When used in a LAN networking environment, the computer 100 is connected to the local network 154 through a network interface or adapter 158. When used in a WAN networking environment, the computer 100 typically includes a modem 160 or other means for establishing communications over the wide area network 156, such as the Internet. The modem 160, which may be internal or external, is connected to the system bus 106 via the serial port interface 144. In a networked environment, program modules depicted relative to the computer 100, or portions thereof, may be stored in the remote memory storage device. It will be appreciated that the network connections shown are exemplary and other means of establishing a communications link between the computers may be used.
II. General Overview
As such, it is desirable to extract the component layers 212, 214 in the presence of any reflections and transparencies and recover the multiple motions. The present invention accurately extracts the component image layers 212, 214 and then recovers their associated motions from an arbitrary number of composite images. Extracting structure from multiple images of the scene 200 by representing the scene as a group of image component layers 212, 214 is accomplished by the systems and methods described below.
In general, first, a primary motion estimate is computed (step 220) for the scene 200. Second, based on this primary motion estimate, a primary layer associated with the primary motion estimate is determined (step 222). Third, the scene 200 is analyzed and a secondary motion estimate is computed (step 224). Fourth, a secondary layer associated with the secondary motion estimate is estimated (step 226) based on the secondary motion estimate. Next, the primary and secondary layers are recovered by iteratively refining lower and upper bounds on the primary and secondary layers (step 228). Although the above description and the description that follows refer to primary and secondary layers (or dominant and non-dominant layers), it should be noted that more than two layers could be recovered by the present invention.
In addition, once the motion is known or for the case when the input composite images can be modeled as an additive mixture of the component layers (such a model applies when the light from one surface is reflected by another), a constrained least-square technique can be used to recover the layers from the known motions. It should be noted that this case applies to an arbitrary number of layers. Further, a complete technique that combines the layer extraction step together with an automatic multiple motion technique to recover the layers and their motions from the input images is preferably used.
In this case, for a complete solution, first, a dominant motion (for example, of the desired layer) for the sequence is computed using image alignment against a current min-composite. Second, a difference image calculation is computed between stabilized images and the min-composite. Third, non-dominant motion is computed by aligning the difference image calculation with a max-composite of the images. Fourth, initial layer estimates of the dominant and non-dominant motion estimates are used and the motion estimates are improved using motion re-estimation. Last, unconstrained least-squares are computed as an initial value and positivity constraints are used to solve a quadratic related to the layer extraction. The embodiments described above are provided as high level descriptions of the general operation of the present invention and will be discussed in detail below.
III. Details of the Components and Operation
A. Image Formation:
This section presents the general problem formulation, including the image formation equations. In "Ordinal characteristics of transparency", AAAI-90 Work Qualitative Vision, pp. 77–81, 1990, by E. H. Adelson and P. Anandan a recursive process was proposed as the generative model for obtaining a composite image from component layers. At each pixel, assuming a given spatial ordering of layers relative to the viewpoint, each layer partially attenuates the total amount of light coming from all the layers "behind it" and adds its own light to give an output signal. The final composite image is the result of applying this process to all layers in a back to front fashion. This process can be summarized in terms of the following modified form of the over operator used in image compositing, as described by J. F. Blinn. Jim Blinn's corner: in "Compositing, part 1: Theory", IEEE Comp. Gr. and Appl., 14(5): 83–87, September 1994,
For the purposes of the present invention, it is assumed that each component layer (indexed by l=0, . . . L−1) is defined by a signal or 2D image fl(x), (where fl denotes layer l and x will is used to index both 1-D signals and 2-D images), which is warped to the current image (indexed by k) coordinate system via a warping operator Wkl, which resamples the pixels. Also, Wkl ofl denotes the warped image. Hence, the composite image (or the original image sequence) is given by the equation:
m k =W k0 o f 0 . . . W k(L−1) o f L−1 (2)
Next, it is assumed that Wkl is an invertible global parametric motion (where Wkl denotes the motion parameters of layer l and frame k), such as translation, rotation, affine, or perspective warp. Also, it is initially assumed that the Wkl are known (it should be noted that this assumption is removed in Section III. D below).
Image formation and pure additive mixing of images can be expressed as:
An alternative way of writing the image formation equations is to look at the discrete image pixels written in (rasterized) vector form,
The above formula is equivalent to the first (continuous) formula if the images are sampled without aliasing (below their Nyquist frequency) and the warping does not unduly compress the layer images (thereby causing aliasing). The Wkl matrices are very sparse, with only a few non-zero coefficients in each row (i.e., the interpolation coefficients for a given pixel sample). In addition to the image formation equations, it is known that the original layer images are non-negative, i.e., fl(x)≧0. As will be described below, this provides very important (and useful) constraints on the solution space.
For real images, there is a chance that the images may be saturated (i.e., mk(x)=255 for 8-bit images) in some regions. An accurate model of the mixing process can be generated with a photo-metrically calibrated camera, i.e., cameras where the radiance to pixel-value transfer curve is known, as described by Paul E. Debevec and Jitendra Malik, in "Recovering high dynamic range radiance maps from photographs", SIGGRAPH'97, pp. 369–378, August 1997. For the description that follows, however, it is assumed that the mixing process is linear, but that the observed mixed signal values mk are clipped to 255. The extension to a truly calibrated camera is straightforward, but may require a level-dependent noise process to be added.
B. Recovering Component Images with Constrained Least Squares
This section presents the constrained least squares algorithm that is used to recover the component images and that was described generally above. Given a set of images mk, the layer images fl can be recovered. Since the image formation equations are linear, constrained least squares,
can be used. Such a least squares estimator is statistically optimal if the measured input images are corrupted by uniform independent (white) Gaussian noise. The least squares problem is constrained, since it is required that all of the elements in the fl images be non-negative. Also, for any pixel in mk that is saturated (255), only the mismatch between mk and the mixed layers is penalized if the predicted value is below 255.
This least squares problem is very large (one term or linear equation per measured input pixel), and very sparse (only a few non-zero coefficients per equation). Iterative techniques, such as variants of gradient descent or conjugate gradient, should be used. For instance, for a 1-D signal, it should be usually possible to form a narrow-banded problem by interleaving the layer pixel. These 1D examples will be discussed below for illustrative purposes.
For the current implementation of the present invention, a two stage approach is preferably used for solving the constrained least-squares problem and is discussed with the entire system with reference to
The constrained least-square problem posed in Equation 5 has a unique solution unless the set of relative motions between the component layers in the input composites is degenerate (or poorly conditioned) in some fashion. Under the general (non-degenerate) condition, given known motion, the component layers from the input composites can be recovered. In practice, although it is usually not assumed that the motions are known, indeed the estimation of the motion is an important part of the overall technique. This will be discussed further in sections III. D.
Namely, the positivity constraints on the component signals (images) restrict the solution to be in a convex subspace. Therefore, the quadratic programming program posed in Equation 5 does not suffer from multiple local minima. Without the constraints, the solution is not unique. This can be seen even without analyzing the particular structure of the Wkl matrices, based on the following reasoning. If {{circumflex over (f)}} is a set of component layer signals (images) that minimizes the least-squares error defined in Equation 5, since each input image is simply a sum of warped and resampled versions of these components, a constant image can be subtracted to one of the layers. This amount can be distributed (added) among the other layers without changing the sum. The new set of layer thus obtained is also a valid solution to the unconstrained minimization problem posed in Equation 5. This implies that the system of equations is degenerate.
In practice, this degeneracy is not too critical, since it leads to simply a DC offset of the signals. Moreover, if each layer has at least one pixel that is black (i.e., signal value of zero), this degeneracy can be removed using the positivity constraint. This is because subtracting an offset from any of the layers will lead to at least one negative valued pixel, which violates the positivity constraint. The result of solving the constrained least-square problem is shown as the upper curve in
In practice, in 2D images, there may also be additional source of degeneracy or poor conditioning due to the structure of the warping matrix Wkl. In the case when the relative motion between the component layers consists of shifts purely in the horizontal (or vertical) direction. In this case, the overall problem decouples into a set of independent problems corresponding to each row (or column). Each row will be determined only up to an arbitrary but different DC offset. To impose the positivity constraint and obtain a unique solution, each row in each layer must have a black pixel, which may be unrealistic. Hence, even the use of the positivity constraints may not guarantee the correct recovery of component layers. In summary, the constrained least-square problem posed in Equation 5 has a unique solution unless the set of relative motions between the component layers in the input composites is degenerate (or poorly conditioned) in some fashion, as discussed above.
C. Estimating Upper and Lower Bounds with Min/Max Alternation
This section illustrates estimating upper and lower bounds on the solution using min- and max-composites. In order to run the constrained least-squares algorithm, the motions for all of the layers must be known. Unfortunately, in many image sequences, only the dominant motion can be reliably estimated at first. Thus, estimating the non-dominant motion(s) is important to the overall problem. In this section, a novel algorithm is proposed that iteratively re-estimates upper and lower bounds on two component layers. This estimation can be interleaved with layer motion estimation.
The present technique is based on the following observation. Once the dominant motion has been estimated, an estimate for the layer corresponding to this motion can be obtained by forming a mosaic from the stabilized image sequence. However, unlike conventional mosaics, where either an average or median is used to form the estimate (sometimes with appropriate feathering near the edges), the present invention computes the minimum pixel value across all images in the stabilized sequence.
The min-composite estimate is computed because the contributions from other layers can only add to the intensity at a given pixel. Therefore, the min across all mixed images gives an upper bound on the possible value for the dominant layer. More formally, let
be the set of images stabilized with respect to layer 0. Then,
is an upper bound on f0.
Once an estimate for layer 0 is found, the difference images can be computed
d k =s k −f 0 max. (8)
These difference images give the luminance that is accounted for by the other layers (where sk denotes the stabilized image sequence with respect to layer 0, f0 max denotes the MIN composite and dk denotes the difference sequence).
Now, distributing this residual error among the remaining layers is important. For this reason, the two layer (foreground/background) case is described. This is not a big limitation in practice, since multiple reflections/transmissions are relatively rare.
In the two layer case, the difference images dk are a partial estimate (lower bound) on the amount of light in layer 1. These images can be stabilized using a parametric motion estimator (assuming that the motion is not known a priori), and thereby compute Wkl. Let
t k =W kl −1 W k0 d k −f l +W kl −1 W k0(f 0−f0 max). (9)
be the set stabilized of difference images. A max-composite can then be computed of the stabilized differences,
Since f0−f0 max≦0, each tk is an underestimate of fl, and fl min is the tightest lower bound on fl it can be computed (where tk denotes the stabilized difference sequence, and fl min denotes the MAX composite).
With the improved lower bound estimate for fl (it should be noted that fl≧0 was an initial value), a better estimate (tighter upper bound) for f0 can be recomputed. Instead of stabilizing the original input images mk, the corrected images can be stabilized
c k =m k −W kl f l m (11)
to obtain
s k =W k0 −1 c k =f 0 +W k0 −1 W kl(f l −f l min) (12)
The amount of overestimate in each stabilized image sk is now proportional to the difference between the lower bound on fl and its true value.
Thus, an improved estimate for f0 max can be obtained, and this can be used to obtain an improved estimate for f0 min. This iteration eventually leads to the correct solution. Under ideal conditions (to be defined below), the min/max alternation algorithm described above will compute the correct estimates for f0 and fl. The time required to do so depends on the diameter of the largest non-zero region in the foreground layer (fl) divided by the diameter of the shifting operation seen in all input images (to be defined below).
For the above, it is assumed that at least one pixel in the foreground layer is zero. If not, then min/max alternation will compute the best lower bound on fl it can (which will contain at least one zero value) and stop. Also, it is assumed that there is only one isolated region (otherwise, the above applies to each region independently). The ideal conditions mentioned above come in two parts. First, the entries in the Wkl and Wkl −1 matrices are non-negative and second, there is no imaging noise. The first condition is, in general, only attainable if the layers are shifted by integral amounts. The second condition is, of course, not attainable in practice. But these ideal conditions can be compensated for, as will be discussed below.
For the improved estimate, as described above, x is set to be the coordinate of some pixel where fl(x)=0. Let x′εN(x) be the shift-induced neighborhood of x, i.e., the set of pixels in the mk images that are formed using fl(x). Then, since minkWklfl(x)=0 for any pixel in N(x), f0 max(x′)=f0(x′), i.e., the upper bound is exact at these pixels. Further, the difference signals at these pixels is exact (the lower bound matches the true value of the shifted fl signal). Therefore, the pixels in fl where x″εN′(x′), i.e., the pixels being re-estimated using at least one correct element in f0, will have the correct estimated value, fl min(x″)=fl(x″).
This process will grow regions of correct estimates out from pixels in the foreground that are black. These regions can grow quickly and can eventually cover the entire image. For example, x′εN(x) can be analogized as a morphological dilation operator that spreads good pixels (initially, the black ones) in fl into good estimates of f0. Similarly, x″εN′(x′) is the morphological dilation operator that spreads good pixels in f0 into good pixels in fl. Each dilation operation eats away at the borders of the regions that have potentially erroneous estimates of f0 and fl. The number of operations required is the (outside) diameter of the largest such region divided by the (inside) diameter of the dilation operator.
1. Noise and Resampling
The min-max technique is powerful in that it guarantees global convergence. However, the ideal conditions mentioned above should be satisfied. When noise is present, the upper and lower bounds computed by min/max may become erroneous at each iteration, leading to a divergence away from the correct solution. This behavior can be seen in
Similarly, the subpixel interpolation involved in the resampling process can also lead to a bad solution. There are two potential problems when resampling the images. The first is that some entries in the Wkl and Wkl −1 matrices may be negative (for a positive interpolants Wkl such as bilinear or B-splines, the inverse warp will have negative sidelobes). In these cases, the upper/lower bound estimates f0 max and/or fl min computed in Equations 7 and 10 may be invalid (too tight). These errors propagate from iteration to iteration, and can eventually come up with global solutions that are invalid (that may not satisfy the constraints).
The second potential problem is that an approximation to Wkl −1 is being used. This happens quite often, for example when bi-linear or bi-cubic filtering is used in conjunction with a hardware or software perspective warping algorithm (in both directions). If in this case, while the entries in Wkl and Wkl* (the approximate inverse) may be non-negative, Equation 7 is no longer valid. Instead, the equation should read
There is no longer any guarantee that the first term is not less than f0. In practice, it is observed that the algorithm starts to diverge rather quickly (
D. Motion Refinement: Re-Estimating the Layer Motions
This section presents the motion refinement technique of the present invention, as described in general above. Once layer estimates are found (starting with one iteration of the min/max algorithm to compute the initial dominant and non-dominant motions, and optionally followed by an initial solution of the constrained least squares), the motion estimates can be refined.
The refinement technique of the present invention is similar to parametric motion estimations. Namely, expanding equation 5 using a Taylor series in the motion parameters pkl, the following is obtained
The errors λk(x) are then computed (difference between predicted and observed signals). The gradients ∇fl are computed for each layer separately, and used to compute that layer's motion.
E. Complete Solution for Estimating the Component Layer Images and their Associated Motions.
Based on the above, a complete solution can be formulated that estimates the component layer images and their associated motions, in accordance with the present invention. The complete solution can be summarized as follows with reference to
In general, referring to
Next, the difference sequence 514 is used to process a secondary layer 520 of the original image sequence 200 of
A constrained least squares technique 530 can be then used to recover the component layers 532, 534. Referring to
In summary, the present invention extracts a set of component layers from a collection of composite images. While the problem of recovering the multiple motions from such sequences has been extensively studied (at least when the motions are parametric), the problem of extracting the layer images in the presence of reflections and transparency has not been adequately treated until now.
The present invention is embodied in a system and method for recovering the layer images and their motions from the input sequence. For the case when the input composite images can be modeled as an additive mixture of the component layers (such a model applies when the light from one surface is reflected by another), a constrained least-square technique can be used to recover the layers from known motions. Further, a complete technique that combines the layer extraction step together with an automatic multiple motion technique to recover the layers and their motions from the input images has been described.
The foregoing description of the invention has been presented for the purposes of illustration and description. It is not intended to be exhaustive or to limit the invention to the precise form disclosed. Many modifications and variations are possible in light of the above teaching. It is intended that the scope of the invention be limited not by this detailed description, but rather by the claims appended hereto.
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Skip to comments.Small Businesswomans Epic Rant Against Obamas Disastrous Economic Policies
Posted on 08/06/2011 12:48:51 PM PDT by Justaham
This is brilliant. Just brilliant. A must see video.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.tv ...
Smart woman,She calls it like it is ,epic failure of leadership.
Nail. Head.
Reminds me of that LV casino magnate —Steve Wynn?
That guy is a lib, but put a camera on him and he screams his head off about Obama. And he's articulate.
My prediction is that POTUS from now on just sinks deeper and deeper into the cr*pper.
Good post.
This needs to go viral.
She explains it perfectly!
I wonder if he may be forced to resign by his own commieRat party when it becomes clear he is going to take them all down with him next November.
"As a CEO of my company I inherit a mess every day!"
She doesn't understand that Zer0 leads from behind.
I think I would have gone a little further.
I would have looked directly into the camera and said "I have a message for the people in America who have dreams about socialism or marxism. It ain't gonna happen. Its not an opinion, its a fact. There are too many of us for you to ever get rid of us and we'll be fighting you to the last man. Resign yourselves to that fact.".
I saw her today on Cavuto.
Neil Cavuto had her on this morning. Best lines..Obama says he inherited a crisis. He did. And I inherit a crisis every morning when I go to work. I'm the CEO, it's my job to deal with them.
I am in love with this woman!
Our Woman have all the guts,We have the Weeping Bonehead and backstabber's.????
Had to log in for this one.
I want this woman to be our president. She makes Obama and all the evil Clintonites look like the fools and frauds they truly are.
At one time I had crew on both shifts..I got it from all sides...and dealt with it. I know EXACTLY what you're talking about.
Pagers were just becoming vogue then...I wanted to throw mine in the river.
She fights like a girl. :-)
The ability to cope with the worst situations has to become a source of pride or you'll never survive in any kind of management position.
If you don't "embrace the horror" as I called it, things won't get done.
"She fights like a girl. :-)"
LMAO, True like Palin and Bachmann,It is going to take one of these "Steel Ladies" to fix this mess.
She's obviously racist.
Obama cries he inherited his problems...he blames Bush, ATM's, the Japanese Earthquake, etc. Always...Whining and making excuses. This woman says: "I inherit a crisis every morning when I go to work. Im the CEO, its my job to deal with them."
Now, THAT is a leader...and that is what leaders do. What successful leader, manager, administrator goes to his employees and whines about what caused the problems that the company faces? Only whimpy ones, like Obama.
Saw part of that this morning.
That was Epic! Love the emotion and reality of it.
That woman reminds me a bit of Kirstie Alley, who would also make a better President than the current WH occupant.
She stated it beautifully and without teleprompters.
She ain't crying like Boehner! She gets her job done!
That jerk doesn't won't a plan...he must have a crashed economy...that's what he has always intended to do.... destroy America.
I saw it too. I was quite impressed. This is what the republicans in congress should be out in the forefront saying.
Some background on the lady.
As Chairman and CEO of AMA Productions, Amilya Antonetti leads a team that Discovers, Develops, and Delivers consumer brands and products that provide better choices for today's consumer. AMA's team leverages decades of experience in Electronic, Direct, and Traditional Retail. We place consumer products in the RIGHT channel at the RIGHT time so that our portfolio companies and partners get the RIGHT results.
Amilya rose to the national stage in the early 90s, when she discovered that the cleaning products she was using to clean her home every Tuesday were causing life-threatening ailments for her infant son. This led to the launch of Amilyas Soapworks, a line of hypoallergenic, non-toxic, and biodegradable cleaning products. As one of the first Mommies to go green, she documented her sons journey back to health in her first book, "Why David Hated Tuesdays". Her Soapworks story has been featured on Oprah, CBS News as well as in Time, People, and Working Mother to name a few.
More here. http://www.linkedin.com/in/amilya
Interesting Fact: Regarded as one of the most inspirational female entrepreneurs of the 20th century
Read about this remarkable woman at: CNBC profile and appearance Amilya Antonetti
There is much more on the Internet about her, but I found her FaceBook page interesting where she lists her education from: School of Hardknocks, University of Life. Now you know why NO liberal, especially liberal women, will ever support or admire her. Can we say "Jealousy?"
The IRS will be all over her on Monday.
That was great! Thanks for posting it.
Cavuto: "He will argue that he inherited a mess."
Woman: "He did. It doesn't matter. I inherit a mess every day as the CEO of my company. Every day I inherit a mess. That is my job title -- to fix problems."
I hate to break this to you, but people like this woman have too much integrity and self-respect to get into national politics.
The sad truth about this country is that most of the "leaders" we elect are nothing more than incompetent hacks who couldn't manage a sidewalk lemonade stand.
Saw her this AM on Cavuto, she made his jaw drop.
Hate to disagree, but he has had the same plan the same strategy of Marxist Democrats for decades,Tax the Rich=everybody and More Government programs=more spending PERIOD. Thats it,say it will you never mind he does not have a Plan. Want proof,we have been downgraded and what are all the Democrats saying,Besides its Bushs fault. This proves we need Tax increases.
Mark for tomorrow. This woman has more gray matter in her little toe nail than ears has between his ears.
Amilya Antonetti, Chairman and CEO of AMA Productions.
Saw her this morning on Cavuto: His soft comment when she got too loud in her excellent rant: "Why are you yelling at me."
"Obama should apologize" if he speaks to the nation. "Obama won't be known for being the first Black president, but for the president who had a downgrade."
Gotta view it, excellent!
Sadly, you are right...
The commie dirtbag has a plan.
I can identify with that statement. This lady should be running for congress.
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Analysis: Let's be frank. This will be the lone best team ever in our series of 32 that didn't advance to the playoffs. These Texans are the best because they posted the only winning record in franchise history.
They did it despite some serious faults: a terrible run defense at the outset, a terrible run game and too many missed field goals late in close games.
Schaub posted the sixth-highest passing yardage season in league history. His 4,770 yards exceeded the best years for Peyton Manning or Warren Moon. Schaub accomplished this despite losing his second-best pass-catcher, tight end Owen Daniels, to a knee injury at the season's midpoint.
The defense started poorly, but once in-season addition Pollard settled in, things settled down. Outside linebacker Cushing was fantastic from the start and won the NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year honors.
Schaub showed just how valuable he can be, but these Texans often relied on his passing to win or stay in games. A win at struggling Tennessee early was the lone division victory. A 1-5 overall division record set up an impossible route to the postseason.
The Texans are hopeful the 2010 edition will replace this team as a franchise-best. A more balanced club and a playoff berth would accomplish that.
Most impressive win: I'm really struggling to pick one here, but I'll go with 34-31 in Nashville over the Titans in Week 2. Schaub threw four touchdowns to offset a huge day for Titans running back Chris Johnson.
Research room: The 2009 Texans were only the second AFC South team to finish with a winning record and not make the playoffs. (Jacksonville was 9-7 in 2004.)
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2008: Andre Johnson was outstanding and running back Steve Slaton was a revelation with 1,282 rushing yards and nine touchdowns. But the 2008 Texans were outscored by 28 points. An 0-4 start killed them and a 5-1 finish was only enough for 8-8 overall.


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Orientation Face On or Toe In On FP and CP Helis
Ok, this is where it starts to get sticky, at least for me and reading beginners trying to tame the more agressive models as CP and even FP. This Orientation as face on view things are reversed, and you have to stay ahead of the responsive models to stay alive.
Difficult to practice something you can't hold for a fraction of a second, making it quite a delema for many. Many a lost or damaged heli turns otherwise newbie pilots away.
Did accomplish some nice orientation with the very stable MSR but it at times is nearly hands off flying as so beautifully stable, thats great but won't necessarily prepare to the CP Change or even some of the more responsive FP needing continual attention.
So how did you do it ??
I'm just getting there after loads of flying and flew on the carpet just barely hovering to reduce crashes into the wall etc. Last getting some nice orientation on the fun to fly Novus 125 FP. Did this much earlier in a gym but took half the area to keep under control. Now back inside kept working on this and last nearly fly it around, can hold over a minute or more face on view solid hover on the Novus 125 FP.
Soon will be trying it on the CP but only after receiving more blades, hah.
So a long road but is a position needed to master to have control on flying these puppies.
You have any secrets, please share..
Thanks In Advance
Take your time and be careful especially in close quarters, Good Luck.
Again realize we lose newbies here, as many flyers quit trying to fly these as from postings. Best take a breath, relax, come back and try try again.
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Msr is rediculously stable, I really handle that one, but falls abit short for a CP intro, enjoying the Novus 125, more inputs required and just might get me there.
Again I flew this one very low at the start and did quick 180 degree face on for only moments and set down immediately, then praciticed very gradually on holding the face on view again low to the carpet so I could set it down on the learning stages. I was making progress finally but holding it too long and few crashes to point lost a few main blades, no biggie. Now have at least 3 sets handy to keep flying but last few weeks no crashes so raised the bar to waist level and its starting to handle rather well. But only after being able to hover face on at least over a minute solid. In tight quarters take your time. Would learn more quickly in gym, but heck these micros do fly well even in living room, reason so popular. Have fun !!
You have found one of the secrets, give yourself lots of room (outdoors). Get up high enough that you have time to correct mistakes. Don't try to hover right away. Start with piros, circles and turns that gradually have more nose in orientation.
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Yep, more room is important at the start no question. I did take CPS up high and did have some success on rotation at elevation. So back to a CP was outdoors, thought I was high but it zinged away into oblivian before I could get it back undercontrol, but hey, CPS are aggresive.
I've been blown away with these miraculous micro flyers now, even flybarless and still quite stable.
Have the V120D02 flybarless micro and loads of fun hovering it in the living room. Fantastic has a 3 gyro stabilizing sysytem, for a fraction of a second if you tip it forward during close in hovers, it holds position very briefly then scoots quickly, but gives a terrific advantage of letting a new pilot know where its about to go. My other CPS would be crashed into the wall. And its still a very quick flyer, unbelieveable.
I'll have to get a good clip to show its response, amazing...
More room, elevation, needed on the new manuvering, defintely..
Tnx for your info...
Note I can do flat figure eights on the Blade 400 outside of course, its a larger model, but toe in, need loads of work..
I used a flight stabilization system on my CP helis until I developed the muscle memory and confidence. Once I did that, I put the system on a panic switch so it was only active when I wanted it to be. It didn't take long for me to remove the system from the helis completely. That's how I learned.
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Wow, thats a great way to learn. More help the better its quite a trip to accomplish.
Muscle memory exactly what must be devloped and it eventually does with persistance.
Again the V120D02 does have some stabilizing gyro going on, but nothing close to what you used, nice.
What happens on the V120 it dips its nose forward, but instead of zinging out has this micro seconds delay then acts like the normal CP, my other models won't come close to doing this, like this feature.
Tnx, great advantage using that procedure...
Try to avoid thinking about it as if anything is 'reversed' - it's not. You need to learn to make a smooth transition between various orientations, so your mindset needs to be the same for all. Think about it as if the transmitter is always facing the same direction as the helicopter, you may even want to turn your body to the side a bit to reinforce this thinking. When there is no mental difference between nose-in and tail-in or side-in or upside-down, then you are there...
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Hah, thats amusing, but if it works.. Tried to visualize as a pilot in planes and now the heli but not that gifted, more of the correct reflex moves are building quickly and it gets easier each attempt. Amazing on how models can vary, would think the MSR and Novus would be the same but are quite different in handling, both beautiful flyers.
Dang tried to get the V120D02 to show its brief micro second hold but doesn't show on clip, defintely feel it tho on the controls, has a great hover feel for a CP, love it so far and its again the newer flybarless.
Thanks all for your great inputs, all advice will help others on this hurdle
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So few 'space' opportunities here, wind avg 15-25. So if you can't make the space bigger, make the aircraft smaller. A palmcopter got me past the orientation hurdle, where I could see the craft from ITS perspective.
Palm coax in avg size room, time to correct if you get it backwards. Yah, RUD is on wrong thumb but that's a different loop from perception. Even if you have no interest in palmcopters your GF might and for $20, practical orientation tool you can practice A LOT and without fear of getting it wrong.
A mCX is great for learning orientation... you have lots of time to recover from mistakes even in a small room.... Do figue 8's... do them forward, do them sideways, do them backward, and when you get really good, do them while piroing... when you can do that, you have orientation down
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Sometimes flying these fun Coaxial helis wonder why anyone would want to fly anything else as amazingly stable with counter rotating main blades. As you move up the ladder tho they become faster and more aggresive but also loads of fun. Took me along time to for orientation on FP and now CP working on both. I have full orientation with coaxials and the stable MSR, but learning on the Novus 125 FP and Flybarless V120D02 CP, micro helis.
I have to say the Coaxials are super fun, but fall short on preparing me for orientation on the faster response models, the Novus 125 FP is filling the gap for me at the present time. I did at last toe in tho briefly the CP micro V120D02, First CP was able to do this as just happened.
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Rabbi Angela Warnick Buchdahl has been selected to succeed Rabbi Peter Rubinstein as spiritual leader of Manhattan's Central Synagogue, the congregation's board announced on Thursday.
Pending approval of the board's recommendation at a Jan. 7 membership meeting, she would assume the pulpit on July 1. She would be the first woman to lead the 2,100-family Reform congregation in its 174-year history.
"I am honored by the Board's recommendation to the congregation for its approval next month," said Rabbi Buchdahl in a statement emailed to The Jewish Week by the synagogue. "Our senior rabbi transition will not occur until July 1, 2014, so I am wholly focused on continuing to serve our community as senior cantor at this time. Beyond that I have no further comment."
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"This is one of the most prominent congregations in the world, and Rabbi Cantor Angela Buchdal is one of the most remarkable and inspiring religious leaders in our world," said Rabbi Rick Jacobs, the president of the Union for Reform Judaism, the movement's congregational arm.
Rabbi Buchdal is the movement's most prominent leader who is both a rabbi and a cantor, Rabbi Jacobs said in an interview with The Jewish Week. She will join him in leading the Shabbat service at the movement's Biennial meeting in San Diego, which starts on Dec. 11.
"The Committee and the Board believe wholeheartedly that Rabbi Buchdahl is the right person to lead Central forward," David B. Edelson, the congregation president, said in a statement posted on the congregation website.
"She believes music is an integral part of how she leads a worship experience," wrote Edelson. "That said, Rabbi Buchdahl will also work alongside a new senior cantor and Cantor [Julia] Katz to embed music even more deeply into the fabric of Central. In order to select the absolute best person for Senior Cantor, we may be comfortable extending the search we will launch to include candidates who might not start until July 2015."
She has been featured multiple times in the Newsweek/Daily Beast annual list of 50 Most Influential American Rabbis.
Born in Seoul, South Korea in 1972 to an American-Jewish father and Korean-Buddhist mother, Buchdahl grew up in Tacoma, Wash., and was raised Jewish.
"Her multiple backgrounds can enhance our Jewish life in this contemporary world that we live in," Rabbi Jacobs said, adding that Rabbi Buchdal grew up in the Reform movement, spending her summers at its summer camps.
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"Now that the Committee and Board have recommended Rabbi Buchdahl, I can say that I enthusiastically endorse her selection and I joyfully look forward to her becoming Central's next senior rabbi."
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I think some of the statements I read are horrible." Love thy neighbor as thyself" is certainly not seen here!What I think is important is one's excellence in doing the job. Watching this rabbi, I saw the connecting to her peers and congregants. Also, often those who convert are better Jews than those born to a Jewish mother.
This rabbi was born to her parents and was considered Jewish by them. Then, she sought a "journey"of a religious life.It is difficult enough for Caucasion women--never mind an Asian women. Think what she had to go through to even become a Cantor. I applaud her, and think she is awesome!! I think her congregation is so lucky to have her, and should thank G-d!
Though it ought not to have been required Rabbi Buchdahl "converted" from, as far as I can tell, Jew to Jew who even the Orthodox could accept (though, of course, they won't). The self-appointed who think they can establish the Law (they probably believe they delivered the tablets to Moses),are entitled to their views, of course, but the rest of us should not have to listen to them, much less accept their bleatings as The Word. As Rabbi Jacobs said in San Diego in December "The time is long overdue for us to stop using Orthodox Jewish practice as the baseline against which we define our own Jewish practice. We can affirm the authenticity of other Jewish practices without conceding Jewish authenticity to them alone. Our Judaism is appealing to everyone, those from more traditional backgrounds, no Jewish backgrounds, Jews by religion, Jews by culture, and Jews by affinity. We will amply nourish all who are hungry for meaning...Our Judaism is for everyone. Our Judaism is inclusive, egalitarian, intellectually rigorous, joyful, passionate, spiritual, pluralistic, constantly evolving and relevant. Soul elevating spiritual practice, life-altering Torah study, courageous practice of tikkun olam, loving care for our community, especially the most vulnerable--that's what we are. Just look at this Biennial if you want to see Judaism that is all of the above and more. I believe with the very fiber of my being that young Jews are hungry, but not for a Judaism frozen in a distant time, no matter how loving and warm the purveyors - including Chabad, in particular - might be."
What can be said about a synagogue that appoints a Rabbi that is not even Jewish. The so called Rabbi is only considered Jewish by liberal US reform standards but in the rest of the jewish work is a gentile. Without even a formal reform conversion the Rabbi is not even able to identify as Jewish in Israel.
The Central Synagogue could not have chosen a better representative for Rabbi. Anything goes with the reformers: women rabbis; atheist rabbis; gay rabbis; goy rabbis. But as a show of inclusiveness, the Rabbi Avi Weiss/Rabbi Asher Lopatin Yeshivat Chovevei Torah will also include these types with their oich mir a rabbis.
I don't care what ethnicity she is. She's not even Jewish according to Jewish law, so what does that say about the state of the Reform movement?
1. It is sad, yet revealing, that the reform movement has selected as its "Most Important Rabbi" an individual who is not even a halachic jew.
2. We know what the gemarra says about Cantors.
Rabbi Angela was my "personal angel" because thanks to her I started the process of conversion. I fearfully expressed my desire to her and her response was an immediate "Yes, you can convert." I eventually studied with one of her colleagues, Rabbi Mark Sameth, but Rabbi Angela was my first teacher and my guide. I have deep gratitude and admiration for her and wish her all the best in this new position.
This is the sort of thing the Maccabees fought and won against.
This includes all the other people in the groups she represents.
America the land of the "free".