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Aliases for SH3D19 Gene
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- Entrez Gene: 152503
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This gene encodes a multiple SH3 domain-containing protein, which interacts with other proteins, such as EBP and members of ADAM family, via the SH3 domains. This protein may be involved in suppression of Ras-induced cellular transformation and Ras-mediated activation of ELK1 by EBP, and regulation of ADAM proteins in the signaling of EGFR-ligand shedding. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Aug 2011]
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SH3D19 (SH3 Domain Containing 19) is a Protein Coding gene. Among its related pathways are Metabolism and Metabolism. GO annotations related to this gene include proline-rich region binding. An important paralog of this gene is SORBS3.
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May play a role in regulating A disintegrin and metalloproteases (ADAMs) in the signaling of EGFR-ligand shedding. May be involved in suppression of Ras-induced cellular transformation and Ras-mediated activation of ELK1. Plays a role in the regulation of cell morphology and cytoskeletal organization.


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Italian furniture designer and manufacturer Euromobil Group started in 1972 as Euromobil, a firm that specialized in home furnishings. The addition of Zalf and Desiree to the company allowed the new and bigger Euromobil Group to extend its product offerings and enter new markets. The growing multi-million dollar company suffered integration woes on the OpenOffice.org platform, which was also difficult to manage and update. Euromobil Group turned to Microsoft Office and SharePoint to provide an infrastructure that improved automation and collaboration.


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PART I - General considerations PART II - An interview about my writing process PART III - Tips on writing
ladyonfire73 24 days ago
This was very helpful to me. I was afraid after I had my wreck I would be able to write but the truth is that I had to get back my faith in myself to tell that story that I wanted to share with the world. So thank you so much.
ladyonfire73 24 days ago
I so agree. I devour books like they are high quality chocolate. Each book inspires me in some way that helps me write a little better. Besides I have never understood those who say I want to be a writer but I don't have time to read.
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those who make you think and those who make you dream.. thank you for sharing your insights .. very appreciated .. vt
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"One is constantly challenged...even by success." This what's called an instant classic quote! TYSM
bobbyandcharlie a month ago
@panthera_alba The same goes for me. :) I think that although there are differing circumstances, this plight that all writers/aspiring-writers is intrinsically the same. I've never once met a person who writes that isn't a bit of a procrastinator in one way or another.
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"People always judge others based on the model of their limitations..." Amen, and I needed to read this today. Bless you!


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Unsupervised Texture Segmentation Using Gabor Filters1 Ani1 K. Jain Farshid Farrokhnia Department of Computer Science Department of Electrical Engineering Michigan State University Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824-1027, U.S.A. East Lansing, MI 48824-1226, U.S.A. email@example.com email@example.com The multi-channel filtering approach to texture analysis is in- Abstract tuitively appealing because the dominant spatial-frequency com- We presenf a texture segmentation algorithm inspired by ponents of different textures are different. An important advantage the multi-channel filtering theory for visual information pro- of the multi-channel filtering approach to texture analysis is that cessing in t e early stages of human visual system. The h one can use simple statistics of gray values in the filtered images as channels are characterized by a bank of Gabor filters that texture features. This simplicity is the direct result of decomposing nearly uniformly covers t e spatial-frequency domain. We h i the original image into several filtered images with limited spec- propose a systematic filter selection scheme which is based on reconstructionof the input image from the filtered images. tral information. The main issues involved in the multi-channel Texture features are obtained by subjecting each (selected) filtering approach to texture analysis are: 1) functional character- filtered image to a nonlinear transformation and computing ization of the channels and the number of channels, 2) extraction a measure of "energy" in a window around each pixel. An of appropriate texture features from the filtered images. 3) the re- unsupervised square-emr clustering algorithm is then used lationship between channels (dependent vs. independent), and 4) to integrate the feature images and produce a segmentation. integration of texture features from different channels to produce A simple procedure to incorporate spatial adjacency infor- a segmentation. Different multi-channel filtering techniques that mation in the clustering process is also proposed. We report are proposed in the literature differ in their approach to one or experiments on images with natural textures as well as arti- more of the above issues. ficial textures with identical 2nd- and 3rd-order statistics. We use a bank of Gabor filters to characterize the chan- nels. We show that the filter set forms an approximate basis for a wavelet transform, with the Gabor function as the wavelet. We 1 Introduction propose a systematic filter selection scheme which is based on reconstruction of the input image from the filtered images. Each Image segmentation is a difficult yet very important task in many (selected) filtered image is subjected to a bounded nonlinear trans- image analysis or computer vision applications. Differences in formation that behaves as a 'blob detector'. The combination of the mean gray level or in color in small neighborhoods alone axe multi-channel filtering and the nonlinear stages can be viewed as not always sufficient for image segmentation. Rather, one has performing a multi-scale blob detection. Texture discrimination to rely on differences in the spatial arrangement of gray values is associated with differences in the attributes of these blobs in of neighboring pixels - that is, on differences in texture. The different regions. A statistical approach is then used where the problem of segmenting an image based on textural cues is referred attributes of the blobs are captured by texture features defined by to as texture segmentation problem. a measure of "energy" in a small window around each pixel in The diversity of natural and artificial textures makes it im- each response image. This process generates one 'feature image' possible to give a universal definition of texture. A large number corresponding to each filtered image (see Figure 1). The size of of techniques for analyzing image texture has been proposed in the past two decades [ l l , 221. In this paper, we focus on a par- the window for each response image is determined using a simple , formula involving the radial frequency to which the correspond- ticular approach to texture analysis which is referred to as the ing filter is tuned. A square-error clustering algorithm is then used multi-channel filtering approach. This approach is inspired by a to identify the texture categories. A simple procedure for inclu- multi-channel filtering theory for processing visual information in sion of contextual (spatial adjacency) information in the clustering the early stages of the human visual system. First proposed by process is also proposed. Campbell & Robson [4], the theory holds that the visual system decomposes the retinal image into a number of filtered images, each of which contains intensity variations over a narrow range 2 Channel Characterization of frequency (size) and orientation. The psychophysical experi- We represent the channels with a bank of two-dimensional Gabor ments that suggested such a decomposition used various grating filters. A two-dimensional Gabor function consists of a sinusoidal pattems as stimuli and were based on adaptation techniques [4]. plane wave of some frequency and orientation, modulated by a Subsequent psychophysiological experiments provided additional two-dimensional Gaussian envelope. A 'canonical' Gabor filter in evidence supporting the theory [lo]. the spatial domain is given by 'This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation infrastructure grant CDA-8806599, by a grant from E.I. Du Pont D Nemours and e & Company Inc. 9OCH2930-6~/000(M014$01.W0 1990 IEEE r] Input Image Bank of Gabor Filters l (.. . Images Filtered Nonlinearitv Local 'Energy' Computation c Square-Error Clustering I Figure 2: (a) An even-symmetricGabor filter in the spatial do- main. (b) Corresponding MTF. The origin is at ( r ,c ) = (32,32). Segmented Image scrated their potential for texture discrimination. Similarly, Perry Figure 1: An overview of the texture segmentation algorithm. & Lowe 1191 use a fixed set of Gabor filters in their texture seg- mentation algorithm. Bovik et at. 111 have used complex Gabor filters, where the real part of each filter is an even-symmetric Ga- bor filter (i.e., 4 = 0) and the imaginary part is an odd-symmetric where uo and q5 are the frequency and phase of the sinusoidal plane Gabor filter (i.e., 4 = n/2). Instead of using a fixed set of filters, wave along the z-axis (i.e. the 0" orientation), and uz and uy are Bovik er al. apply a simple peak finding algorithm to the power the space constants of the Gaussian envelope along the z- and spectrum of the image in order to determine the radial frequen- y-axis, respectively. A Gabor filter with arbitrary orientation, 00, cies of the appropriate Gabor filters. In our texture segmentation can be obtained via a rigid rotation of the I-y coordinate system. algorithm, we model the channels with afued set of Gabor filters These two-dimensional functions have been shown to be good fits that preserve almost all the information in the input image. to the receptive field profiles of simple cells in the striate cortex [18,71. The frequency- and orientation-selective properties of a Gabor 2.1 Choice of Filter Parameters filter are more explicit in its frequency domain representation. We implement each Gabor filter as a discrete realization of the With 4 = 0, the Fourier transform of the Gabor function in (1) is MTF in (2). We use four values of orientation 00: O", 45", go", real-valued and given by and 135". For an image array with a width of N, pixels, where N , is a power of 2, the following values of radial frequency u o are used: where uu = l/2iruz, U, = l/2iruy, and A = 2xu,u,. The Fourier domain representation in (2) specifies the amount by which the fil- Note that the radial frequencies are 1 octave apart. (The frequency ter modifies or modulates each frequency component of the input bandwidth, in octaves, from frequency f l to frequency fi is given image. Such representations are, therefore, referred to as modula- by log,(f2/fl).) We let the orientation and frequency bandwidths tion transfer functions (MTF). Figure 2 shows an even-symmetric of each filter be 45" and 1 octave, respectively. Several experi- Gabor filter and its MTF in a 64 x 64 array. ments have shown that the frequency bandwidth of simple cells Texture segmentation requires simultaneous measurements in in the visual cortex is about 1 Octave [20]. Psychophysical exper- both the spatial and the spatial-frequency domains. Filters with iments show that the resolution of the orientation tuning ability of smaller bandwidths in the spatial-frequency domain are more de- the human visual system is as high as 5 degrees. Therefore, in sirable because they allows us to make finer distinctions among general, finer quantization of orientation will be needed. The re- different textures. On the other hand, accurate localization of striction to four orientations is made for computational efficiency. texture boundaries requires filters that are localized in the spatial The above choice of the radial frequencies, guarantees that domain. However, the effective width of a filter in the spatial the passband of the filter with the highest radial frequency, viz. domain and its bandwidth in the spatial-frequency domain are in- (NJ4)fi cycledimage-width, falls inside the image array. For versely related. An important property of Gabor filters is that they an image with 256 columns, for example, a total of 28 filters have optimal joint localization, or resolution, in both the spatial can be used - 4 orientations and 7 frequencies. Note that filters and the spatial-frequency domains [8]. with very low radial frequencies (e.g., 1f i and 2 f i cycledimage- The use of Gabor filters in texture analysis is not new. For width) can often be left out, because they capture spatial variations example, Tumer [21] used a fixed set of Gabor filters and demon- that are too large to correspond to texture. To assure that the filters Figure 3: The filter set in the spatial-frequency domain (256 x 256). There are a total of 28 Gabor filters. Only the half-peak support of the filters are shown. The origin is at (row,col) = (128,128). Figure 4 Examples of filtered images for 055-068 texture pair (128x256). (a) Input image. @e) Filtered images corresponding do not respond to regions with constant intensity, we have set the to Gabor filters tuned to 16 fich-w and to 0°,450, O , and135O. W MTF of each filter at (u,o) = (0,O) zero. As a result each to respectively. filtered image has a zero mean. The set of filters used in our algorithm results in nearly uni- where form coverage of the frequency domain (Figure 3). This filter SSTOT = C s ( ~ , y ) ~ . Z,Y set constitutes an approximate basis for a wavelet transform, with the Gabor filter as the wavelet. The wavelet transform is closel) Note that s(z,y) has a mean of zero, since the mean gray value related to the window Fourier transform. However, unlike win- of each filtered image is zero. dow Fourier transforms where the window is fixed, in a wavelet For computational efficiency, we determine the "best" subset transform the window size is allowed to change according to fre- 01 .he filtered images (filters) by the following suboptimal sequen- quency [17]. Intuitively, a wavelet transform can be interpreted tial forward selection procedure: as a band-pass filtering operation on the input image. The Gabor 1. Select the filtered image that best approximates s(z, y), i.e. function is an admissible wavelet, however, it does not result in an results in the highest value of R2. orthogonal decomposition. This means that a wavelet transform based on Gabor wavelets is redundant. A decomposition obtained 2. Select the next filtered image that together with previously by our filter set is nearly orthogonal, as the amount of overlap selected filtered image(s) best approximate s(z,y). between the filters (in the spatial-frequency domain) is small. Figure 4 shows examples of filtered images for an image 3. Repeat Step 2 until R2 2 0.95. containing 'straw matting' @55) and 'wood grain' (D68) textures A minimum value of 0.95 for R2 means that we will use only as from the photographic album of textures by Brodatz [2]. The abil- many filtered images as necessary to account for at least 95% of ity of the filters to exploit differences in spatial-frequency (size) the intensity variations in s(z, y). and orientation in the two textures is evident in these images. The differences in the strength of the responses in regions with dif- Let r;(z,y) be the zth filtered image and R,(u,v)be its Dis- ferent textures is the key to the multi-channel approach to texture crete Fourier Transform. The amount of overlap between the analysis. To maximize visibility, each filtered image has been MTFs of the Gabor filters in our filter set is small. Therefore, scaled to full contrast. the total energy E in S ( I , y ) can be approximated by n E R ~ E ; , 2.2 Filter Selection i= 1 Using only a subset of the filtered images can reduce the com- where putational burden at later stages, because this directly translates Ei = [~i(z?y)]~ = (R,(U,V)~~. into a reduction in the number of texture features. Let s(z,y ) be Z,Y u,u the reconstruction of the input image obtained by adding all the Now, it is easily verified that for any subset A of filtered images filtered images. Let .^(z,y) be the partial reconstruction of the image obtained by adding a given subset of filtered images. The e m r involved in using S(z,y) instead of s(z, y ) can be measured by An approximate filter selection would then consists of computing SSE = C Z,Y [S^(X,Y) - 4 x 1 Y)12 E; for z = 1,. . . ,n. These energies can be computed in the Fourier The fraction of intensity variations in s(z, that is explained by y) domain, hence avoiding unnecessary inverse Fourier transforms. S^(z,y) can be measured by the coefficient of determination We then sort the filters (channels) based on their energy and pick as many filters as needed to achieve R2 2 0.95. Computationally, SSE this procedure is much more efficient than the sequential forward R2=1-- SSTOT' selection procedure described before. 16 small numerical ranges by those with larger ranges. 3 Computing Feature Images Clustering a large number of pattems becomes computation- ally demanding. Therefore, we first cluster a small randomly se- We use the following procedure to compute features from each lected subset of pattems into a specified number of clusters. Pat- filtered image. First, each filtered image is subjected to a non- rems in each cluster are given a generic category label that distin- linear transformation. Specifically, we use the following bounded guishes them from those in other clusters. These labeled panems nonlinearity are then used as training patterns to classify pattems (pixels) in 1- Q(4= tanh((Yt) = -7 (3) the entire image using a minimum distance classifier. In texture segmentation, neighboring pixels are very likely where (Y is a constant. This nonlinearity bears certain similari- to belong to the same texture category. We propose a simple ties to the sigmoidal activation function used in artificial neural method that incorporates the spatial adjacency information directly networks. In our experiments, we have used an empirical value in the clustering process. This is achieved by including the spatial of (Y = 0.25 which results in a rapidly saturating, threshold-like coordinates of the pixels as two additional features. transformation. As a result, the application of the nonlinearity transforms the sinusoidal modulations in the filtered images to square modulations and, therefore, can be interpreted as a blob 5 Experimental Results detector. However, the detected blobs are not binary, and unlike the blobs detected by Voorhees & Poggio [23] they are not nec- We now apply our texture segmentation algorithm to several im- essarily isolated from each other. Also, since each filtered image ages in order to demonstrate its performance. These images are has a zero mean and the nonlinearity in (3) is odd-symmetric, both created by collaging subimages of natural as well as artificial tex- dark and light blobs are detected. tures. We start by a total of 20 Gabor filters in each case. Each Instead of identifying individual blobs and measuring their at- filter is tuned to one of the four orientations and to one of the five tributes, we simply compute the average absolute deviation (AAD) highest radial frequencies. For an image with a width of 256 pix- from the mean in small overlapping windows. This is similar to els, for example, 4fi, 8d?, 16fi,32fi, and 64fi cycleshmage- the 'texture energy' measure that was first proposed by Laws [15]. width radial frequencies are used. We then use our filter selection Formally, the feature image ek(z, y) corresponding to filtered im- scheme to determine a subset of filtered images that achieves an age ~ ( i ,y ) is given by where $(.) is the nonlinear function in (3) and W,, is an M x M window centered at the pixel with coordinates (z, y). The size, M , of the averaging window in (4) an important is (a) (b) parameter. More reliable measurement of texture features calls for Figure 5: (a) 055-068 texture pair. (b) Two-category segmen- larger window sizes. On the other hand, more accurate localiza- tation obtained using a total of 13 Gabor filters. tion of region boundaries calls for smaller windows. Furthermore, using Gaussian weighted windows, rather than unweighted win- dows, is likely to result in more accurate localization of texture boundaries. For each filtered image we use a Gaussian window whose space constant U is proportional to the average size of the intensity variations in the image. For a Gabor filter with radial frequency uo this average size is given by T = N,/uo pixels, (5) where N , is the width (number of columns) of the image. We found a n NN 0.52' to be appropriate in most of our segmentation experiments. 4 Integrating Feature Images Having obtained the feature images, the main question is how to integrate features corresponding to different filters to produce a segmentation. Let's assume that there are K texture categories, CI,. . . ,CK,present in the image. If our texture features are capa- ble of discriminating these categories then the patterns belonging to each category will form a cluster in the feature space which is "compact" and "isolated" from clusters corresponding to other texture categories. Pattern clustering algorithms are ideal vehicles for recovering such clusters in the feature space. In our texture (b) (c) segmentation experiments we use a square-error clustering algo- Figure 6: (a) A 256 x 256 image containing four different Gaus- rithm known as CLUSTER [13]. Prior to clustering each feature sian Markov random field textures. (b) Four-category segmen- is normalized to have a zero mean and a constant variance. This tation obtained using a total of 11 Gabor filters. (c) Same as b, normalization is intended to avoid the domination of features with but with pixel coordinates used as additional features. 17 R2 value of at least 0.95. The number of randomly selected fea- ture vectors, that are used as input to the clustering program, is proportional to the size of the input image. For a 256 x 256 im- age, for example, 4000 pattems are selected at random, which is about 6% of the total number of pattems. The same percentage is used in all the following experiments. The segmentation results are displayed as gray-level images, where regions belonging to different categories are shown with different gray levels. Figure 5 shows the segmentation results for the 055-068 texture pair. The algorithm successfully discriminates the two textured regions and detects the boundary between them quite ac- curately. The segmentation with pixel coordinates included as additional features was essentially the same for this example. (a) (b) Figure 6 (a) shows a 256 x 256 image containing four dif- Figure 7: (a) A 256 x 256 image containing five natural textures ferent Gaussian Markov random field (GMRF) textures generated (D77, D55, D84, D17, and D24) from the Bmdatz album. @) using non-causal finite lattice models [5]. These four textures can Five-category segmentation obtained using a total of 13 Gabor not be discriminated based on their mean gray values. The four- filters and the pixel coordinates. category segmentation of the image is shown in Figure 6 (b). The segmentation improves considerably when pixel coordinates are used as additional features (Figure 6 (c)). Figure 7 (a) shows another 256 x 256 image containing natural textures D77, D55, D84, D17, and D24 from the Brodatz album. The five-category segmentation of this image, using 13 Gabor filters and the pixel coordinates, is shown in Figure 7 (b). Figure 8 (a) shows a 512 x 512 image containing sixteen natural textures, also from the Brodatz album. Our filter selection (with a threshold of 0.95 for R 2 ) indicated that only 14 filtered images are sufficient. However, the resulting segmentation was not very good. Using all 20 filtered images (and the pixel coordinates) we obtained the 16-category segmentation in Figure 8 (b). Recall that the fitting criterion in our filter selection scheme is computed (a) (b) globally over the entire image. A larger threshold for R2 should, Figure 8: (a) A 512 x 512 image containing sixteen natural therefore, be used when one or more texture. categories occupy a textures (D29, D12, D17, D55; D32, D5, D84, D68; D77, D24. small fraction of the image. D9, D4; D3, D33, D51, D54) from the Brodatz album @) 16- Figure 9 shows the segmentation of a number of texture pair categoly segmentation obtained using a total of 20 Gabor filters images that have been used in the psychophysical studies of tex- and the pixel coordinates. ture perception [13]. The two textures in the 'L-and-+' texture pair have identical power spectra. The textures in the 'even-odd' ++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++ + + + + + L L L L L L + + + + + + + + + + L L L L L L + + + + + + + + + + L L L L L L + + + + + + + + + + L L L L L L + + + + + + + + + + L L L L L L + + + + + + + + + + L L L L L L + + + + + ++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++ (a) (b) (c) (dl Figure 9: Segmentation of texture pairs that have been used in the psychophysical studies of texture perception. All images are 256 x 256. The number of Gabor filters used varied between 8 - 11. (a) 'Land-+'. (b) 'even-odd'. (c) 'triangle-arrow' (d) 'S-IO'. 18 tion using our region-based texture segmentanorl algorithm. Then, based on the "evidence" for an edge provided by the edge-based segmentation, one can test the validity of boundaries between re- gions in the oversegmented solution. This integrated approach is currently being investigated. References [ l ] Bovik, A.C., Clark, M., and Geisler, W.S. (1990), "Multichannel Texture Analysis Using Localized Spatial Filters," IEEE Trans. PAMI, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 55-73. Table 1: Percentage of misclassified pixels. [Z] Brodatz, P. (1966). Textures: A Photographic Album for Artists and Designers, Dover, New York. texture pair have identical third-order s d e ~ statistics. The tex- [3] Caelli, T.M. (1988). "An Adaptive Computational Model for Tex- ture Segmentation," IEEE Trans. SMC,vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 9-17. tures in the 'm-arr' and 'S-IO' texture pairs, on the other hand, 141 Campbell, F.W. and Robson, J.G. (1968), "Application of Fourier have identical second-order statistics. The 'even-odd' and 'tri-arr' Analysis to the Visibility of Gratings," J. 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"Two-dimensional Spectral Analysis of The lack of appropriate quantitative measures of the goodness Cortical Receptive Field Profiles," Vision Research, vol. 20, pp. of a segmentation makes it very difficult to evaluate and compare 847-856. texture segmentation algorithms. One simple criterion that is of- [SI Daugman, J.G. (1985). "Uncertainty Relation for Resolution i n ten used is the percentage of misclassified pixels. Table 1 gives Space, Spatial-Frequency, and Orientation Optimized by TWO- dimensional Visual Cortical Filters,'' J. OSA, vol. 2, no. 7, pp. the percentage of misclassified pixels for the segmentation ex- 1160-1169. periments reported here. As seen in this table, there is a clear [9] De Valois, R.L. and De Valois, K.K. (1988). Spatial Vision, Oxford advantage in using the pixel coordinates (spatial information) as University Press. additional features. [ 101 De Valois, R.L., Albrecht, D.G., and Thorell, L.G. (1982). 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(1973). nature of biological visual systems [9]. We argued that the lo- "Inability of Humans to Discriminate Between Visual Textures That calized filtering by our Gabor filter set followed by a nonlinear Agree in Second-Order Statistics - Revisited," Perception, vol. 2, transformation can be interpreted as a multi-scale blob detection pp. 391-405. operation. [I51 Laws, K.1. (1980), Textured Image Segmentation, Tech. Rep. One of the limitations of our texture segmentation algorithm USCIPI-940, Image Process. Inst. Univ. of Southem Califomia. is the lack of a criterion for choosing the value of a in the non- . [ 161 Malik, J. and Perona, P (1 9%), "Preattentive Texture Discrimina- linear transformation. Also, the algorithm assumes that different tion with Early Vision Mechanisms," J. OSA: A , vol. 7, no. 5, pp. channels are independent from each other. However, there is psy- 923-932. chophysical and physiological evidence indicating inhibitory inter- [ 171 Mallat, S.G. (1989). "Multifrequency Channel Decomposition of actions between different spatial frequency channels [9]. Allowing Images and Wavelet Models,'' IEEE Trans. ASSP, vol. 37, no. 12, inhibitory interactions among the channels is shown to have the pp. 2091-2110. potential to reduce the effective dimensionality of the feature space [ 181 Marcelja, S. (1980), "Mathematical Description of the Responses of Simple Cortical Cells," J. OSA, vol. 70, pp. 1297-1300. 131. In our texture segmentation algorithm, we assumed that the [19] Perry, A. and Lowe, D.G. (1989), "Segmentation of Textured Im- ages," Proc. CVPR, pp. 326-332. number of texture categories is given. The pattem clustering tech- nique that is used by our segmentation algorithm will produce 1201 Pollen, D.A. and Ronner, S.F. (1983), "Visual Cortical Neurons as a clustering with the desired number of clusters, even if it does Localized Spatial Frequency Filters," IEEE Trans. SMC, vol. 13, not make "sense". 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|Lemon juice
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|Dijon mustard
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|Ground pepper
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Cover tightly and shake vigorously to blend.
Taste and adjust the seasonings.
In a large mixing bowl, combine the apples, celery root, and onion.
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Just returned from a 10-day trip to Patagonia. Had a blast, and the sights were unforgettable.
incredible capture! love the light
Wow! You take amazing pictures!
Beautiful shot.
This is so beautiful
It must have been amazing. Absolutely stunning shot.
Great shot!!
Amazing shot
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Beautiful shot, That light is tremendous. I don't think you could get bad images from this location, definitely at the top of my "must see" places.
Actually it can be quite ho-hum photographically speaking when the sky is grey (which it is most of the time, I am told). Agrentinian Patagonia is, IMO, more impressive under any light.
Yeah, I have heard about photographers who go there for weeks on end with nothing but clouds over the peaks. I'd just like to explore that region in general, very different landscape.
Very beautiful.
wow, the light is delicious! Wonderful shot! I'd so love to visit Patagonia
If I had the money and vacation time I would go back right now. It was PAINFUL to be at work the first week after I came back, I had this weird feeling of not belonging there, which I have never had before.
Can paint a pic with it!
Can paint a pic with it!
Fantastic light! What an incredible workshop that must have been.
It was fantastic, light was between so-so and decent most of the time, but the last morning was terrific. Even without the light just seeing the place is worth it, and the instructors (Ian Plant and Richard Bernabe) were great too. Do check out Ian's image [link] from 10 minutes and a bit to the left of this location.
You have been featured in my journal, thank you!
Gorgeous...Very beautiful capture, gongratulations!
great work
Amazing shot! Great colors.
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Great shot the lighting rock with much details in the background.
interesting shot!
Wow, this looks very painterly. Love it!
No Photoshop magic here, this is really what it looked like. The light filtered through the clouds and the fog, and when the sun rose above the horizon everything turned to "Rembrandt" colors. I have more shots from this location 10 minutes earlier that look very different, will post them soon. Thanks for the watch!
I just started getting into photography in September, and every time I see a piece like this it blows my mind.
My pleasure, if I take away anything from your work it'll be helpful.
My pleasure, if I take away anything from your work it'll be helpful.


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Cretaceous Dawn
ReadHowYouWant.com, Limited, Oct 12, 2010 - 476 pages
A long-extinct beetle appears in a physics lab. Four-and-a-half people and a dog are hurled 65 million years through time, to the Age of the Dinosaurs, and paleontologist Julian Whitney and his companions have only one chance for rescue. Meanwhile in the lab, police chief Sharon Earles must solve the mystery of why half a body remains where five people had just been. Physicists try to determine what went wrong but can they fix the vault in time to retrieve the missing people and do they want to?
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Review: Cretaceous DawnUser Review - Goodreads
This was a fun easy beach type read. There was never any explanation "how" the time travel actually worked and consequently the ending seemed too convenient. A bit more scientific detail would have resulted in a more satisfying book. Read full review
Review: Cretaceous DawnUser Review - Goodreads
3.5 stars. i love dinosaurs, but just wasn't quite enough plot to drive the book and make it believable. overall it was a fun read though. Read full review


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