Abstract: A method of distributing media content includes capturing an image of a static media content, detecting at least one feature in the image, seeking a correlation of the image to a reference image using the at least one feature, and identifying at least one region of dynamic media content of the reference image in the image of the static media content.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a system and a method that use a background model to determine and to segment target content from an image and replace them with different content to provide a composite image. The background model can be generated based on image data representing images of a predetermined area that does not include traversing content. The background model is compared to image data representing a set of captured images of the predetermined area. Based on the comparison, portions of an image that differs from the background model are determined as the traversing content. A target content model is used to determine the target content in the traversing content. The target content determined in the images is replaced with different content to provide a composite image.

Abstract: A method for merging face clusters includes analyzing a set of digital images, grouping instances of faces within the set of digital images into a set of face clusters, each of the face clusters corresponding to a particular person, and determining a probability that a person associated with a first face cluster from the set of face clusters is the same person associated with a second face cluster of the set of face clusters. The probability is based on both a social similarity between the first face cluster and the second face cluster in addition to a facial similarity between the first face cluster and the second face cluster.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for optically characterizing an object. A method includes querying an image search engine for the object; extracting image features from multiple images returned by the search engine in response to the query; clustering the image features extracted from the images returned by the search engine according to similarities in optical characteristics of the image features; and determining a set of image features most representative of the object based on the clustering.

Abstract: Functionality can be implemented for optimizing connection constraints in an integrated circuit design. A target timing path associated with a first of a plurality of sub-connections of the integrated circuit is determined. A timing probability value and a route probability value associated with the first of the plurality of sub-connections is determined based, at least in part, on the target timing path associated with the first of the plurality of sub-connections. The timing probability value indicates a probability that timing closure is satisfied on the target timing path. The route probability value indicates a probability that a physical routing track on the target timing path associated with the first of the plurality of sub-connections resolves congestion. A current connection constraint associated with the first of the plurality of sub-connections is modified in accordance with a connection constraint model to which the first of the plurality of sub-connections corresponds.

Abstract: A system and a method are disclosed that classify images according to their association with an event. Both metadata and visual content of images in a collection of images can be used for event classification. The confidence scores from the classification using a metadata classifier and from the classification using a visual classifier are combined through a confidence-based fusion to provide the classification for a set of images.

Abstract: A local image patch identified in an image is divided into respective sub-patches of respective image forming elements. For each of the respective image forming elements in the local image patch, a respective ordinal rank of the image forming element is determined, and respective contributions of the image forming element to a particular one of the respective sub-patches containing the image forming element and to one or more other ones of the respective sub-patches neighboring the particular sub-patch are ascertained. Each ordinal rank corresponds to a respective dimension of an ordinal rank feature space. For each of the respective sub-patches of the local image patch, a respective histogram of ascertained contributions of the image forming elements in the ordinal rank feature space is built. A respective feature vector representing the local image patch is generated from the respective histograms built for the sub-patches of the local image.

Abstract: A system and a method for near-duplicate image detection performed by a physical computing system includes applying a feature determining function to a number of images, a feature being defined by a geometric shape, comparing characteristics of said geometric shapes defining said features from at least two of said number of images, and characterizing said at least two of said number of images as a near-duplicate match if a predetermined percentage of said features of said at least two images match.

Abstract: 3-pyrrolo[b]cyclohexylene-2-dihydro-indolinone derivatives of formula (I) or their pharmaceutically acceptable salts and uses thereof. The intermediates of formula (II) for preparing the above compounds. The bioassay shows that the above compounds and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts can modulate the activity of protein kinases (PKs), inhibit the activity of tyrosine kinases (PTKs) and inhibit many kinds of tumor cells as well as.

Abstract: A reference set of image features is determined from an electronic data file specifying a reference image in a reference coordinate space. Rendering information describing a physical rendering of the reference image is ascertained. Calibration-enabling data is derived from the reference set of the image features and the ascertained rendering information. The calibration-enabling data is provided to calibrate an imaging system. The calibration-enabling data may be stored. The imaging system may capture an image of the physical rendering of the reference image in relation to a capture coordinate space. An extracted set of image features may be extracted from the captured image. Respective ones of the image features in the reference and extracted sets may be matched. The imaging system may be calibrated based on matched ones of the image features and the rendering information.

Abstract: A method, system, and computer-readable storage medium for characterizing and representing images. A plurality of feature descriptors for a plurality of images are received, where each feature descriptor encodes a respective feature in an image, and where each feature descriptor is transformed into a plurality of sub-descriptors in accordance with a specified transformation scheme. The feature descriptors correspond to an image feature descriptor space for the plurality of images, and the sub-descriptors correspond to a plurality of subspaces of the image feature descriptor space, where the plurality of subspaces span the image feature descriptor space. Each subspace of the plurality of subspaces is quantized using cluster analysis applied to the sub-descriptors, thereby determining a respective one or more feature primitives for each subspace, where the feature primitives are useable to characterize image features.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a method, system, and design structure for making voltage environment consistent for reused sub modules in chip design, wherein each reused sub module is connected to a power grid of the chip through power connection points on a power ring of the sub module, the method including: adjusting numbers and locations of power connection points of a plurality of reused sub modules, such that the numbers of the power connection points and locations of the corresponding power connection points are identical for the plurality of reused sub modules; adjusting power wires of the plurality of reused sub modules on the power grid which are connected the power connection points, such that voltages at the corresponding power connection points are consistent for the plurality of reused sub modules. The present invention may reduce timing variation of reused sub modules in chip design and finally achieve an objective of reducing design complexity and work load and shortening the design period.

Abstract: An application server and method collects and stores machine data from one or more machines. The application server sends a data acquisition command to a sensor of the searched machine to acquire the machine data of the searched machine, in response to a determination that the machine has been found according to a search command. The application server updates the machine data file with the acquired machine data, and transfers the updated machine data file to a database system.

Abstract: A method and system for analyzing an image made up of a plurality of pixels includes identifying a subset of the pixels, and for each identified pixel a local patch of pixels surrounding the identified pixel is defined and the pixels in the local patch are grouped into bins. The local patch is divided into a plurality of sub-patches, and for each sub-patch the method includes determining how many pixels in each sub-patch fall into each of the bins to create an intermediate vector, and the intermediate vectors are concatenated to form a feature vector and describe the local patch.

Abstract: A power factor correction controller is utilized for a power factor correction circuit in a critical conduction mode of an electric power converter. The power factor correction controller generates a control voltage according to an output voltage outputted from the electric power converter, and utilizes a first threshold value to detect the control voltage. The power factor correction controller can control the power factor correction circuit to operate in different modes according to various levels of a load. Therefore, an objective according to the present invention for reducing electric power consumption of the electric power converter in a light load or a no-load mode and improving energy transmission efficiency can be attained.

Abstract: Near duplicate images are detected based on local structure feature matching of local features that are extracted from the images. The matching process also may involve detecting near duplicate images based on metadata features and global image features. A computation-sensitive cascaded classifier may be used together with an on-demand feature extraction to detect near duplicate images with improved efficiency and reduced computational cost.

Abstract: 3-pyrrolo[b]cyclohexylene-2-dihydro-indolinone derivatives of formula (I) or their pharmaceutically acceptable salts and uses thereof. The intermediates of formula (II) for preparing the above compounds. The bioassay shows that the above compounds and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts can modulate the activity of protein kinases (PKs), inhibit the activity of tyrosine kinases (PTKs) and inhibit many kinds of tumor cells as well as.

Abstract: A method and system for access-rate-based storage management of continuously stored data are provided, the method comprising the steps of: deciding an access weight dependent on an access rate for a data snapshot at a time point in continuously stored data stored in a storage system; determining whether the access weight reaches a first threshold and whether a full copy of the data snapshot at the time point is present in the storage system; and, storing a full copy of the data snapshot at the time point into the storage system when the access weight reaches the first threshold and a full copy of the data snapshot at the time point is absent from the storage system.

Abstract: A geocoding method including receiving input location information (212) for a particular location, decomposing (210) and purifying (220) the input information before decomposing (230) the information, and generating (240) multiple candidate locations based on components of the decomposed information, and then normalizing the candidate locations before comparing the candidate locations with information in a location information database.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a verification architecture of an infrared thermal imaging array module, which includes the following steps. Perform specification design of thermal imaging module, epitaxy, and verification of optical characteristics for calibrating epitaxial parameters. Perform a fabrication process of single-device-type sensing device and verification of changing-temperature optoelectronic measurement by measuring and calibrating at low temperatures by changing temperatures and voltages. Perform a fabrication process of focal-plane array and verification of optoelectronic uniformity and test for dark-current uniformity. Perform a fabrication process and verification of jointing and thinning the focal-plane array and the ROIC. The focal-plane sensing module and the ROIC are jointed by indium bonding, and optoelectronic signal conversion is performed using the sensing array module. Perform the verification of integrated test on thermal image quality.