We used high-level configural aftereffects induced by adaptation to realistic faces to investigate visual representations underlying complex pattern perception. We found that exposure to an individual ...

Abstract: Ellipses are important elements in projective geometry. Accurate extraction of ellipse information is the first step in many computer vision applications, such as ellipse-based camera ...

Abstract: We present a new method for detecting ellipses in images. We first detect edges, from which we select an elliptic arc by RANSAC: we randomly choose five points repeatedly until the ellipse ...

Munchausen syndrome by proxy is a form of child abuse where caregivers make up or cause illnesses in their children. Warning signs include the child having symptoms that don't match any disease and ...

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