STRUCTURE PRESERVING IMAGE INTERPOLATION VIA ADAPTIVE 2D AUTOREGRESSIVE MODELING Xiangjun Zhang and Xiaolin Wu Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering‚ McMaster University Hamilton‚ ON‚ Canada L8S 4K1; zhangxj@grads.ece.mcmaster.ca/xwu@ece.mcmaster.ca ABSTRACT The performance of image interpolation depends on an image model that can adapt to nonstationary statistics of natural images when estimating the missing pixels. However‚ the construction of such an adaptive model needs the knowledge
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one time when I was using a 2d environment (Drafting Board) to develop a project it took me three times to build prototypes before we got a good working prototype where as when we were in the 3D environment using Pro/Engineer we got a good working prototype the first time . Why? Because in the 3D world it is almost like the real thing. The parts are modeled and assembled just as if we were doing it live. Let me give you an example. Just creating a sheet metal box in the 2D world we would draw up the
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Jersey Boys is a Broadway musical produced by Dodger Productions‚ which portrays the life and musical careers of the singing group The Four Seasons. During the 1960s‚ The Four Seasons were the Americans answer to the British invasion‚ singing such hits as “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You”‚ “My Eyes Adored You”‚ and their biggest hit‚ “Sherry.” The group consisted of four members‚ each one representing a different season. Tommy Devito was spring while Nick Massi was fall; Frankie Vallie was winter‚ and
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Justin Jethroe Ms. Allen Intro to Corrections April 12‚ 2013 Roper v. Simmons U. S. Supreme Court March 1‚ 2005 543 U.S. 551 Statement of Facts This case in Fenton‚ Missouri involves 17 yrs. old Christopher Simmons born in 1993. Charles Benjamin and John Tessmer were Christopher Simmons friends and accomplices. Christopher Simmons planned and committed a capital murder along with Charles Benjamin. The plan was to commit burglary and murder by breaking and entering‚ tying up Shirley
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Case Name: Maryland v. King (October 2012) Facts: Maryland police arrested a man named Alonzo Jay King‚ in 2009 for first and second degree assault charges and booked into the Wicomico County‚ Maryland‚ facility‚ where booking personnel took a cheek swab (“buccal swab”) to take a DNA sample pursuant to the Maryland DNA collection Act. The swab was matched up to an unsolved 2003 rape case. The police had collected the 2003 DNA sample from the rape victim who underwent a sexual assault forensic exam
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must have a valid interest to protect; (2) the geographical restriction must not be overly broad; and (3) a reasonable time limit must be imposed. Covenants not to compete that arise out of a employment relationship are only upheld by courts in cases where the covenatee provided special training or
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to obtain regular raises and bonuses. The appellant admits that the threshold for reviewing a jury’s award is set very high‚ requiring that the verdict is so inordinately high that it must be a wholly erroneous estimate of damages. Relying on the cases of Howes v. Crosby [1984] O.J. No.3127 (C.A.) and Snushall v. Fulsang [2005] O.J. No. 4069(C.A.)‚ the appellants defined “inordinate “as too high or too low by 50%. Legal issue: Was the jury’s award for damages of $40‚000 patently excessive and
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Hannah David 11 February 2013 Business Law Rothing v. Kallestad Issues: 1) Whether the district court erred in concluding that hay is not a “product “for purposes of a strict liability in tort cause of action. 2) Whether the District Court erred in concluding that the Rothings negligence claim against Kallestad fails because it was unforeseeable that the hay could cause injury and death to the Rothings’ horses‚ thus no duty of care existed. 3) Whether the District Court erred in concluding that
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unintentionally hurt another person is liable for the harm through intentional harm. Holdings: the jury rendered a verdict for the plaintiff of $2800. Rationale: the touch was the exciting or remote cause of the destruction of the bone. The case was a case of torts and it related to the assult and battery which the defendant should pay money for the plaintiff. The defendant has no proof of any other hurt‚ and the medical testimony seems to have been agreed that this touch or kick was
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S.H.A.R.K. v. Metro Parks Serving Summit County United States Court of Appeals‚ Ninth Judicial District 499 F3d 553 (2009) MOORE‚ Presiding Judge Rule of Law: The Privacy Protection Act (PPA) and the First Amendment rights were brought into question by the Plaintiffs. The judges ruled out the violation of the First Amendment rights and focused on the Privacy Protection Act as the main claimed offense. FACTS: Steve Hindi is the founder of S.H.A.R.K‚ a non-profit corporation that exposes
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