Pure spatial rich model features for digital image steganalysis

The SRM (Spatial Rich Model) is a very effective steganalysis method. It uses statistics of neighboring noise residual samples as features to capture the dependency changes caused by embedding. Because the noise residuals are the high-frequency components of image and closely tied to image content, the residuals of different types of image regions have different statistical properties and effectiveness for steganalysis. In this paper, the effectiveness of the residuals is investigated. Then the effectiveness of the statistics collected from different types of neighboring residual samples is investigated from the FLD (Fisher Linear Discriminant) viewpoint, and ineffective, effective and high-effective neighboring residual samples are defined. The ineffective neighboring residual samples are not likely to change during embedding, and if they are counted in statistics, they may mix the features with noise and make the features impure. Pure SRM features are extracted based on neighboring noise residual sample selection strategy. Furthermore, multi-order statistical features are proposed to increase the statistical diversity. Steganalysis performances of the statistical features collected from different types of neighboring residual samples are investigated on three content adaptive steganographic algorithms. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method can achieve a more accurate detection than SRM.     

Secure three-party computational protocols for triangle area

In this work, we have put forth two different protocols to address a concrete secure multi-party computational (MPC) problem related to a triangle, of which the coordinates of the three vertices are confidentially kept by the three participants, respectively. The three parties wish to collaboratively compute the area of this triangle while preserving their own coordinate privacy. As one of the merits, our protocols employ weaker assumptions of the existence of pseudorandom generators. In particular, unlike massive secure MPC protocols that rely a lot on oblivious transfer, ours utilize a new computing idea called “pseudorandom-then-rounding” method to avoid this burdensome obstacle. The two protocols are based on different theorems, while they both make use of the same underlying idea. At last, we provide a detailed proof for the first protocol by a series of security reductions of our newly defined games, which seems somewhat stronger than the previous simulation-based proofs and a proof sketch for the second one. Analysis and discussion about the reasons are provided as well to round off our work.     

现代商业区建筑供配电设计要点及对策初论

在经济的推动下,商业区数量日益增多,空间布局更加紧凑,用电量也随之大幅增加,管理更为困难。因此,要重视商业区建筑的供电配电。介绍了商业区建筑的特点,然后结合实际案例对其供配电进行了设计。     

Smooth Loops from Unconstrained Video

Converting unconstrained video sequences into videos that loop seamlessly is an extremely challenging problem. In this work, we take the first steps towards automating this process by focusing on an important subclass of videos containing a single dominant foreground object. Our technique makes two novel contributions over previous work: first, we propose a correspondence‐based similarity metric to automatically identify a good transition point in the video where the appearance and dynamics of the foreground are most consistent. Second, we develop a technique that aligns both the foreground and background about this transition point using a combination of global camera path planning and patch‐based video morphing. We demonstrate that this allows us to create natural, compelling, loopy videos from a wide range of videos collected from the internet.     

Taking science education beyond schooling

Abstract

The shape and content of science education has always been articulated from the scientist's perspective. Recently, an increasing number of science educators have recognized the serious limitations of this perspective and have proposed to define scientific literacy from societal or citizenship perspectives. In this article, I argue that these alternatives will remain as limited as their predecessors unless the very structures of schooling are called into question. Furthermore, I argue that alternatives cannot be designed at the drawing board by theoreticians, but have to be grounded in praxis, thereby providing concrete trajectories along which science education can actually change.     

Stabilization of One‐Dimensional Schrödinger Equation with Variable Coefficient under Delayed Boundary Output Feedback

This article considers stabilization of a one‐dimensional Schrödinger equation with variable coefficient and boundary observation which suffers from an arbitrary given time delay. We design an observer and predictor to stabilize the system. The state is estimated in the time span where the observation is available, and also predicted in the time interval where the observation is not available. It is shown that the estimated state feedback stabilizes the system exponentially. A numerical simulation is presented to illustrate the effect of the stabilizing controller.     

Perceptual image preview

Image preview is a convenient way to browse large or multiple images on small displays. However, current signal-level image resampling algorithms may remove many features of interest in the preview image. In this paper, we propose perceptual image preview which retains more perceptual features such that users can inspect features of interest by viewing the preview image only and without zooming in. This technology has two components, structure enhancement and perceptual feature visualization. Structure enhancement enhances the image structure while suppressing subtle details using a gradient modulation method, thus making the succedent perceptual features more apparent. For perceptual feature visualization, features of interest detected in the picture is visualized on the structure enhanced preview image. We demonstrate with two examples of most commonly used image quality features, image blur and noise. The effectiveness of the proposed method is validated by experimental results.     

安徽省地震会商系统软件界面设计研究

基于ARCGis9.2的安徽省地震会商系统不仅需要强大的技术功能,还需要友好和一目了然的界面,这样不仅让会商报告者思路清晰,也能使会商观众更加清晰了解地震预报会商内容,从而为决策者更好应对不同地点和不同大小的地震发生可能性做出科学的决策;引入flash8作为软件系统的界面,用flash调用各个模块,无论从界面和功能上都较好的解决了这一问题。