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Invariance of visual operations at the level of receptive fields
Receptive field profiles registered by cell recordings have shown that
mammalian vision has developed receptive fields tuned to different sizes and
orientations in the image domain as well as to different image velocities in
space-time. This article presents a theoretical model by which families of
idealized receptive field profiles can be derived mathematically from a small
set of basic assumptions that correspond to structural properties of the
environment. The article also presents a theory for how basic invariance
properties to variations in scale, viewing direction and relative motion can be
obtained from the output of such receptive fields, using complementary
selection mechanisms that operate over the output of families of receptive
fields tuned to different parameters. Thereby, the theory shows how basic
invariance properties of a visual system can be obtained already at the level
of receptive fields, and we can explain the different shapes of receptive field
profiles found in biological vision from a requirement that the visual system
should be invariant to the natural types of image transformations that occur in
its environment.Comment: 40 pages, 17 figure
Disconnected Skeleton: Shape at its Absolute Scale
We present a new skeletal representation along with a matching framework to
address the deformable shape recognition problem. The disconnectedness arises
as a result of excessive regularization that we use to describe a shape at an
attainably coarse scale. Our motivation is to rely on the stable properties of
the shape instead of inaccurately measured secondary details. The new
representation does not suffer from the common instability problems of
traditional connected skeletons, and the matching process gives quite
successful results on a diverse database of 2D shapes. An important difference
of our approach from the conventional use of the skeleton is that we replace
the local coordinate frame with a global Euclidean frame supported by
additional mechanisms to handle articulations and local boundary deformations.
As a result, we can produce descriptions that are sensitive to any combination
of changes in scale, position, orientation and articulation, as well as
invariant ones.Comment: The work excluding {\S}V and {\S}VI has first appeared in 2005 ICCV:
Aslan, C., Tari, S.: An Axis-Based Representation for Recognition. In
ICCV(2005) 1339- 1346.; Aslan, C., : Disconnected Skeletons for Shape
Recognition. Masters thesis, Department of Computer Engineering, Middle East
Technical University, May 200
Study of multi black hole and ring singularity apparent horizons
We study critical black hole separations for the formation of a common
apparent horizon in systems of - black holes in a time symmetric
configuration. We study in detail the aligned equal mass cases for ,
and relate them to the unequal mass binary black hole case. We then study the
apparent horizon of the time symmetric initial geometry of a ring singularity
of different radii. The apparent horizon is used as indicative of the location
of the event horizon in an effort to predict a critical ring radius that would
generate an event horizon of toroidal topology. We found that a good estimate
for this ring critical radius is . We briefly discuss the
connection of this two cases through a discrete black hole 'necklace'
configuration.Comment: 31 pages, 21 figure
The sixth Painleve transcendent and uniformization of algebraic curves
We exhibit a remarkable connection between sixth equation of Painleve list
and infinite families of explicitly uniformizable algebraic curves. Fuchsian
equations, congruences for group transformations, differential calculus of
functions and differentials on corresponding Riemann surfaces, Abelian
integrals, analytic connections (generalizations of Chazy's equations), and
other attributes of uniformization can be obtained for these curves. As
byproducts of the theory, we establish relations between Picard-Hitchin's
curves, hyperelliptic curves, punctured tori, Heun's equations, and the famous
differential equation which Apery used to prove the irrationality of Riemann's
zeta(3).Comment: Final version. Numerous improvements; English, 49 pages, 1 table, no
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