Antigravity Slopes

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kokichi Sugihara
Keyword(s):  
Human Brain ◽  
Dimensional Space ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Single View ◽  
Dimensional Image ◽  
Two Dimensional Image ◽  
New Type ◽  
Law Of Gravity

A new type of illusion, called the antigravity slope illusion, is presented in this chapter. In this illusion a slope orientation is perceived opposite to the true orientation and hence a ball put on it appears to be rolling uphill, defying the law of gravity. This illusion is based on the ambiguity in the distance from a viewpoint to the surface of a three-dimensional solid represented in a single-view image. This illusion also arises in human real life, for example, when a car driver misunderstands the orientation of a road along which he or she is driving. Two assumptions are explored: (a) the human brain prefers to interpret vertical columns in a two-dimensional image as being vertical in three-dimensional space to being slanted and (b) the human brain prefers the most symmetric shape as the interpretation of a two-dimensional image.

scholarly journals A Self-Established “Machining-Measurement-Evaluation” Integrated Platform for Taper Cutting Experiments and Applications

Micromachines ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 929
Author(s):  
Xudong Yang ◽  
Zexiao Li ◽  
Linlin Zhu ◽  
Yuchu Dong ◽  
Lei Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Precision Machining ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Dimensional Image ◽  
Two Dimensional Image ◽  
Integrated Platform ◽  
Hard And Brittle Materials ◽  
Ultra Precision ◽  
Cutting Experiments

Taper-cutting experiments are important means of exploring the nano-cutting mechanisms of hard and brittle materials. Under current cutting conditions, the brittle-ductile transition depth (BDTD) of a material can be obtained through a taper-cutting experiment. However, taper-cutting experiments mostly rely on ultra-precision machining tools, which have a low efficiency and high cost, and it is thus difficult to realize in situ measurements. For taper-cut surfaces, three-dimensional microscopy and two-dimensional image calculation methods are generally used to obtain the BDTDs of materials, which have a great degree of subjectivity, leading to low accuracy. In this paper, an integrated system-processing platform is designed and established in order to realize the processing, measurement, and evaluation of taper-cutting experiments on hard and brittle materials. A spectral confocal sensor is introduced to assist in the assembly and adjustment of the workpiece. This system can directly perform taper-cutting experiments rather than using ultra-precision machining tools, and a small white light interference sensor is integrated for in situ measurement of the three-dimensional topography of the cutting surface. A method for the calculation of BDTD is proposed in order to accurately obtain the BDTDs of materials based on three-dimensional data that are supplemented by two-dimensional images. The results show that the cutting effects of the integrated platform on taper cutting have a strong agreement with the effects of ultra-precision machining tools, thus proving the stability and reliability of the integrated platform. The two-dimensional image measurement results show that the proposed measurement method is accurate and feasible. Finally, microstructure arrays were fabricated on the integrated platform as a typical case of a high-precision application.

Statistical Approach to Shape from Shading: Reconstruction of Three-Dimensional Face Surfaces from Single Two-Dimensional Images

1996 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 1321-1340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph J. Atick ◽  
Paul A. Griffin ◽  
A. Norman Redlich
Keyword(s):  
Dimensional Space ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Practical Interest ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Shape From Shading ◽  
Shape Space ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Two Dimensional Image ◽  
Low Dimensional ◽  
Dimensional Object

The human visual system is proficient in perceiving three-dimensional shape from the shading patterns in a two-dimensional image. How it does this is not well understood and continues to be a question of fundamental and practical interest. In this paper we present a new quantitative approach to shape-from-shading that may provide some answers. We suggest that the brain, through evolution or prior experience, has discovered that objects can be classified into lower-dimensional object-classes as to their shape. Extraction of shape from shading is then equivalent to the much simpler problem of parameter estimation in a low-dimensional space. We carry out this proposal for an important class of three-dimensional (3D) objects: human heads. From an ensemble of several hundred laser-scanned 3D heads, we use principal component analysis to derive a low-dimensional parameterization of head shape space. An algorithm for solving shape-from-shading using this representation is presented. It works well even on real images where it is able to recover the 3D surface for a given person, maintaining facial detail and identity, from a single 2D image of his face. This algorithm has applications in face recognition and animation.

OVERLAPPING FORE AND OSEM FOR 3D PET IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION

2004 ◽  
Vol 16 (05) ◽  
pp. 238-243
Author(s):  
WEI-MIN JENG ◽  
MING-CHUNG CHIANG
Keyword(s):  
Image Reconstruction ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Dimensional Image ◽  
Two Dimensional Image ◽  
Positron Emission ◽  
Dimensional Reconstruction ◽  
Abnormal Metabolism ◽  
Pet Image Reconstruction ◽  
Pet Scanners

Positron emission tomography (PET) images can be used to judge whether or not a person's bodily tissue is showing abnormal metabolism, providing a tool for early diagnosis and treatment of illnesses. Contemporary PET scanners have retracted their septa in order to increase the collected coincidental events. Thus, the protocol either needs to undergo three-dimensional image reconstruction, or use rebinning formulas to perform the less expensive two-dimensional image reconstruction for final images. Reconstruction using the second method saves image reconstruction time. The main goal of the paper is to further improve the performance by overlapping the rebinning and two-dimensional reconstruction operations, so as to early start in reconstruction, and to be able to undergo image reconstruction based on the pipelined direct sinograms. Frequency distance relations are analyzed in detail to generate the Fourier transformed sinograms in order for subsequent pipelined stages of reconstruction. The two-dimensional reconstruction operation does not have to wait until the completion of all sinogram generations, therefore it can hide most of the time spent in rebinning operations. The associated parameters can be pre-calculated indiscriminately beforehand for best performance.

Three-Dimensional CT Reconstruction in Midfacial Surgery

1988 ◽  
Vol 98 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence J. Marentette ◽  
Robert H. Maisel
Keyword(s):  
Surgical Planning ◽  
Preoperative Planning ◽  
Tomographic Reconstruction ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Autogenous Bone ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Ct Reconstruction ◽  
Skeletal Deformity ◽  
Dimensional Image ◽  
Two Dimensional Image

Correct preoperative planning is an essential aspect of any surgical procedure and it is equally important when midfacial reconstruction is contemplated. Conventional methods include standard radiographic views, plain tomography, photography, and computerized tomography. All of these methods produce a two-dimensional image of the patient. Three-dimensional computerized tomographic reconstruction allows the surgeon to visualize the entire facial skeletal deformity. The three-dimensional image produced also allows comparison of the deformity to surrounding normal structures, and thus makes the correction of facial asymmetries more precise. This new modality is particularly useful in the preoperative planning for patients with zygomaticomaxillary defects that result from either trauma or maxillectomy. Illustrative examples of patients in whom autogenous bone graft zygomaticomaxillary reconstruction was performed, after trauma and subsequent to subtotal maxillectomy, are presented. The amount and exact placement of the grafts was determined preoperatively from the analysis of the three-dimensional CT reconstruction, and the surgical planning was thereby simplified.

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