基于视频压缩编码的动态图像水印方案

提出了一种新的基于视频压缩编码的动态图像水印方案。在嵌入水印时,充分考虑动态图像压缩编码的特性,对帧内编码帧(I帧),将水印信息嵌入到DCT低频系数中;而对帧间编码帧(P,B帧),结合动态补偿/离散余弦变换(MC/DCT)混介编码,把水印信息嵌入到运动补偿后的残差图像的自流成分中。同时,在水印嵌入时,采用扩频技术与多维水印相结合的方法,并通过相关检测的方法判断水印的存在。由于水印的检测是对视频码流直接实施的,不需要对压缩数据进行完全解码,从而大大降低了计算量,提高了视频数据水印的适用性。     

基于混沌和分维的盲水印算法

把分形维数理论应用到数字水印中,提出了基于Chebysher混沌置乱和分形维数的自适应数字图像水印算法。首先将载体图像分块,计算每个小块的分形维数。然后将载体图像进行分块DCT变换,使用改进的邻域平均法,将经过混沌置乱后的水印信息嵌入到图像的DCT域中,并根据该小块的分形维数调节嵌入强度,实现了水印信息的自适应嵌入。提取水印时,实现了完全盲提取。MATLAB仿真结果表明,该算法具有较好的不可见性,对常见的图像处理攻击具有较好的鲁棒性。     

基于DWT的自适应水印算法研究

文章介绍了一种基于小波变换的自适应水印算法,该算法首先将二值水印图像置乱后经过降维操作转换成为一维序列,并用m序列作同步信号与水印序列一起组成嵌入序列,嵌入到音频信号的小波变换域低频系数中。实验表明,该算法具有较好的鲁棒性。     

基于混沌的DCT域数字水印技术研究

通过对基于混沌的DCT域数字水印技术在图像生成、水印嵌入、水印提取以及对水印攻击实验的结果分析中可以看出,此技术满足信息时代信息化所要求的数字图像信息隐藏的需要。     

基于BCH码的DCT域数字图像水印算法

针对现有数字图像水印算法在复杂环境中抗多种攻击能力不足、鲁棒性差等问题,提出一种基于BCH码的DCT域数字图像水印算法。该算法利用BCH码的纠错技术,纠正数字图像水印在传输中受到的干扰,提高数字水印抗攻击的鲁棒性;结合DCT变换将经过Arnold置乱后并经过BCH编码的水印信息嵌入到载体图像的中频系数中,进而保证数字图像水印在具有良好的不可察觉性下获得较好的鲁棒性。利用自适应中值滤波技术提高算法抵御高强度噪声攻击的能力。仿真实验表明,该算法对多种常见的噪声、滤波、压缩攻击均具有较好的鲁棒性,并同时保证良好的不可察觉性,有较好的应用前景。     

一种盲数字水印算法的Matlab实现

介绍了数字水印技术的一般处理方法,给出了一种DCT域盲水印的嵌入和提取的具体操作处理过程,并以Matlah为开发工具,对DCT域图像水印的嵌入与盲检测进行仿真.实验结果表明,该算法对一些常见的攻击,如JPEG压缩、滤波、噪声、剪切具有一定的鲁棒性.     

一种基于DCT的数字水印策略

提出了一种基于DCT变换的数字图像水印算法,将二值水印转化为一维序列,对水印序列进行一定的置乱,再对载体图像进行DCT变换,选择合适的位置将水印嵌入。算法不仅增强了水印信号的不可见性,而且具有较好的鲁棒性。     

基于置乱变换的DCT域数字水印改进算法

提出一种符合Kerckhoff原则的DCT域数字水印算法.该算法在嵌入水印前对水印进行Arnold变化,并通过密钥向量嵌入水印图像,大大提高了水印的鲁棒性和安全性.对比实验表明,该方案对高斯低通滤波、添加白噪声、JPEG压缩、图像剪切等攻击手段有较好的鲁棒性,并具有较高的安全性.     

面向原始视频的DCT视频水印算法设计与实现

本文简要介绍了视频水印技术和DCT的概念,以MatLab为平台,结合视频水印技术,提出了一种新的面向MPEG-4未压缩域的DCT变换域水印算法。实验证明该算法具有良好的鲁棒性、不可见性,且水印嵌入量较大。     

基于混沌加密的离散余弦数字水印算法

提出了一种基于混沌的DCT域盲数字水印算法。本算法选用了有意义的二值图像作为水印,采用复合离散混沌动力系统产生的混沌序列对水印进行加密处理,在检测算法中不需要原始图像从而实现了盲提取,最后对仿真实验结果作出分析,证明此方案的可行性,攻击实验结果表明此方案的健壮性。     

Students' Reactions to the Introduction of Videoconferencing for Classroom Instruction

This study examined how students who had no prior experience with videoconferencing would react to the use of videoconferencing as an instructional medium. Students enrolled in seven different courses completed a questionnaire at the beginning of the semester and again at the end of the semester. Students at the origination and remote sites did not differ in their reactions toward videoconferencing but there was a significant difference for gender. Women reacted less favorably to videoconferencing. Compared to the beginning of the semester, students reported significantly less positive attitudes toward taking a course through videoconferencing at the end of the semester. There were no significant differences in students' attitudes toward videoconferencing across courses at the beginning of the semester but there were significant differences across the courses at the end of the semester. The results suggest the need for better preparation for both students and instructors.     

Cooler temperatures inductive to locust outbreaks

Ajoint study by Prof. ZHANG Zhibin from the CAS Institute of Zoology and his co-workers from Norway, US and Swiss have indicated that historical outbreaks of migratory locusts in China were associated with cold spells, suggesting that China＇s projected climate warming could decrease the pest＇s numbers. The study was published in Proceedings of theNational Academy of Sciences on 17 September, 2007.     

Exploring Multiplexity: Social Network Structures in a Computer-Supported Distance Learning Class

A computer-mediated group is a complex entity whose members exchange many types of information via multiple means of communication in pursuit of goals specific to their environment. Over time, they coordinate technical features of media with locally enacted use to achieve a viable working arrangement. To explore this complex interaction, a case study is presented of the social networks of interactions and media use among members of a class of computer-supported distance learners. Results show how group structures associated with project teams dominated who communicated with whom, about what, and via which media over the term, and how media came to occupy their own communication niches: Webboard for diffuse class-wide communication; Internet Relay Chat more to named others but still for general communication across the class; and e-mail primarily for intrateam communication. Face-to-face interaction, occurring only during a short on-campus session, appears to have had a catalytic effect on social and emotional exchanges. Results suggest the need to structure exchanges to balance class-wide sharing of ideas with subgroup interactions that facilitate project completion, and to provide media that support these two modes of interaction.     

The Role of Intermediating Institutions in the Diffusion of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI): How Industry Associations Intervened in Denmark, Finland, and Hong Kong

Electronic data interchange (EDI) provides means for interorganizational communication, creates network externalities, requires an advanced information technology (IT) infrastructure, and relies on standards. In the diffusion of such innovations, institutional involvement is imperative. Such institutions contain governmental agencies, national and global standardization organizations, local government, and nonprofit private organizations like industry associations. The last type of organizations we call intermediating institutions. They intermediate or coordinate ("inscribe") the activities of a group of would-be adopters. Unfortunately, little is known of how these organizations shape the EDI diffusion trajectory. In this article we examine one specific type of intermediating organizations?industry associations?and how they advanced the EDI diffusion process in the grocery sectors of Hong Kong, Denmark and Finland. We identify six institutional measures, placed into a matrix formed by the mode of involvement (influence vs. regulation) and the type of diffusion force (supply push vs. demand pull), that can be mobilized to further the EDI diffusion. Industry associations were found to be active users of all these measures to varying degrees. Their role was critical especially in knowledge building, knowledge deployment, and standard setting. Furthermore, institutional involvement varied due to policy and cultural contingencies and power dependencies.     

How Electronic Publishers are Protecting Against Piracy: Doubts About Technical Systems of Protection

The increasing prospects of digital piracy has prompted the perceived need by electronic publishers to adopt technical systems of protection, and governments to reform their copyright laws. This article is a preliminary study of the management of intellectual property by electronic publishers, defined as those involved in the production of online databases, and CD-ROMs. It focuses on three main issues: (1) how electronic publishers view the increasing threat of piracy; (2) the methods of protection employed to protect intellectual property in digital format; and (3) the importance of technological protection of intellectual property in electronic publications. The analysis is based on a sample of 23 UK electronic publishers. The interviews revealed an interesting assortment of protection methods and did not show that technological protection was a preferred way. Instead, the means of protection, in addition to copyright law, comprised niche markets, pricing, trust, bad publicity, and nontechnical and technical means.     

Rough Justice: A Statistical Assessment of ICANN's Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy

Long-standing conflict between domain name registrants and trademark holders prompted the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to create a global, mandatory arbitration procedure known as the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). The UDRP has been used in 2166 cases involving 3938 domain names as of 1 November 2000. The policy gives the initiator of a complaint, generally a trademark holder, the right to choose which ICANN-accredited dispute resolution service provider (RSP) will handle the case. During the preparation of the UDRP,some feared that complainant selection would lead to "forum shopping" that might bias the results. This article performs a statistical assessment of the forum-shopping thesis and finds support for it. There are statistically significant differences in the various RSPs' propensity to take away names from defendants; there are also major differences in the number of cases brought to each RSP. RSPs who take away names have the larger share of cases. The study examines other variables that might explain differences in market share, such as price, the plaintiff's nationality, or the time taken to decide a case. It finds that nationality and time also are correlated with market share. The study concludes that shopping for a favorable outcome is an important factor in the UDRP.     

Prevalence of soft neurological signs in Chinese people

Prof. Raymond C.K. Chen, a neuropsychologist with the CAS Institute of Psychology, has made novel progress in his studies of schizophrenia. His work has been reported by a recent issue of Behavioural Neurology.     

Monoculture Rubber Plantations Have Negative Ef ects on Controlling Splash Erosion

<正>In Xishuangbanna,one of China’s most biodiverse regions,landscape has changed dramatically during the past three decades due to the conversion of tropical rainforest to rubber plantations.In steep areas,terraces are often constructed before planting rubber trees,which causes two important changes in the soil:the destabilization of soil in the bench terraces and the increased vulnerability of unvegetated riser faces to erosion.Few studies have documented the nature and intensity of erosion on bench terraces.Prof.LIU Wenjie and his colleagues from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden(XTBG)conducted a study in Menglun County(21°5′39″N,101°15′55″E),Xishuangbanna to evaluate the influence     

Chinese Scientists Use Earth Observation Technologies to Study and Protect Wild Camels

<正>Chinese scientists plan to apply Earth Observation technologies to protect the critically endangered wild camels(Camelus ferus).With the help of remote sensing,satellite positioning,geographical information system and wireless sensors networks,they will be able to access the distribution and population of the wild camels and protect their habitats.The project will be carried out by the International Research Center for Wild Camel Conservation,which was jointly established earlier this year by the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth(RADI)of the Chinese     

More than Skin Deep – Understand Skin Biology by Means of Dermatogenomics

<正>The Paul Gerson Unna Research Group on Dermatogenomics was founded in October 2012 at the Partner Institute for Computational Biology.The ultimate goal of the group is to understand the biology of skin and skin appendages.