Digital watermarking has been proposed as a solution to the problem of copyright protection of multimedia documents in networked environments. It embeds an imperceptible signal into data such as audio, video and images, for a variety of purposes, including captioning and copyright control. In this paper, we present a new digital image watermarking method base on DWT and JND (just noticed difference), by taking full advantage of the masking characteristics of the human visual system. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm is effective and robust to common image processing operations and some geometric distortions such as cropping, pinching, pixel-shift, and so on, especially, it receives better robustness under signal enhancement operations. So a conclusion can be made that the proposed technique is practical.

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This paper proposes a system applying PNN for classfying the hepatic parenchymal diseases in ultrasonic B-scan texture. In this study,we propose a multifractal method to select the patterns for the training set and validation sets. A modified DBC algorithm is used to calculate the fractal dimensions of the images. FDWT is adopted for feature extraction.The result shows that, compared with the conventional 3-layer NN, the performance of the proposed system is improved.

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Since their introduction as a tool for signal representation,waveletes have become increasingly popular within the image coding community,because of the potential gains they offer for the construction of efficient image coding algorithms.Those potential gains are due to the fact that wavelets provide a good tradeoff between resolution in space and frequency domains.New image compression standard JPEG2000privided state-of-the-art compression performance together with an unprecedented set of bit-stream features,including resolutionscalability,SNR scalability and a random access capability.The core alogorithm based on independent Embedded Block Coding withOptimized Truncation of the embedded bit-streams(EBCOT). To avoiding the use of explicit and rate expensive shape descriptors,importantfeature is that the shape information of morphological sets used in the coder is encoded implicitly by the value of wavelet coefficients.To be able to make effctive use of any structure for improving coding performance,We used this method that make joint effort with JPEG2000 coding algorithm. An exprement to study of the statistical properties of wavelet cofficients of image date that gain shape information to decreasing the quantity of the code-blocks.The used method, while achieving the well objective performance of state-of-the-art zerotree based methods, are abletoproduce reconstructions of a somewhat superior perceptual quality due to a property of joint compression.

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The regional design must be drawn with citizens' leadership and regional initiatives. In Hyogo Prefectural Government,we constructed the beautiful hyogo indicator with citizens' collaboration and participation. ICT(Information and Communications Technology) has been the most effective tool in all processes.

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The Visualization Society of Japan is continuing the activity of "Information Visualization" that it should compare with visualization experimental technique. What is "Information Visualization" and the ouline of "Visualization Conference" are introduced.

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A system in which human subjectivity plays a central role and of which output is a creative one is called a human centered system. This paper describes its characteristics yielded from subjectivity. One of useful approaches to human centered systems is soft computing techniques that allow uncertainty of information. This paper also introduces some examples of human centered systems, a music composition support system, a story generation system from some pictures and a facial caricature drawing system.

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The Internet is a decentralized complex system that is operated autonomously and cooperatively. With its advent, the industrial structure changes from the supply-push economy, which lasted for more than 200 years, to the demand-pull economy. Consumers interacting in cyberspace have plenty of information and have become proficient. The innovation paradigm has shifted to flexible co-creation of needs and new values with customers on the Internet. In this presentation, we discuss on the death of materialist culture of the 20th cenrury and the new frontier of co-creation innovation.

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In the field of behavioral sciences, we need to analyze a data array to find a hidden information or a causal relationship in data array. After that, we can focus on testing one's hypothesis. A factor analysis model is an well known one to analyze a 2 mode 2 way or 1 mode 2 way data matrix. In this paper,we introduce and review how to analyze the 2 mode, 3 way data array which is often gather in behaivormetrics.

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means of real time ultrasonography we can measure noninvasively in vivo the changes in pennation angle and length of muscle fiber and tendon during muscle contraction. Human tendon was so compliant that muscle fiber could contract near isometrically during physical movements. It is considered that the compliant tendon makes the muscle contract efficiently.

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The 20th century is the communication age between human via the information space. On the other hand , the 21st century is the ubiquitous networking age between human and things beyond the information space and the real space . This document describes a history of knowledge organization and the knowledge paradigm shift based on the human interface design.

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Based on the concept of The Spirit of Capitalism by MAX.Weber, we provide the spirit of management. We combine The Spirit of Capitalism and Maslow's idea into the framework of the spirit of management.

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Conventional managements were analog like style, which was sometimes based on some manager's experiences, intuitions and courage. But, according to introduce the technologies, e.g., computer, system, and digital, effectiveness of management have been made progress rapidly. However, the experiences of those successes decreased the power of management against the huge and rapid change of management environment. In my paper, I'd like to propose the principle attitude in order to cope with the affairs which does not occurs repeatedly as well as the reproducible affairs.

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An importance issue of the corporate management is to evaluate the customer's markets exactly and to catch up the high valued markets for strategic considerations. However, it is not so easy to get an optimum future market for the companies. In this paper, a new method of market foresight is proposed to search the future market and the detailed processes are applied to the foresight study. Also the fitting of market and R&D activities are discussed.

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The latent class model is known as a useful tool for marketing segmentations. In this talk, we introduce several latent class models and their applications for analysis of the POS (point of sales) data. We also talk about another application of the latent class model to extracting information from a huge text data base.

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