contour

He did not, however, construct a conception of social epistemology with very definite philosophical or social-scientific contours.

My fellow changelings and I had been spying on the boy for months, so I knew the contours of my new home at the edge of the forest.

I thought of leaving details like remainders of parapets, contours of windows and I try to break in a logical way.

Material contours to the body to provide warmth and protection, and with the anti-pill material will look new even after years of use.

I have no illusions that this will be easy, but the contours of a way forward are clear.

This is a period in which the old world is slowly but irreversibly changing and the contours of a new one are just beginning to take shape.

Obama laid plain the contours of a balancing strategy to deal with a rising China, tempered by renewed efforts at engagement.

The results of the experiment using 2D real images show that this method can provide accurately localized and closed region contours.

it works for any car whose tank can be opened without a key , and whose contours and dimensions have been recorded to avoid scratching.

Droplets worked their way through the contours of his frame, around each sculpted muscle, down the crevice of his arched back.

The resistivity contours appear much less diagnostic of anomalous bodies below the surface.

For a long time, scientists and curators have wondered how da Vinci created shadows on her face with seemingly no brushstrokes or contours.

For a long time, scientists and curators have wondered how da Vinci created shadows on her face with seemingly no brush strokes or contours.

For years, the company grew within the contours of a new family life.

Every thought, recall that in mind the efforts outlined the contours of your tears . . . but in an instant blurred vision.

He walked among the displaced contours of her pectoral girdle.

The sleeved jar then is channeled into the heat tunnel where the steam shrinks the label snugly to the jar contours.

The corresponding surface consists of a set of triangles spanning neighboring pairs of contours.

The design pays the ultimate respect to the pre-existing tree, literally shaping itself around the contours of the trunk.

Concentrations of dark matter (mapped in contours above) usually - but not always - match up with normal matter (coloured).

Important region contours and details are preserved while most of the noise are removed by means of improved median filter.

Both parties woo the amorphous middle, to the dismay of those voters who want political contours to be drawn sharply.

Waves - Curves and contours found on the surface of the wafer that can be seen by the naked eye.

First, the tip of the tusk was severed with a chopping tool; then the contours of the animals were whittled with a stone knife and scraper.

The wetlands' contours suggest that the Sackett property was, indeed, part of it at some point.

Utilization of edge information is in favor of the contours evolving into the object boundaries quickly and accurately.

The body contours are processed by Fourier descriptors with data dimension being reduced, and templates are created.

We use a variational method (snake) to find optimal closed contours around the most salient figure in an image.

Older, two-lane highways, however, follow the rolling contours of the land and generally offer a more scenic view of the countryside.

A surface is derived from a set of contours which outlines the edge of a volume on a series of planar images.

The offset contours may have self-intersections. Self-intersections must be calculated and contours must be reconstructed.

Pyramids are being orientation, but each with a diagonal phase, resulting in complex variations of the contours.

The similarity discrimination of skull-photo contours curves is an important research aspect in computer-aided photographic superimposition.

In contrast to traditional designs, the dome consists of a clear rigid shell that closely follows the contours of the bird.

Segmentation begins with the application of a filter to enhance the contours without modifying the image information.

The causes of the global recession are now well understood. The contours of the recovery, by contrast, are far from clear.

Seamless design hugs the contours of your feet like a second skin.

In the interim, the limited construction underway will in no way impact upon the final contours of a peace agreement.

Experiment showed that the method could significantly reduce the number of scanning vectors for filling sectional contours.

Tips: different brushing techniques can be applied to correct different facial contours.

What, then, are, the basic contours of a comprehensive financial sector strategy?

From the Renaissance to the 19th century, corset is almost being the tool to give shape to the contours of the body for female.

She traced the contours of his face with her finger.

The insulation qualities of concrete can be studied by considering the temperature contours through concrete members.

They would then manually draw contours to connect the points, make a rough cutout of the shape, and file the piece down to specifications.

Yet the contours of the next imbalance are becoming clear and China's exchange rate is central.

The world's new contours began to emerge with the end of the Cold War.

Used in any part of the face, instantly rendering a perfect three-dimensional contours.

Obama is expected to announce the contours of his new approach later this month, according to former officials familiar with the plans.

Then using the Pen Tool, cut up the fire so you work with the contours of the flame so it looks natural.

Figure 3: Results of a drug-delivery model, showing (from left to right): intraocular pressure, speed contours, and distribution platforms.

The filling of contours (by various meaningful colors) is implemented under informational inter relations provided by the data structure.

He sketched the contours of a building with a charcoal pencil.

As you use it, facial contours appear sculpted and newly defined.

A hierarchical segmentation method is proposed for multispectral imagery by combining extended watershed transform and dynamics of contours.

The usual solution is to adopt corresponding amendments to the follow-up algorithms for object contours to maintain continuous.

a wavelet descriptor is presented, which is suitable for contours constructed with a set of points.

A soft pillow with a shape that follows the contours of your neck.

Not so with Chinese, where your intonational contours must always obey the tonal constraints of the specific words you've chosen.

new lease on life with a fresh and exhilarating design that preserves its signature curves and contours.

Sensitive measurements of the region's contours will be necessary to resolve this question.

Separate air chambers adjust the longitudinal and transverse contours of the backrest independently in the lumbar and side regions.

The performance of the algorithm was tested by comparing the resulting contours with those obtained by manual segmentation.

The wild, natural contours in front left of the green will do all sorts of things with a golf ball but usually push it right in some form.

Finally, local measurements of myocardial deformations are derived from the previously determined matched contours.

Microscopically, all tumor cells revealed irregular contours, high cellularity and pleomorphism, located mainly in the dermis.

If you own land, now is a great time to make permanent improvements to its contours.

A greater variety of contours is a wonderful thing, because shape is an incredibly powerful design tool.

Key economic powers must shape their expectations and policy strategies to the changed contours of the global economy.

We investigated conditions under which observers can interpolate occluded contours by a single, stable, smooth contour.

The problem is that the contours of a cultural community rarely coincide with a political entity.

The relative rotation angle between the current object and the stock one is obtained by rotary match between their contours.

From the peak, both sea and land clasp hands as the waving contours of the island are woven seamlessly together.

Turning to face me, he slowly extended a hand which, like a soft animal, explored the contours of my face.

The Transportation Security Administration has come under growing pressure over new scanners that show the naked contours of passengers.

After vectorization procedure, the contours and relative parameters of roads can be given.

The contours of the geopolitical and economic landscapes have been redrawn.

Density contours are adopted to interpret the topological optimization result and continuous contour thus obtained.

I remember the contours of your lips, graciously pressed so tightly against mine.

Depth Contours Contours for a horizon, representing equal depth or time values.

A student is more than a student, and academic performance should not make us blind to the contours of their interior selves .

Some men trim their beards to follow the contours of the face, such as Chris Martin from the British band Coldplay.

Indigenous capacities thus critically shaped the contours of the settlement process.

The solutions to these equations will determine the accurate locations of first point on lower arc and improve the shape of blade contours.

The model developed an algorithm for infill-wind-direction simulation and exported pollutant contours for comparisons.

An image interpolation method with gradient angle constraints is proposed to obtain smooth image contours and crisp edges.

Evidently suppression precedes the synthesis of subjective contours in the visual processing hierarchy.

The circular interpolation is widely used in NC manufacturing of curve contours.

A live-wire-based segmentation method that exploits similarities of corresponding object contours is presented.

Current KWS provides a flexion-extension movement with one fixed rotation center, which is partially incomparable to biomechanical contours.

A live-wire-based segmentation method that exploits similarities of corresponding object contours is presented.

Current KWS provides a flexion-extension movement with one fixed rotation center, which is partially incomparable to biomechanical contours.

One tries to fit golf shots and strategies to the contours of the land.

Fortunately, with the latest developments in HTML and CSS, it's now slightly easier to create a wider variety of shape contours.

A method to reconstruct ellipsoid from its occluding contours observed in three images is also presented.

Still, it's odd that the presence and general contours of these other important elements have not yet been clearly flagged.

Ms. smooth elegant lines outline the contours of near-symmetrical, surrounded by adding pearl clusters detailed sense.

By far the easiest structures to pick out are ones with perfectly regular -- and therefore "unnatural" contours. Airports.

The NCAR Graphics home page provides a stable UNIX package for drawing contours, maps, surfaces, weather maps, x-y plots, and many others.

Additionally, the vorticity contours were computed and the characteristics of distorted rotor wake were analyzed.

At the middle of this clean pea green oilcloth, two pale purple contours nestle against each other tightly.

In the darkness, we could just about make out the contours of his face.

Following these steps, the skin lesion is segmented either by the geodesic active contours model or the geodesic edge tracing approach.

this laure was a lady of some fifty summers , whose swelling contours were tightly laced by belts and corsets.

In any case, both Democrats and Republicans see new contours of a split electorate.

In this paper, a method of recognition and tracking of objects via the features of their contours and inner color regions is presented.

Generally the shadow with lighting will highlight the contours of the face and lines.

All told, the contours of the business cycle may be the main influence on whether 2008 proves a big turning-point for economic policy.

Although adrenal gland have many morphology, their contours are clear, and their flank are vertical or a little con cave.

Tools to join contours simplify and speed up the glyph design process.

In this paper, entity information picking-up includes entity information reading and contours sorting.

The contours of the casino debate have changed significantly since Patrick first offered a casino plan three years ago.

The map also shows from lines, called contours, which represent the variations in elevation of theplanet surface.

the contours were in place and we decided to begin the coloring.

Their language uses phonemic pulses of energy with syntactic contours in the field.

The world is regaining its familiar contours: there are enemies across the border and conspiracies to thwart Russia's influence.

Deposits of foreign materials will change the sharp contours which govern its coefficient of discharge.

How exactly have the contours of the world's financial system changed in recent years, and where does most activity now occur?

When we make Relaxed Riders, we cut our material on a curve to conform to the natural contours of your body.

Independently floating double heads follow all facial contours to provide a clean, close and fast shave.

Firming effect deep and compact to make the lips more smooth and demonstrates clearly pulling upward with the delicate lip contours.

Safety contours were traced, obstacle areas were computed, and navigable areas were acquired.

Portugal has been fishing and trading Cod since the 15th century and this Cod trade has almost epic contours.

The effective range of P-wave, S-wave, R-wave could be analyzed from the contours of dynamic stress.

The article studied each kind of fur animal wool fiber surface contours and the ultrastructure, made the standard sample atlas.

A design with streamline contours, creating an elegant ambience for the bathroom.

The La Belle collection also includes a duo bath which harmonises perfectly with the outer contours of the furniture.

Contours-of-interest that refer to features of the anatomical structure are marked in one or more of the ultrasonic images.

Program GetGlyphOutline call function can be one word or the contours of the vector and bitmap drawing canvas.

Figure A. 2 shows height contours for England and Wales, and demonstrates the size of the areas of concern.

For a special occasion, have a professional spray-tan artist create cleavage-enhancing contours.

At full throttle, the chamber is expanded and the intake valve follows the contours of the camshaft.

Did the doc or patient object to the wax up? I find the contours on the wax up much more appealing than the final product.

Image artifacts are efficiently reduced and the continuity of contours is enhanced in experiments.

A style of drawing in which objects are delineated in contours without shading.

Sometimes he also drew directly on the prints, reinforcing the figure's contours with faint pencil lines.

Meanwhile the contours are analyzed, and some valuable engineering conclusions are obtained by analyzing contours.

It uses eye classifier to filter red areas in photos and to get red-eye areas, and expands red-eye areas to contain eye contours .

The hand-drawn contours become more aesthetically pleasing after AE processing.

Our observations support the view of local re matching of elements bounded and driven by disparate contours superimposed on wallpaper.

Pakistan: under the more obvious, softer contours, give a person with a smile impression. The broad, strong and well developed.

The target contours are created using the live-wire algorithm trained by features of the reference contours.

I then compose a face and expression that follows the contours of the pumpkin itself.

But the contours of this new multipolar economy are still forming.

Yet even if the broad contours of foreign policy are unlikely to change, some of the details might were Mr Medvedev to depart.

Fresh and invigorating design retains its signature curves and contours.

First, block-cut frames are flexible, so they can be easily adjusted to fit the contours of your head.

Tree ferns cast lacy contours against a star-speckled sky in Coromandel Forest Park, New Zealand.

Britain's election will be fought over the contours of future austerity.

From the first application, it promotes firmer, more youthful-looking facial contours.

The resulting distortions in the wavefront generate the fringe contours.

The contours of a peace deal are clear. But who has the courage to draw them?

The final contours produced will generally be shaped similar to these trend curves.

Handling of contours, polygons, lines, parallels, etc.

What are the contours of the debate in Singapore?

This algorithm can not only trace the contours of any complex region, and the computational complexity of the algorithm is linear.

A triangulation algorithm for 3D surfaces generated by contours of hierarchical (CT) images is introduced.

Contours and sharp lines are evident all the way to the sides and back, including the "Hofmeister kink" at the C pillar.

The split-image helps you focus quickly and easily on subjects with clear lines or contours.

A rear-wheel drive luxury coupe The new IS has sleeker coupe-like contours, a fastback profile.

According to the contours of stress, strain and strain rate, the characteristic of bond process was discussed in detail.

Female fashion ads are about clothes, male ads are about the contours of the male torso.

The source format of outlines is a collection of closed paths called contours.

Aimingat gesture detection, level set is applied to get the exact contours of hands in this paper.

Notice how nicely the burner support pipe contours with the inside wall.

Machining by hand has very lower efficiency, and can't get accurate contours.

Submarine contours can be more complete and reliable.

This paper presents a novel UDSM lithography process modeling flow using layout contours.

BMW uses molds, heat and pressure to produce contours in the fabric.

This paper presents a general data depth function with adaptive shape of deep contours based on Gaussian kernel function.

A line marking the outer contours or boundaries of an object or a figure.

Contours of the new global consumption order are clearly visible in a surge of Internet shopping in China.

She ventured into the third dimension to produce graphs that map the contours of plants.

Topographic features and contours often were "hung onto" the P line.

Contours in all subsequent slices are automatically calculated based on parameters of the first.

You can also apply contours to plots (as shown in Figure 1, below).

All our relationships follow the contours of life; they have ups and downs.

Topographic contours and cultural features can also appear on geologic maps.

Trace edges and contours with the feel of natural media.

Here's a short gnuplot example that illustrates 3-D function plotting with contours and hidden line removal.

Follow natural slope contours as much as possible.

I ask him where he got it and he points to the soft contours of an abandoned sand castle.

The contours of the oil market are well known.

Because Reality has contours.

Contours are believed to play a key role in the visual analysis of scenes by the primate brain.

or sand is mixed with binder to prepare sand dough which is filled into the contours.

A new method of detecting package defects based on image contours registration is presented in this paper.

the contours of the hillside.

In addition, the use of cold " " follows the contours of machine also helps to produce coated paper.

The terminal displays weather map of 6-levels contours.

It's thicker, it's darker, it's coarser, it doesn't have the contours.

But guess what: Their pleasing contours came from drafting boards in China's Guangdong province.

In order to mimic the hand drawing style, the contours are perturbed and multi-rendered.

The techniques to deal with the fake closed contours, isolated points, contour segments during contour tracing and refinement are analyzed.

I am always looking at contours of objects. Lines are all around us and make the world we live in.

An Algorithm of Automatic Creation of Topological Relation and Its Application of Fast Color Fill between Contours

An algorithm of color filling between contours by determination of regional points to be filled

Study on Relationship Between Topography Characteristics Fractal Information Dimension and Contours Line Interval Base on GIS

Moonlight used to bathe the contours of your face

A Blocking-Based Triangulation of a Surface Between Planar Contours

Professional software for measurment, analysis and diagnosis of facial contours restoration

The Automatic Extraction of the Body Contours Based on Edge Mould in the Treatment Planning System

Eye and Mouth Contours and States Detection in Facial Images with Diverse Expressions under Nonlinear Illumination

The Decomposition Theorem and Representation Theorem of Contours of Topographic Features

True Three-dimensional TIN Modelling Algorithm for Complicated Serial Sectional Contours

A links course features ground contours that provide remarkable inherent undulations and slopes in the fairways and greens

New Dynamic Composite Addressing Method for Improving Dynamic False Contours on Color Plasma Display Panel

A Method of Vehicle Plate Character Recognition Under Multi-scale Directional Contours with Wavelet Transform

A comprehensive method for the generation of constant vorticity contours wake

Reconstruction of the Solid Surface on the Slice Contours Expressed in Polygon

acoustics - normal equal - loudness - level contours

The Equivalency Choice of Integration Contours in Green's Functions in the Quantum Scattering Theory

Detection Contours of Multiple Moving Objects with Complex Background

Thin clouds drift above the gentle contours of the Wyoming prairie lands

Algorithms of Contours and Iso-surfaces Drawing for the Finite Element Method

First of all, Canon has a complete range of product lines, the fractionized product line strategy to user follows the contours of China;

A Method for Drawing Surface Weather Chart and Contours of Meteorological Elements

Research of sea bottom high-resolution detection using snake active contours model

Corrective algorithm of flat areas occurring in TIN constructed from contours

Study on the algorithm of automatic digital contours elevation labeling

Chin Contours Classification for Face Recognition

Firms contours around the eye area

A Blocking-based Triangulation of Surface Between Planar Contours

Adjust smoothness of contour filter and minimum threshold for contours

Automated Plotting Method of Ground Deformation Contours

A New Method of Automatically Identifying Orographic Character Line in Contours

Study on optimization algorithm of laser cutting path for complex contours

Design Method of the Assignment for Elevation Points and Contours

Geometric Active Contours for Face Contour Extraction

Fast method for detecting hierarchical field contours

A solution to surface reconstruction from contours of cross sections with multiply connected regions based on projections

Moving Objects Tracking Using Region-based Active Contours

Adopt adaptive B-spline to embellish contours in image segmentation

Boundary Contours of Inert Atoms in Uniform Strength Electric Field

An Improved Fast Parallel Thinning Algorithm for Contours

contours of rims for agricultural machines and implements

An Effective Method for Contours Digitizing with High Fidelity

Automated capture of the heights of closed contours

Automatic generation of contours in raster graphics

A Fractal Approach to the Reconstruction of Planer Contours

A Corrective Method of Flat Region Occurring in DTM Constructed from Contours

A Solution to Surface Recovery From Cross-Sectional Contours

The Research of Using Snake Model to Extract Contours of Objects in Color Images

Building Orebody Solid Model from Planar Contours

New method of geodesic active contours for image segmentation

Extracting the contours of objects with string models

Motorcycle tyres and rims (metric series) - Part 3: Range of approved rim contours

Extraction of the contours of elliptic objects based on polar-transformed snake

An algorithm of vector color-fill between contours based on boundaries of DTM oriented submarine mapping

Technique of Auto-inversion of Contours on Computer