1. A robust negative obstacle detection method using seed-growing and dynamic programming for visually-impaired/blind persons

   • Saeid Fazli
   • Hajar Mohammadi Dehnavi
   • Payman Moallem

   OriginalPaper 26 November 2011 Pages: 415 - 422

2. Fast image enlargement using predefined codebook and eigenspace backprojection for lost pixel

   • Noriaki Suetake
   • Hideaki Kawano
   • Eiji Uchino

   OriginalPaper 26 November 2011 Pages: 423 - 429

3. Vertical input optical ring resonator with differential operation for optical sensor

   • Hideaki Okayama
   • Motoki Miyazaki
   • Hirochika Nakajima

   OriginalPaper 26 November 2011 Pages: 430 - 435

4. Design of highly nonlinear octagonal photonic crystal fiber with near-zero flattened dispersion at 1.31μm waveband

   • Yoshinori Namihira
   • Jingjing Liu
   • Md. Asraful Islam

   OriginalPaper 26 November 2011 Pages: 436 - 440

5. Closed-form representations for third-order aberrations of two-aspherical mirror aplanats with the mirror tilt and decenter

   • Mitsunori Toyoda

   OriginalPaper 26 November 2011 Pages: 441 - 447

6. Microbolometer dynamic range adaptive technology based on the scene target temperature calculation

   • Ning Liu
   • Qian Chen
   • Xiu-bao Sui

   OriginalPaper 26 November 2011 Pages: 448 - 454

7. High-speed scanning fiber-optic heterodyne interferometer using a micro-electro-mechanical system mirror and an f-theta lens

   • Long Gao
   • Chunhui Wang
   • Yang Qu

   OriginalPaper 26 November 2011 Pages: 455 - 457

8. Spectral imaging of neurosurgical target tissues through operation microscope

   • Jukka Antikainen
   • Mikael von und zu Fraunberg
   • Markku Hauta-Kasari

   OriginalPaper 26 November 2011 Pages: 458 - 461

9. Layered scalable coding of multispectral images based on visible component separation

   • Mitsuyoshi Tashiro
   • Yuri Murakami
   • Nagaaki Ohyama

   OriginalPaper 26 November 2011 Pages: 462 - 469