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We investigate the correlation properties of separable two-qubit states with maximally mixed marginals. These states are divided to two sets with the same geometric quantum correlation. However, a closer scrutiny of these states reveals a profound difference between their quantum correlations as measured by more probing measures. Although these two sets of states are prepared by the same type of quantum operations acting on classically correlated states with equal classical correlations, the amount of final quantum correlation is different. We investigate this difference and trace it back to the hidden classical correlation which exists in their preparation process. We also compare these... 

In image hiding we embed a secret image into a cover image. In order to minimize the distortion of secret image, we presented a novel steganographic method based on content-aware seam carving. In this paper, we propose a new image hiding method in which, the secret image is initially classified based on image complexity measure. Then it is resized to an appropriate smaller size, but for having the important objects of the image in resized image we use seam carving method that resizes an image whereas the important content of it remains. By applying the seam carving, we have an image that is smaller than the original one, and then we hide it in a cover image. Obviously hiding a smaller secret... 

In the last few years, we have witnessed an explosion in applications of sparse representation, the majority of which share the need for finding sparse solutions of underdetermined systems of linear equations (USLE's). Based on recently proposed smoothed ℓ0-norm (SL0), we develop a noise-tolerant algorithm for sparse representation, namely Robust-SL0, enjoying the same computational advantages of SL0, while demonstrating remarkable robustness against noise. The proposed algorithm is developed by adopting the corresponding optimization problem for noisy settings, followed by theoreticallyjustified approximation to reduce the complexity. Stability properties of Robust-SL0 are rigorously...