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Luo, Sheng, Yiming Ma, Feng Jiang, Hongying Wang, Qin Tong, and Liangju Wang. "Dead Laying Hens Detection Using TIR-NIR-Depth Images and Deep Learning on a Commercial Farm." Animals 13, no. 11 (June 2, 2023): 1861. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani13111861.
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In large-scale laying hen farming, timely detection of dead chickens helps prevent cross-infection, disease transmission, and economic loss. Dead chicken detection is still performed manually and is one of the major labor costs on commercial farms. This study proposed a new method for dead chicken detection using multi-source images and deep learning and evaluated the detection performance with different source images. We first introduced a pixel-level image registration method that used depth information to project the near-infrared (NIR) and depth image into the coordinate of the thermal infrared (TIR) image, resulting in registered images. Then, the registered single-source (TIR, NIR, depth), dual-source (TIR-NIR, TIR-depth, NIR-depth), and multi-source (TIR-NIR-depth) images were separately used to train dead chicken detecting models with object detection networks, including YOLOv8n, Deformable DETR, Cascade R-CNN, and TOOD. The results showed that, at an IoU (Intersection over Union) threshold of 0.5, the performance of these models was not entirely the same. Among them, the model using the NIR-depth image and Deformable DETR achieved the best performance, with an average precision (AP) of 99.7% (IoU = 0.5) and a recall of 99.0% (IoU = 0.5). While the IoU threshold increased, we found the following: The model with the NIR image achieved the best performance among models with single-source images, with an AP of 74.4% (IoU = 0.5:0.95) in Deformable DETR. The performance with dual-source images was higher than that with single-source images. The model with the TIR-NIR or NIR-depth image outperformed the model with the TIR-depth image, achieving an AP of 76.3% (IoU = 0.5:0.95) and 75.9% (IoU = 0.5:0.95) in Deformable DETR, respectively. The model with the multi-source image also achieved higher performance than that with single-source images. However, there was no significant improvement compared to the model with the TIR-NIR or NIR-depth image, and the AP of the model with multi-source image was 76.7% (IoU = 0.5:0.95) in Deformable DETR. By analyzing the detection performance with different source images, this study provided a reference for selecting and using multi-source images for detecting dead laying hens on commercial farms.
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Nelson, Matthew. "Life in a Dead Language." Journal of World Literature 2, no. 4 (2017): 411–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24056480-00204004.
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Literature written in Sanskrit after the onset of British colonialism is sorely neglected. Modern Sanskrit, as it is often called, suffers from the bad image of being written in a dead language. Many of its writers would disagree with that image, but they would know that they are disagreeing. That defensiveness has come to shape their writing, a fact which I argue arises in response to the status of their work as an ultraminor literature, a status which was born with the formation of the “world literature” field and its elevation/absorption of classical Sanskrit at the expense of the latter’s perceived potential for contemporaneity.
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MISHRA, KAMTA NATH, PRAKASH C. SRIVASTAVA, ANUPAM AGRAWAL, VIVEK TRIPATHI, and VISHAL GUPTA. "A FRAMEWORK TOWARDS USING EIGEN IRIS, MINUTIAE THUMB AND DNA SEQUENCE FEATURES FOR PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION." International Journal of Information Acquisition 08, no. 03 (September 2011): 197–225. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0219878911002471.
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Biometric systems based on a single physiological or behavioral characteristic may not be able to identify a person correctly. This paper presents an efficient and reliable multimodal biometric identification system which is based on minutiae thumb, Eigen iris and DNA sequence features. In this method compressed form of Short tandem repeat (STR) part of DNA sequence, compressed thumbprint and compressed iris image (Eigen values) of a person are used for further identification of an individual. Therefore, personal identification including identical twins and dead person's cases will become easier in using this method. Our technique will correctly identify a person (living or dead) on the basis of his thumbprint, iris image and DNA sequence features. We have used thumbprint and iris images for identifying a live person. But, for identifying a dead person we have used STR part of DNA sequence. We tested our method for 100 samples of thumbprints and iris images of CASIA database and we found that our multimodal method is able to correctly identify each and every individual including identical twin on the basis of thumbprints and iris images. For identifying a dead person the compressed form of DNA sequence of that person is used.
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Mosaleva, Galina Vladimirovna. "RUSSIA OF CHICHIKOV AND RUSSIA OF GOGOL IN THE POEM “DEAD SOULS”." Russian Journal of Multilingualism and Education 14 (December 28, 2022): 85–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.35634/2500-0748-2022-14-85-93.
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The paper considers the polysemy of the image of Russia in N. V. Gogol’s “Dead Souls.” It is a new angle of research; its relevance is connected with the reception of the category of church construction allowing to see new characteristics in Gogol’s poetics. The objective of the study is to establish a link between the category of church construction, which manifests itself in the church symbolism, and Gogol’s text poetics. The research methodology presents an attempt to study “Dead Souls” in the context of the Orthodox tradition. On the external pictorial plane, appears the image of Russia, seen by Chichikov. This is the image of provincial Russia, striving to copy “enlightened” Europe, therefore it appears as its counterpart: now as pseudo-Russia, then as pseudo-Europe. A hotel and a tavern are placed in the foreground in Chichikov’s provincial Russia. Chichikov seems to consciously avoid meeting the real Russia, the symbols of which are the church space, its living soul, embodied in nature, songs, and the Russian language. During the travels through the estates of landowners, the image of this caricatural Russia is overgrown with the motifs of vulgar fashion, vulgar art, caused by the imitation of Europe. The anti-aesthetics of a still life in the poem is intended to symbolise the world of the death of the human soul. The growth of infernality is manifested in the motifs of exaggerated physicality in the paintings in the estates of the landowners, in the organisation of their environment. On the outer plane “Dead Souls” act as a guide to the 92 world of death, in which a person with a dead soul is able to reproduce only a similar dead culture. The image of St. Petersburg Russia in the story about Captain Kopeikin appears as if in a kaleidoscope of illusory images: like Semiramis. Persia. America, India. Genuine Russia is manifested in the inner plane of the poem, in the author’s outlook. Its symbols are the language itself, in which culture is created, the Russian spirit, reflected in the songs, the beginninglessness and infinity of Russia, expanding to the vast Universe, heeding Its Creator.
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Lin, Kuo-Chi, Morgan Wang, Jie Wang, and Daniel E. Schab. "Smoothing a dead reckoning image in distributed interactive simulation." Journal of Aircraft 33, no. 2 (March 1996): 450–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.2514/3.46962.
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Beardwood, John, and Mark Penner. "Dead or Alive – Your Image is Coming with Me." Computer Law Review International 21, no. 6 (December 1, 2020): 165–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.9785/cri-2020-210603.
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Strauss, Roland M. "The Appearance of the Dead San Francisco Solano." OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying 46, no. 2 (March 2003): 101–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/yavf-77x5-p62a-e1lv.
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When Fransiscan Monk Francisco Solano died, it was decided by the Franciscan order to have his portrait painted in an attempt to preserve his image. The limeñan artist Juan de Aguayo was called and asked to paint the dead priest. He was given no further instructions and started painting 24 hours after death had occurred. But, rather than portraying a lively image of the priest (as is frequently done in posthumous portraits), the artist seems to have painted the monk exactly how he found him (Figure 1). Possible reasons for this peculiar form of artistry are discussed.
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Chen, Xue. "“THE SUN OF THE DEAD” BY I.S. SHMELEV: SPATIAL SYMBOLS OF THE PICTURE OF BEING." Bulletin of Udmurt University. Series History and Philology 31, no. 2 (May 11, 2021): 330–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.35634/2412-9534-2021-31-2-330-334.
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The article analyzes the key spatial images of the story by I.S. Shmelev "The Sun of the Dead." Their role in describing a specific landscape and expression of the author's worldview is indicated. Shmelev gives volume and ambiguity to the landscape, which appears in the story not only as a topos, a plot element, but also an image of cultural, psychological, religious intentions. The conclusion is drawn about the realism and mythologization of nature paintings, their symbolic meanings are decoded, structuring the vertical and horizontal space of the text and expressing the sensory, behavioral modalities of the characters. A connection is established between the artistic, spiritual space of man and the physical-geographical one. It is traced how through the ontologization of the images of nature Shmelev expresses his view on the Crimean realities of the early 1920s. The Old Testament and New Testament allusions in the image of the landscape are described, their role in translating the narrative of modern events into the plane of biblical history is determined. It has been suggested that the text deliberately introduces allusions to famous stories about Lot, persecutions of Christians, Egyptian executions, apocalyptic prophecies, symbols of the Lord, motives of His anger, apostolic judgments and others. Through images of space Shmelev combines existential motifs of the story and eschatological, mortal and life-affirming. The main compositional principle of the image of space is opposition. The works of I. Babel, I. Knorring, N. Turoverova, M. Tsvetaeva, A. Shiryaevets are attracted.
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Hontanilla Calatayud, Bernardo. "The Man of the Shroud of Turin: Is He Dead or Alive?" Scientia et Fides 10, no. 1 (March 3, 2022): 91–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/setf.2022.005.
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It has been assumed that the person represented on the Shroud of Turin is dead and the image corresponds to a person dead from crucifixion. We have conducted an analysis of the cadaveric data of a body and the presence of face life signs and we could think that the image could corresponds to a living person. Therefore, it might correspond to a man starting a getting up gesture. If we examine the Gospels, a remarkable symmetry is found between the data obtained from the image and the events described in the Gospels, regarding the death and resurrection of Jesus.
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Zhu, Zhihui, Kai Yang, and YuTing He. "Research on Detection of Fertility of Group Hatching Eggs Based on Adaptive Image Segmentation." Applied Engineering in Agriculture 38, no. 2 (2022): 283–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.13031/aea.14849.
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HighlightsAn adaptive group eggs segmentation was proposed, which separates a single egg from the group eggs image.Key color features and texture features were extracted from the RGB and HSI histograms, respectively.The Support Vector Machine (SVM) model and Least Squares Support Vector Machine (LS-SVM) model were built to distinguish infertile egg and dead-embryo egg, respectively.LS-SVM model reached 100% accuracy for infertile eggs on day 4 of incubation, and dead-embryo eggs on day 10 of incubation.Abstract. For the incubation factory, it is of vital importance to detect infertile eggs and dead-embryo eggs in the industrial egg trays as early as possible. In this article, an activity detection computer vision system was proposed and evaluated. Due to the dense layout of eggs in industrial egg trays, the image segmentation task to separate each single egg becomes difficult. To this end, an adaptive image segmentation method for group eggs was proposed. Firstly, the binary image was obtained by the Canny operator using dynamic threshold and processed to reduce redundant information. Then ellipse fitting was employed to obtain the egg contour of the single egg. Moreover, the Red, Green, Blue (RGB) and Hue, Saturation, Intensity (HSI) histograms were selected for feature extraction. According to the analysis on color features and texture features of the images, 13 features [positions for peak values of R and I in histogram, peak values of G and I within histogram, averages of R and G, variances of R and G, contrast, roughness, inverse different moment (IDM), correlation and angular second moment (ASM)] were chosen as the criterion for detecting dead-embryo eggs. Meanwhile, 12 features (positions for peak values of R, G, H, and I in histogram, averages of R and G, slope and variance of G, contrast, roughness, IDM, and correlation) were selected for detecting infertile eggs. Lastly, the Support Vector Machine (SVM) model and Lease Squares Support Vector Machine (LS-SVM) model were built to distinguish infertile egg and dead-embryo egg, respectively. According to the comparison, the LS-SVM model reached higher accuracy in determining infertile egg and dead-embryo egg than the SVM model, with less time consumed. The LS-SVM model reached 100% accuracy in detection for infertile eggs on day 4 of incubation, as well as for dead-embryo eggs on day 10 of incubation. The result demonstrated that the proposed method can conduct the activity detection for group eggs both accurately and fast, which meets the commercial requirement for non-destructive detection in the hatchery industry. Keywords: Adaptive image segmentation, Computer vision, Fertility, Group hatching eggs, LS-SVM, Non-destructive detection, SVM
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Sarakaeva, Asya A., and Elina A. Sarakaeva. "The Hopping Dead. Zombies in the Chinese Culture." Corpus Mundi 2, no. 4 (December 27, 2021): 60–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.46539/cmj.v2i4.54.
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The article examines the image of zombies in Chinese culture, the traditional perception of their appearance and internal characteristics. A wide scope of written sources served as the basis of the study: inscriptions on oracle bones, ancient fortune-telling calendars, historical treatises, chronicles and commentaries on chronicles, essays on geography and medicine, fiction of old and modern China, as well as entries and comments from the Chinese blogosphere.
The authors examine how the idea of evil spirits (with a body or bodiless ones) first appeared in the religious worldview of the ancient Chinese, and trace its origin to the doctrine of existence of multiple souls in one person. The article also details the formation of the pictorial image of Chinese zombies: animated corpses covered with hair or dressed as government officials, with their arms extended forward, hopping on straight legs unable to bend their knees. As for the functional characteristics of zombies, the authors discuss not only their well-known features (e.g., cannibalism), but also their deep inner connection with water and drought. In conclusion, the authors explore the evolution of zombies in modern urban legends and demonstrate the continuity of traditional demonology that develops into modern narrative.
Apart from that, the article contains a number of analogies and comparisons of the Chinese image of zombies with other nations’ mythological tradition.
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Polewski, P., W. Yao, M. Heurich, P. Krzystek, and U. Stilla. "DETECTION OF SINGLE STANDING DEAD TREES FROM AERIAL COLOR INFRARED IMAGERY BY SEGMENTATION WITH SHAPE AND INTENSITY PRIORS." ISPRS Annals of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences II-3/W4 (March 11, 2015): 181–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprsannals-ii-3-w4-181-2015.
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Standing dead trees, known as snags, are an essential factor in maintaining biodiversity in forest ecosystems. Combined with their role as carbon sinks, this makes for a compelling reason to study their spatial distribution. This paper presents an integrated method to detect and delineate individual dead tree crowns from color infrared aerial imagery. Our approach consists of two steps which incorporate statistical information about prior distributions of both the image intensities and the shapes of the target objects. In the first step, we perform a Gaussian Mixture Model clustering in the pixel color space with priors on the cluster means, obtaining up to 3 components corresponding to dead trees, living trees, and shadows. We then refine the dead tree regions using a level set segmentation method enriched with a generative model of the dead trees’ shape distribution as well as a discriminative model of their pixel intensity distribution. The iterative application of the statistical shape template yields the set of delineated dead crowns. The prior information enforces the consistency of the template’s shape variation with the shape manifold defined by manually labeled training examples, which makes it possible to separate crowns located in close proximity and prevents the formation of large crown clusters. Also, the statistical information built into the segmentation gives rise to an implicit detection scheme, because the shape template evolves towards an empty contour if not enough evidence for the object is present in the image. We test our method on 3 sample plots from the Bavarian Forest National Park with reference data obtained by manually marking individual dead tree polygons in the images. Our results are scenario-dependent and range from a correctness/completeness of 0.71/0.81 up to 0.77/1, with an average center-of-gravity displacement of 3-5 pixels between the detected and reference polygons.
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Pinsdorf, Marion K. "Greater dead heroes than live husbands: widows as image-makers." Public Relations Review 28, no. 3 (August 2002): 283–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0363-8111(02)00132-7.
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Papailias, Penelope. "(Un)seeing dead refugee bodies: mourning memes, spectropolitics, and the haunting of Europe." Media, Culture & Society 41, no. 8 (February 19, 2018): 1048–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0163443718756178.
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This essay addresses the user remediation and performative rematerialization of the 2015 photographs of 3-year-old Kurdish-Syrian refugee Alan Kurdi, as well as acts of concealing and deferring access to those images following intense public debate. This article shifts the frame of discussion from moral spectatorship to mediated witnessing and networked mourning in the context of contemporary affective publics. To speak of the memeification of Kurdi’s corpse-image is to underline the way repetition operates as a gesture of both inhabitation and differentiation by users who connect in this way to others and to the issue at hand. The Kurdi images, thus, were not so much observed by a global audience as produced by, and productive of, a massive, dispersed corporeal network. The conceptual figure of spectrality links the mediality and materiality of the dead body-image to contemporary necropolitics that dispossesses subjects, producing the ‘living death’ of the global precariat. If the public sphere is defined by prohibitions on grieving, conflicts regarding who views, mourns, and speaks for which dead bodies, although often ascribed to debased social media mores, tell us more about the political border of human and nonhuman that produces the revenant figure of the refugee haunting inhospitable and neoliberal, but nominally post-racial, Europe.
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Potente, Stefan, Frank Ramsthaler, Mattias Kettner, Tomoya Ikeda, and Peter Schmidt. "Application of the “bubbling” procedure to dead body portraits in forensic identification." International Journal of Legal Medicine 135, no. 4 (February 5, 2021): 1655–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00414-021-02515-0.
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Abstract Purpose A procedure is needed for bodies with disfiguring injuries to the face and the use of their portrait for visual identification. Method We present the application of a simple image processing procedure, otherwise known as ”bubbling,” which is based on the concept of ”perceptual filling-in,” to images for visual identification in the forensic context. The method is straight forward and can be performed using readily available software and hardware.. Results The method is demonstrated and examples are shown. The visual recognition of known persons using “bubbled” images was successfully tested. Conclusion The “bubbling” procedure for visual identification enhancement is quick and straightforward and may be attempted before escalating to more involved identification methods and procedures.
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Singh, Manjinder, and Harpreet Kaur. "Enhanced Image Inpainting in Remotely Sensed Images by Optimizing NLTV model by Ant Colony Optimization." International Journal of Electrical and Electronics Research 4, no. 3 (September 30, 2016): 91–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.37391/ijeer.090306.
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Filling dead pixels or eliminating unwanted things is typically preferred within the applications of remotely sensed images. In proposed article, a competent image imprinting technique is demonstrated to resolve this drawback, relied nonlocal total variation. Initially remotely sensed images are effected by ill posed inverse problems i.e. image destripping, image de-noising etc. So it is required to use regularization technique to makes these problems well posed i.e. NLTV method, which is the combination of nonlocal operators and total variation model. Actually this method can make use of the good features of non-local operators for textured images and total variation method in edge preserving for color images. To optimize the proposed variation model, an Ant Colony Optimization algorithm is used in order to get similarity with the original image. And evaluate the outcomes of proposed technique with the existing technique i.e. MNLTV optimized by Bregmanized-operator-splitting algorithm which is a prediction based method. The investigation of all outcomes confirms the efficacy of this rule.
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Ruskuls, R., K. Slics, R. Ozolins, R. Fenuks, E. Linina, K. Osmanis, and I. Osmanis. "Multifocal Near-Eye Display: Timing of Optical Diffuser Elements and Synchronization to DLP-Based Projection Microunit." Latvian Journal of Physics and Technical Sciences 59, no. 3 (June 1, 2022): 106–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/lpts-2022-0013.
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Abstract The paper present the key technical details of a multifocal near-eye display concept. Along with an overview of the basic architecture, a particular implementation that utilises a digital light processing (DLP®) based spatial light modulator as the image source is provided in the study. The investigated approach involves the utilisation of a small-scale volumetric screen formed by a stack of fast-switching optical diffuser elements based on liquid crystal technology. The volumetric screen is illuminated by a rear image projector. To make the whole system functional and small, the challenge lies within the development of integrated control board for the projection modules as well as the synchronization of the DLP® projector image output to the optical diffuser element switching-cycle. The main difficulty of the development process is accounting for the peculiarities of in-house developed diffuser elements and the off-the-shelf DLP®, which is the main focus of this paper. There is no direct control over the full set of DLP® operational parameters, an indirect method for adjusting frame dead time is proposed, showing that an increase in dead time close to 0.3 ms (from 0.3 ms to 0.6 ms in the particular setup) can be achieved without significantly sacrificing image colour depth or quality. Tuneable dead time mitigates the limitations set by the non-instantaneous switching of liquid crystal diffuser elements as longer dead times allow for the removal of image bleeding between frames.
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Harries, John, Linda Fibiger, Joan Smith, Tal Adler, and Anna Szöke. "Exposure: the ethics of making, sharing and displaying photographs of human remains." Human Remains and Violence: An Interdisciplinary Journal 4, no. 1 (2018): 3–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.7227/hrv.4.1.2.
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This article will query the ethics of making and displaying photographs of human remains. In particular, we will focus on the role of photography in constituting human remains as specimens, and the centrality of the creation and circulation of photographic images to the work of physical anthropology and bioarchaeology. This work has increasingly become the object of ethical scrutiny, particularly in the context of a (post)colonial politics of recognition in which indigenous people seek to recover dominion over their looted material heritage, including the remains of their dead. This ethical concern extends to the question of how and under what circumstances we may display photographs of human remains. Moreover, this is not just a matter of whether and when we should or should not show photographs of the remains of the dead. It is a question of how these images are composed and produced. Our discussion of the ethics of the image is, therefore, indivisible from a consideration of the socio-technical process by which the photographic image is produced, circulated and consumed.
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Atkinson, Kim. "The Dead Tree: Reconsidering Toys in Early Years Spaces." Journal of Childhood Studies 40, no. 3 (December 30, 2015): 56. http://dx.doi.org/10.18357/jcs.v40i3.15172.
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Toys are ubiquitous in early years settings. Providing particular toys and grouping them in particular ‘activity areas’ has come to be regarded as an indicator of a quality program. How did this homogeneity of toys in childhood spaces emerge? This article explores some of the assumptions we carry about toys, and considers how social, commercial, and scientific discourses have shaped how we see childhood and toys and embedded particular “truths” in our educational thought. The author suggests that critically reflecting on the role of toys in early years settings can open possibilities for teachers and children to think differently about the image of the child, the image of the educator, and the construction of knowledge.
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Ahmad, Muhammad Umair, Sidra Ashiq, Gran Badshah, Ali Haider Khan, and Muzammil Hussain. "Feature Extraction of Plant Leaf Using Deep Learning." Complexity 2022 (May 28, 2022): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/6976112.
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Half a million species of plants could be existing in the world. Classification of plants based on leaf features is a critical job as feature extraction (includes shape, margin, and texture) from binary images of leaves may result in duplicate identification. However, leaves are an effective means of differentiating plant species because of their unique characteristics like area, diameter, perimeter, circularity, aspect ratio, solidity, eccentricity, and narrow factor. This paper presents the extraction of plant leaf gas alongside other features from the camera images or a dataset of images by applying a convolutional neural network (CNN). The extraction of leaf gas enables identification of the actual level of chlorophyll (Ch) and nitrogen (N) which may help to interpret future predictions. Our contribution includes the study of texture and geometric features, analyzing ratio of Ch and N in both healthy and dead leaves, and the study of color-based methods via CNN. Several steps are included to obtain the results: image preprocessing, testing, training, enhancement, segmentation, feature extraction, and aggregation of results. A vital contrast of the results can be seen by considering the kind of image, whether a healthy or dead leaf.
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Kurkin, B. A. "«A Dead man’s wife» (The role and significance of Marina Mnishek’s character (image) in “Boris Godunov” tragedy by Alexander S. Pushkin)." Язык и текст 5, no. 3 (2018): 29–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.17759/langt.2018050304.
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The article is dedicated to analysing of the Marina Mnishek’s image in “Boris Godunov” tragedy by Alexander S. Pushkin. It is describing historical as-sessments of Marina Mnishek’s character in folktales and epic poems, Russian Cronicles and official records of the 17th century and the way they are transformed into Marina Mnishek’s artistic image by Pushkin. The author regards her image as a necessary complement to the character of The Impostor and considers their images as an incarnation of the Evil Spirit depicted by the tragedy through lexical means and logic of its unravelling plot.
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Zhang, Yunlin, and Lingling Tian. "Predicting Fine Dead Fuel Load of Forest Floors Based on Image Euler Numbers." Forests 15, no. 4 (April 21, 2024): 726. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f15040726.
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The fine dead fuel load on forest floors is the most critical classification feature in fuel description systems, affecting several parameters in the manifestation of wildland fires. An accurate determination of this fine dead fuel load contributes substantially to effective wildland fire prevention, monitoring, and suppression. This study investigated the viability of incorporating image Euler numbers into predictive models of fine dead fuel load via the taking photos method. Pinus massoniana needles and Quercus fabri broad leaves—typical fuel types in karst areas—served as the research subjects. Accurate field data were collected in the Tianhe Mountain forests, China, while artificial fine dead fuelbeds of differing loads were constructed in the laboratory. Images of the artificial fuelbeds were captured and uniformly digitized according to various conversion thresholds. Thereafter, the Euler numbers were extracted, their relationship with fuel load was analyzed, and this relationship was applied to generate three load-prediction models based on stepwise regression, nonlinear fitting, and random forest algorithms. The Euler number had a significant relationship with both P. massoniana and Q. fabri fuel loads. At low conversion thresholds, the Euler number was negatively correlated with fuel load, whereas a positive correlation was recorded when this threshold exceeded a certain value. The random forest model showed the best prediction performance, with mean relative errors of 9.35% and 14.54% for P. massoniana and Q. fabri, respectively. The nonlinear fitting model displayed the next best performance, while the stepwise regression model exhibited the largest error, which was significantly different from that of the random forest model. This study is the first to propose the use of image features to predict the fine fuel load on a surface. The results are more objective, accurate, and time-saving than current fuel load estimates, benefiting fuel load research and the scientific management of wildland fires.
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Li, Zongchen, Ruoli Yang, Weiwei Cai, Yongfei Xue, Yaowen Hu, and Liujun Li. "LLAM-MDCNet for Detecting Remote Sensing Images of Dead Tree Clusters." Remote Sensing 14, no. 15 (August 1, 2022): 3684. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs14153684.
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Clusters of dead trees are forest fires-prone. To maintain ecological balance and realize its protection, timely detection of dead trees in forest remote sensing images using existing computer vision methods is of great significance. Remote sensing images captured by Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) typically have several issues, e.g., mixed distribution of adjacent but different tree classes, interference of redundant information, and high differences in scales of dead tree clusters, making the detection of dead tree clusters much more challenging. Therefore, based on the Multipath dense composite network (MDCN), an object detection method called LLAM-MDCNet is proposed in this paper. First, a feature extraction network called Multipath dense composite network is designed. The network’s multipath structure can substantially increase the extraction of underlying and semantic features to enhance its extraction capability for rich-information regions. Following that, in the row, column, and diagonal directions, the Longitude Latitude Attention Mechanism (LLAM) is presented and incorporated into the feature extraction network. The multi-directional LLAM facilitates the suppression of irrelevant and redundant information and improves the representation of high-level semantic feature information. Lastly, an AugFPN is employed for down-sampling, yielding a more comprehensive representation of image features with the combination of low-level texture features and high-level semantic information. Consequently, the network’s detection effect for dead tree cluster targets with high-scale differences is improved. Furthermore, we make the collected high-quality aerial dead tree cluster dataset containing 19,517 images shot by drones publicly available for other researchers to improve the work in this paper. Our proposed method achieved 87.25% mAP with an FPS of 66 on our dataset, demonstrating the effectiveness of the LLAM-MDCNet for detecting dead tree cluster targets in forest remote sensing images.
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Pinto, Rooney F., Isabel Maria Freitas Valente, and Maria João Guia. "The object of memory and the memory of the object: refugee crisis in the news on September 2nd 2015." Debater a Europa, no. 16 (July 3, 2017): 221–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/1647-6336_16_10.
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This article aims to contribute on reflecting about the strict relation between an object (an image) and the memory, particularly regarding the memory in the news on September 2nd 2015 about the refugee crisis. Every year, Porto Editora (a Portuguese press company) holds a survey with ten words in order to elect the word of the year, and, for 2015, the elected one was “Refugees” (Palavra do Ano, 2015); this would be one more evidence of the impact of this issue in the news. The photo of a dead Syrian child on a beach in Turkey has become one of the most striking images of the refugee crisis in 2015. Curiously, Muerte a las puertas del paraíso (Death on paradise’s gates) was the headline exactly fifteen years ago, on September 2nd 2000, when photojournalist Javier Bauluz caught the image of a dead immigrant who tried to cross illegally, facing down the sand on a beach in Spain. In both cases, could we say the image overcomes the news? Which one is to be considered the object of the memory: the refugee crisis itself or the image of the dead Syrian child as an icon of this crisis? The theoretical framework stands on a threefold argument: 1. Object, memory and discourse; 2. The memory of the news; 3. Europe, migration and refugee crisis. Finally, two interviews were undertaken (as part of the pilot study) in order to verify if the memory of the object were sufficient enough to turn it into the object of the memory, as well as, whether one’s memory were somehow relevant to establish a collective memory.
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Oroskhan, Muhammad Hussein, and Bahee Hadaeg. "Psychosocial or Mythological: Sam Shepard’s Kicking a Dead Horse as a Liberal Ironist." International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature 10, no. 3 (May 31, 2021): 68. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.10n.3p.68.
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American West has conjured up a shining image in the media but a complex subject in the research studies. Among the iconic elements that represent the American West, the image of cowboy has occupied a unique place. Relatively, mythological or psychosocial methods may contribute to the comprehension of the image of cowboy. In this vein, an examination of cowboy with regard to the aforementioned perspectives are studied but proved insufficient because it is almost impossible to draw a fine distinction between these two matters. Nevertheless, the core of this study by attributing to one of Shepard’s late plays entitled Kicking a Dead Horse tries to address the issue of cowboy with regard to Richard Rorty’s liberal ironist to prove that neither mythological nor psychosocial approach is appropriate enough to study the image of cowboy whereas Shepard’s emphasis on self-creation as buttressed by Richard Rorty’s liberal ironist is the suitable method for analyzing the image of cowboy.
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Jraisat, Luai E., Mamoun N. Akroush, Ruba Jaser Alfaouri, Laila T. Qatu, and Dina J. Kurdieh. "Perceived brand salience and destination brand loyalty from international tourists’ perspectives: the case of Dead Sea destination, Jordan." International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research 9, no. 3 (August 3, 2015): 292–315. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijcthr-01-2015-0001.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine an integrated model of perceived brand salience, perceived brand quality, perceived brand image and perceived brand loyalty in the Dead Sea tourism destination of Jordan from international tourists’ perspectives. Design/methodology/approach – A structured and self-administered survey was employed targeting international tourists who were visiting the Dead Sea tourism destination. The authors delivered 300 questionnaires to international tourists, from which 237 were retained and valid for the analysis. A series of exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses was used to assess the research constructs dimensions, unidimensionality, validity and composite reliability. Structural path analysis was also used to test the hypothesized relationships of the research model. Findings – The structural findings show that perceived brand salience has positively and significantly affected each of perceived brand quality and perceived destination loyalty. Perceived brand quality has positively and significantly affected each of perceived brand image-physical environment, perceived brand image-people characteristics and perceived destination loyalty. Each of perceived brand image-physical environment and perceived brand image-people characteristics has positively and significantly affected perceived destination loyalty. The structural findings indicate that perceived brand quality has exerted the strongest effect on each of perceived brand image-physical environment and perceived brand image-people characteristics. Further, the structural results show that R2 result of 0.48 indicates that 48 per cent of variation in perceived destination loyalty was caused by perceived brand quality, perceived brand image dimensions (physical environment and people characteristics) and perceived brand salience path. Research limitations/implications – This paper has examined only three drivers of destination loyalty; meanwhile, other factors such as tourists’ satisfaction and retention are potential areas of future research. Also, this study investigated international tourists’ perspectives in the Dead Sea tourism destination only, which means that its generalization potential to other destinations is limited. Therefore, comparative studies inside and outside Jordan’s tourism destinations are potential areas of future research. Other limitations and future research areas are also outlined. Practical implications – The paper highlights the strategic importance of perceived brand quality and perceived brand image dimensions (physical environment and people characteristics) on perceived destination loyalty. Perceived brand quality acts as strong antecedent to perceived brand image dimensions, and perceived brand salience is an essential element of perceived destination loyalty. Perceived brand quality, perceived brand image dimensions and perceived brand salience are major drivers of perceived brand destination in an integrated manner. Also, perceived brand image dimensions of the physical environment and people friendless and kindness are also vital for creating perceived destination loyalty. Further, an integrated model of perceived brand salience, perceived brand quality, perceived brand image dimensions and destination loyalty is required by tourism organizations operating in the Dead Sea destination to win international tourists now and in the future. Originality/value – This paper represents an early attempt to reveal and examine potential drivers of perceived destination loyalty in the Dead Sea, Jordan. Accordingly, it should shed more light into the strategic role of perceived brand quality, perceived brand salience and perceived brand image dimensions and how they affect perceived destination loyalty. Further, the paper is the first of its kind that investigated an integrated model of perceived brand salience and perceived destination loyalty via perceived brand quality and image dimensions from international tourist perspectives in Jordan. The main issue here is that tourism organizations operating in the Dead Sea tourism destination have now valuable empirical evidence concerning the drivers of perceived destination loyalty from international tourists’ perspectives.
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Artmann, Uwe. "Using the dead leaves pattern for more than spatial frequency response measurements." Electronic Imaging 2020, no. 16 (January 26, 2020): 148–1. http://dx.doi.org/10.2352/issn.2470-1173.2020.16.avm-110.
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The dead leaves pattern is very useful to obtain an SFR from a stochastic pattern and can be used to measure texture loss due to noise reduction or compression in images and video streams. In this paper, we present results from experiments that use the pattern and different analysis approaches to measure the dynamic range of a camera system as well as to describe the dependency of the SFR on object contrast and light intensity. The results can be used to improve the understanding of the performance of modern camera systems. These systems work adaptively and are scene aware but are not well described by standard image quality metrics.
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Akroush, Mamoun N., Luai E. Jraisat, Dina J. Kurdieh, Ruba N. AL-Faouri, and Laila T. Qatu. "Tourism service quality and destination loyalty – the mediating role of destination image from international tourists’ perspectives." Tourism Review 71, no. 1 (April 18, 2016): 18–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/tr-11-2014-0057.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between tourism service quality and destination loyalty through investigating the mediation effect of destination image in the Dead Sea tourism destination, Jordan, from international tourists perspectives. The paper also investigates the tourism service quality dimensions from international tourists’ viewpoints. Design/methodology/approach A structured and self-administered survey was used targeting international tourists who were visiting the Dead Sea tourism destination, Jordan. The authors delivered 300 questionnaires to international tourists from which 237 were retained and valid for the analysis. A series of exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were performed to assess the research constructs dimensions, unidimensionality, validity and composite reliability. Structural path analysis was also used to test the hypothesised relationships of the research model. Findings The empirical findings indicate that tourism service quality is, in fact, a four-dimensional (4D) construct as opposed to five as proposed by the original hypothesised model. The 4D model consists of four facets: assurance-responsiveness, tangible facilities-empathy, reliability and reliability-quality of directions. Also, the results indicate that brand image loaded onto two dimensions named as “physical environment” and “people characteristics”. The structural findings indicate that the four dimensions of tourism service quality have positively and significantly affected destination image. Further, brand image has positively and significantly affected destination loyalty. Finally, destination image fully mediates the relationship between tourism service quality and destination loyalty. Research limitations/implications This paper has examined only five dimensions of tourism service quality that affected destination loyalty directly and indirectly; meanwhile, other service quality dimensions such as technical quality may affect both destination image and destination loyalty. Further, destination image is the only mediator investigated in this paper. Other consumer-based brand equity factors such as brand salience my act as another mediator. Also, this paper investigated international tourists’ perspectives in the Dead Sea tourism destination only, which means that its generalisation to other tourism destinations is limited. Therefore, comparative studies inside and outside Jordan’s tourism destinations are potential areas of future research. Other limitations and future research areas are also outlined. Practical implications The paper highlights the strategic importance of brand image on the relationship between tourism service quality and destination loyalty. Tourism service quality acts as an antecedent to brand image and the later is essential to destination loyalty. In other words, brand image of the physical environment and people friendless and kindness are the critical linkage that create destination loyalty. Further, an integrated model of tourism service quality, destination image and destination loyalty is required by tourism organisations operating in the Dead Sea destination to win international tourists again. Originality/value This paper represents one of the very few attempts that investigate tourism service quality and destination loyalty through understanding the mediating role of brand image in the Dead Sea destination. Accordingly, it should shed more light into the strategic role of brand image dimensions and how they affect destination loyalty. Further, the paper is the first of its kind to investigate an integrated model of tourism service quality and destination loyalty from international tourist perspectives in Jordan. The main issue here is that tourism organisations operating in the Dead Sea tourism destination have now valuable empirical evidence concerning the drivers of destination loyalty in an integrated manner.
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Kim, Sung IL. "Image of Siberia in F. Dostoevsky’s The House of the Dead." Journal of Slavic Studies 32, no. 2 (June 30, 2017): 1–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.46694/jss.2017.06.32.2.1.
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Mattus, Maria. "Too dead? Image analyses of humanitarian photos of the Kurdi brothers." Visual Studies 35, no. 1 (January 1, 2020): 51–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1472586x.2020.1731325.
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Berthelsen, Bjørn O., Rolf A. Olsen, and Eiliv Steinnes. "Quantification of dead ectomycorrhizae from forest soils using computerized image analysis." Journal of Microbiological Methods 34, no. 3 (January 1999): 245–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0167-7012(98)00086-4.
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Jongsook Lee. "Numinous or Dead? Real Presence, Iconoclasm, and Pygmalion’s Image in Shakespeare." Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 22, no. 1 (February 2014): 49–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.17054/memes.2014.22.1.49.
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Piccinini, Filippo, Anna Tesei, Giulia Paganelli, Wainer Zoli, and Alessandro Bevilacqua. "Improving reliability of live/dead cell counting through automated image mosaicing." Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine 117, no. 3 (December 2014): 448–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cmpb.2014.09.004.
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Eliášová, Hana, and Taťjana Dostálová. "3D Multislice and Cone-beam Computed Tomography Systems for Dental Identification." Prague Medical Report 118, no. 1 (2017): 14–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/23362936.2017.2.
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3D Multislice and Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) in forensic odontology has been shown to be useful not only in terms of one or a few of dead bodies but also in multiple fatality incidents. 3D Multislice and Cone-beam computed tomography and digital radiography were demonstrated in a forensic examination form. 3D images of the skull and teeth were analysed and validated for long ante mortem/post mortem intervals. The image acquisition was instantaneous; the images were able to be optically enlarged, measured, superimposed and compared prima vista or using special software and exported as a file. Digital radiology and computer tomography has been shown to be important both in common criminalistics practices and in multiple fatality incidents. Our study demonstrated that CBCT imaging offers less image artifacts, low image reconstruction times, mobility of the unit and considerably lower equipment cost.
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Tischer, Rafael Mateus, Ricardo Tokio Higuti, Vander Teixeira Prado, and Claudio Kitano. "Improving ultrasonic imaging of aluminum plates using phase modulation." Journal of Integrated Circuits and Systems 15, no. 3 (December 22, 2020): 1–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.29292/jics.v15i3.191.
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Ultrasonic imaging using arrays is a widespread technique used in medical imaging, with increasing use in industry. Conventional techniques use amplitude information from the ultrasonic signals to produce the images. These amplitude images can be produced with high quality, but can also present limitations regarding dead zone, artifacts and detection of far reflectors. Coherence images based on the signal phase have been explored in some works, and produce an image that indicates the presence of a defect. In this work we explore he effect of phase modulation of the ultrasonic signal and its effect on the corresponding coherence image. Simulations and experimental tests in an aluminum plate using Lamb waves and a linear piezoelectric array show that the phase modulation hasadvantages over coherence images without phase modulation for defect indication.
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Pavliv, Dmytro. "Semantics of images of funeral vessels from Rovantsi cemetery of the Final Bronze Age." Materials and studies on archaeology of Sub-Carpathian and Volhynian area 24 (December 24, 2020): 88–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.33402/mdapv.2020-24-88-116.
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The study of the semantics of images on archaeological artifacts is a matter of great interest, because the content of ornamental compositions, ideograms, symbolic signs can be interpreted in the context of the sphere of contemporary religious doctrines. This also applies to the ornamentation of ceramic ware found in burials. During the research of bi-ritual cemetery of Ulvivets-Rovantsi cultural group in Rovantsi (Volhyn region), dated back to the second half of IX–VIII centuries B.C., cinerary vase-urn with the remains of cremation was found. The vessel is decorated by images of four «trees» that stand on a wavy line and have raised branches and round tops. One of them differs by presence of broken branches. Comparative analysis of archaeological materials with using of ethnographic and folklore sources and examples from mythology allows us to explain the semantics of these symbolic signs, which form a holistic ideogram with figurative and symbolic meaning. It is confirmed that such an ideogram, which also occurs in the burial vessels of Corded Ware culture, Komarivska, Bilozerska, Pomeranian and especially Vysotska and Lusatian cultures, can be considered a universal sign system aimed at the figurative expression of one of the oldest religious doctrines. Image of a tree on a funerary vessel can be associated with image of the «world tree (tree of life)», a universal mythological archetype, a symbolic embodiment of the idea of rebirth, although it can also be a «tree of death» or a «tree of the underworld». It is also noted that it is possible to anthropomorphically interpret the image of a tree as a symbol of souls of the dead who stand on the banks of the river – boundaries of the worlds or float by the «river of death» to the afterlife, as evidenced by the image of water (river) under the tree. It is claimed that the images on the cinerary urn from Rovantsi represent magical signs-symbols used by ancient people, applied to the burial vessels to ensure «transition» of the dead to the afterlife and subsequent revival, possibly an encoded story about dead whose remains were buried in this vessel. After all, at the base of such beliefs is the ancient cult of ancestors known in wide areas in many cultures, which belong to different historical periods and ethnic groups. Key words: Late Bronze Age, Rovantsi cemetery, cremation, funerary vessels, semantics of images, magical signs-symbols, cult of ancestors, idea of revival.
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Howell, Amanda, and Margaret Gibson. "Son of Saul and the ethics of representation: troubling the figure of the child." Cultural Studies Review 24, no. 2 (May 2, 2018): 150–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/csr.v24i2.6056.
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Taking László Nemes’ film Son of Saul (2015) as both an aesthetic intervention into the public remembering of the Holocaust and as a critical/creative essay on representations of the horrors of war and violence more generally, this paper considers its use of the image and idea of the dead child—the child victim—and its ability to move, to communicate, to galvanise action, to seemingly cut through the chaos of communication. A figure presented as tangible and mournable in a way that the many anonymous, barely-glimpsed and largely ignored dead of the film are not, we consider it in relation to previous representations of the child in Holocaust film, but also, importantly, in relation to contemporary photographic examples of the child victim-as-icon, whose images seemingly require no caption to communicate and which inspire deeply-felt responses across cultures, organising structures of public feeling. As Nemes’ film makes clear, the claim of the child victim on the witness is profound, immediate, and potentially transformative. We will consider how the image of the child operates as a fluid signifier of both hope and despair, shared desires and fears, a not-unproblematic image through which the obscene and the unthinkable are mediated and made visible.
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Li, Qiong, Xin Sun, Junyu Dong, Shuqun Song, Tongtong Zhang, Dan Liu, Han Zhang, and Shuai Han. "Developing a microscopic image dataset in support of intelligent phytoplankton detection using deep learning." ICES Journal of Marine Science 77, no. 4 (September 20, 2019): 1427–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsz171.
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Abstract Phytoplankton plays an important role in marine ecological environment and aquaculture. However, the recognition and detection of phytoplankton rely on manual operations. As the foundation of achieving intelligence and releasing human labour, a phytoplankton microscopic image dataset PMID2019 for phytoplankton automated detection is presented. The PMID2019 dataset contains 10 819 phytoplankton microscopic images of 24 different categories. We leverage microscopes to collect images of phytoplankton in the laboratory environment. Each object in the images is manually labelled with a bounding box and category of ground-truth. In addition, living cells move quickly making it difficult to capture images of them. In order to generalize the dataset for in situ applications, we further utilize Cycle-GAN to achieve the domain migration between dead and living cell samples. We built a synthetic dataset to generate the corresponding living cell samples from the original dead ones. The PMID2019 dataset will not only benefit the development of phytoplankton microscopic vision technology in the future, but also can be widely used to assess the performance of the state-of-the-art object detection algorithms for phytoplankton recognition. Finally, we illustrate the performances of some state-of-the-art object detection algorithms, which may provide new ideas for monitoring marine ecosystems.
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Tykhovska, Oksana. "Psychological basis of the image of a dead lover in mythology of transcarpatia and P. Kulish’s story about, why the Peshevtsov pond was dried up in the town of Voronezh." Fìlologìčnì traktati 12, no. 1 (2020): 117–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.21272/ftrk.2020.12(1)-12.
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In Ukrainian mythology as in world mythology, there is an idea of the possibility of a love relationship between a human and a demonic creature – a dead lover or a devil. Thus, F. Potushnyak’s article Dead Love in Folk Beliefs (1944) is devoted to this theme. Folk beliefs about demonic lovers precondition the relationship between them and a human, and methods of their overcoming are examined in this article. In the short story About, why the Peshevtsov pond was dried up in the town of Voronezh (1839) written by P. Kulish, we can find a very interesting interpretation of folk beliefs when a dead husband visits his wife. The writer modeled the tragic story of the woman, whose husband disappeared, with the help of folk mythological stories. And because of her deep regret, she became a victim of a demon who appeared in the image of her beloved husband. In the article, the psychological basis of the appearance of visions, in which the main figure is a dead object of love, is analyzed. Through the prism of Jung’s theory, the image of a dead lover is considered as a personification of one of the archetypes of the collective unconscious (Animus, its negative aspect). Destructive display of this image has the same psychological basis both in mythological legends and in P. Kulish’s short story About, why the Peshevtsov pond was dried up in the town of Voronezh. The woman’s consciousness refuses to take the reality as it is and creates an alternative variant for herself – the dead lover comes to her at night (when unconscious dominates – our wishes, fears, etc. are implemented in night dreams). The line between conscious and unconscious life is erased and the woman becomes a hostage of her own fantasy, which removes pain of loss and gives hope to renew the lost emotional and spiritual balance for a moment. Folk stories in the spirit of Christian morality contain “recipes” of fighting a dead lover. However, mostly these rituals cannot help the woman, who is obsessed with love to her dead lover as it happened in P. Kulish’s story.
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Ronell, Avital. "Lapses: When Friends Clock Out." Oxford Literary Review 44, no. 1 (July 2022): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/olr.2022.0372.
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Remembrance involves so many shots in the dark, part of an effort to locate the disappeared as they clock out. In the dead center of Hölderlin’s hymn, Andenken, the question flares: ‘But–where are my friends?’ Nancy, writing on Derrida’s inconceivable demise, says we await them, demanding a return in some form, drawing on a shadowing nearness, maybe an image that appears in distinction to the non-image of the living friend. Have they really elapsed – ? Or, are they bound to show up at midnight, like the Rat Man’s father or Hamlet’s ghost? Derrida wonders if we don’t take another few laps with them, worried and anxious about their well-being over there. Ach! Give us the off chance of an apparition, a sign, an alias vanishing down the block. With Derrida Nancy turns a radical corner: We don’t have at hand the syntax to say a disappearance so resolute. We have no cause to assert a fact that is not fact, the factum negativum, of one perpetually disappearing. For nobody is dead, not so dead or dead so, as if we were not still involved in naming a state of being, of being de-parted. That is why he offers a sidebar on rethinking the philosophical formulation, ‘God is dead’.
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Rzepnikowska, Iwona. "THE DEAD IN POLISH FOLK PROSE." Folklore: structure, typology, semiotics 3, no. 1 (2020): 128–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2658-5294-2020-3-1-128-143.
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The paper dwells upon the image of the dead in tales of the two plot types, namely, T 366 “Trup upomina się o swoją własność” (АТU 366 “The Man from the Gallows”) and T 470* “Zmarły urażony” (АТU 470А “The Offended Skull”), formally classified by the author of the Polish folk prose index as fairy tales, but they are in fact in full compliance with basic genre conventions of mythological tales (fabulates). Therefore, the dead in those plot types act not as the fairy-tale but mythological character. Nominations, as well as certain other features, of the “otherworld” characters in those narratives reflect the duality of folk perceptions regarding a person’s lot after their demise. The dead are perceived as scary creatures that pose danger – but the reason for that lies in the humans’ own trespassing against the dead: disturbing their rest. The degree to which the dead are portrayed as demonic, that is, ungracious and vengeful towards the humans, varies and is expressed both in the plot types being compared in general and in specific textual realizations of the same plot.
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O'Neill, Mary. "Speaking to the dead: Images of the dead in contemporary art." Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine 15, no. 3 (May 2011): 299–312. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363459310397978.
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In this article I explore works by three artists in which we can see images that relate to bereavement. In the work of the first two, Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook and Andres Serrano, we can see photographic images (still and moving) of human corpses, which have been criticized as morbid and unhealthy. However I argue that it is not in fact images of death or the dead that are problematic but those images which present or evoke evidence of the emotions associated with death, and create a situation where we imagine the circumstances of our own deaths or the death of those we love. Images of the dead are acceptable as long as they do not cause pain to the living, as in a video game fantasy or a fiction, or are seen as other and distant. In the second group of works, by Gustgav Metzger, The Absent Dead: The Surrogate Body, the body is not present either because the death has taken place at a distance, either in time or geographically, or both, and a new site must be created. In this section, I discuss Metzger’s auto-destructive art and argue that these works, through their ephemerality, embody a form of ‘meaning making’ and a possibility of the benefits of grief as described by Parkes.
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Isıtman, Odul. "Somewhere beyond hyper-reality." Global Journal of Arts Education 8, no. 3 (November 15, 2018): 103–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.18844/gjae.v8i3.3799.
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According to Baudrillard, the reality has changed and turned into a reality simulation, namely a hologram. It is this transformation that made Baudrillard say ‘God is not dead, he has become hyper-real’ in response to Nietzsche’s ‘God is dead’ discourse. Kevin Robins, who states that the deference of the object by image, the rejection of the object is a postmodern discourse, suggests that this expresses a meaningful disengagement from modernist aesthetics, which corresponds to the age of mechanical production. By the 1990s, with the addition of disengagement between object and image to the changing perception of reality and truth, a new field of play was opened for the artist. Information and image bombardment started to defer postmodernism and the doors of a new period in the art are opened slightly. Currently, we are at a point beyond the reality, into which the one that is reproduced countless times is transformed, in other words, beyond the hyper-reality that makes the image in the hologram exist. Keywords: Digitalisation, reality, hyper-reality, image, hologram, post-1990s.
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Sarakaeva, Asia A., and Elina A. Sarakaeva. "The Hopping Dead. Zombies in the Chinese Culture. Translation into English." Corpus Mundi 4, no. 2 (December 25, 2023): 44–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.46539/cmj.v4i2.84.
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The article examines the image of zombies in Chinese culture, the traditional perception of their appearance and internal characteristics. A wide scope of written sources served as the basis of the study: inscriptions on oracle bones, ancient fortune-telling calendars, historical treatises, chronicles and commentaries on chronicles, essays on geography and medicine, fiction of old and modern China, as well as entries and comments from the Chinese blogosphere.
The authors examine how the idea of evil spirits (with a body or bodiless ones) first appeared in the religious worldview of the ancient Chinese, and trace its origin to the doctrine of existence of multiple souls in one person. The article also details the formation of the pictorial image of Chinese zombies: animated corpses covered with hair or dressed as government officials, with their arms extended forward, hopping on straight legs unable to bend their knees. As for the functional characteristics of zombies, the authors discuss not only their well-known features (e.g., cannibalism), but also their deep inner connection with water and drought. In conclusion, the authors explore the evolution of zombies in modern urban legends and demonstrate the continuity of traditional demonology that develops into modern narrative.
Apart from that, the article contains a number of analogies and comparisons of the Chinese image of zombies with other nations’ mythological tradition.
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Liu, Bingxin, Yulong Du, Chengyu Liu, and Ying Li. "A Practical Method for Blind Pixel Detection for the Push-Broom Thermal-Infrared Hyperspectral Imager." Sensors 22, no. 19 (September 29, 2022): 7403. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s22197403.
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Thermal infrared hyperspectral imager is one of the frontier payloads in current hyperspectral remote sensing research. It has broad application prospects in land and ocean temperature inversion, environmental monitoring, and other fields. However, due to the influence of the production process of the infrared focal plane array and the characteristics of the material itself, the infrared focal plane array inevitably has blind pixels, resulting in spectral distortion of the data or even invalid data, which limits the application of thermal infrared hyperspectral data. Most of the current blind pixels detection methods are based on the spatial dimension of the image, that is, processing single-band area images. The push-broom thermal infrared hyperspectral imager works completely different from the conventional area array thermal imager, and only one row of data is obtained per scan. Therefore, the current method cannot be directly applied to blind pixels detection of push-broom thermal infrared hyperspectral imagers. Based on the imaging principle of push-broom thermal infrared hyperspectral imager, we propose a practical blind pixels detection method. The method consists of two stages to detect and repair four common types of blind pixels: dead pixel, dark current pixel, blinking pixel, and noise pixel. In the first stage, dead pixels and dark current pixels with a low spectral response rate are detected by spectral filter detection; noise pixels are detected by spatial noise detection; and dark current pixels with a negative response slope are detected by response slope detection. In the second stage, according to the random appearance of blinking pixels, spectral filter detection is used to detect and repair spectral anomalies caused by blinking pixels line by line. In order to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method, a flight test was carried out, using the Airborne Thermal-infrared Hyperspectral Imaging System (ATHIS), the latest thermal infrared imager in China, for data acquisition. The results show that the method proposed in this paper can accurately detect and repair blind pixel, thus effectively eliminating spectral anomalies and significantly improving image quality.
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Srinivasan, M. V., J. S. Chahl, and S. W. Zhang. "Robot Navigation by Visual Dead-Reckoning: Inspiration from Insects." International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence 11, no. 01 (February 1997): 35–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0218001497000032.
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Insects such as ants and bees are capable of surprisingly good navigation, despite the small size and relative simplicity of their brains. Recent experimental research in our laboratory, summarized in this chapter, indicates that honeybees estimate the distance travelled to a food site in terms of the image motion that they experience en route. This finding has inspired us to design and build a robot that navigates using a visually-driven odometer.
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Jin, Sen, and Shyh-Chin Chen. "Application of QuickBird imagery in fuel load estimation in the Daxinganling region, China." International Journal of Wildland Fire 21, no. 5 (2012): 583. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wf11018.
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A high spatial resolution QuickBird satellite image and a low spatial but high spectral resolution Landsat Thermatic Mapper image were used to linearly regress fuel loads of 70 plots with size 30 × 30 m over the Daxinganling region of north-east China. The results were compared with loads from field surveys and from regression estimations by surveyed stand characteristics. The results show that fuel loads were related to stand characteristics, such as stand mean diameter at breast height and stand height. As the QuickBird image using the shadow fraction method represented the stand characteristics well, fuel loads were well estimated from the QuickBird image. QuickBird estimations outperformed those from the lower spatial resolution Thermatic Mapper image. For many fuel classes, the QuickBird estimations were as good as those regressed from surveyed stand characteristics, and thus similar to the surveyed fine and total dead fuel loads. However, coarse fuel loads were not estimated as well using both satellite images owing to their intrinsic low association with stand characteristics. Despite this limitation in estimating coarse fuels, very-high-resolution images such as QuickBird are still valuable in estimating fine fuels, which are critically important in the practice of fire management.
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Jong, Lynn-Jade S., Jelmer G. C. Appelman, Henricus J. C. M. Sterenborg, Theo J. M. Ruers, and Behdad Dashtbozorg. "Spatial and Spectral Reconstruction of Breast Lumpectomy Hyperspectral Images." Sensors 24, no. 5 (February 28, 2024): 1567. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s24051567.
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(1) Background: Hyperspectral imaging has emerged as a promising margin assessment technique for breast-conserving surgery. However, to be implicated intraoperatively, it should be both fast and capable of yielding high-quality images to provide accurate guidance and decision-making throughout the surgery. As there exists a trade-off between image quality and data acquisition time, higher resolution images come at the cost of longer acquisition times and vice versa. (2) Methods: Therefore, in this study, we introduce a deep learning spatial–spectral reconstruction framework to obtain a high-resolution hyperspectral image from a low-resolution hyperspectral image combined with a high-resolution RGB image as input. (3) Results: Using the framework, we demonstrate the ability to perform a fast data acquisition during surgery while maintaining a high image quality, even in complex scenarios where challenges arise, such as blur due to motion artifacts, dead pixels on the camera sensor, noise from the sensor’s reduced sensitivity at spectral extremities, and specular reflections caused by smooth surface areas of the tissue. (4) Conclusion: This gives the opportunity to facilitate an accurate margin assessment through intraoperative hyperspectral imaging.
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Qian, Jiuchao, Yuhao Cheng, Rendong Ying, and Peilin Liu. "A Novel Indoor Localization Method Based on Image Retrieval and Dead Reckoning." Applied Sciences 10, no. 11 (May 29, 2020): 3803. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app10113803.
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Indoor pedestrian localization measurement is a hot topic and is widely used in indoor navigation and unmanned devices. PDR (Pedestrian Dead Reckoning) is a low-cost and independent indoor localization method, estimating position of pedestrians independently and continuously. PDR fuses the accelerometer, gyroscope and magnetometer to calculate relative distance from starting point, which is mainly composed of three modules: step detection, stride length estimation and heading calculation. However, PDR is affected by cumulative error and can only work in two-dimensional planes, which makes it limited in practical applications. In this paper, a novel localization method V-PDR is presented, which combines VPR (Visual Place Recognition) and PDR in a loosely coupled way. When there is error between the localization result of PDR and VPR, the algorithm will correct the localization of PDR, which significantly reduces the cumulative error. In addition, VPR recognizes scenes on different floors to correct floor localization due to vertical movement, which extends application scene of PDR from two-dimensional planes to three-dimensional spaces. Extensive experiments were conducted in our laboratory building to verify the performance of the proposed method. The results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms general PDR method in accuracy and can work in three-dimensional space.
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Herman, Peter. "We Are the Walking Dead: Robert Kirkman’s Zombies and Buddhist Body Image." Implicit Religion 17, no. 4 (December 12, 2014): 433–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/imre.v17i4.433.