Visual Reconstruction (Artificial Intelligence)

Visual Reconstruction (Artificial Intelligence Series)

Arts & Photography

Blake, Andrew

Zisserman, Andrew

Graphic Design

The MIT Press

Visual Reconstruction presents a unified and highly original approach to the treatment of continuity in vision. It introduces, analyzes, and illustrates two new concepts. The first―the weak continuity constraint―is a concise, computational formalization of piecewise continuity. It is a mechanism for expressing the expectation that visual quantities such as intensity, surface color, and surface depth vary continuously almost everywhere, but with occasional abrupt changes. The second concept―the graduated nonconvexity algorithm―arises naturally from the first. It is an efficient, deterministic (nonrandom) algorithm for fitting piecewise continuous functions to visual data. The book first illustrates the breadth of application of reconstruction processes in vision with results that the authors' theory and program yield for a variety of problems. The mathematics of weak continuity and the graduated nonconvexity (GNC) algorithm are then developed carefully and progressively.ContentsModeling Piecewise Continuity • Applications of Piecewise Continuous Reconstruction • Introducing Weak Continuity Constraints • Properties of the Weak String and Membrane • Properties of Weak Rod and Plate • The Discrete Problem • The Graduated Nonconvexity (GNC) Algorithm • Appendixes: Energy Calculations for the String and Membrane • Noise Performance of the Weak Elastic String • Energy Calculations for the Rod and Plate • Establishing Convexity • Analysis of the GNC Algorithm Visual Reconstruction is included in the Artificial Intelligence series, edited by Michael Brady and Patrick Winston.

History & Criticism

MIT Press]

This handy series from Headway offers brief yet lucid introductions to the world’s cultural icons. Each book examines the life, the work, and the legends surrounding its subject, and key terms and concepts are highlighted and clearly explained. Additionally, each chapter ends with a review section for easy reference and to help consolidate the reader’s understanding of the text.

Salman Rushdie: A Beginner's Guide

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Hodder&Stoughton

Examining the novels and other writings, Andrew Blake shows how J.R.R. Tolkien's mastery of language, his establishment of a fully-fledged alternative mythology, and his brave way of looking at difficult questions have helped to inaugurate a new way of writing which re-established "fantasy" as a late 20th century genre.

J.R.R. Tolkien: A Beginner's Guide

Literature & Fiction

Buy This Book is an important contribution to the history and understanding of consumption and advertising. This book brings together an outstanding collection of writing on the study of advertising, consumer practices and the future directions of research. Advertising and Consumption constitutes an invaluable resource for researchers, teachers and students. The essays are based on new textual and ethnographic research and engage with existing theoretical and historical work to form a volume which is a challenging companion to studies in this field.

Buy This Book: Studies in Advertising and Consumption

MacRury, Iain

Richards, Barry

Nava, Mica

Routledge

One of the "Cultural Studies" series, this book is an investigation of music as a product, looking both at the structure of the industry and how the latest advances in technology affect its production techniques. The book examines every aspect of the music business, from an international perspective and from pop to classical, covering hardware and software, artists, promoters and audiences.

The Music Business (Batsford Cultural Studies)

Business & Money

Economics

B.T.BATSFORD LTD

Examines the ways in which 20th-century Britons have tried to find a distinctive musical voice. Musicians, including new populations from the former colonies, have proposed "national" musics for Britain as a whole and its constituent parts. Working in dialogue with European classical or American popular music, the British produced the folk revivals of the 1920s and 1950s, the pastoral symphonies of the 1920s, the pop of the 1960s and Britpop in the 1990s. By surveying the debates surrounding the status of such artists and styles as the Beatles, Birtwistle, Blur and Bhangra, this text emphasizes the importance of music as a generator of value and identity.

The Land Without Music: Music, Culture and Society in Twentieth-Century Britain (MUSIC AND SOCIETY (MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS))

Music

Manchester Univ Pr

In this pioneering cultural history, Andrew Blake examines the many ways in which twentieth century Britons have tried to find a distinctive musical voice. Musicians (including the new populations from the former colonies) have proposed 'national' musics for Britain as a whole and its constituent parts. Working in dialogue with European classical or American popular musics, the British produced the folk revivals of the 1920s and 1950s, the pastoral symphonies of the 1920s, the pop of the 1960s and of course Britpop in the 1990s. By surveying the debates surrounding the status of such artists and styles as the Beatles, Birtwistle, Blur and Bhangra, Andrew Blake emphasises the importance of music as a generator of value and identity. Including ground-breaking analyses of jazz-rock, ambient, the 'landscape with music' of the festival, and the Proms, this book will interest musicians, historians and those interested in contemporary culture.

The Land Without Music: Music, culture and society in twentieth-century Britain (Music and Society)

Manchester University Press

Whether you're an armchair athlete or an Olympic medalist, sport plays a big part in everyday life. Through pressures of sponsorship and bids from lucrative entertainment networks, sport is also becoming a site of fierce financial competition. Stuck between these personal and commercial demands, are the participants who are required to achieve increasingly superhuman physical performances in order to meet the aspirations of the promoters, millions of spectators and whole nations. This work places the body at the centre of all sporting discourse, and makes a powerful case for including sport in the study of culture. It shows how a critical look at sport can illuminate a whole range of issues - identity and nationality, design, performance, representation and aesthetics. The book should represent a contribution to sports studies and cultural studies.

The Body Language: The Meaning of Modern Sport

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Lawrence & Wishart Ltd

The Employer's Survival Guide

AUSTIN, John

Education & Reference

Marvin Books

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