2,896 research outputs found
Abstraction And Scale-Space Events In Image Understanding
No full textION AND SCALE-SPACE EVENTS IN IMAGE UNDERSTANDING Helmut Mayer Chair for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Technical University Munich Arcisstr. 21, 80290 Munich, Germany Phone: +49-89-2105-2688, Fax: +49-89-2809573 E-mail: [email protected] Commission III, Working Group 3 KEY WORDS: Vision, Modeling, Artificial Intelligence, Abstraction, Scale-Space ABSTRACT Image understanding can be described as the process of making information implicit in an image explicit in terms of objects. This implies a mapping of structured semantic information (symbols) to discrete noisy two-dimensional information (digital image). One way of solving this ill-posed problem is to fuse results in different images which have been produced from a single image by smoothing it with various degree. The smoothing reduces noise, but also changes the scale of the image, i.e. features are suppressed. From a theoretical point of view the following questions arise: How can the abstraction of the descri..
A New Approach For Line Extraction and its Integration in a Multi-Scale, Multi-Abstraction-Level Road Extraction System
No full textion-Level Road Extraction System Helmut Mayer and Carsten Steger Lehrstuhl fur Photogrammetrie und Fernerkundung Technische Universitat Munchen Arcisstraße 21, 80290 Munchen, Germany e-mail: [email protected] Lehrstuhl fur Bildanalyse und wissensbasierte Systeme Technische Universitat Munchen Orleansstraße 34, 81667 Munchen, Germany e-mail: [email protected] Abstract: Road extraction is an active area of research. Because roads are elongated objects they can be described symbolically by means of lines. This paper shows, theoretically as well as in practice, why and under which circumstances lines extracted from an image are an abstract representation of roads. Especially the importance of scale is emphasized and the connection between multiple scales and multiple abstraction levels by means of so-called scale-space events is derived. The investigations are based on a sophisticated model for line extraction for which the scales where events occur can be..
Jane Mayer, 32nd Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textJane Mayer joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 1995. She writes about politics for the magazine, and has been covering the war on terror. Recent subjects include Alberto Mora and the Pentagon’s secret torture policy, how the United States out-sources torture, the prison at Guantánamo Bay, and the legality of C.I.A. interrogations. She has also written about George W. Bush, the bin Laden family, and Sarah Palin. Mayer was the 2008 winner of the John Chancellor Award for Journalistic Excellence. She was also a 2009 finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Mayer is the author of the best-selling 2008 book The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War in Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals, which was chosen as one of the ten best books of the year by The New York Times, The Economist Magazine, Salon, Slate and Bloomberg
POLICY SPACE: WHAT, FOR WHAT, AND WHERE?
No full textThe paper examines how developing countries can use existing policy space, and enlarge it, without opting out of international commitments. It argues that: (i) a meaningful context for policy space must extend beyond trade policy and include macroeconomic and exchange-rate policies that will achieve developmental goals more effectively; (ii) policy space depends not only on international rules but also on the impact of international market conditions and policy decisions taken in other countries on the effectiveness of national policy instruments; and (iii) international integration affects policy space through several factors that pull in opposite directions; whether it increases or reduces policy space differs by country and type of integration.
The Roman Inquisition : A Papal Bureaucracy and Its Laws in the Age of Galileo /
No full textAs Thomas F. Mayer demonstrates in this first study of the Roman Inquisition as an institution, the Inquisition underwent constant modification as it expanded. Originally aimed to eradicate Protestant heresy, it went beyond medieval antecedents by becoming a highly articulated centralized organ directly dependent on the pope.As Thomas F. Mayer demonstrates in this first study of the Roman Inquisition as an institution, the Inquisition underwent constant modification as it expanded. Originally aimed to eradicate Protestant heresy, it went beyond medieval antecedents by becoming a highly articulated centralized organ directly dependent on the pope.Electronic reproduction. ,Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.Thomas F. Mayer is Professor of History at Augustana College. He is author of Reginald Pole: Prince and Prophet, and editor and translator of The Trial of Galileo, 1612-1633.Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher’s Web site, viewed March 24, 2015
The Roman Inquisition on the Stage of Italy, c. 1590-1640 /
No full textDrawing on the Roman Inquisition's own records, diplomatic correspondence, local documents, newsletters, and other sources, Thomas F. Mayer provides an intricately detailed account of the ways the Inquisition operated to serve the papacy's long-standing political aims in Naples, Venice, and Florence between 1590 and 1640.Drawing on the Roman Inquisition's own records, diplomatic correspondence, local documents, newsletters, and other sources, Thomas F. Mayer provides an intricately detailed account of the ways the Inquisition operated to serve the papacy's long-standing political aims in Naples, Venice, and Florence between 1590 and 1640.Electronic reproduction. ,Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.Thomas F. Mayer is author of The Roman Inquisition: A Papal Bureaucracy and Its Laws in the Age of Galileo, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press, and Reginald Pole: Prince and Prophet. He is also editor and translator of The Trial of Galileo, 1612-1633.Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher’s Web site, viewed March 24, 2015
Rudolf Mayer
No full textThe bachelor thesis deals with the life and work of Rudolf Mayer. In the first part, attention is given to the author and the reception of his work presented in period magazines and newspapers from the poet´s death in 1945. During the second part of his work is examined in terms of literary discursivity the subjective romanticism
Alumni author Khaled Hosseini
No full textColor portrait of alumnus author Khaled Hosseini sitting on the Mayer Theatre stage
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