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MULTIPLE STRUCTURE RECOVERY VIA PREFERENCE ANALYSIS IN CONCEPTUAL SPACE
Full text linkFinding multiple models (or structures) that fit data corrupted by noise and
outliers is an omnipresent problem in empirical sciences, includingComputer Vision, where organizing unstructured visual data in higher level geometric structures is a necessary and basic step to derive better descriptions and understanding of a scene.
This challenging problem has a chicken-and-egg pattern: in order to estimate models one needs to first segment the data, and in order to segment the data it is necessary to know which structure points belong to.
Most of the multi-model fitting techniques proposed in the literature can be divided in two classes, according to which horn of the chicken-egg-dilemma is addressed first, namely consensus and preference analysis.
Consensus-based methods put the emphasis on the estimation part of the problem and
focus on models that describe has many points as possible. On the
other side, preference analysis concentrates on the segmentation side in order to find a proper partition of the data, from which model estimation follows.
The research conducted in this thesis attempts to provide theoretical footing to the preference approach and to elaborate it in term of performances and robustness.
In particular, we derive a conceptual space in which preference analysis is robustly performed thanks to three different formulations of multiple structures recovery, i.e. linkage clustering, spectral analysis and set coverage. In this way we are able to propose new and effective strategies to link together consensus and preferences based criteria to overcome the limitation of both.
In order to validate our researches, we have applied our methodologies to some significant Computer Vision tasks including: geometric primitive fitting (e.g. line fitting; circle fitting; 3D plane fitting), multi-body segmentation, plane segmentation, and video motion segmentation
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Critical Hypersurfaces and Instability for Reconstruction of Scenes in High Dimensional Projective Spaces
Full text linkIn the context of multiple view geometry, images of static scenes are modeled as linear projections from a projective space P^3 to a projective plane P^2 and, similarly, videos or images of suitable dynamic or segmented scenes can be modeled as linear projections from P^k to P^h, with k>h>=2. In those settings, the projective reconstruction of a scene consists in recovering the position of the projected objects and the projections themselves from their images, after identifying many enough correspondences between the images. A critical locus for the reconstruction problem is a configuration of points and of centers of projections, in the ambient space, where the reconstruction of a scene fails. Critical loci turn out to be suitable algebraic varieties. In this paper we investigate those critical loci which are hypersurfaces in high dimension complex projective spaces, and we determine their equations. Moreover, to give evidence of some practical implications of the existence of these critical loci, we perform a simulated experiment to test the instability phenomena for the reconstruction of a scene, near a critical hypersurface
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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