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    An efficient solution to ray tracing problems for hemispherical refractive interfaces

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    Refraction effects, their description and modeling are important aspects of underwater and multimedia photogrammetry. For hemispherical interfaces, the usual approach to refraction is to rely on standard pinhole representations, e.g. by employing the Brown model. This is strictly only possible if entrance pupil of the lens and dome center coincide which is not trivial to achieve. However, simulations and other authors show that systematic residual errors occur with these approaches up to considerable margins if offsets of some millimeters are present. Hence, we propose a novel efficient, yet strict optimization algorithm to account for offsets between dome port centers and entrance pupil. It is about two orders of magnitude faster than standard ray tracing implementations that account for refraction while providing similar or equal results. The algorithm is employed for analysis on a simulation and two real data sets and performance of additionally estimating the dome center is investigated. Our method is capable of improving accuracy in one data set at a maximum of 30% but even so cannot provide improvements for the second data sets. An explicit calibration model is hence to be chosen carefully and most likely relies on the offset’s margins and each individual application

    FFT-based filtering approach to fuse photogrammetry and photometric stereo 3D data

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    Image-based 3D reconstruction has been successfully employed for micro-measurements and industrial quality control purposes. However, obtaining a highly-detailed and reliable 3D reconstruction and inspection of non-collaborative surfaces is still an open issue. Photometric stereo (PS) offers the high spatial frequencies of the surface, but the low frequency is erroneous due to the mathematical model's assumptions and simplifications on how light interacts with the object surface. Photogrammetry, on the other hand, gives precise low-frequency information but fails to utilize high frequencies. As a result, in this research, we present a fusion strategy in Fourier domain to replace the low spatial frequencies of PS with the corresponding photogrammetric frequencies in order to have correct low frequencies while maintaining high frequencies from PS. The proposed method was tested on three different objects. Different cloud-to-cloud comparisons were provided between reference data and the 3D points derived from the proposed method to evaluate high and low frequency information. The obtained 3D findings demonstrated how the proposed methodology generates a high-detail 3D reconstruction of the surface topography (below 20 μm) while maintaining low-frequency information (0.09 μm on average for three different testing objects) by fusing photogrammetric and PS depth data with the proposed FFT-based method

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

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    “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

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    We 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

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    We 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
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