186 research outputs found
Conditional models for 3D human pose estimation:
No full textHuman 3d pose estimation from monocular sequence is a challenging problem, owing to highly articulated structure of human body, varied anthropometry, self occlusion, depth ambiguities and large variability in the appearance and background in which humans may appear. Conventional vision based approaches to human 3d pose estimation mostly employed "top-down methods", which used a complete 3d human model, in a hypothesized pose, to explain the configuration of the humans in the observed 2d image. In this thesis, we work with "bottom-up methods" for human pose estimation, that use low level image features to directly predict 3d pose. The research draws on recent innovations in statistical learning, observation-driven modeling, stable image encodings, semi-supervised learning and learning perceptual representations. We address the problems of (a) modeling pose ambiguities due to 3d-to-2d projection and self occlusion, (b) lack of sufficient labeled data for training discriminative models and (c) high dimensionality of human 3d pose state space. In order to resolve 3d pose ambiguities, we use multi-valued functions to predict multiple plausible 3d poses for an image observation. We incorporate unlabeled data in a semi-supervised learning framework to constrain and improve the training of discriminative models. We also propose generic probabilistic Spectral Latent Variable Models to efficiently learn low dimensional representations of high dimensional observation data and apply it to the problem of human 3d pose inference.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-193)by Atul Kanauji
Mutual information relevance networks : functional genomic networks built from pair-wise entropy measurements
No full textThis electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Thesis (S.M.)--Harvard--Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division of Health Sciences and Technology, 2002.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 27-28).by Atul Janardhan Butte.Thesis (S.M.)--Harvard--Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division of Health Sciences and Technology, 2002
Business and Politics in India
No full textOverview Description Table of Contents Author InformationCoverBusiness and Politics in IndiaEdited by Christophe Jaffrelot, Edited by Atul Kohli, and Edited by Kanta MuraliModern South AsiaDescriptionOver the last few decades, politics in India has moved steadily in a pro-business direction. This shift has important implications for both government and citizens. In Business and Politics in India, leading scholars of Indian politics have gathered to offer an analytical synthesis of this vast topic. Collectively, they cover the many strategies that businesses have used to exert their newfound power in recent times and organize the book around a few central concerns. They first analyze the nature of business power and how it shapes political change in India. Second, they look at the consequences of business' growing power on some important issue areas-labor, land, urban governance, and the media. Finally, they take account of regional variation and analyze state-business relations. This definitive account offers significant insights into how and why corporations have increased their power in contemporary Indian politics
Business and Politics in India
No full textOverview Description Table of Contents Author InformationCoverBusiness and Politics in IndiaEdited by Christophe Jaffrelot, Edited by Atul Kohli, and Edited by Kanta MuraliModern South AsiaDescriptionOver the last few decades, politics in India has moved steadily in a pro-business direction. This shift has important implications for both government and citizens. In Business and Politics in India, leading scholars of Indian politics have gathered to offer an analytical synthesis of this vast topic. Collectively, they cover the many strategies that businesses have used to exert their newfound power in recent times and organize the book around a few central concerns. They first analyze the nature of business power and how it shapes political change in India. Second, they look at the consequences of business' growing power on some important issue areas-labor, land, urban governance, and the media. Finally, they take account of regional variation and analyze state-business relations. This definitive account offers significant insights into how and why corporations have increased their power in contemporary Indian politics
Book Discussion of Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
No full textIn Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending. He asserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our experience even to the end, providing not only a good life but also a good end. — Barnes and Noble
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Zahraniční politika Bangladéše: Komparativní studie o Indii, Číně a Pákistánu během a po éře Šajch Hasiny
No full textBangladesh is a relatively small South Asian state located between two major regional powers, India and China. Formerly known as East Pakistan, it achieved independence in 1971 after a violent and protracted conflict characterized by widespread atrocities perpetrated by the Pakistani Army. This thesis examines the evolution of Bangladesh’s foreign policy toward India, China, and Pakistan during and in the aftermath of the tenure of Sheikh Hasina, who served as Prime Minister from 2009 onward. It seeks to identify the principal factors shaping the country’s shifting strategic orientation. The study employs Neoclassical Realism as its theoretical framework, given the emphasis on the role of Sheikh Hasina’s leadership and the domestic determinants influencing Bangladesh’s foreign policy behavior toward the states included in the case study. By tracing the trajectory of Bangladesh’s foreign policy toward India, China, and Pakistan under Sheikh Hasina and following the collapse of her government, the research finds that Bangladesh pursued a distinctly pro-India orientation during her time in office. However, after her removal from power, this orientation shifted toward a more antagonistic stance vis-à-vis India. Conversely, Bangladesh’s policy toward Pakistan remained markedly hostile under Sheikh Hasina, while the interim government that succeeded her initiated efforts to restore and improve bilateral relations. Notably, China has consistently functioned as an “all-weather friend” of Bangladesh, with both states maintaining a strong and stable bilateral relationship throughout and beyond the Sheikh Hasina era.Bangladéš je relativně malý jihoasijský stát nacházející se v těsné blízkosti dvou hlavních regionálních mocností, Indie a Číny. Dříve byl znám jako Východní Pákistán a svou nezávislost získal v roce 1971 po násilném a zdlouhavém konfliktu, který byl charakterizován rozsáhlými zvěrstvy páchanými pákistánskou armádou. Tato práce zkoumá vývoj zahraniční politiky Bangladéše vůči Indii, Číně a Pákistánu během a po období vlády šajch Hasíny, která zastávala funkci předsedkyně vlády od roku 2009. Jejím cílem je identifikovat hlavní faktory, které formovaly posun v strategickém směřování země. Studie využívá teoretický rámec neoklasického realismu, neboť se zaměřuje především na roli šajch Hasíny a na domácí determinanty ovlivňující zahraniční politiku Bangladéše vůči státům zahrnutým do této případové studie. Analýzou vývoje zahraniční politiky Bangladéše vůči Indii, Číně a Pákistánu za vlády šajch Hasíny i po pádu její vlády výzkum odhaluje, že Bangladéš během jejího působení prosazoval výrazně proindické směřování. Po jejím sesazení však zahraniční politika zaznamenala posun k více antagonistickému postoji vůči Indii. Naopak politika vůči Pákistánu byla za vlády šajch Hasíny výrazně nepřátelská, zatímco prozatímní vláda, která ji nahradila, podnikla kroky k obnovení a zlepšení bilaterálních vztahů. Zajímavé je, že Čína dlouhodobě funguje jako „spojenec za všech okolností“ a obě země udržují stabilní a silné bilaterální vztahy jak během, tak po období vlády šajch Hasíny
Business and Politics in India
No full textOverview Description Table of Contents Author InformationCoverBusiness and Politics in IndiaEdited by Christophe Jaffrelot, Edited by Atul Kohli, and Edited by Kanta MuraliModern South AsiaDescriptionOver the last few decades, politics in India has moved steadily in a pro-business direction. This shift has important implications for both government and citizens. In Business and Politics in India, leading scholars of Indian politics have gathered to offer an analytical synthesis of this vast topic. Collectively, they cover the many strategies that businesses have used to exert their newfound power in recent times and organize the book around a few central concerns. They first analyze the nature of business power and how it shapes political change in India. Second, they look at the consequences of business' growing power on some important issue areas-labor, land, urban governance, and the media. Finally, they take account of regional variation and analyze state-business relations. This definitive account offers significant insights into how and why corporations have increased their power in contemporary Indian politics
Analyzing Advancement in Crowdfunding Research and Envisioning its Future: A Bibliometric Approach
No full textPublished online 24 July 2023. Published in print 1 August 2023.Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings includes abstracts of all papers and symposia presented at the annual conference, plus 6-page abridged versions of the “Best Papers” accepted for inclusion in the program (approximately 10%). Papers published in the Proceedings are abridged because presenting papers at their full length could preclude subsequent journal publication. Please contact the author(s) directly for the full papers.Crowdfunding represents an emerging alternative means of marshaling resources which may prove to be a game-changer in the entrepreneurial finance landscape. Although the rapid growth in this field has yielded a multidisciplinary body of work, the scaffolding of this vast body of work is still largely unknown in the scholarly domain. We conduct a bibliometric analysis of 534 crowdfunding articles to uncover the intellectual landscape of crowdfunding research. Our comprehensive co-citation analysis reveals two generations of crowdfunding research, identifies the most researched themes in area, and highlights its theoretical and disciplinary anchors. In addition, our bibliographic cartography traces the shifts in areas of interest of scholars within the heterogeneous field. Overall, our critical analysis of the most influential conversations in crowdfunding research helps reveals gaps in the extant literature which act as fertile directions for its future inquiry
Mapping and Visualizing Research of COVID-19 with Immunology: A Bibliometric Study
No full textThis paper aims to demonstrate the World’s scientific contribution to COVID-19 and Immunology research for 2020–2022 and the emerging research pattern using various bibliometric parameters. The research publications were
retrieved from the SCOPUS database and analyzed using MS Excel, R Studio, and VOS Viewer software. The VOS Viewer software is mainly used for networking and visualization to understand the research pattern better. A total of 2877 documents were retrieved from SCOPUS using the search topic
COVID-19 and Immunology. The research found that DIAO B was a prolific author in COVID-19 and Immunology research, with 1247 publications. The most productive countries and institutions in this field were the USA (555 publications) and Huazhong university of science and technology (409
publications). The five hot author keywords are COVID-19, Sars-cov-2, Vaccine, Coronavirus and Antibody. The present study provides various networking map of research publications regarding the immune response
during COVID-19 infection. The results benefit researchers and practitioners in India and worldwide for understanding the pattern of research on COVID19 and identifying the potential immune response against SARS-CoV-
Face identification and clustering
No full textIn this thesis, we study two problems based on clustering algorithms. In the first problem, we study the role of visual attributes using an agglomerative clustering algorithm to whittle down the search area where the number of classes is high to improve the performance of clustering. We observe that as we add more attributes, the clustering performance increases overall. In the second problem, we study the role of clustering in aggregating templates in a 1:N open set protocol using multi-shot video as a probe. We observe that by increasing the number of clusters, the performance increases with respect to the baseline and reaches a peak, after which increasing the number of clusters causes the performance to degrade. Experiments are conducted using recently introduced unconstrained IARPA Janus IJB-A, CS2, and CS3 face recognition datasets.M.S.Includes bibliographical referencesby Atul Dhingr
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