133 research outputs found
Mobility, Identity(/ies) and Various Functions of the Urban Space: Case Studies from Belgrade and Athens
No full textТема броја - Мобилност, идентитет(и) и различите функције урбаног простора: студије случаја из Београда и Атине
(ур. Гордана Благојевић и Манолис Г. Варвунис) / Topic of the Issue - Mobility, Identity(/ies) and Various Functions of the
Urban Space: Case Studies from Belgrade and Athens (eds. Gordana Blagojević and Manolis G. Varvounis)
The material and symbolic presence of Cyril and Methodius’s work in the Bulgarian monumental landscape: affirming and removing the past
No full textThis chapter deals with the material presence of Saints Cyril and Methodius in the everyday life of Bulgarians. It will be maintained that the two Slavic apostles represent one of the most important pillars of Bulgarian national identity and that, by virtue of their work in creating the Slavonic alphabet (the Glagolitic script from which Cyrillic was later derived), they occupy a prominent role in the materiality of the country’s cultural space. This is evident both in their visible representation through statues and other monuments, and in their commercialization through consumer goods and gadgets for locals and tourists. Cyril and Methodius are the most revered saints in the Bulgarian Church, and their national holiday on May 24, established in the early nineteenth century, has been uninterruptedly celebrated to this day.
Nevertheless, as I will argue, the ubiquitous presence of Saint Cyril and Methodius and of their work as a way to affirm the prestige of Bulgarian cultural tradition stands in great contrast to the exclusion of the narratives, identities and cultural contribution of the Turkish and Muslim communities in the material culture of the country
Гласник Етнографског института САНУ 71 (2) / Bulletin of the Institute of Ethnography SASA 71 (2)
No full textТема броја - Мобилност, идентитет(и) и различите функције урбаног простора : студије случаја из Београда и Атине ( ур. Гордана Благојевић и Манолис Г. Варвунис) / Topic of the Issue - Mobility, Identity(/ies) and Various Functions of the Urban Space : Case Studies from Belgrade and Athense (eds. Gordana Blagojević and Manolis G. Varvounis)
Historical and ethnological influences on the traditional civilization of Pomaks of the Greek Thrace
No full textThe traditional society of the Pomaks is structured on a series of contrasts which characterize their traditional system of values. The problems they face as much in the boundaries of the Muslim minority of Thrace, as well as in the frames of the wider Greek society of the region have defined their cultural expression
Aircraft Marshaling Signals Dataset of FMCW Radar and Event-Based Camera for Sensor Fusion
No full textDataset Introduction
The advent of neural networks capable of learning salient features from variance in the radar data has expanded the breadth of radar applications, often as an alternative sensor or a complementary modality to camera vision. Gesture recognition for command control is the most commonly explored application. Nevertheless, more suitable benchmarking datasets are needed to assess and compare the merits of the different proposed solutions. Furthermore, most current publicly available radar datasets used in gesture recognition provide little diversity, do not provide access to raw ADC data, and are not significantly challenging. To address these shortcomings, we created and made available a new dataset that combines two synchronized modalities: radar and dynamic vision camera of 10 aircraft marshalling signals at several distances and angles, recorded from 13 people. Moreover, we propose a sparse encoding of the time domain (ADC) signals that achieve a dramatic data rate reduction (>76%) while retaining the efficacy of the downstream FFT processing (<2% accuracy loss on recognition tasks). Finally, we demonstrate early sensor fusion results based on compressed radar data encoding in range-Doppler maps with dynamic vision data. This approach achieves higher accuracy than either modality alone.
Dataset Structure
The dataset has a common directory structure which contains additional information about the captures.
dataset_dir///--/ofxRadar8Ghz_yyyy-mm-dd_HH-MM-SS.rad
Identifiers
stage [train, test].
room: [conference_room, foyer, open_space].
person: [0-9]. Note that 0 stands for no person, and 1 for an unlabeled, random person (only present in test).
gesture: ['none', 'emergency_stop', 'move_ahead', 'move_back_v1', 'move_back_v2', 'slow_down' 'start_engines', 'stop_engines', 'straight_ahead', 'turn_left', 'turn_right'].
distance: ['xxx', '100', '150', '200', '250', '300', '350', '400', '450'] (in cm). Note that xxx is used for none gestures when there is no person present in front of the radar (i.e. background samples), or when a person is walking infront of the radar with varying distances but performing no gesture.If you use this dataset, please also cite our accompanying paper:
@inproceedings{mueller2023aircraft, title={Aircraft Marshalling Signals Dataset of Radar and Event-Based Camera for Sensor Fusion}, author={M\"uller, Leon and Sifalakis, Manolis and Eissa, Sherif and Yousefzadeh, Amirreza and Detterer, Paul and Stuijk, Sander, and Corradi, Federico}, journal={IEEE Radar Conference, San Antonio, TX}, volume={}, number={1}, pages={1--15}, year={2023}, publisher={IEE}
Modern Greek Church Fairs and Pilgrimage Tourism
No full textThe systematic study of church fairs, especially those of urban parishes in large urban centers, as carried out in recent years, has shown that there are many new customary and ritual forms that are created and adopted, often transformed to be enriched and made more attractive to the people. Ιn this notice we will deal with certain interesting aspects of this contemporary customary reality. Through this adoption of customary forms, with their subsequent changes and amendments by the people on the basic characteristics of its live tradition, both the renewal of the tradition and the enrichment of the customary life of the people is achieved. This, in turn, is essential for the vitality and the continuation of the social impact and the acceptance of the tradition, which is an active procedure in progress, and not a set of fossilized situations, things, opinions, and actions. This is directly connected to the interior pilgrimage tourism since the organized visits of the believers to a place are frequent, specifically in order to take part in some great religious festival, which takes place there. In this process, the so critical from a cultural perspective since it's linked to the substance of our daily tradition itself, the novel elements of our contemporary religious fairs are critical points, as shown above in detail.</jats:p
GREEK PROVERBIAL PHRASES FROM MODERN SATIRICAL PARAPHRASES OF TEXTS AND TITLES OF THE GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH
No full textThis study presents the phenomenon of satirical paraphrase of ecclesiastical texts, some of which acquired in the passage of time pro- verbial use in the daily life and communication of the Greeks. The study is focused on: a) proverbial phrases from corruption of liturgical phrases and texts, b) proverbial phrases from the corruption of ecclesiastical administrative titles of Metropolises and c) metropolitans proverbial phrases from the corruption of hymns and prayers
Greek Proverbial Phrases from Modern Satirical Paraphrases of Texts and Titles of the Greek Orthodox Church
No full textThis study presents the phenomenon of satirical paraphrase of ecclesiastical texts, some of which acquired in the passage of time proverbial use in the daily life and communication of the Greeks. The study is focused on: a) proverbial phrases from corruption of liturgical phrases and texts, b) proverbial phrases from the corruption of ecclesiastical ad-ministrative titles of Metropolises and c) metropolitans proverbial phrases from the corruption of hymns and prayers
Loose ends: almost one in five human genes still have unresolved coding status
No full textThe authors have accidently omitted one co-author. Part of the work described in this study was performed in the laboratory of Dr Manolis Kellis, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA and The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Dr Kellis’ name has been added to the authorship and the published article has been updated
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