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Markov random field (MRF) theory provides a basis for modeling contextual constraints in visual processing and interpretation. It enables us to develop optimal vision algorithms systematically when used with optimization principles. This book presents a comprehensive study on the use of MRFs for solving computer vision problems. The book covers the following parts essential to the subject: introduction to fundamental theories, formulations of MRF vision models, MRF parameter estimation, and optimization algorithms. Various vision models are presented in a unified framework, including image restoration and reconstruction, edge and region segmentation, texture, stereo and motion, object matching and recognition, and pose estimation. This second edition includes the most important progress in Markov modeling in image analysis in recent years such as Markov modeling of images with "macro" patterns (e.g. the FRAME model), Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods, reversible jump MCMC. This book is an excellent reference for researchers working in computer vision, image processing, statistical pattern recognition and applications of MRFs. It is also suitable as a text for advanced courses in these areas.
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An accessible, balanced undergraduate textbook on anthropological theory. Jerry D. Moore's Visions of Culture presents students with a brief, readable treatment of theoretical developments in the field from the days of Tylor and Morgan through contemporary postmodernists and cultural materialists. An ideal book for classes on the theory or the history of anthropology.
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A must!.......2007-09-20
This was first required as an undergrad for a theory class. It has become a wonderful refrence that I use often as a graduate student. It is clear, presise, organized, and to the point on all the major theorists of anthropology. Whenever I forget who did what, or what major contribution someone made, this is a wonderful refrence! My only suggestion: I wish they would publish a new edition to include more "modern" theorists.
Any Anthropology student should have..........2003-06-10
"Visions of Culture" is an essential book for any student of anthropology. It would be wrong to consider this book a textbook though. It is more of a reference on specific theorists. What Moore does is to write concise, informative chapters on each of the major anthropological theorists. He begins with biographical data, and goes on to discuss their theories. It is an indispensible reference for the student of culture. I reference it more than any other individual anthropology book.
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In their book, DeLucia-Waack and Donigian show readers how to lead multicultural groups more effectively. They include the insights of eleven group leaders whose cultural representations reflect unique families of origin, regions, migration, and acculturation experiences. These leaders' insights illustrate the ways in which persons of various cultural backgrounds may interpret events that occur in the groups in which they have been members or leaders. With this background, readers can learn to appreciate the uniqueness and power of their clients' stories, and they can become more of the ways in which their own cultural and ethnic heritage may influence the way they lead multicultural groups.
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A brilliantly original exploration of the interface between feminism, psychoanalysis, semiotics and film theory.
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The World Soul Gains a Modern Voice.......2007-09-08
This is a book that urgently needed to be written, an intelligent and genuinely thoughtful examination of anomalous phenomena like "UFO" and "fairy" sightings. I've spent time in rural India where these types of experiences are still amazingly common. In India the World Soul or anima mundi is called the mahat ("great mind") and is understood as the source of many extra-ordinary phenomena. On the one hand they are recognized as hallucinations (maya); on the other, they reflect the incursion of the tanmatras (subtle matter) into our physical experience, and in that sense are completely real.
I'm grateful to Harpur for reintroducing the World Soul to jaded Western readers who may have lost sight of the mysterious "Other World" which co-exists with our modern rational universe in such an uneasy manner. He's onto something important here. This book is a classic; I'm certain people will still be reading it a century from now.
Extrordinarily, Mind-Numbingly, BORING!.......2007-08-15
While this book does have some interesting things to say on the subject of mass psychology, it is by no means an exploration of other realities, dimensions, etc. Pick up Hyperspace by Michio Kaku for something worth while.
This is nothing more than a Karl Jung text-book with some notable quotes, but nothing new is explored here.
Intelligent speculation not just mumbo-jumbo.......2007-07-03
A simple thesis, a straightforward approach to complex interlinked subjects. Wonder what UFOs, Loch Ness, phantom hitchhikers and stigmatics have in common? Curious why similar phenomena exist in so many different places around the world? Anyone truly interested in Forteana will love this book. Not exactly new ground covered -- John Keel covered similar territory but far less coherently -- but very well written and argued. In the end you may not be convinced that the Otherworld and our "everyday" world intersect as freely as Harpur postulates, but you will be excited by the possibilities.
Self-contradicting and Silly.......2007-05-30
I started to read this because it presented itself as a serious discussion of what I thought would be an interesting topic. In the introduction, the author leads the reader to belive that he will look at the history of sightings of various things (UFOs, fairies, bigfoot, etc.), and offer a serious analysis of their psychological implications.
Despite claims to the contrary, the author clearly believes fairies are real. People who don't believe in them are "unwise". His evedence for the reality of these various creatures is that people keep seeing them.
When the author seriously suggested that a reasonable person should conclude that the psychic surgeons of the Philipines were using magic, I stopped reading. I couldn't take it anymore.
That said, if you believe in Yetis, gnomes, and trolls, you will probably love this book.
Something for Everyone--And Then Some.......2007-01-21
DAIMONIC REALITY A Field Guide to the Other World by Patrick Harpur is a well-documented, scholarly work on one level, and an extremely entertaining collection of folklore, ghost stories, monsters, myths, visions, Blessed Virgins, stigmata, sacred places and UFO encounters on an equally engrossing other level. Sci-Fi and horror buffs will not be disappointed...In the Introduction, Patrick Harpur discusses some differences between the two basic groups of scientists who involve themselves with the so-called "paranormal": The first comprises the devotees of scientism who cling, like old Stalinists, to an outmoded cult of dreary mechanistic materialism. Theory has long since hardened into dogma, as rigidly upheld as that of any extraterrestrialist. (There is a telling film of such customers at work on a rival cult--a bunch of heretical children in Medjugorje, Yugoslavia, who claim visions of the Virgin Mary. At the first sign of ecstasy, they are wired up to inquisitorial machines, poked with sharp instruments, assaulted by loud noises in their ears and flashbulbs in their faces.) Why anyone at the end of the twentieth century still wishes to woo this kind of "scientist" is something of a puzzle. The reason why the second group of scientists--honest, open-minded, reasonable-- dismisses [a painstaking, scientific analysis of--.ed] the evidence in favor of the paranormal is more of a mystery. Ufologists are inclined to see their silence as a conspiracy or as a fear of the unknown. But I think there is a simpler answer. No one who reviews the evidence for, say, UFO's for an hour is likely to deny that SOMETHING strange is being seen.
ANYBODY interested in psychic & other strange phenomena is gonna LOVE this book!
The Origins of Psychic Phenomena: Poltergeists, Incubi, Succubi, and the Unconscious Mind
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This book will guide your organization through a six-step process that results in a mission statement, vision statement, or both. The author explains how clarified mission and vision lead to more effective leadership, decisions, fundraising, and management. Tips are given on using the process alone or in conjunction with an in-depth strategic planning process. Includes sample mission and vision statements, step-by-step instructions, and worksheets.
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A Writer from another time.......2007-02-12
Wright Morris is an American writer from another era, both in terms of his style of writing, his organization of materials, and his orientation toward the world. This book is in the style of High Modernism, but gently applied. Each chapter is written with the voice of a different character, and we return, in the novel, again and again to the character's voices. In the process, we learn more about them, and the central events which displaced them in their world. One is quaint: a kiss stolen on a porch in Nebraska forty years ago. That one kiss set this world on its end, and was a watershed mark in the lives of three people. This book is charmingly quaint, and its repetition, meant to add knowledge, never quite evolves beyond a few central points. That said, for those with the patience for a quiet read, will find much to like in The Field of Vision.
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- a critical approach to Western image technologies
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Into the Image: Culture and Politics in the Field of Vision
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An unorthodox exploration of the politics of visual culture,
Into the Image offers a skeptical and more sociological account of image technologies, linking the development of these technologies to contemporary culture.
Kevin Robins assesses the nature of our emotional and imaginary investment in visual media, from the "old" technologies of photography, cinema and television to the new digital developments such as virtual reality. He asks what pressures lie behind the utopian fantasies of cyberspace with its alternative realities and virtual communities. Rather than accepting the fashionable idea that the new visual technologies are replacing the real,
Into the Image examines them sociologically, as shaped by forces and events in the real world.
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a critical approach to Western image technologies.......1999-05-20
It has been always interesting to read a critical research on western/consumerist culture by a western academic. A very illuminating collection of ideas/philosophies on image technologies. The author puts his standing point for a non-technology dependent humanity but not an anti-technology one.
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- A great book in the computer vision field.
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Depth from Defocus: A Real Aperture Imaging Approach
Subhasis Chaudhuri , and
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Computer vision is becoming increasingly important in several industrial applications such as automated inspection, robotic manipulations and autonomous vehicle guidance. These tasks are performed in a 3-D world and it is imperative to gather reliable information on the 3-D structure of the scene. This book is about passive techniques for depth recovery, where the scene is illuminated only by natural light as opposed to active methods where a special lighting device is used for scene illumination. Passive methods have a wider range of applicability and also correspond to the way humans infer 3-D structure from visual images.
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A great book in the computer vision field........2000-04-04
Computer vision is becoming increasingly important in several industrial applications such as automated inspection, robotic manipulations and autonomous vehicle guidance. These tasks are performed in a 3D world and it is imperative to gather reliable information on the 3D structure of the scene. This book is about passive techniques for depth recovery, where the scene is illuminated only by natural light as opposed to active methods where a special lighting device is used for scene illumination. Passive methods have a wider range of applicability and also correspond to the way humans infer 3D structure from visual images.
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Field of Vision: A Manual and Atlas of Perimetry (Current Clinical Neurology)
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A comprehensive survey on the use of bedside skills and perimetric devices to the test visual fields, and how to interpret the results. To develop the clinician's interpretative skills, the authors include a chapter on visual anatomy and an atlas of 100 real-life cases arranged in anatomic order from retina to striate cortex. By placing a brief clinical vignette with a visual field on one side of the page and a description of the field and its causal lesion on the opposite side, the reader will be able to learn interpretation in a simulated clinical setting. An additional quiz section of twenty randomly arranged visual fields provides readers with an opportunity to test their newly acquired skills.
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A very helpfll guide.......2005-08-03
I liked the fact that it is using examples. It has a great variety of cases which are very helpfull for a new doctor with little experience as I am. It is also a great review guide.
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