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Over the past 40 years, neurobiology and computational neuroscience has proved that deeper understanding of visual processes in humans and non-human primates can lead to important advancements in computational perception theories and systems. One of the main difficulties that arises when designing automatic vision systems is developing a mechanism that can recognize - or simply find - an object when faced with all the possible variations that may occur in a natural scene, with the ease of the primate visual system. The area of the brain in primates that is dedicated at analyzing visual information is the visual cortex. The visual cortex performs a wide variety of complex tasks by means of si...
The eight-volume set comprising LNCS volumes 9905-9912 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2016, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in October 2016. The 415 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 1480 submissions. The papers cover all aspects of computer vision and pattern recognition such as 3D computer vision; computational photography, sensing and display; face and gesture; low-level vision and image processing; motion and tracking; optimization methods; physics-based vision, photometry and shape-from-X; recognition: detection, categorization, indexing, matching; segmentation, grouping and shape representation; statistical methods and learning; video: events, activities and surveillance; applications. They are organized in topical sections on detection, recognition and retrieval; scene understanding; optimization; image and video processing; learning; action, activity and tracking; 3D; and 9 poster sessions.
What do you do when you're past forty, a long-dormant marriage has finally come to an end and your only son has gone away to study? Sit in a corner moaning and groaning with loneliness or take control of your life again and explore new possibilities? Julia chooses the latter. She discovers Tinder and embarks on a quest. All sorts of characters pass by, often weird and creepy but sometimes surprising and fascinating. Her quest teaches her more about the world, men and, above all, herself. Chee Webb is the nom de plume of Greet Embrechts. In real life she is a mother of four grown-up children, lives in Herentals in Belgium and works in a bookshop in Antwerp. She gets her inspiration mainly from Spain, where she has been travelling alone very regularly for the past seven years. Travelling, meeting people, gathering stories, it has become a real passion. 50 shades of dating is Chee's debut novel. It immediately became a trilogy.
This book reconstructs the early circulation of penicillin in Spain, a country exhausted by civil war (1936–1939), and oppressed by Franco’s dictatorship. Embedded in the post-war recovery, penicillin’s voyages through time and across geographies – professional, political and social – were both material and symbolic. This powerful antimicrobial captivated the imagination of the general public, medical practice, science and industry, creating high expectations among patients, who at times experienced little or no effect. Penicillin’s lack of efficacy against some microbes fueled the search for new wonder drugs and sustained a decades-long research agenda built on the post-war concept of development through scientific and technological achievements. This historical reconstruction of the social life of penicillin between the 1940s and 1980s – through the dictatorship to democratic transition – explores political, public, medical, experimental and gender issues, and the rise of antibiotic resistance.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, IbPRIA 2023, held in Alicante, Spain, in June 27–30, 2023. The 56 papers accepted for these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 86 submissions. They deal with Machine Learning, Document Analysis, Computer Vision, 3D Computer Vision, Computer Vision Applications, Medical Imaging & Applications, Machine Learning Applications.
Julia uses Tinder in the hope of finding the love of her life. In Part 2 she travels to Ibiza, Formentera, Tenerife, Granada, Almería and of course Málaga. Once again, she meets many characters. Are they passers-by in Julia's life? Will they be friends? Is there a keeper? Or is that something that will wait until Part 3 of the trilogy? Part 2 reveals what happened to George and continues the story of Julia's best friend Emma, who has been ill for a long time. Gradually the secret about who is the father of Julia's son also comes to light. Chee Webb is the nom de plume of Greet Embrechts. In real life she is the mother of four adult children, lives in Belgium and works in a branch of the Standard Bookstore in Antwerp. Feel free to call her a creative jack-of-all-trades, because in addition to writing, she also paints and sculpts. She mainly gets her inspiration from Spain, where she has been travelling alone regularly for the past seven years. Travelling, meeting people, gathering stories ... It has become a real passion. Her debut novel 50 shades of dating immediately became a trilogy.
This book examines troupes, plays, festivals, performative practices, and audiences active during the final years of the Franco dictatorship and the beginning of the transition to democracy. This period, spanning 1968 to 1982, is considered the historical moment that most directly shaped contemporary Spanish politics and society. The dominant narrative of the Transition has long portrayed it as a normalized, non-confrontational, and consensual process steered by political elites. But the world of Spanish theater tells a very different story - one in which ordinary Spaniards played a vital role in the transition to democracy. The chapters of this book draw on censorship files, photographs, au...
This book presents an authoritative collection of contributions reporting on fuzzy logic and decision theory, together with applications and case studies in economics and management science. Dedicated to Professor Jaume Gil Aluja in recognition of his pioneering work, the book reports on theories, methods and new challenges, thus offering not only a timely reference guide but also a source of new ideas and inspirations for graduate students and researchers alike.