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Showing 1 to 20 of 1496 for “"Photographs"”.
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Photographs of MIT environments
This thesis is based on an exhibition of 43 photographs shown in a visual thesis exhibition at the Creative Photography Gallery November 15-December 15, 1983. The photographs document MIT environments with special categories pertaining to equipment and artifacts, working environments and portraits. …
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Enhancement and stylization of photographs
… spend hours on enhancing and stylizing their photographs. These enhancements range from basic exposure and contrast adjustments to dramatic alterations. It is these enhancements - along with composition and timing - that distinguish the work of professionals and casual photographers. The goal …
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Motion blur removal from photographs
One of the long-standing challenges in photography is motion blur. Blur artifacts are generated from relative motion between a camera and a scene during exposure. While blur can be reduced by using a shorter exposure, this comes at an unavoidable trade-off with increased noise. Therefore, it is …
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Performing photographs: memory, history, and display
… in dialogue to enable our understanding of how photographs perform and how performance contains or can contain elements we attribute to photographs. The connection between photography and performance that most intrigues me is how they make memories and when collected or restored in some socially …
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Building history : learning with archival photographs
… that students photograph. This collection of photographs is used as evidence for hypotheses about how and why a city has changed over time. In this document, I explain how the integration of geographic information systems (GIS) and digital photography can lead to new ways of thinking about …
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At Face Value: Investigating Perception Through Photographs
… to destabilize the viewer's reception of my photographs.
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Computational Discovery of Hidden Cues in Photographs
… has identified hidden cues that are present in photographs of certain environments, but these methods often require human insight to identify cues, and extensive calibration to make use of them. In order to address the limitations found in prior work, we propose an end-to-end machine learning …
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The function of photographs in fund raising appeals
This study examined the function of photographs in a direct mail appeal used by World Vision Canada. Specifically, it sought to determine if donors' response rates and financial contributions would be differentially affected by the presence or absence of a photograph, or by the type of photograph …
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Reconstruction of 3D tree models from instrumented photographs
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1999.
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Photographs in the therapy room: a grounded theory study
… explores the potential benefits of integrating photographs as a clinical tool within psychological therapies. Whilst there is a growing acknowledgment of the therapeutic value of photographs, research validating their efficacy in clinical practice remains scarce. This research gap served as a …
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Rickets: illustrated by numerous cases and some special photographs
Modern medical science,aided by all the latest discoveries,and assisted by well equipped laboratories,has been spreading its tentacles over the wide world and grappled with the problems of disease of all races and of all climes.Schools of tropical medicine are rapidly becoming established,and,under …
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Misinformation effects caused by retroactive brand replacement in photographs
… false memories: Brands retroactively replaced in photographs. The main research questions addressed in this work was whether retroactively replaced brands in doctored photographs could influence memories for previously experienced brands. Following from this, the question of whether false brand …
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Photographs as a Source of Content in Figure Painting
… and content found in specific subject matter (photographs of the artist's family); (2) to apply these concepts to a series of oil paintings; and (3) to present conclusions that would suggest modifications of the candidate's painting techniques.
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3D Object Modeling and Recognition in Photographs and Video
*This dissertation is a compound document (contains both a paper copy and a CD as part of the dissertation). The CD requires the following system requirements: Windows MediaPlayer or RealPlayer.
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Quantitative Differentiation of Soil Association Areas Using Aerial Photographs
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T22:21:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7114907.pdf: 5639052 bytes, checksum: 4864e1ea2ade1e4f72c5902be6ba1096 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1970
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Using Neural Networks to identify Individual Animals from Photographs
… mark-recapture methods which exploit photographs, there is no tag on the animal’s body. As a result, these methods require animals to be individually identifiable. They assess if an animal has been caught before by examining photographs for animals which have individual-specific marks …
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Digital reconstruction of District Six architecture from archival photographs
… from small sets of old. uncalibrated photographs that are located in the District Six Museum photographic archive. Our reconstruction strategy comprises two major parts. First, we implement a geometry reconstruction framework. based on work by Debevec et al. [1996]. This is used to …
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