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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Visual vocabulary"”.
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Disruptive propaganda: The availability, censorship, and distortion of visual information in Robert Wise's the body snatcher
… attitudes concerning American medicine. The visual vocabulary of The Body Snatcher displays these intertwining concerns through props, setting, and the narrative itself. This is a study of how The Body Snatcher utilizes these methods to convey attitudes about war, medicine, and the body in …
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Content based video retrieval via spatial-temporal information discovery.
… CBVR systems are built based on Bag-of-visual- Words (BovW) framework for visual resources representation and access. The framework, however, ignores spatial and temporal information contained in videos, which plays a fundamental role in unveiling semantic meanings. The information …
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A Teaching Toy: Free Forms in an Abstract Landscape
… art. Further, the toy will heighten each child's visual vocabulary to acknowledge the organic, natural line that exists in nature and which is, perhaps, represented in abstract art. These goals are the guiding principles for my work.
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Patterns in information technology portfolio decision making: an inductive approach
… of routines over a two-year period — give us a visual vocabulary for articulating the anatomy of dynamic capabilities. These findings have substantial implications for improving the maturity of IT portfolio management processes within organizations.
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Beyond aesthetics : a contemporary approach to teaching visual language at a post secondary level
… that the cognitive and affective aspects of visual language have been neglected. In this study I introduced students to a revised approach to the formal elements of art, that breaks away from the prescriptive nature of historical formalism and its association with elitism. I adopted a …
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Seizing the memes of production : political memes in Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rican Diaspora
… satirical socialist realist meme aesthetics, and visual vocabulary. The second case study, Puerto Rican vaporwave, explores the local deployment of an ironic, anti-capitalist aesthetic form of meme production and its transformation into a method of critique of colonialism and recovery of national …
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The Illustration of Experience
… It examines the proposition that the visual mark can act as a register of experience. The research comprises three bodies of work each of which address a specific issue within the broader context of the research proposition. Knowledge gained through practical exploration is discussed …
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Recognising and localising human actions
… increasing number of action classes and larger visual vocabularies. For the global classication of human action video clips, the bag-of-visual-words pipeline is currently the best performing. However, the strategies chosen to sample features and construct a visual vocabulary are critical to …
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Natural scene classification, annotation and retrieval. Developing different approaches for semantic scene modelling based on Bag of Visual Words.
… in an efficient manner. The use of bag of visual words (BOW) model for modelling images based on local invariant features computed at interest point locations has become a standard choice for many computer vision tasks. Based on this promising model, this thesis investigates three main …