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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"panoptic"”.
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Panoptic
… from Mexico City as if you were in Boston. The panoptic system aims to enhance human cognition and perception by using artificial intelligence through an immersive augmented reality device. Another goal is to augment your vision by knowing and understanding your surroundings. By using a Deep …
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Addressing Occlusion in Panoptic Segmentation
… effect in the context of the newly introduced panoptic segmentation task. The panoptic segmentation task combines both semantic and instance segmentation to perform labelling of the entire image. The novel classification method replaces the object detection pipeline in UPSNet, a Mask R-CNN …
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Efficient transformer-based panoptic segmentation via knowledge distillation
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms
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Unraveling Complexity: Panoptic Segmentation in Cellular and Space Imagery
… learning in segmentation tasks. We focus on panoptic segmentation, a task that combines semantic segmentation (assigning a class to each pixel) and instance segmentation (grouping pixels into different object instances). We choose two segmentation tasks in different domains: nerve …
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Killing at a Distance in a Post-Panoptic Society
… established. Warfare by remote control in a post-panoptic society has ended the era of mutual engagement and created one of extensive asymmetry. This thesis also examines the militaries historical motives for pursuing weapons that make the enemy into an objective target below. The data that I use …
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Negotiating the Panoptic Gaze: People, Power and Conservation Surveillance in the Corbett Tiger Reserve
In recent years, the use of new and existing surveillance technologies in the practice of conservation has increased rapidly. This includes the use of drones, camera traps, satellite, and thermal imagery for activities such as wildlife monitoring, anti-poaching, and law enforcement. In many …
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Michel Foucault’s panopticism and dystopian discourses: the asymmetry of the gaze in philosophy and film /
… examines Michel Foucault’s concept of panopticism by considering its relationship with contemporary power relations and film mechanisms. By reconsidering the circumstances in which panoptic power dispositifs were established within the context of Foucault’s works, and by drawing on his …
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Integrative and Multi-scale Deep Learning for 3D Point Cloud Transmission Corridor Scene Segmentation: Noise Filtering, Attention-Fused Feature Integration, and Panoptic Network
… Utility Network (Fusion-SUNet), and Panoptic-Semantic Utility Network (Pan-SUNet). Encouraged by the performance improvements of SUNet and Fusion-SUNet, Pan-SUNet achieves outstanding results, boasting a 94% F1-Score for pylons, 99% for ground, vegetation, and powerlines, and …
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Autonomous Navigation and Simultaneous 3D Mapping with a UGV in an Open-Ended Environment
… navigation system that integrates Detectron2's Panoptic FPN model with multi-sensor fusion and simultaneous 3D mapping capabilities for the Clearpath Husky A200 unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) operating in complex outdoor environments. By combining panoptic segmentation for comprehensive scene …
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Dystopian Cinderellas: "I Follow Him into the Dark"
… societies that conform to Michel Foucault’s Panoptic frameworks. Using the novels <em>Matched, Delirium, Uglies, The Hunger Games, Divergent, The Maze Runner,</em> and<em> The Knife of Never Letting Go,</em> this project will demonstrate that the agency of female protagonists of young adult …
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A Dark Reflection of Society: Analyzing Cultural Representations of State Control in Black Mirror
… and coercion, the spectacle of punishment, and panoptic surveillance, are placed in a popular criminological framework in order to examine the attitudes and beliefs of the culture in which they were produced and for whom they are intended. I conclude that Black Mirror provides a social …
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Internet Dwelling, Cyborgs, and the Matrix of Modernity: An Empirical Inquiry with Critical-Hermeneutic Features
… of objectified and schizoid being, and "panoptic" e-surveillance, participants pursued genuine and personally satisfying encounters.
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Modern Myth and Masculine Character: Revealing the fit 'self' in MTV's I Used to Be Fat
… of self-renunciation. Expanding Foucault's panoptic metaphor to a contemporary culture characterized by self-revelation, this paper depicts the continuities of ascetic transformation discourse as represented in I Used to Be Fat.
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We know where you belong at: Institutions and Marginalized Bodies in the Literature of Charles Chesnutt, William Faulkner, and Eudora Welty
… Prison because he has absorbed the effects of panoptic surveillance of prison. In Welty’s short story “June Recital,” female sexual awakening is inextricably linked to the judgmental and regulatory “social gaze” of the ladies in the community, as well as the threatening and possessive male …
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The Complete Bentham: Rationality's Afterlife in Victorian Literature
… seriously, the guiding assumption was that his Panopticon prison trained individuals in the routines of self-policing that liberal government required, and that the novel carried that disciplinary training to the reading public. I show that this argument considers only a small part of Bentham’s …
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A discursive analysis of children's recreational adult-organized sport : when do children get to play?
… Foucault's concepts of correct training and the panoptic gaze in mind, I used discourse and deconstruction analyses to consider the children's descriptions along with my observations of their basketball experience. I was particularly looking for prevalent discourses on sport, childhood, and …
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Towards Comprehensive Visual Understanding via Deep Neural Networks
… (VIS), Video Semantic Segmentation (VSS), Video Panoptic Segmentation (VPS), and Human-Object Interaction Detection (HOI Detection).
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Metronomad
… and a confrontation with the politics of the panoptic gaze.
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Home and away: The tourist, the flâneur and everyday life
… Benjamin (1983) describes the death of the panoptic flâneur in the metropolis. The dichotomous relationship between 'home' and ‘away' is also critiqued by identifying a close relationship between the tourism and media industries. Representations produced by the media industries act to both …
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How Power and Control Drive Behaviour & Identity Modification Among Cruise Ship Workers: A Qualitative Study
… and control of the cruise ship setting as a panoptic environment by drawing on Irving Goffman’s [1922-1982] ‘total institution’ control, where behavioural performances and emotion management modify identities as acts of compliance to the highly regulated environment. The study develops …
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