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Showing 1 to 20 of 186 for “"stylized"”.
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Stylized Hatching for 3D Animation
Much research has been done in creating non-photorealistic renderings of objects that mimic the look of hand-made drawings by traditional artists. This thesis extends work in this area by presenting an NPR hatching method that can be applied to 3D animated films to help them feel more hand drawn. …
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Real-Time Stylized Rendering for Large-Scale 3D Scenes
… animation, there is still significant demand for stylized rendering tools. Stylized, or non-photorealistic rendering (NPR), applications generally sacrifice physical accuracy for artistic or functional visual output. Oftentimes, NPR applications focus on extracting specific features from a 3D …
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Influence of environmental context on affect recognition of stylized movements
… to aid in the creation and simulation of stylized movement trajectories in varied contexts and (2) three user studies that explore the effects of environmental context on a human’s perception of stylized movement. First and foremost, the results from all of the user studies indicate that …
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Imaginative procedural modeling : automated 3D generation and rendering of stylized building designs
The entertainment industry relies fairly heavily on computer-generated imagery to depict built environments in current films, video games, and other forms of simulated reality. These often involve highly complex geometries that take a long time to hand-model and are too difficult or costly for many …
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Regional growth theories and the measurement of regional structural change
… to follow from inductive verification of the stylized facts of regional structural change. But these stylized facts should be provided by a taxonomy of economies. And to develop this taxonomy, adequate methods are needed to extract the dominant features of the economies to employ in the …
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Image and Color Stylization through Region-based Abstraction
… simplify images. The NPR techniques produce stylized imagery by emphasizing the main structures through stroke elements, colors and removing unessential image information. However, the difficulty of abstraction lies in deciding what is important to be presented. This thesis introduces a few …
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Mean reversion in macroeconomic and financial data
… of "stochastic stability", we establish two stylized facts that question the fruitfulness of the literature's focus on asymptotic income distributions. The first stylized fact is non-stationarity of transition dynamics, in the sense of changing transition kernels, thus making "convergence" …
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The divided consciousness in Charles Dickens' Hard times
… representation is applied. Hard Times contains “stylized figures” which thematically and formalistically support the dehumanization concept Dickens is portraying. Thus Dickens turned, as it were, toward a potentially revolutionary form within which to accomodate what is in many ways his most …
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Sprite tracking in two-dimensional video games
… the world that do not translate to synthetic, stylized environments. Processing video game footage has promising applications in competitive gaming, such as analyzing strategy in multiplayer online games, or optimizing routes in speed-running. I present the exploratory results, details of a …
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Generation of qualitative spatio-temporal representations from visual input
… task, one method for reducing the complexity in stylized domains is to provide a context specific spatial model of that domain. Such a model of space is particularly useful when considering spatial event detection where the location of an object could indicated the behaviour of that object within …
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The impact of firm failure rates on the development and nature of implicit long-term labor contracts
… because their use is consistent with many stylized facts of the labor market, and they help to explain other observed micro- and macroeconomic phenomena not easily rationalized within the conventional neoclassical paradigm. This thesis addresses a gap in the current literature by rigorously …
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Resting places
… lived on earth. Eventually more elaborate and stylized monuments housed the remains. Recent practices have shown estrangement to death and denial of its importance in the natural cycle. this project reintroduces the funeral urn as object and ritual. It attempts to reawaken and reconnect us to …
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Essay on labour supply in transition economies.
… reviewed. This finding is consistent with stylized fact that those countries which inherited high labor force participation rates are relatively insensitive to changes in the wage rates. Apart from wages such factors as age, marital status, type of settlement, employee occupation, …
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Rationalizing Mechanism Preference in Independent Private Value Auctions
… and test their rationalizability. We use a stylized independent private value environment, a second price auction institution and a first price auction institution to investigate if the preference is monetizable. We find that the revealed preference of the sellers does not translate on the …
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DSGE Models for the South African Economy
… Africa. We use stochastic models to reproduce stylized facts of business cycles in South Africa. The basic neoclassical model and a model with indivisible labour are used to replicate the documented facts from the data. A model with variable capacity utilization and investment specific shocks …
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DSGE models for the South African economy
… Africa. We use stochastic models to reproduce stylized facts of business cycles in South Africa. The basic neoclassical model and a model with indivisible labour are used to replicate the documented facts from the data. A model with variable capacity utilization and investment specific shocks …
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Design and implementation of an electronic special interest magazine
… are provided. The material is presented in a stylized and entertaining manner, in keeping with the nature of popular magazines.
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Analysis of equity and interest rate returns in South Africa under the context of jump diffusion processes
… allow for jumps, were not able to capture the stylized facts that return distributions are leptokurtic and have heavy tails. Although jump diffusion models have been identified as being useful to capture these stylized facts, there has not been consensus as to how these jump diffusion models …
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Essays on industrial organization
… on the Taobao.com retail platform. In a stylized model, a new product's boosted exposure from sponsored search ads could help the platform to infer how well the product converts exposure to sales (the quality measure) and award top organic search ranks accordingly. Hence, sellers with …
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