Primary object discovery and segmentation in videos via graph-based transductive inference

2016 ◽  
Vol 143 ◽  
pp. 159-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huiling Wang ◽  
Tinghuai Wang
Keyword(s):  
Object Discovery ◽  
Primary Object ◽  
Transductive Inference

Treatment for Progressive Impairments of Language

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maya Henry
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Treatment ◽  
Primary Progressive Aphasia ◽  
Sentence Production ◽  
Lexical Retrieval ◽  
Functional Communication ◽  
Language Performance ◽  
Communication Techniques ◽  
Primary Object ◽  
Behavioral Treatments ◽  
Treatment Research

Abstract Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is a relatively new diagnostic entity, for which few behavioral treatments have been investigated. Recent work has helped to clarify the nature of distinct PPA variants, including a nonfluent variant (NFV-PPA), a logopenic variant (LV-PPA), and a semantic variant (SV-PPA). This paper reviews treatment research to date in each subtype of PPA, including restitutive, augmentative, and functional approaches. The evidence suggests that restitutive behavioral treatment can result in improved or stabilized language performance within treated domains. Specifically, sentence production and lexical retrieval have been addressed in NFV-PPA, whereas lexical retrieval has been the primary object of treatment in LV and SV-PPA. Use of augmentative communication techniques, as well as implementation of functional communication approaches, also may result in improved communication skills in individuals with PPA. The ideal treatment approach may be one that combines restitutive, augmentative, and functional approaches to treatment, in order to maximize residual cognitive-linguistic skills in patients. Additional research is warranted to determine which modes of treatment are most beneficial in each type of PPA at various stages of severity.

Brentano on Awareness and Observation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Textor
Keyword(s):  
Mental Life ◽  
Mental Phenomenon ◽  
Distinctive Character ◽  
Primary Object ◽  
Shed Light

When we are aware of our perceiving, we cannot attend to (observe) our perceiving, only the object which we (seem to) perceive. The perceiving is therefore the secondary, the object perceived the primary object. The chapter develops and evaluates Brentano’s grounds for the distinction between the primary and the secondary object. This project is of independent philosophical interest because Brentano’s view promises to shed light on the distinctive character of awareness. Awareness cannot become observation, because mere awareness of a mental phenomenon cannot contrast it with others. I argue further that Brentano’s account of noticing and observation has room for an ‘anatomy of the soul’ that proceeds by noticing the elements of our mental life.

Documenting Contact and Thinking with Skin: A Dermatological Approach to the Study of Police Street Checks

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Anita Lam ◽  
Timothy Bryan
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Racial Disparities ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Numerical Data ◽  
Quantitative Studies ◽  
Primary Object ◽  
Practice Projects

Abstract In contrast to quantitative studies that rely on numerical data to highlight racial disparities in police street checks, this article offers a qualitative methodology for examining how histories of anti-Blackness configure civilians’ experiences of present-day policing. Taking the Halifax Street Checks Report as our primary object of analysis, we apply an innovative dermatological approach, demonstrating how skin itself becomes meaningful when police officers and civilians make contact in the process of a street check. We explore how street checks become an occasion for epidermalization, whereby a law enforcement practice projects onto the skins of civilians locally specific histories and emotions. To think with skin, we focus on the narratives shared by African Nova Scotians, a group that has been street checked at higher rates than their white counterparts. By doing so, we argue that current debates about police street checks in Halifax must attend to the emotional stakes of police-initiated encounters in order to fully appreciate the lived experience of street checks for Black civilians.

Considerations of Development Issues in Choosing Interventions for Resistance in Music Therapy

1994 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janice M. Dvorkin
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Music Therapist ◽  
Primary Object ◽  
Object Experience

It is the focus of this paper to look at the idea of resistance as providing information on the primary object experience. Using this information, the music therapist needs to assess his or her role in playing music during the session, in the same way that he or she assesses verbal interventions.

scholarly journals Exploiting domain knowledge for Object Discovery

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alvaro Collet ◽  
Bo Xiong ◽  
Corina Gurau ◽  
Martial Hebert ◽  
Siddhartha S. Srinivasa
Keyword(s):  
Domain Knowledge ◽  
Object Discovery

scholarly journals Unsupervised Learning from Videos for Object Discovery in Single Images

Symmetry ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
Dong Zhao ◽  
Baoqing Ding ◽  
Yulin Wu ◽  
Lei Chen ◽  
Hongchao Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Input Image ◽  
Frame Structure ◽  
Object Discovery ◽  
Spatial Transformations ◽  
Learning Tasks ◽  
Video Frames ◽  
Segmentation Methods ◽  
Feed Forward Network ◽  
Single Input ◽  
Inter Frame

This paper proposes a method for discovering the primary objects in single images by learning from videos in a purely unsupervised manner—the learning process is based on videos, but the generated network is able to discover objects from a single input image. The rough idea is that an image typically consists of multiple object instances (like the foreground and background) that have spatial transformations across video frames and they can be sparsely represented. By exploring the sparsity representation of a video with a neural network, one may learn the features of each object instance without any labels, which can be used to discover, recognize, or distinguish object instances from a single image. In this paper, we consider a relatively simple scenario, where each image roughly consists of a foreground and a background. Our proposed method is based on encoder-decoder structures to sparsely represent the foreground, background, and segmentation mask, which further reconstruct the original images. We apply the feed-forward network trained from videos for object discovery in single images, which is different from the previous co-segmentation methods that require videos or collections of images as the input for inference. The experimental results on various object segmentation benchmarks demonstrate that the proposed method extracts primary objects accurately and robustly, which suggests that unsupervised image learning tasks can benefit from the sparsity of images and the inter-frame structure of videos.

Joint object discovery and segmentation with image-wise reconstruction error

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuhei Tarashima ◽  
Jingjing Pan ◽  
Go Irie ◽  
Takayuki Kurozumi ◽  
Tetsuya Kinebuchi
Keyword(s):  
Reconstruction Error ◽  
Object Discovery

WHY DO YOU WRITE?

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 641-641
Author(s):  
J. B. Healy
Keyword(s):  
Health Service ◽  
Laboratory Tests ◽  
Experimental Period ◽  
Medical Journals ◽  
Blood Samples ◽  
Tests And Measurements ◽  
The People ◽  
Primary Object

Sir: The number of medical papers published is monstrously large. How much has one really learned from last year's erratic efforts to read journals? And think of all the work involved in producing the published and the unpublished papers, the millions of blood samples, and the laboratory tests, and of all the assistants, medical and paramedical, who had to be employed; and think of all the people who were measured and tested as controls. Was the primary object of all this to improve the treatment of disease or to publish papers? If the former, then publishing is only a secondary object—that of letting other doctors know something that may be of use to them. But if publication is the primary object, then one naturally suspects that the work is being done for advancement and benefit of the author(s); it is scarcely being done for the benefit of other practitioners. It seems to me that we should, for an experimental period of a year, declare a moratorium on the appending of authors' names and the names of hospitals to articles in medical journals. Just print the article. If the dissemination of information is the reason why papers are submitted for publication, there will be no falling-off in the numbers offered. If the honest search for better treatment is the object of trials, there will be no lessening of the amount of tests and measurements performed in hospitals. But if there is a big saving in costs in the Health Service and far less material is offered to the journals, we shall have unmasked ourselves.

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