scholarly journals Joint Unsupervised Infrared-RGB Video Registration and Fusion

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-42
Author(s):  
Imad Eddine Marouf ◽  
Luca Barras ◽  
Hakki Can Karaimer ◽  
Sabine Süsstrunk
Keyword(s):  
Human Perception ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Fusion Method ◽  
Essential Information ◽  
Video Registration ◽  
Texture Information ◽  
Satisfactory Performance ◽  
Registration Procedure ◽  
Challenging Tasks ◽  
Imaging Conditions

We present a system to perform joint registration and fusion for RGB and Infrared (IR) video pairs. While RGB is related to human perception, IR is associated with heat. However, IR images often lack contour and texture information. The goal with the fusion of the visible and IR images is to obtain more information from them. This requires two completely matched images. However, classical methods assuming ideal imaging conditions fail to achieve satisfactory performance in actual cases. From the data-dependent modeling point of view, labeling the dataset is costly and impractical.In this context, we present a framework that tackles two challenging tasks. First, a video registration procedure that aims to align IR and RGB videos. Second, a fusion method brings all the essential information from the two video modalities to a single video. We evaluate our approach on a challenging dataset of RGB and IR video pairs collected for firefighters to handle their tasks effectively in challenging visibility conditions such as heavy smoke after a fire, see our project page.

Peranan Strategi Pemasaran Dalam Upaya Meningkatkan Penjualan Jasa Asuransi pada PT Asuransi Umum Bumiputera Muda 1967 Medan

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-45
Author(s):  
Sakinah Sakinah ◽  
Nur Aslami
Keyword(s):  
Side Effect ◽  
Market Competition ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Essential Information ◽  
General Insurance ◽  
Individual Point ◽  
Job Vacancy ◽  
Tangible Evidence ◽  
The Individual

This review is expected to be ableto dissect the procedure of promotion work through the combination of 7Ps implemented by PT. General Insurance Bumiputera Muda 1967 Medan is now ready to compete in the field, this exam uses a fascinating exploration technique. This inspection was led by an organization engaged in the protection sector, namely PT. Bumiputera Muda General Insurance 1967 Medan. The methods of collecting information from this examination are (perception), documentation and meetings. Information obtained from the consequences of essential information and optional information. The information checking strategy used is an enlightening investigation that clarifies the actual conditions that occur substantially and significantly and explains exploratory information. The side effect of this expressive review is that the agreement is shaky and will often diminish with each passing year at PT. Bumiputera Muda 1967 General Insurance Medan was caused by the absence of the largest 7P advertising mix job vacancy applied by PT. Bumiputera Muda General Insurance 1967 Medan. The job of assisting the promotion procedure through the 7P advertising blend carried out by PT. Bumiputera Muda 1967 General Insurance Medan from the part (goods) offered to be competitive in search and very good, in terms of value it can compete in search, part of the circulation channel (place) is still not ideal and there are still weaknesses, part of progress (forward) ) is still not ideal and still uses the old strategy, the individual point of view is very large, the cycle perspective is sufficient, the point of view of tangible evidence is still poor in times of serious market competition.

scholarly journals Citizens’ and Farmers’ Framing of ‘Positive Animal Welfare’ and the Implications for Framing Positive Welfare in Communication

Animals ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Belinda Vigors
Keyword(s):  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Human Perception ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Farm Animals ◽  
Negative Experiences ◽  
Qualitative Interview Study ◽  
Positive Experiences ◽  
Existing Frames ◽  
On Farm ◽  
Positive Animal

Human perception can depend on how an individual frames information in thought and how information is framed in communication. For example, framing something positively, instead of negatively, can change an individual’s response. This is of relevance to ‘positive animal welfare’, which places greater emphasis on farm animals being provided with opportunities for positive experiences. However, little is known about how this framing of animal welfare may influence the perception of key animal welfare stakeholders. Through a qualitative interview study with farmers and citizens, undertaken in Scotland, UK, this paper explores what positive animal welfare evokes to these key welfare stakeholders and highlights the implications of such internal frames for effectively communicating positive welfare in society. Results indicate that citizens make sense of positive welfare by contrasting positive and negative aspects of welfare, and thus frame it as animals having ‘positive experiences’ or being ‘free from negative experiences’. Farmers draw from their existing frames of animal welfare to frame positive welfare as ‘good husbandry’, ‘proactive welfare improvement’ or the ‘animal’s point of view’. Implications of such internal frames (e.g., the triggering of ‘negative welfare’ associations by the word ‘positive’) for the effective communication of positive welfare are also presented.

Sharing Tracks With High Speed Trains in Urban Area: Risk due to Drivers and Pedestrian Perception

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oren Masory
Keyword(s):  
Urban Area ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Human Perception ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Time To Contact ◽  
High Speed Trains ◽  
Rail Traffic

Abstract Sharing operations of high-speed passenger and heavy slow freight trains on the same rail tracks presents additional risks to vehicle and pedestrians who cross the tracks. This is due to increase in rail traffic at crossing; drivers and pedestrians overestimate the amount of time they have to cross the intersection in front of a higher speed train; and due to the fact that circuited crossings are not adaptable and might lead to confusion and bad decisions. From human perception point of view these accidents happen in particular when the high speed trains were just introduced since the drivers as well as the pedestrians are used to interact with slower trains. Looming is a major factor that contributes to the perception error experiences by a driver or pedestrian. On one hand a faster train is being detected at farther distance than a slower one but its time to contact (the time it will reach the crossing) is shorter. Thus, a pedestrian might think that he has enough time to cross the railroad but actually he does not. Horn sound has the same effect on human perception. This paper discusses issues related to human perception which contribute to accidents in these cases.

Saccharide Fuel Cell (SFC)

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pinchas Schechner ◽  
Lea Mor ◽  
Shlomo Kimchie ◽  
Hussein Tarabeah ◽  
Carlos Dosoretz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fuel Cells ◽  
Fuel Cell ◽  
Food Industry ◽  
Urban Forest ◽  
Energy Content ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Demonstration Project ◽  
Satisfactory Performance

A study on the possibility to use saccharides as fuels in a Fuel Cell is presented. The study deals with the abundance of saccharides and ways to extract them from solid organic urban, forest and agricultural wastes, and from food industry effluents. The use of saccharides as fuel is treated from the thermodynamic point of view and compared with other common fuels currently used in fuel cells. Other properties of saccharides, relevant to their use as fuels, such as: safety, transportability, storage, inflammability, poisonous character and volatility, are also considered. The different possible catalytic electrodes needed to create a Saccharide Fuel Cell are discussed. Three options are considered: Microbiological, Enzymatic and Inorganic. None of the available catalytic electrodes has satisfactory performance. We conclude that since sacharides are human friendly, abundant, have high-energy content and are relatively easy to extract, efforts should be given to develop a Saccharide Fuel Cell. These fuel cells have the potential to become the basis of a decentralized power economy and open economical ways to deal with the environmental problems caused by organic wastes. The concept exposed in this paper will be tested in a Pilot-Demonstration Project, planned in the Agan Beit Natufa (ABN) region in Israel. We estimate a production of about 11 GWh/year from this project.

Modelling Stick Balancing by Applying Switching-Type Control

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dalma J. Nagy ◽  
László Bencsik ◽  
Tamás Insperger
Keyword(s):  
Balance Control ◽  
Dead Zone ◽  
Human Perception ◽  
Dynamical Behaviour ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Control Force ◽  
Delay Compensation ◽  
Switching Type ◽  
Human Balance ◽  
The Brain

Abstract In today’s aging society special attention is devoted to the research of human balance control. Our research group focuses on understanding the control mechanism of the brain during balancing from an engineering point of view. The model of stick balancing is derived and the dynamical behaviour of the mechanical system is investigated numerically. The control force is modelled as a PD controller with predictor feedback without implementation uncertainty, which allows perfect delay compensation. However, the sensory dead zone of human perception is also accounted for in the model and thus, a delayed switching-type controller is applied. After deriving the mechanical model, numerical analysis is carried out in order to investigate the effect of time delay and the size of sensory dead zones.

scholarly journals Public Health and Epidemiology Informatics

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (01) ◽  
pp. 240-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Bar-Hen ◽  
N. Paragios ◽  
A. Flahault
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
General Point ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Challenging Tasks ◽  
Epidemiology Data ◽  
Using Data

Summary Objectives: The aim of this manuscript is to provide a brief overview of the scientific challenges that should be addressed in order to unlock the full potential of using data from a general point of view, as well as to present some ideas that could help answer specific needs for data understanding in the field of health sciences and epidemiology. Methods: A survey of uses and challenges of big data analyses for medicine and public health was conducted. The first part of the paper focuses on big data techniques, algorithms, and statistical approaches to identify patterns in data. The second part describes some cutting-edge applications of analyses and predictive modeling in public health. Results: In recent years, we witnessed a revolution regarding the nature, collection, and availability of data in general. This was especially striking in the health sector and particularly in the field of epidemiology. Data derives from a large variety of sources, e.g. clinical settings, billing claims, care scheduling, drug usage, web based search queries, and Tweets. Conclusion: The exploitation of the information (data mining, artificial intelligence) relevant to these data has become one of the most promising as well challenging tasks from societal and scientific viewpoints in order to leverage the information available and making public health more efficient.

scholarly journals Niebo na ziemi. Próba charakterystyki liturgii wschodniej

2008 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 189
Author(s):  
Przemysław Nowakowski
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Essential Information ◽  
Divine Office ◽  
Liturgical Year ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
The Arts ◽  
External Point ◽  
The Hours ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject

The main aim of this article is the general presentation and description of the eastern liturgy by emphasizing some of its characteristics different from the Latin one. The subject of the analysis was the Slavonic version of Byzantine rite which is better known in Poland and neighboring countries. The worship plays the leading role in the life of Eastern Churches. The liturgy is closely connected with teaching of the Church and it is also the source of theology. The East has never known the separation of spirituality, theology and ecclesiology from liturgy. The article presents some essential information about the Eucharist (called in the east the Divine Liturgy), the liturgy of the hours (the Divine Office), liturgical year and shows some differences in the celebration of the sacraments in comparison with the Latin practice. More important features of the eastern worship are the epiphanic, doxological, dynamic, anamnetical and eschatological ones. What strikes you about Eastern worship from the sociological point of view is its intimate union with culture and history of the lo- cal, national Church. From an external point of view the eastern liturgy is a synthesis of the arts and demonstrates a particular beauty. The liturgical action is not just a ceremony.  It   is an object of contemplation, an awesome vision, full of mystery. It is our participation in the liturgy of heaven, the implementation of the Kingdom of God on Earth. Therefore, the actual purpose of the liturgy is our communing with God.

scholarly journals English language instruction for clip thinkers

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 189-196
Author(s):  
Maryna Tsehelska
Keyword(s):  
Language Learners ◽  
English Language ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Cognitive Model ◽  
Human Perception ◽  
Language Instruction ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Materials Development ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Neurophysiological Mechanisms

The advent of modern technologies has dramatically changed human perception and influenced the development of clip (fragmented) thinking in younger generation. Fragmented thinking reflects various properties of objects without taking into account relations between them. Clip thinking is contrasted with linear model, which is characterized from operational point of view by linear thinking. It helps to put in order the already acquired knowledge and operate with it at a higher level. As both ways have their advantages and disadvantages, they have to be taken into account in up-to-date planning and materials development for language teaching. For this materials have to be compiled in a brain-friendly manner as the information has to be constantly reviewed and recycled. The process of learning has to be structured on the cognitive model of knowledge processing, which is based on the four phases of learning – impressing, memorizing, authorization and initiation. They take into account the neurophysiological mechanisms of human perception and allow building robust constructions in the brains of language learners, from where the information can be easily accessed. Information has to be presented visually and texts for reading need to be creolized and contain several meaning making models at once. The interaction between visual and verbal parts in creolized texts becomes a basis for the transmission of meaning. Such clip thinking considering teaching tools will greatly enhance the perception of language learners and lead to the development of linear thinking in clip thinkers.

scholarly journals A Critical Review on the Complex Potentials in Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes Scheel ◽  
Daniel Wallenta ◽  
Andreas Ricoeur
Keyword(s):  
Critical Review ◽  
Applied Mathematics ◽  
Crack Opening ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Complex Potentials ◽  
Mathematical Treatment ◽  
Crack Plane ◽  
Essential Information ◽  
Full Field ◽  
Linear Elastic

AbstractIntroducing a crack in an elastic plate is challenging from the mathematical point of view and relevant within an engineering context of evaluating strength and reliability of structures. Accordingly, a multitude of associated works is available to date, emanating from both applied mathematics and mechanics communities. Although considering the same problem, the given complex potentials prove to be different, revealing various inconsistencies in terms of resulting stresses and displacements. Essential information on crack near-tip fields and crack opening displacements is nonetheless available, while intuitive adaption is required to obtain the full-field solutions. Investigating the cause of prevailing deficiencies inevitably leads to a critical review of classical works by Muskhelishvili or Westergaard. Complex potentials of the mixed-mode loaded Griffith crack, sparing restrictive assumptions or limitations of validity, are finally provided, allowing for rigorous mathematical treatment. The entity of stresses and displacements in the whole plate is finally illustrated and the distributions in the crack plane are given explicitly.

scholarly journals Enhancing cooling performance via airflow temperature fluctuations

2019 ◽  
Vol 111 ◽  
pp. 02072 ◽  
Author(s):  
Žiga Lampret ◽  
Gorazd Krese ◽  
Matjaž Prek
Keyword(s):  
Skin Temperature ◽  
Thermal Sensation ◽  
Human Perception ◽  
Temperature Fluctuations ◽  
Rate Of Change ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Body ◽  
Whole Body ◽  
Air Movement ◽  
The Impact

In ventilated and air-conditioned indoor environment, air movement substantially impacts thermal sensation and comfort of occupants from the point of view of whole body and local thermal sensation. Skin temperature and its rate of change are important factors for thermal sensation. Both are affected by the airflow velocity and temperature changes around the body which causes skin temperature fluctuations and changes in convective heat transfer. In this study the impact of temperature fluctuations in airflow on human thermal sensation was examined. For the purposes of the study, an air handling unit was designed for generating airflows with temperature fluctuations and used in a subjective experiment. The experimental study indicates that temperature fluctuations possibly influence the human perception of air movement with a distinct cooling effect.

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