scholarly journals Graph Cuts, Caveat Utilitor, and Euler's Bridges of Konigsberg

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas J. Tustison ◽  
Paul Yushkevich ◽  
Zhuang Song ◽  
James Gee
Keyword(s):  
Computer Vision ◽  
Data Structures ◽  
Energy Minimization ◽  
Research Use ◽  
General Requirement ◽  
Energy Functions ◽  
Philosophical Inquiry ◽  
Related Data ◽  
Markov Random ◽  
The Subject

Graph-based algorithms have enjoyed renewed interest for solving computer vision problems. These algorithms have been the subject of intense interest and research. In order to maintain the ITK library au courant, we developed a framework for graph-based methods of energy minimization in ITK which employ energy functions derived within a Markov Random Field (MRF) context. This required not only the implementation of the energy minimization methodology but also the more general requirement of introducing graph-related data structures into ITK which can be used for other graph-based algorithms pertinent to future extensions of the ITK library.Please note that some of the algorithms described in this paper may be covered by patents and, as such, it is incumbent upon the user to seek licenses before building the binaries which utilize this code. Also note that “research use” is not exempt from acquiring such licenses. The only exemption from patent restrictions is “. . . amusement, to satisfy idle curiosity, or for strictly philosophical inquiry.”

Zwischen Infektionsschutz und Schutz des Erblasserwillens: Das sogenannte testamentum tempore pestis conditum in C.6,23,8 (290)

2021 ◽  
Vol 138 (1) ◽  
pp. 616-634
Author(s):  
Constantin Willems
Keyword(s):  
General Requirement ◽  
Contagious Disease ◽  
The Subject

Abstract Protecting the testator’s last will in times of a contagious disease: The so-called testamentum tempore pestis conditum in C. 6,23,8 (290). This paper revisits C. 6,23,8, a constitution by emperor Diocletian from 290 CE on the subject of alleviated testamentary formalities in times of a contagious disease. It is argued that the imperial rescript is to be understood against the background of an epidemic raging at that time, maybe to be identified as the smallpocks. With this constitution, it is further argued, the emperor clarifies that a former piece of legislation, not passed down to us, exempts the testamentary witnesses in such times from assembling as a group with the person of the testator, while there is no exemption from the general requirement of calling in the accustomed number of witnesses. Thus, the emperor takes account of the testator’s need to stipulate his last will in times of crisis while at the same time having an eye to the witnesses’ fear of contagion.

scholarly journals PENGELOLAAN KEGIATAN BELAJAR MASYARAKAT (PKBM) DI KOTA BENGKULU (Studi Pada PKBM Sriwijaya Sawah Lebar Kota Bengkulu)

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-61
Author(s):  
Muhammad Nursamsi ◽  
Riskan Riskan ◽  
Parlan Parlan
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Learning Activity ◽  
Research Use ◽  
Data Presentation ◽  
Program Activity ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Management Organization

The purpose in this research are to know about planning, how to organize, how to realization and doing control from centre of society learning activity ( pusat kegiatan belajar masyarakat ) Sriwijaya. In this research use method qualitative with technique of collection the data are interview, observation and documentation. The subject has been choose is managment of PKBM Sriwijaya, there are consists of the leader is Mr. Ralin MS Gumay and the treasurer Mrs. Umi Yanti. To proving the validity of data, the researcher do to checking the data with triangulation, there are triangulation source, triangulation technique, and triangulation of time. The data has been analyze with 3 step, there are, reduction of data, presentation of data, and last is take a conclusion. The result from this research are found, first is planning, formulate the perspective and mission, prepare the tools and labor done in preparation. Second, how to organize, PKBM sriwijaya have management organization there are consists of builder, leader, secretary, and treasurer. Third is realization, in doing program activity, PKBM Sriwijaya use fund by society, and the curriculm they are use is from tbe goverment. Fourth, for doing control from manager of PKBM Sriwijaya, its about direct or not, the manager too, doing the controling the tutor will be become an object of evaluation. Key words : Managment,  Centre of society learning activity 

On hating and despising legal philosophy

2021 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-50
Author(s):  
Jesse Wall
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Legal Theory ◽  
Critical Distance ◽  
Legal Philosophy ◽  
Philosophical Practice ◽  
Current Form ◽  
Philosophical Inquiry ◽  
Cry For Help ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Legal Theorist

This article is a cry for help. It is a search for some possible view of legal philosophy that does not render it either intrinsically useless or useless in its current form. In this article I focus on two methodological hallmarks of contemporary anglophone legal philosophy. The first is the Archimedean way in which the legal theorist places a critical distance between him- or herself and the subject matter of the philosophical inquiry. The second is the introverted way in which the accuracy of any given legal theory is confined to the theorist’s own puzzles, concerns, controversies, and preoccupations. Whilst I consider those who have turned against these methodological commitments and called for an anti-Archimedean or extroverted approach to legal theory, I explain how those who accept both commitments adopt a very modest view of the helpfulness of legal philosophy. I then consider whether, contrary to the modest view, if we accept both commitments, then whatever is true in legal philosophy will always be trivially true, irrelevant, or inconsequential, for any non-philosophical practice or non-philosophical inquiry about the law. The value of this article, I hope, lies in its refutation.

Language and the Subject

Joseph Conrad ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 51-70
Author(s):  
Yael Levin
Keyword(s):  
Oral Tradition ◽  
The Other ◽  
Philosophical Inquiry ◽  
Heart Of Darkness ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Narrative Techniques ◽  
Experimental Narrative

The chapter focuses on Conrad’s scenes of suspension as sites for an investigation of language and its role in the creation of the modernist subject. Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, and Victory are read as the serial restaging of an unsolicited encounter with the language of the other. These unwarranted interruptions contribute to an exploration of a particularly passive and fragmented subjectivity that relinquishes the agency and cohesion afforded the Cartesian cogito. The insistence on the oral tradition is thus read not as an attempt to resurrect speech within an essentially silent medium but as a dramatization of the role of language in the evolution of the modernist subject and the narrative that houses him. Those same experimental narrative techniques that are often associated with Conrad’s commitment to an inherently epistemological philosophical inquiry are attributed here to the author’s effort to chart the ontological coordinates of character and narration.

Food Photography, Pixelated Produce, and Cameraless Images

2017 ◽  
pp. 276-288
Author(s):  
Aileen Blaney
Keyword(s):  
Computer Vision ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Photographic Images ◽  
Recording Material ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Pastoral Landscapes ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Food Photography

In today's screen saturated culture, perceptions of food are overwhelmingly formed by images circulated via the internet and mobile. The Facebook game FarmVille is the subject of Kheti Badi (Shah, 2015), a photographic artwork reflexively engaging with the contemporary scenario of ‘post-photography'. The work comprises not of photographs taken with a traditional camera but of screenshots of a farm and its holdings as displayed in Farmville; the highly compressed jpegs cropped and resized to the point of destabilizing visual coherence are depictions not of pastoral landscapes but of computer vision and the programmable character of photography. While photography remains an instrument for recording material realities, its power extends toward feeding back into the very processes through which science and technology modify food production. This chapter explores how Kheti Badi, through a series of hyper artificial and un-photographic images, shows the constructed nature of both what we put our hands on in the supermarket and see in advertising's dreamscapes.

Graph-Based Registration and Blending for Undersea Image Stitching

Robotica ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 396-409 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xu Yang ◽  
Zhi-Yong Liu ◽  
Hong Qiao ◽  
Jian-Hua Su ◽  
Da-Xiong Ji ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Minimization ◽  
Moving Objects ◽  
Graph Matching ◽  
Structural Information ◽  
Ocean Current ◽  
Image Stitching ◽  
Local Disturbance ◽  
Markov Random ◽  
Integer Quadratic Programming ◽  
Quadratic Programming Problems

SummaryImage stitching is important for the perception and manipulation of undersea robots. In spite of a well-developed technique, it is still challenging for undersea images because of their inevitable appearance ambiguity caused by the limited light in the undersea environment, and local disturbance caused by moving objects, ocean current, etc. To get a clean and stable background panorama in the undersea environment, this paper proposes an undersea image-stitching method by introducing graph-based registration and blending procedures. Specifically, in the registration procedure, matching the features in each undersea image pair is formulated and solved by graph matching, to incorporate the structural information between features. In the blending procedure, an energy function on the indirect graph Markov random field is proposed, which takes both image consistency and neighboring consistency into consideration. Coincidentally, both graph matching and energy minimization can be mathematically formulated by integer quadratic programming problems with different constraints; the recently proposed graduated nonconvexity and concavity procedure is used to optimize both problems. Experiments on both synthetic images and real-world undersea images witness the effectiveness of the proposed method.

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