Gallery Of Images Research Articles

Bodies, Women and Narratives: Imagining Corporealities and Genders

In this work we consider that bodies are individual, social and symbolic producers of discourses about identity. Through the exploration of the connections between bodies, gender meanings and sexualities, we aim to unveil the values and mean- ings of gender that we associate to feminine bodies; we also aim to analyze the referential categories for the configuration and interpretation of bodies and for our understandings of women's beauty and sensuality. For that purpose, we have used a gallery of images depicting women taken from different magazines. We use that gallery to elicit narratives on the images. The narratives we have worked with show that women's discourses are now merging traditional and non-traditional ideas about feminine bodies and sexualities that illustrate the way how we build, perform and interpret gender in its relation to embodiment, sexuality, and beauty canons.

POSSIBILITIES AND RESULTS OF USING VISUAL LATENT FORMS IN METHOD OF METAPHOR DERIVING

The article discusses the question of possible impact on customer decision by using the method of metaphor deriving. For this purpose a new classification of archetypes was put forward earlier and an excursus to history of appearing the notion of latent forms was made. The author created a gallery of visual images on the basis of archetype classification and carried out a complex questioning of student youth concerning the compliance of certain images (archetypes) with their meaning. As a result some successful, from our point of view images were found, which can be used to promote goods and services. The hypothesis was proven that by entering subconsciousness visual images can form emotions, impressions or refer to the past, habits, childhood. Emotions and feelings are usually the main element of decisions about purchase. One of the major feelings is sight, which initiates subconscious processes influencing the decision about further steps. This research supplemented works of the academics, who focus on other feeling of man, such as hearing, sense of smell, sense of touch.

ЖЕНСКИЕ ОБРАЗЫ В «СЕВЕРНЫХ РАССКАЗАХ» ДЖЕКА ЛОНДОНА

For the first time the article examines the system of images created by Jack London in “Northland Stories”. In particular, the main features of female images are identified and analyzed. Among a very few American writers Jack London turned to the creation of a gallery of images of female residents of the Arctic in his works, for example in the “Northland Stories”. In his stories written during the difficult transition period of the era there is a clash of completely opposite female types: “the new” and the Victorian woman, “the white” woman and the woman of the natural world.

Il lavoro dell’attore ovvero Elio e «la rappresentazione nascosta»

Laura Mariani, recreates in her essay the artistic career of Elio De Capitani who co-founded the Elfo teather of Milan in 1973. In fact, he performed four emblematic caracthers: Roy Cohn, Richard Nixon, Willy Loman and Mr. Berlusconi, the leads of the three examined acts and of the lm as well, precisely: Angels in America by Kushner, Forst/Nixon by Morgan, Morte di un commesso viaggiatore by Miller, Il Caimano directed by Nanni Moretti. The volume also includes interview to De Capitani and a rich gallery of scenic images.

Indonesian Culture Learning Application based on Android

<p>Indonesia is a country that has a wealth of diverse cultures spread from Sabang to Merauke. Even though the government has included a lesson about Indonesian culture in terms of some subjects such as Art and Culture, but there are still many people including some students who do not know the forms and names of the tribes, traditional houses, traditional clothing, folk songs, traditional foods, local weapons, and musical instruments regions in Indonesia. Therefore, a learning application is created that utilizes mobile learning technology. Through the use of mobile learning, user can access learning content without any borders so that it can be accessed at any time so that it can be accessed at any time with interesting illustration. Indonesia National Culture Application is made useful to help users in learning the introduction of Indonesian culture that provides the knowledge with illustrations in the form of images, audio, text and video. This application also can be functioned to learn, answer quiz, to view a gallery of images and video and to do puzzle games. The achieved result is an application that can provide knowledge to the users so they can know the culture in Indonesia through the illustrations provided well.</p>

Heterogeneous Face Recognition: A Common Encoding Feature Discriminant Approach.

Heterogeneous face recognition is an important, yet challenging problem in face recognition community. It refers to matching a probe face image to a gallery of face images taken from alternate imaging modality. The major challenge of heterogeneous face recognition lies in the great discrepancies between different image modalities. Conventional face feature descriptors, e.g., local binary patterns, histogram of oriented gradients, and scale-invariant feature transform, are mostly designed in a handcrafted way and thus generally fail to extract the common discriminant information from the heterogeneous face images. In this paper, we propose a new feature descriptor called common encoding model for heterogeneous face recognition, which is able to capture common discriminant information, such that the large modality gap can be significantly reduced at the feature extraction stage. Specifically, we turn a face image into an encoded one with the encoding model learned from the training data, where the difference of the encoded heterogeneous face images of the same person can be minimized. Based on the encoded face images, we further develop a discriminant matching method to infer the hidden identity information of the cross-modality face images for enhanced recognition performance. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is demonstrated (on several public-domain face datasets) in two typical heterogeneous face recognition scenarios: matching NIR faces to VIS faces and matching sketches to photographs.

Comfort and Glory: Two Centuries of American Quilts from the Briscoe Center by Katherine Jean Adams

Reviewed by: Comfort and Glory: Two Centuries of American Quilts from the Briscoe Center by Katherine Jean Adams Laurel McKay Horton Comfort and Glory: Two Centuries of American Quilts from the Briscoe Center. By Katherine Jean Adams. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016. Pp. xiv, 320. $75.00, ISBN 978-1-4773-0918-6.) Comfort and Glory: Two Centuries of American Quilts from the Briscoe Center presents selections from the Winedale Quilt Collection, part of the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin. In his preface, Don Carleton, the center's executive director, indicates that this publication was originally envisioned as "a gallery of images with basic descriptions of the quilts" (p. xiii). Truly, the generous proportions and abundance of large, full-color images would earn this book a place on a coffee table, but through a particular set of circumstances the Winedale Collection "preserves extensive documentary resources on American quilt history, including ephemera, patterns, letters, photographs, research files, and countless other types of materials" (p. xiii). Carleton credits the efforts of Katherine Jean Adams not only for the current publication, but also for envisioning and implementing the development of the quilt collection. Adams has selected 115 of the Winedale's nearly 500 quilts to showcase in Comfort and Glory. Her goal is to show the breadth of the collection, and she gives "preference to quilts whose known date, maker, and/or provenance offered … opportunities for profitable research and, hence, for robust description" (p. 4). The quilts and their stories form a rich tapestry documenting the daily lives of families—their joys, sorrows, hopes, concerns, and relationships. A particular strength of the collection is its quilts related to Texas history. For example, Sterling and Mary Jones Orgain arrived in Texas with their ten children in the 1850s, bringing the quilt made for their 1818 wedding in Tennessee. In 1975, author and illustrator Betsy Warren made her first and only quilt, "Patches of Texas History," consisting of twenty-five blocks depicting historic scenes and famous Texans (p. 256). For the sesquicentennial of the founding of the Republic of Texas, Shirley Fowlkes Stevenson created a pictorial quilt to honor her great-grandfather, Captain John Files Tom, a veteran of the Texas Revolution. Comfort and Glory not only presents the individual quilts within their social, cultural, and historical contexts, but also details the development of the Winedale Quilt Collection as a whole. In 1967, a legendary Texan, Miss Ima Hogg, donated a property called Winedale to the University of Texas. The historic farmstead included land, buildings, and an extensive collection of American furniture and decorative arts. Among the textiles were seventeen [End Page 1023] quilts, which became the foundation for the Winedale Quilt Collection in 1995. Once established, the collection attracted individual donations of family quilts, typically accompanied by information about the makers. The collection also drew the support of influential figures, notably Karoline Patterson Bresenhan and Nancy O'Bryant Puentes, cofounders of the International Quilt Festival and numerous other events and organizations. Curator Katherine Adams envisioned the collection would include not only the textiles themselves but also related documentary resources. This effort began in earnest with the acquisition of the Kathleen H. McCrady Quilt History Collection, which includes contemporary and historical quilts, related textile objects, and publications. In 2008, the Briscoe Center acquired the voluminous Joyce Gross Quilt History Collection, a library and personal archive accumulated over a period of nearly forty years that includes iconic quilts made by important twentieth-century fabric artists such as Bertha Stenge, Pine Hawkes Eisfeller, and Jean Ray Laury. Comfort and Glory offers a sampling of two hundred years of American quilts and shares stories of families migrating to the Texas frontier, while simultaneously establishing the Winedale Quilt Collection as an important research resource. The reader comes away with a clear recognition of a succession of passionate and dedicated individuals' efforts to collect, preserve, and document quilts as significant cultural expressions, individually and collectively, of the lives of American women. Laurel McKay Horton Seneca, South Carolina Copyright © 2017 The Southern Historical Association

Adaptation of the Epic Legend of Siegfried: from Archetypal Hero Myth to Film

According to the psychic concept of adaptation, the original manifests itself as an archetype in culture. The film producer who employs archetypal hero myth creates yet another version of myth. A medieval narrative – a secularised sacred narrative – is translated into a cinematic narrative by a gallery of images. This kind of translation reveals similar semiotic complexity to that of the original. The film producer imitates the art of the medieval epic singer and remains faithful to the spirit of myth. This paper aims at deciphering the symbolic world of The Nibelungen: Siegfried (Die Nibelungen: Siegfried), a silent film created by Fritz Lang (1924). The novelty of the research lies in comparing the artistic expression of the film producer with the poetic expression of the medieval epic minstrel. The authors’ argument proceeds as follows: (1) consider the archetypal hero myth – its plot, theme, and motifs – as narratologically embedded in the adaptation of the epic legend of Siegfried; (2) reveal the interaction between the formulaic structure of the intertitles and oral epic poetry; (3) highlight mimesis as the imitative representation of the sacred world from the perspective of the symbolic world created in the film.

Civil War on the Western Border: The Missouri-Kansas Conflict, 1854–1865

In a foreword article to the Civil War on the Western Border (cwwb) Web site, the Kansas City Star journalist Rick Montgomery confesses his initial ignorance of the complex, vicious, and fascinating war along the Missouri-Kansas border. With a chronology that begins long before the shots at Fort Sumter and a spatial configuration that alters familiar “Blue States” and “Gray States” into confusion, the border war was simultaneously a microcosm of the larger Civil War and a sui generis event. What follows Montgomery's opening essay is a spectacularly comprehensive user-friendly site on the Kansas-Missouri border war. Hosted by the Kansas City Public Library but drawing upon contributions from dozens of organizations in Kansas and Missouri, cwwb offers users as much detail on the war experience as archival records. A bar along the top of the home page of the site includes options for clickable maps, a multitopic timeline, nine scholarly essays, a gallery of images owned by participating institutions, and lesson plans for teachers. The bar also has a link to a border-war encyclopedia with entries written by numerous scholars on various topics including battles, biographies, locations, and concepts. A search window and browser tool leads to thousands of digitized, annotated, and transcribed documents. Also on the home page is a monthly “Featured Document,” annotated by the project's director, Jason Roe, of the Kansas City Public Library.

Composite multilobe descriptors for cross-spectral recognition of full and partial face

Cross-spectral image matching is a challenging research problem motivated by various applications, including surveillance, security, and identity management in general. An example of this problem includes cross-spectral matching of active infrared (IR) or thermal IR face images against a dataset of visible light images. A summary of recent developments in the field of cross-spectral face recognition by the authors is presented. In particular, it describes the original form and two variants of a local operator named composite multilobe descriptor (CMLD) for facial feature extraction with the purpose of cross-spectral matching of near-IR, short-wave IR, mid-wave IR, and long-wave IR to a gallery of visible light images. The experiments demonstrate that the variants of CMLD outperform the original CMLD and other recently developed composite operators used for comparison. In addition to different IR spectra, various standoff distances from close-up (1.5 m) to intermediate (50 m) and long (106 m) are also investigated. Performance of CMLD I to III is evaluated for each of the three cases of distances. The newly developed operators, CMLD I to III, are further utilized to conduct a study on cross-spectral partial face recognition where different facial regions are compared in terms of the amount of useful information they contain for the purpose of conducting cross-spectral face recognition. The experimental results show that among three facial regions considered in the experiments the eye region is the most informative for all IR spectra at all standoff distances.

AstroBlend: An astrophysical visualization package for Blender

The rapid growth in scale and complexity of both computational and observational astrophysics over the past decade necessitates efficient and intuitive methods for examining and visualizing large datasets. Here, I present {\it AstroBlend}, an open-source Python library for use within the three dimensional modeling software, {\it Blender}. While {\it Blender} has been a popular open-source software among animators and visual effects artists, in recent years it has also become a tool for visualizing astrophysical datasets. {\it AstroBlend} combines the three dimensional capabilities of {\it Blender} with the analysis tools of the widely used astrophysical toolset, {\it yt}, to afford both computational and observational astrophysicists the ability to simultaneously analyze their data and create informative and appealing visualizations. The introduction of this package includes a description of features, work flow, and various example visualizations. A website - www.astroblend.com - has been developed which includes tutorials, and a gallery of example images and movies, along with links to downloadable data, three dimensional artistic models, and various other resources.

Automatic Traffic Sign Detection and Recognition Using Colour Segmentation and Shape Identification

The paper describes a colour-based segmentation method of European traffic signs for detection in an image and a feature-based recognition method for categorizing them into given classes. At first, we have performed analysis of several well-known colour spaces as the RGB, HSV and YCbCr often used for segmentation purposes. The HSV colour space has been chosen as the most convenient for segmentation step and colour-based models of traffic signs representatives were created. Next, the fast radial symmetry (FRS) detection method and the Harris corner detector were used to recognize circles, triangles and squares as main geometrical shapes of the traffic signs. For these purposes a new gallery of real-life images containing traffic signs has been created and analysed. Overall efficiency of our recognition method is approx. 93 % on our gallery and is usable for real-time implementations.

The Hinode/XRT Full-Sun Image Corrections and the Improved Synoptic Composite Image Archive

The XRT Synoptic Composite Image Archive (SCIA) is a storage and gallery of X-ray full-Sun images obtained through the synoptic program of the X-Ray Telescope (XRT) onboard the Hinode satellite. The archived images provide a quick history of solar activity through the daily and monthly layout pages and long-term data for morphological and quantitative studies of the X-ray corona. This article serves as an introduction to the SCIA, i.e., to the structure of the archive and specification of the data products included therein. We also describe a number of techniques used to improve the quality of the archived images: preparation of composite images to increase intensity dynamic range, removal of dark spots that are due to contaminants on the CCD, and correction of the visible stray light contamination that has been detected on the Ti-poly and C-poly filter images since May 2012.

Artifacts in magnetic resonance imaging.

SummaryArtifacts in magnetic resonance imaging and foreign bodies within the patient’s body may be confused with a pathology or may reduce the quality of examinations. Radiologists are frequently not informed about the medical history of patients and face postoperative/other images they are not familiar with. A gallery of such images was presented in this manuscript. A truncation artifact in the spinal cord could be misinterpreted as a syrinx. Motion artifacts caused by breathing, cardiac movement, CSF pulsation/blood flow create a ghost artifact which can be reduced by patient immobilization, or cardiac/respiratory gating. Aliasing artifacts can be eliminated by increasing the field of view. An artificially hyperintense signal on FLAIR images can result from magnetic susceptibility artifacts, CSF/vascular pulsation, motion, but can also be found in patients undergoing MRI examinations while receiving supplemental oxygen. Metallic and other foreign bodies which may be found on and in patients’ bodies are the main group of artifacts and these are the focus of this study: e.g. make-up, tattoos, hairbands, clothes, endovascular embolization, prostheses, surgical clips, intraorbital and other medical implants, etc. Knowledge of different types of artifacts and their origin, and of possible foreign bodies is necessary to eliminate them or to reduce their negative influence on MR images by adjusting acquisition parameters. It is also necessary to take them into consideration when interpreting the images. Some proposals of reducing artifacts have been mentioned. Describing in detail the procedures to avoid or limit the artifacts would go beyond the scope of this paper but technical ways to reduce them can be found in the cited literature.

The White House Is Burning: August 24, 1814 by Jane Sutcliffe (review)

Reviewed by: The White House Is Burning: August 24, 1814 by Jane Sutcliffe Elizabeth Bush Sutcliffe, Jane The White House Is Burning: August 24, 1814. Charlesbridge, 2014 120p illus. with photographs ISBN 978-1-58089-656-6 $19.95 R* Gr. 5-8 If it seems that the War of 1812 doesn’t thrive in the classroom, crammed as it is between the massive units on the Revolutionary and Civil wars, look to Sutcliffe’s title as an antidote. With just enough requisite scene setting, the author launches straight into a gripping reconstruction of the events of August 23 to 24, 1814, when the British invaded Maryland and the nation’s capital, burned its government buildings, terrified those citizens who hadn’t already fled, and then snuck silently out of Washington in the middle of the night. The reporting is kept lively by its heavy reliance on primary source material, with witnesses and participants ranging from an American soldier who went to battle in his formal dancing pumps, to British admiral Cockburn, who couldn’t resist taunting the people he vanquished, to Dolley Madison, who kept up a running letter to her sister even as she ordered dinner as usual and packed up the silver (and George Washington’s portrait), just in case. Throughout the narration Sutcliffe keeps a keen eye open for those details that convey the terror of an attack, and she reminds readers how coverage of such an event might play out today: “Admiral Cockburn might have called a press conference aboard his flagship, the Albion. There might have been … a banner proclaiming ‘Mission Accomplished.’” With a gallery of well-selected images, source notes, bibliography, index, and illustration credits which supplement the captions, this account will be a first-rate addition to the American History collection. Copyright © 2014 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

New York Philharmonic Digital Archives (review)

York Philharmonic [New York, York]: York Philharmonic, February 2011-. http://archives.nyphil.org/ (Accessed May 2013). [Requires a Web browser and an Internet connection. Pricing: freely accessible.]IntroductionThe York Philharmonic contains high-quality digital scans of the orchestra's programs, scores, instrumental parts, images, and business documents from the years 1943 to 1970, a time period referred to as the orchestra's Inter - national Era. Although the physical archives begin with the orchestra's first concert in 1842, this date range was picked, according to the Web site, because is when Government begins funding the arts, when women join the Orchestra, when the Philharmonic opens Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, when the Orchestra musicians win 52-week contracts, when television becomes main stream and the Long Playing record is invented, and it is the time of Leonard Bernstein's leadership.1 This is also a time period in the orchestra's history when a wide variety of formats was produced, which allows the orchestra to showcase many different kinds of materials in the The Ar - chives is partially funded by Save America's Treasures, through partnership with the National Parks Service and the National Endowment for the Arts. It is also funded by the Leon Levy Foundation through its Grant program.Interface DesignThe home page of the has a search box near the top labeled the Archives. To the right of the box is a pull-down menu to specify which type of format to search. One can type in a data range at this screen as well. There is a little question mark icon next to the search box that reveals the following text when the mouse cursor hovers over it: Help: For search tips, click on the 'Help' section above. Although the site does not display browse buttons, one can choose a particular format from the pulldown menu and click Search to retrieve all the items available. No advanced search exists. The system will search all formats by default, regardless of the format selected; however, the format selected will be the one displayed in the main part of the page. The text the Archives also serves as the link back to the home page, although there is no highlighting or underlining on this text that makes this function apparent. There is no other Home link on the page. Halfway down the home page is a rotating gallery of hyperlinked images introducing the Archives, as well as a link to the blog Digital Buzz: Stories from the Archives.2 The section marked New Release towards the bottom of the page proclaims that the now has 520,000 pages of parts marked by York Philharmonic musicians, and highlights three notable items from the collection.NavigationLooking at these items is a good introduction to the site's content. At the time of this writing, one item on this page is the viola part for the Symphony no. 2 by Robert Schumann, which according to the site is from the Philharmonic's oldest set of parts, in usage from 1854. Clicking on the Go to Part link takes the user to the site's image viewer, with controls similar to those found on Open Library.3 The composer, title, and opus number are displayed on the top leftof the screen. At the top right are buttons to rotate the image, a button for a magnifying glass that enlarges a small rectangular area when the mouse hovers over the page, a button that displays the metadata record for the part, and a button to share a link to the image via Facebook, Twitter, or e-mail (login to ShareThis.com required). Cur - rently, buttons to play audio and video versions are grayed out, but when implemented they will provide links to the multimedia components of the archive. A slider control at the bottom of the screen allows the user to advance quickly to a particular page; other navigation buttons on the right control page views (one-up, two-up, and thumb nail), zooming in and out of the page, and turning pages. …

CONTENT-BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL-SKETCH FOR MATCH

The content based image retrieval (CBIR) is one of the most popular, rising research areas of the digital image pro-cessing. Most of the available image search tools, such as Google Images and Yahoo! Image search, are based on textual annotation of images. In these tools images are manually annotated with keywords and then retrieved using text-based search methods. The performances of these systems are not satisfactory. The goal of CBIR is to extract visual content of an image automatically, like color, texture, or shape. This paper aims to introduce the problems and challenges concerned with the design and the creation of CBIR systems, which is based on a free hand sketch (Sketch based image retrieval – SBIR). The used descriptor is constructed after such special sequence of pre-processing steps that the transformed full color image and the sketch can be compared. We have studied EHD, HOG and SIFT. Experimental results on two sample databases showed good results. Overall, the results show that the sketch based system allows users an intuitive access to search-tools. The SBIR technology can be used in several applications such as digital libraries, crime prevention, photo sharing sites. Such a system has great value in apprehending suspects and identifying victims in forensics and law enforcement. A possible application is matching a forensic sketch to a gallery of mug shot images. The area of retrieve images based on the visual content of the query picture intense recently, which demands on the quite wide methodology spectrum on the area of the image processing.

Teaching and Learning Guide for: Ecocriticism and Eighteenth‐Century English Studies

Teaching and Learning Guide for: Ecocriticism and Eighteenth‐Century English Studies

Close-Up Gallery: <em>Teza</em>

Regard Haile Gerima’s earliest cinema, from beginning to end, and watch his tendency to do remarkable things with the mundane. Behold what he often does with closing credits from Child of Resistance (1972) to Teza (2008). The first set of films does not identify him as producer, director and scriptwriter, or editor. The auteur signed Bush Mama (1976), simply, “ ANSWERABLE.” The message was that he strove to be answerable himself; artistically, he was and is answerable to forces that leave auteur individualism in the dust: Ancestors, community, elders, youth, humanity, “All Over the World Afrikans” as one firebrand poet put it ages ago. This was an important point to establish in places and spaces where other filmmakers might not think to make meaning or leave messages at all. The ensuing gallery of words and images illustrates both how poetic his Pan-African cinema is and how answerable it is to poets of the page. Here, it is the call to their response; and they respond quite visually to this series or flow of juxtaposed film stills that reconnects images, geographies, time spaces, and populations too often disconnected, even systematically segregated, by academic criticism and assorted politics of the status quo.

Matching Composite Sketches to Face Photos: A Component-Based Approach

The problem of automatically matching composite sketches to facial photographs is addressed in this paper. Previous research on sketch recognition focused on matching sketches drawn by professional artists who either looked directly at the subjects (viewed sketches) or used a verbal description of the subject's appearance as provided by an eyewitness (forensic sketches). Unlike sketches hand drawn by artists, composite sketches are synthesized using one of the several facial composite software systems available to law enforcement agencies. We propose a component-based representation (CBR) approach to measure the similarity between a composite sketch and mugshot photograph. Specifically, we first automatically detect facial landmarks in composite sketches and face photos using an active shape model (ASM). Features are then extracted for each facial component using multiscale local binary patterns (MLBPs), and per component similarity is calculated. Finally, the similarity scores obtained from individual facial components are fused together, yielding a similarity score between a composite sketch and a face photo. Matching performance is further improved by filtering the large gallery of mugshot images using gender information. Experimental results on matching 123 composite sketches against two galleries with 10,123 and 1,316 mugshots show that the proposed method achieves promising performance (rank-100 accuracies of 77.2% and 89.4%, respectively) compared to a leading commercial face recognition system (rank-100 accuracies of 22.8% and 52.0%) and densely sampled MLBP on holistic faces (rank-100 accuracies of 27.6% and 10.6%). We believe our prototype system will be of great value to law enforcement agencies in apprehending suspects in a timely fashion.