Motion And Representation

Author : Nicolas Salazar Sutil
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780262028882

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Motion and Representation by Nicolas Salazar Sutil Pdf

An examination of the ways human movement can be represented as a formal language and how this language can be mediated technologically. In Motion and Representation, Nicolás Salazar Sutil considers the representation of human motion through languages of movement and technological mediation. He argues that technology transforms the representation of movement and that representation in turn transforms the way we move and what we understand to be movement. Humans communicate through movement, physically and mentally. To record and capture integrated movement (both bodily and mental), by means of formal language and technological media, produces a material record and cultural expression of our evolving kinetic minds and identities. Salazar Sutil considers three forms of movement inscription: a written record (notation), a visual record (animation), and a computational record (motion capture). He focuses on what he calls kinetic formalism—formalized movement in such pursuits as dance, sports, live animation, and kinetic art, as well as abstract definitions of movement in mathematics and computer science. He explores the representation of kinetic space and spatiotemporality; the representation of mental plans of movement; movement notation, including stave notation (Labanotation) and such contemporary forms of notation as Choreographic Language Agent; and the impact of digital technology on contemporary representations of movement—in particular motion capture technology and Internet transfer protocols. Motion and Representation offers a unique cultural theory of movement and of the ever-changing ways of representing movement.

Author : Angel P. del Pobil,Miquel A. Serna
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1995-11-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 3540606203

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Spatial Representation and Motion Planning by Angel P. del Pobil,Miquel A. Serna Pdf

This book is devoted to the development of adequate spatial representations for robot motion planning. Drawing upon advanced heuristic techniques from AI and computational geometry, the authors introduce a general model for spatial representation of physical objects. This model is then applied to two key problems in intelligent robotics: collision detection and motion planning. In addition, the application to actual robot arms is kept always in mind, instead of dealing with simplified models. This monograph is built upon Angel del Pobil's PhD thesis which was selected as the winner of the 1992 Award of the Spanish Royal Academy of Doctors.

Author : David Forsyth,Philip Torr,Andrew Zisserman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 911 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-07
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540886921

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Computer Vision - ECCV 2008 by David Forsyth,Philip Torr,Andrew Zisserman Pdf

The four-volume set comprising LNCS volumes 5302/5303/5304/5305 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2008, held in Marseille, France, in October 2008. The 243 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 871 papers submitted. The four books cover the entire range of current issues in computer vision. The papers are organized in topical sections on recognition, stereo, people and face recognition, object tracking, matching, learning and features, MRFs, segmentation, computational photography and active reconstruction.

Author : Inderjeet Mani,James Pustejovsky
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-16
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780199601240

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Interpreting Motion by Inderjeet Mani,James Pustejovsky Pdf

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Author : Nicholas Shea
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198812883

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Representation in Cognitive Science by Nicholas Shea Pdf

Our thoughts are meaningful. We think about things in the outside world; how can that be so? This is one of the deepest questions in contemporary philosophy. Ever since the 'cognitive revolution', states with meaning-mental representations-have been the key explanatory construct of the cognitive sciences. But there is still no widely accepted theory of how mental representations get their meaning. Powerful new methods in cognitive neuroscience can now reveal information processing in the brain in unprecedented detail. They show how the brain performs complex calculations on neural representations. Drawing on this cutting-edge research, Nicholas Shea uses a series of case studies from the cognitive sciences to develop a naturalistic account of the nature of mental representation. His approach is distinctive in focusing firmly on the 'subpersonal' representations that pervade so much of cognitive science. The diversity and depth of the case studies, illustrated by numerous figures, make this book unlike any previous treatment. It is important reading for philosophers of psychology and philosophers of mind, and of considerable interest to researchers throughout the cognitive sciences.

Author : Charles O. Nussbaum
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Emotions in music
ISBN : 9780262140966

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The Musical Representation by Charles O. Nussbaum Pdf

How human musical experience emerges from the audition of organized tones is a riddle of long standing. In The Musical Representation, Charles Nussbaum offers a philosophical naturalist's solution. Nussbaum founds his naturalistic theory of musical representation on the collusion between the physics of sound and the organization of the human mind-brain. He argues that important varieties of experience afforded by Western tonal art music since 1650 arise through the feeling of tone, the sense of movement in musical space, cognition, emotional arousal, and the engagement, by way of specific emotional responses, of deeply rooted human ideals. Construing the art music of the modern West as representational, as a symbolic system that carries extramusical content, Nussbaum attempts to make normative principles of musical representation explicit and bring them into reflective equilibrium with the intuitions of competent listeners. Nussbaum identifies three modes of musical representation, describes the basis of extramusical meaning, and analyzes musical works as created historical entities (performances of which are tokens or replicas). In addition, he explains how music gives rise to emotions and evokes states of mind that are religious in character. Nussbaum's argument proceeds from biology, psychology, and philosophy to music--and occasionally from music back to biology, psychology, and philosophy. The human mind-brain, writes Nussbaum, is a living record of its evolutionary history; relatively recent cognitive acquisitions derive from older representational functions of which we are hardly aware. Consideration of musical art can help bring to light the more ancient cognitive functions that underlie modern human cognition. The biology, psychology, and philosophy of musical representation, he argues, have something to tell us about what we are, based on what we have been.

Author : Mary Hegarty,Bernd Meyer,N. Hari Narayanan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003-08-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540460374

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Diagrammatic Representation and Inference by Mary Hegarty,Bernd Meyer,N. Hari Narayanan Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference Diagrams 2002, held in Callaway Gardens, Georgia, USA, in April 2002. The 21 revised full papers and 19 posters presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 77 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on understanding and communicating with diagrams, diagrams in mathematics, computational aspects of diagrammatic representation and reasoning, logic and diagrams, diagrams in human-computer interaction, tracing the process of diagrammatic reasoning, visualizing information with diagrams, diagrams and software engineering, and cognitive aspects.

Author : Roberto G. de Almeida,Christina Manouilidou
Publisher : Springer
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783319101125

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Cognitive Science Perspectives on Verb Representation and Processing by Roberto G. de Almeida,Christina Manouilidou Pdf

Verbs play an important role in how events, states and other “happenings” are mentally represented and how they are expressed in natural language. Besides their central role in linguistics, verbs have long been prominent topics of research in analytic philosophy—mostly on the nature of events and predicate-argument structure—and a topic of empirical investigation in psycholinguistics, mostly on argument structure and its role in sentence comprehension. More recently, the representation of verb meaning has been gaining momentum as a topic of research in other cognitive science branches, notably neuroscience and the psychology of concepts. The present volume is an expression of this recent surge in the investigation of verb structure and meaning from the interdisciplinary perspective of cognitive science, with up-to-date contributions by theoretical linguists, philosophers, psycholinguists and neuroscientists. The volume presents new theoretical and empirical studies on how verb structure and verb meaning are represented, how they are processed during language comprehension, how they are acquired, and how they are neurologically implemented. Cognitive Science Perspectives on Verb Representation and Processing is a reflection of the recent collaboration between the disciplines that constitute cognitive science, bringing new empirical data and theoretical insights on a key element of natural language and conceptualization.

Author : Norman I. Badler,John K. Tsotsos
Publisher : New York : North-Holland
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:39015030240199

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Motion by Norman I. Badler,John K. Tsotsos Pdf

Author : Emily R. Grosholz,Emily Grosholz
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-30
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780199299737

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Representation and Productive Ambiguity in Mathematics and the Sciences by Emily R. Grosholz,Emily Grosholz Pdf

Emily Grosholz offers an original investigation of demonstration in mathematics and science, examining how it works and why it is persuasive. Focusing on geometrical demonstration, she shows the roles that representation and ambiguity play in mathematical discovery. She presents a wide range of case studies in mechanics, topology, algebra, logic, and chemistry, from ancient Greece to the present day, but focusing particularly on the seventeenth and twentieth centuries. She argues that reductive methods are effective not because they diminish but because they multiply and juxtapose modes of representation. Such problem-solving is, she argues, best understood in terms of Leibnizian 'analysis' - the search for conditions of intelligibility. Discovery and justification are then two aspects of one rational way of proceeding, which produces the mathematician's formal experience. Grosholz defends the importance of iconic, as well as symbolic and indexical, signs in mathematical representation, and argues that pragmatic, as well as syntactic and semantic, considerations are indispensable for mathematical reasoning. By taking a close look at the way results are presented on the page in mathematical (and biological, chemical, and mechanical) texts, she shows that when two or more traditions combine in the service of problem solving, notations and diagrams are sublty altered, multiplied, and juxtaposed, and surrounded by prose in natural language which explains the novel combination. Viewed this way, the texts yield striking examples of language and notation that are irreducibly ambiguous and productive because they are ambiguous. Grosholtz's arguments, which invoke Descartes, Locke, Hume, and Kant, will be of considerable interest to philosophers and historians of mathematics and science, and also have far-reaching consequences for epistemology and philosophy of language.

Author : Nancy L. Stein,Patricia J. Bauer,Mitchell Rabinowitz,George Mandler
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135635893

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Representation, Memory, and Development by Nancy L. Stein,Patricia J. Bauer,Mitchell Rabinowitz,George Mandler Pdf

A festschrift to honor Jean Mandler, this volume contains contributions from leading scholars focusing on the child's development of memory, visual representation, and language. It is appropriate for students and researchers in cognitive psychology, language acquisition, and memory.

Author : Ya-Qin Zhang
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1999-05-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 082471928X

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Visual Information Representation, Communication, and Image Processing by Ya-Qin Zhang Pdf

Discusses recent advances in the related technologies of multimedia computers, videophones, video-over-Internet, HDTV, digital satellite TV and interactive computer games. The text analyzes ways of achieving more effective navigation techniques, data management functions, and higher throughout networking. It synthesizes data on visual information venues, tracking the enormous commercial potential for new components and compatible systems.

Author : Alan Blackwell,Kim Marriott,Atsushi Shimojima
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783540212683

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Diagrammatic Representation and Inference by Alan Blackwell,Kim Marriott,Atsushi Shimojima Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference, Diagrams 2004, held in Cambridge, UK, in March 2004. The 18 revised full papers and 42 revised poster papers presented together with a survey article and the abstracts of 2 posters were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 91 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on fundamental issues, logical aspects of diagrammatic representation and reasoning, computational aspects of diagrammatic representation and reasoning, cognitive aspects of diagrammatic representation and reasoning, visualizing information with diagrams, diagrams in human-computer interaction, and diagrams in software engineering.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-21
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780128134511

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Temporal Sampling and Representation Updating by Anonim Pdf

Temporal Sampling and Representation Updating, Volume 236, addresses the gap between laboratory studies using static or predictable stimuli and the more complex change that is a characteristic of the real world. Topics in this new volume include a section on Unfolding the time course of emotion perception, Temporal sampling and representation updating for action in interception and grasping tasks, The influence of Cognitive Control and Attention on Temporal Sampling: Lessons from the Attentional Blink, Synchronizing tracking eye movements with the motion of a visual target, and Sampling feature distributions with visual search in heterogeneous displays. Contains contributions from experts in diverse fields relating to temporal sampling and representation updating Addresses the way in which we update our representations of the world when it is more unpredictable Bridges the gap between laboratory studies using static or predictable stimuli and the more complex change that is a characteristic of the real world as it unfolds over time

Author : Andrea d'Avella,Martin Giese,Yuri P Ivanenko,Thomas Schack,Tamar Flash
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : 9782889198054

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Modularity in Motor Control: From Muscle Synergies to Cognitive Action Representation by Andrea d'Avella,Martin Giese,Yuri P Ivanenko,Thomas Schack,Tamar Flash Pdf

Mastering a rich repertoire of motor behaviors, as humans and other animals do, is a surprising and still poorly understood outcome of evolution, development, and learning. Many degrees-of-freedom, non-linear dynamics, and sensory delays provide formidable challenges for controlling even simple actions. Modularity as a functional element, both structural and computational, of a control architecture might be the key organizational principle that the central nervous system employs for achieving versatility and adaptability in motor control. Recent investigations of muscle synergies, motor primitives, compositionality, basic action concepts, and related work in machine learning have contributed to advance, at different levels, our understanding of the modular architecture underlying rich motor behaviors. However, the existence and nature of the modules in the control architecture is far from settled. For instance, regularity and low-dimensionality in the motor output are often taken as an indication of modularity but could they simply be a byproduct of optimization and task constraints? Moreover, what are the relationships between modules at different levels, such as muscle synergies, kinematic invariants, and basic action concepts? One important reason for the new interest in understanding modularity in motor control from different viewpoints is the impressive development in cognitive robotics. In comparison to animals and humans, the motor skills of today’s best robots are limited and inflexible. However, robot technology is maturing to the point at which it can start approximating a reasonable spectrum of isolated perceptual, cognitive, and motor capabilities. These advances allow researchers to explore how these motor, sensory and cognitive functions might be integrated into meaningful architectures and to test their functional limits. Such systems provide a new test bed to explore different concepts of modularity and to address the interaction between motor and cognitive processes experimentally. Thus, the goal of this Research Topic is to review, compare, and debate theoretical and experimental investigations of the modular organization of the motor control system at different levels. By bringing together researchers seeking to understand the building blocks for coordinating many muscles, for planning endpoint and joint trajectories, and for representing motor and behavioral actions in memory we aim at promoting new interactions between often disconnected research areas and approaches and at providing a broad perspective on the idea of modularity in motor control. We welcome original research, methodological, theoretical, review, and perspective contributions from behavioral, system, and computational motor neuroscience research, cognitive psychology, and cognitive robotics.