Salient Points Two

Author : Tony Spagnoly,Ted Smith
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1990-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780850526103

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Salient Points Two by Tony Spagnoly,Ted Smith Pdf

Another group of stories in the Salient Points series. A collection of stories of men, their units and the actions they took part in during the conflict of 1914-1918, together with stories other points of interest along the old Western Front. Each story is supported with photographs and maps showing the area of the action as it was then, and is today. The content feature-titles are: The Black Watch; Lord Worsley at Zandvoorde; The 1st Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers at Zandvoorde; The Worcesters and the Welsh at Gheluvelt in 1914; The Youngest Soldier; Major Lanoe Hawker at Abeele Aerodrome; 16th Battalion (The Canadian Scottish) at Kichener Wood; Pond Farm; Fray Bentos at Hill 35; The Liverpool Irish at Schuler Galleries; The O'Donnell Twins; New Zealand at the village of Messines; Reconciliation at Broodseinde.

Author : Tony Spagnoly,Ted Smith
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1990-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780850527902

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Salient Points Three by Tony Spagnoly,Ted Smith Pdf

The third in the series of a collection of stories about the men the actions and the places of interest for the battlefield visitor to the old Western Front. This book features:- A Soldier for a Year (Private David Ross); - A Very British Grenadier (Captain Pixley); - An Artist at War (Ernest Carlos); - Into Battle - Julian of the ‘Ard ‘Ead Julian Grenfell); - Adolf Hitler at Ypres; - Michael O’Leary V.C. The Wild Colonial Boy; - No Prisoners for The Dorsets (The Dorsetshire Regiment at Hill 60); - Tanks at St. Julien; - Corporal McBride and the 2nd Worcesters at Neuve Eglise; - Triumph and Tragedy (The 6th DCLI at Sanctuary/Zouave woods 1915) and The Five Forgotten Mines of Messines (unexploded - and four of them still there, the other 'blew' in 1955).

Author : Tony Spagnoly,Ted Smith
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780850529326

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Salient Points Four by Tony Spagnoly,Ted Smith Pdf

Concentrating on the Ploegsteert and Neuve Eglise sectors in Belgium, this book features stories on such well known figures as sculptor Charles Sargent Jagger, ARA; R. Poulton Palmer and 'Tanky' Turner, great friends and rugby football captains of England and Scotland respectively; as well the discovery and eventual burial of a Lancashire Fusilier who was killed in action in 1914; the research leading to the erection in 2002 of a 'Believed to be buried' headstone in the Strand cemetery of an Australian killed in action at Messines in 1917; the action in 1914 that initiated the birth of the infamous 'Birdcage' on the western edge of Ploegsteert Wood and other stories of interest to enthusiasts of the Great War. Another in the Cameos of the Western Front series on men, minor actions and battlefield sites, this book, like its predecessors is an ideal 'companion' for the battlefield visitor.

Author : Michael S. Lew,Nicu Sebe,John P. Eakins
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2002-07-03
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540438991

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Image and Video Retrieval by Michael S. Lew,Nicu Sebe,John P. Eakins Pdf

Finally,wearegrateful tooursponsors,theBritishComputerSocietyInformationRetrievalSpecialist Group,theBritishMachineVisionAssociation(BMVA),theInstituteforImage DataResearch,UniversityofNorthumbria,theInstitutionofElectricalEn- neers(IEE),andtheLeidenInstituteofAdvancedComputerScience(LIACS), LeidenUniversiy. May2002 MichaelS. Lew NicuSebe JohnP. Eakins International Conference an Image andVideo Retrieval 2002 Organization Organizing Committee OrganizingCommitteeChair: JohnP. Eakins (UniversityofNorthumbria,UK) TechnicalProgramChair: MichaelS.

Author : Lipo Wang,Licheng Jiao,Guanming Shi,Xue Lu,Jing Liu
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1362 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540459163

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Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery by Lipo Wang,Licheng Jiao,Guanming Shi,Xue Lu,Jing Liu Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery, FSKD 2006, held in federation with the Second International Conference on Natural Computation ICNC 2006. The book presents 115 revised full papers and 50 revised short papers. Coverage includes neural computation, quantum computation, evolutionary computation, DNA computation, fuzzy computation, granular computation, artificial life, innovative applications to knowledge discovery, finance, operations research, and more.

Author : Alexander Gelbukh,Hugo Terashima
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1198 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005-11-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540316534

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MICAI 2005: Advances in Artificial Intelligence by Alexander Gelbukh,Hugo Terashima Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2005, held in Monterrey, Mexico, in November 2005. The 120 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 423 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on knowledge representation and management, logic and constraint programming, uncertainty reasoning, multiagent systems and distributed AI, computer vision and pattern recognition, machine learning and data mining, evolutionary computation and genetic algorithms, neural networks, natural language processing, intelligent interfaces and speech processing, bioinformatics and medical applications, robotics, modeling and intelligent control, and intelligent tutoring systems.

Author : Tony Spagnoly,Ted Smith
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1990-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780850523195

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Salient Points One by Tony Spagnoly,Ted Smith Pdf

A collection of stories of men, their units and the actions they took part in during the conflict of 1914-1918, together with stories other points of interest along the old Western Front. Each story is supported with photographs and maps showing the area of the action as it was then, and is today. The content feature-titles are: Larch Wood (Railway Cuttings) Cemetery; Second Lieutenant Keith Rae; Bellewaarde Farm; Major William Redmond; H. H. Prince Maurice of Battenberg; Major Cropper?s Craters; Sergeant Harry Combes D.C.M., R.G.A.; A Cemetery Lost; A Scottish Soldier; Along the Messines Ridge; Halloween Night 1914; A Bloodless Victory; Old Bill is Born; The Yanks are Coming; The Lost Mines of Messines; Hospitalization South of Poperinghe and Canada at Ypres.

Author : Giacomo Boracchi,Lazaros Iliadis,Chrisina Jayne,Aristidis Likas
Publisher : Springer
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319651729

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Engineering Applications of Neural Networks by Giacomo Boracchi,Lazaros Iliadis,Chrisina Jayne,Aristidis Likas Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks, EANN 2017, held in Athens, Greece, in August 2017. The 40 revised full papers and 5 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 83 submissions. The papers cover the topics of deep learning, convolutional neural networks, image processing, pattern recognition, recommendation systems, machine learning, and applications of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) applications in engineering, 5G telecommunication networks, and audio signal processing. The volume also includes papers presented at the 6th Mining Humanistic Data Workshop (MHDW 2017) and the 2nd Workshop on 5G-Putting Intelligence to the Network Edge (5G-PINE).

Author : Antonio M. López,Atsushi Imiya,Tomas Pajdla,Jose M. Álvarez
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781118868041

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Computer Vision in Vehicle Technology by Antonio M. López,Atsushi Imiya,Tomas Pajdla,Jose M. Álvarez Pdf

A unified view of the use of computer vision technology for different types of vehicles Computer Vision in Vehicle Technology focuses on computer vision as on-board technology, bringing together fields of research where computer vision is progressively penetrating: the automotive sector, unmanned aerial and underwater vehicles. It also serves as a reference for researchers of current developments and challenges in areas of the application of computer vision, involving vehicles such as advanced driver assistance (pedestrian detection, lane departure warning, traffic sign recognition), autonomous driving and robot navigation (with visual simultaneous localization and mapping) or unmanned aerial vehicles (obstacle avoidance, landscape classification and mapping, fire risk assessment). The overall role of computer vision for the navigation of different vehicles, as well as technology to address on-board applications, is analysed. Key features: Presents the latest advances in the field of computer vision and vehicle technologies in a highly informative and understandable way, including the basic mathematics for each problem. Provides a comprehensive summary of the state of the art computer vision techniques in vehicles from the navigation and the addressable applications points of view. Offers a detailed description of the open challenges and business opportunities for the immediate future in the field of vision based vehicle technologies. This is essential reading for computer vision researchers, as well as engineers working in vehicle technologies, and students of computer vision.

Author : Alexander Oliver Mader
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783753480060

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Automatic Localization of Spatially Correlated Key Points in Medical Images by Alexander Oliver Mader Pdf

The task of object localization in medical images is a corner stone of automatic image processing and a prerequisite for other medical imaging tasks. In this thesis, we present a general framework for the automatic detection and localization of spatially correlated key points in medical images based on a conditional random field (CRF). The problem of selecting suitable potential functions (knowledge sources) and defining a reasonable graph topology w.r.t. the dataset is automated by our proposed data-driven CRF optimization. We show how our fairly simple setup can be applied to different medical datasets involving different image dimensionalities (i.e., 2D and 3D), image modalities (i.e., X-ray, CT, MRI) and target objects ranging from 2 to 102 distinct key points by automatically adapting the CRF to the dataset. While the used general "default" configuration represents an easy to transfer setup, it already outperforms other state-of-the-art methods on three out of four datasets. By slightly gearing the proposed approach to the fourth dataset, we further illustrate that the approach is capable of reaching state-of-the-art performance of highly sophisticated and data-specific deep-learning-based approaches. Additionally, we suggest and evaluate solutions for common problems of graph-based approaches such as the reduced search space and thus the potential exclusion of the correct solution, better handling of spatial outliers using latent variables and the incorporation of invariant higher order potential functions. Each extension is evaluated in detail and the whole method is additionally compared to a rivaling convolutional-neural-network-based approach on a hard problem (i.e., the localization of many locally similar repetitive target key points) in terms of exploiting the spatial correlation. Finally, we illustrate how follow-up tasks, segmentation in this case, may benefit from a correct localization by reaching state-of-the-art performance using off-the-shelve methods in combination with our proposed method.

Author : Daniel Jönsson
Publisher : Linköping University Electronic Press
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789176856895

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Enhancing Salient Features in Volumetric Data Using Illumination and Transfer Functions by Daniel Jönsson Pdf

The visualization of volume data is a fundamental component in the medical domain. Volume data is used in the clinical work-flow to diagnose patients and is therefore of uttermost importance. The amount of data is rapidly increasing as sensors, such as computed tomography scanners, become capable of measuring more details and gathering more data over time. Unfortunately, the increasing amount of data makes it computationally challenging to interactively apply high quality methods to increase shape and depth perception. Furthermore, methods for exploring volume data has mostly been designed for experts, which prohibits novice users from exploring volume data. This thesis aims to address these challenges by introducing efficient methods for enhancing salient features through high quality illumination as well as methods for intuitive volume data exploration. Humans are interpreting the world around them by observing how light interacts with objects. Shadows enable us to better determine distances while shifts in color enable us to better distinguish objects and identify their shape. These concepts are also applicable to computer generated content. The perception in volume data visualization can therefore be improved by simulating real-world light interaction. This thesis presents efficient methods that are capable of interactively simulating realistic light propagation in volume data. In particular, this work shows how a multi-resolution grid can be used to encode the attenuation of light from all directions using spherical harmonics and thereby enable advanced interactive dynamic light configurations. Two methods are also presented that allow photon mapping calculations to be focused on visually changing areas.The results demonstrate that photon mapping can be used in interactive volume visualization for both static and time-varying volume data. Efficient and intuitive exploration of volume data requires methods that are easy to use and reflect the objects that were measured. A value that has been collected by a sensor commonly represents the material existing within a small neighborhood around a location. Recreating the original materials is difficult since the value represents a mixture of them. This is referred to as the partial-volume problem. A method is presented that derives knowledge from the user in order to reconstruct the original materials in a way which is more in line with what the user would expect. Sharp boundaries are visualized where the certainty is high while uncertain areas are visualized with fuzzy boundaries. The volume exploration process of mapping data values to optical properties through the transfer function has traditionally been complex and performed by expert users. A study at a science center showed that visitors favor the presented dynamic gallery method compared to the most commonly used transfer function editor.

Author : Tat-Jen Cham,Jianfei Cai,Chitra Dorai,Deepu Rajan,Tat-Seng Chua,Liang-Tien Chia
Publisher : Springer
Page : 797 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007-07-05
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540694236

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Advances in Multimedia Modeling by Tat-Jen Cham,Jianfei Cai,Chitra Dorai,Deepu Rajan,Tat-Seng Chua,Liang-Tien Chia Pdf

The two volume set LNCS 4351 and LNCS 4352 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Multimedia Modeling Conference, MMM 2007, held in Singapore in January 2007. Based on rigorous reviewing, the program committee selected 123 carefully revised full papers of the main technical sessions and 33 revised full papers of four special sessions from a total of 392 submissions for presentation in two volumes.

Author : George James Guthrie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Surgery
ISBN : OXFORD:590449290

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Lectures on some of the more important points in surgery by George James Guthrie Pdf

Author : Joan Martí,Arnau Oliver,Jordi Freixenet,Robert Martí
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-17
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642136658

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Digital Mammography by Joan Martí,Arnau Oliver,Jordi Freixenet,Robert Martí Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Digital Mammography, IWDM 2010, held in Girona, Spain, in June 2010. The 46 revised full papers and 57 revised poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 141 initial submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on CAD, image processing and analysis, breast imaging physics, physics models, clinical experiences, breast density, digital breast tomosynthesis, lesion detection, and registration.

Author : Elizabeth C. Annan-Prah
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781503568815

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BASIC BUSINESS AND ADMINISTRATIVE COMMUNICATION by Elizabeth C. Annan-Prah Pdf

This book, Basic Business and Administrative Communication, is written with the ultimate aim of providing readers with basic business communication and administrative concepts. The book considers communication as a vital tool to the success of every business, and therefore presents in-depth coverage of the following topics: • Overview of communication • Models of communication • Context, levels, media, and barriers to communication • Lines of communication • Oral communication • Non-verbal communication • Listening in business communication • Essentials of effective business writing • Written communication • Job hunting, preparing resumes and interview guidelines • Meetings as an administrative function in organisations • Requisites of valid meetings • Roles of the secretary and chairperson at meetings • Report writing • The role of information communication technology in business communication The author recognises the importance of skill development and provides practical examples of business documents such as business letters, memos, and itinerary that readers can follow to create their own to maximise their effectiveness and contribute to organisational success. The book is essential reading material for undergraduate and higher national diploma business students.