scholarly journals ILRA: Novelty Detection in Face-Based Intervener Re-Identification

Symmetry ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 1154
Author(s):  
Pedro A. Marín-Reyes ◽  
Itziar Irigoien ◽  
Basilio Sierra ◽  
Javier Lorenzo-Navarro ◽  
Modesto Castrillón-Santana ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Novelty Detection ◽  
Identification Problem ◽  
Open World ◽  
Closed World ◽  
Average Improvement ◽  
The Face ◽  
One Class Classifier ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Audio Streams

Transparency laws facilitate citizens to monitor the activities of political representatives. In this sense, automatic or manual diarization of parliamentary sessions is required, the latter being time consuming. In the present work, this problem is addressed as a person re-identification problem. Re-identification is defined as the process of matching individuals under different camera views. This paper, in particular, deals with open world person re-identification scenarios, where the captured probe in one camera is not always present in the gallery collected in another one, i.e., determining whether the probe belongs to a novel identity or not. This procedure is mandatory before matching the identity. In most cases, novelty detection is tackled applying a threshold founded in a linear separation of the identities. We propose a threshold-less approach to solve the novelty detection problem, which is based on a one-class classifier and therefore it does not need any user defined threshold. Unlike other approaches that combine audio-visual features, an Isometric LogRatio transformation of a posteriori (ILRA) probabilities is applied to local and deep computed descriptors extracted from the face, which exhibits symmetry and can be exploited in the re-identification process unlike audio streams. These features are used to train the one-class classifier to detect the novelty of the individual. The proposal is evaluated in real parliamentary session recordings that exhibit challenging variations in terms of pose and location of the interveners. The experimental evaluation explores different configuration sets where our system achieves significant improvement on the given scenario, obtaining an average F measure of 71.29% for online analyzed videos. In addition, ILRA performs better than face descriptors used in recent face-based closed world recognition approaches, achieving an average improvement of 1.6% with respect to a deep descriptor.

scholarly journals BUSINESS PLAN OF A UNIVERSITY PRESS TO THE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF PLOVDIV

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 1663-1670
Author(s):  
Kristina Kilova ◽  
Desislava Bakova ◽  
Nonka Mateva ◽  
Zhivko Peychev ◽  
Antoniya Yaneva
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Output ◽  
The Public ◽  
University Life ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
The Face ◽  
Access To Books ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University ◽  
Medical University

The creation of a University Press is a prerequisite for raising the reputation of the Medical University - Plovdiv. With its significant scientific output and the large number of students, it will represent the face of the University in front of the scientific communities and will be an important element of the national and international interuniversity communication. By documenting the individual qualities of the teachers, knowledge is preserved and its development is assisted, thus meeting the public demands. Without a developed publishing activity, it is difficult to evolve the creative potential of teachers and students. The University Press, on the one hand, is a real participant in the learning process, as it facilitates students' access to books as well as novelties in science. On the other hand, it is also a natural center of university life.

The Openness of Life-world and the Intercultural Polylogue

2020 ◽  
Vol 2019 (4) ◽  
pp. 150-162
Author(s):  
Wang Jun
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Philosophy ◽  
Life World ◽  
Open World ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Interactive Relationship ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Difference And Equality ◽  
Open Nature ◽  
Intercultural Philosophy

AbstractThe phenomenological conception of “life-world” lays the theoretical foundation for the openness of the world. The founding relationship between the individual and the world, the interactive relationship among different cultural worlds on the intersubjective level, the free nature of truth and its presence in the open world, the “ek-sistent” characteristics of the human-being, the structural constitution of the life-world – all these topics demonstrate the open nature of the world in a phenomenological way. Based on these ideas, “reflective judgment” as “phronesis” and “fear” as ethic sentiment based on family experience become the practical stance, which is consistent with the “life-world” conception of phenomenology; the characteristics of publicness and intersubjectivity of the open world are thus maintained. In the face of the multicultural world, this attitude presents as a brand-new practice of intercultural philosophy, which is different from the centralism found under the framework of monism and the comparative philosophy under the framework of dualism. Such a practice of intercultural philosophy is “polylog”, i.e. based on the principles of difference and equality and searching for the “overlapping consensus” in full multi-participatory discussion. Through polylog, a harmonious life of human community is constructed. This paper attempts to derive a set of practical principles for maintaining the openness of the world and intercultural polylog in the era of globalization from the theoretical view of the phenomenological life-world.

scholarly journals A SKELETON FEATURES-BASED FALL DETECTION USING MICROSOFT KINECT V2 WITH ONE CLASS-CLASSIFIER OUTLIER REMOVAL

2019 ◽  
Vol XLII-2/W12 ◽  
pp. 189-195
Author(s):  
O. S. Seredin ◽  
A. V. Kopylov ◽  
S.-C. Huang ◽  
D. S. Rodionov
Keyword(s):  
Fall Detection ◽  
Microsoft Kinect ◽  
Compact Representation ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Kinect V2 ◽  
Depth Sensors ◽  
Individual Decisions ◽  
One Class Classifier ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> The real-time and robust fall detection is one of the key components of elderly people care and monitoring systems. Depth sensors, as they became more available, occupy an increasing place in event recognition systems. Some of them can directly produce a skeletal description of the human figure for compact representation of a person’s posture. Skeleton description makes the output of source video or detailed information about the depth outside the system unnecessary and raises the privacy of the entire system. Based on a comparative study of different RGB-D cameras, the most promising model for further development was chosen - Microsoft Kinect v2. The TST Fall Detection Dataset v2 is used here as a base for experiments. The proposed algorithm is based on the skeleton features encoding on the sequence of neighboring frames and support vector machine classifier. A version of a cumulative sum method is applied for combining the individual decisions on the consecutive frames. It is offered to use the one-class classifier for detection of low-quality skeletons. The 0.958 accuracy of our fall detection procedure was obtained in the cross-validation procedure based on the removal of records of a particular person from the database (Leave-one-Person-out).</p>

Elasticity Solutions for a Sandwich Orthotropic Cylindrical Shell Under External/Internal Pressure, and Axial Load

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
George A. Kardomateas
Keyword(s):  
Internal Pressure ◽  
Axial Load ◽  
Orthotropic Cylindrical Shell ◽  
Sandwich Shell ◽  
Cylindrical Sandwich Shell ◽  
Sandwich Construction ◽  
The Face ◽  
Elasticity Solutions ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual

Abstract The elasticity solution is constructed for a cylindrical sandwich shell under external and/or internal pressure and for the same shell under axial load. The solution is an extension of the one for a homogeneous, monolithic shell and is provided in closed form. All three phases, i.e., the two face-sheets and the core are assumed to be orthotropic. Moreover, there are no restrictions as far as the individual thicknesses of the face-sheets and the sandwich construction may even be asymmetric. These solutions can be used as benchmarks for assessing the performance of various sandwich shell theories. Illustrative results are provided in comparison to the sandwich shell theory.

The Political Cultures of the contado

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Gamberini
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Social Group ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Cultures ◽  
The Face ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Culture Of Violence

This chapter analyses power relations in the countryside, focusing on the relationships between the lords of the castle and the dependent peasants. The aim is twofold: on the one hand, to highlight the absence of a shared political culture and, on the other, to describe the individual ideas of each social group (the culture of violence promulgated by the lords, the attempt to establish pacts on the part of the peasants, the role of conflict in implementing political ties, etc.). In the face of such divergence, the chapter investigates the ways in which opposing political cultures could coexist and interact.

Identity and Meaningful/Meaningless Work

2019 ◽  
pp. 132-147
Author(s):  
Nancy H. Harding
Keyword(s):  
Meaningful Work ◽  
The Other ◽  
Labor Process ◽  
Process Theory ◽  
Neoliberal Capitalism ◽  
Organizational Constraints ◽  
Labor Process Theory ◽  
The Face ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual

This chapter draws on labor process theory to argue that the discourse of meaningfulness in the context of neoliberal capitalism may represent a means for organizations to control and manipulate individual identities. A “politics of meaningful work” is proposed that demonstrates how individuals move between abject alienation on the one hand and the proud identity associated with meaningful work on the other. Drawing on Marx’s notions of the alienated self, the chapter argues that meaningless work is alienated work since it is associated with the production of a commoditized self. Both meaningful and meaningless work can coexist through the notion of emplacements. Where the individual is subject to the managerial gaze and work is routinized and controlled, alienation is the outcome. In other emplacements, meaningfulness and a non-alienated self arise outside formal organizational constraints. A sense of meaningfulness may arise even in the face of neoliberalist attempts to quash it.

scholarly journals The problem of information hygiene and the relevance of late-antique ethics

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 399-406
Author(s):  
Alexander Pylkin ◽  
Vera Serkova ◽  
Maria Pylkina
Keyword(s):  
Brain Structures ◽  
Editorial Office ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Active Growth ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Face ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Concept Of Information

Today a completely new type of reality – «digital reality» – is being formed, which entails new challenges for individuals and society. Deep involvement in digital reality and the active use of its technical mediators creates a load on the psychophysics of the individual, which, especially in the stage of active growth, not only deforms behavioral patterns, but can also influence the formation of brain structures. Educational practices, through which society helped the individual to form their identity, lose their former certainty in the digital dimension. As a response to these challenges at the turn of the XX-XXI centuries, the concept of information hygiene was formed within the medical sciences, describing ways to minimize the destructive effects of the information environment. However, developed for a narrow field, this concept does not take into account the fact that psychophysical transformations under the influence of destructive influences of modern media threaten to destroy the basic constants of the human body. Positivist medicine, due to the specificity of its subject, does not see the eschatological horizon of the problem, on which the contours of our «posthuman future» are already clearly outlined. At this point, philosophy can and should recall that at the dawn of European civilization, medicine was inseparably an ethical program: a single set of practices – ascetic, hygienic, and mental-aimed not only at minimizing destructive influences but also at discovering and cultivating the individual's own humanity. Thus, in this article, the concept of information hygiene is thematized taking into account its historical and philosophical implications. On the one hand, it is intended to reflect the current specifics of the challenges, on the other – to take into account the experience of preventing destructive influences, practiced by late-antique philosophers in the status of «healers of the soul». For the empirical verification of this concept, the authors performed the following experiment. A group of first-year students were asked to spend a day without the Internet and describe their feelings and thoughts. The analysis of spontaneous ways to overcome deep involvement in digital reality allowed us to identify the most adequate forms of minimizing its destructive influences: avoidance of active leisure in the real world. These forms were in tune with the late-antique practices of self-care in the editorial office of the Epicurean school. This broader ethical consideration of information hygiene opens the way for theming a comprehensive approach to the problem of human survival in the face of digital reality

scholarly journals Supervision as a Kind of Qualitative Evaluation

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 178
Author(s):  
Maria Grazia Riva ◽  
Nikoleta Ratsika
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Evaluation ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Educational Models ◽  
The Face ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual

<p><em>The contribution presents a reflection on supervision as one of the possible forms of qualitative evaluation, in the field of work with adult educators. Supervision structures a context where theory and practice, emotions and cognitions, values, representations and fears, anxieties and conflicts can be made to dialogue in continuation. The supervisor continuously offers feedback and interpretations to the educators, thanks to attentive listening and decodes what they express. The constructivist approach to Evaluation, on the one hand, gives full value to the subjectivity of the actors involved in the evaluation process and aims to interpret and understand. So, we can call it hermeneutic evaluation (Perla, 2004). Hermeneutic evaluation sets the problem of finding the meaning of the points of view of the participants. This is where the meeting point with the supervision activity, which consists precisely of a practice guided by a leader who helps the educators to better understand their theoretical frameworks of reference and their basic educational models, lies. Supervision and Evaluation therefore represent two important tools for developing the professionalism of the operators, as shown by the case-study analyzed. The practice of supervision is part of a path of  lifelong learning and education (Oggionni, 2013; Zannini, 2005), which passes through experimentation, evaluation and redesigning, in the face of constant monitoring of the needs and learning of the individual and of the team.</em></p><p> </p>

scholarly journals Getting married in times of COVID-19 : Structure, agency, and individual decision making

Intersections ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 259-278
Author(s):  
Judit Flóra Balatonyi
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Structural Constraints ◽  
Individual Decision ◽  
Individual Decision Making ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Face ◽  
Legal Structures ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual

Based on my digital anthropological research (nethnography, online surveys, and in-depth interviews) this paper will examine the individual decision-making processes and choices related to getting married during times of COVID-19 in Hungary. The paper raises questions about the extent to which these choices and decisions were individual and reflexive, and how they were influenced or restricted by legal structures and contexts. Using classical and contemporary social theories about decision-making (structuralist and reflexive approaches), on the one hand I aim to explore the structural and contextual circumstances of making decisions about whether to go ahead with, hold-off, modify, postpone, or cancel wedding plans. On the other hand, I study the individual ‘decision horizons’ as well. Through examining discourses surrounding weddings as well as through case studies, I look at how social actors identify and perceive their options and how they perceive and interpret the related structural constraints, contexts, and rules. The results emphasize that despite – or rather in the face of – changing circumstances, many couples sought new opportunities and new means of adapting, but in the meantime they recognized and interpreted the structural constraints that could potentially influence their weddings, maneuvered between them, or just overcame or circumvented them, and at other times sought to create new structures through their individual and community practices.

My face is yours: facial recognition software and copyright ownership

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 138-146
Author(s):  
Danae Bacells Moline
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
Facial Recognition ◽  
Facial Features ◽  
End User ◽  
Biometric Data ◽  
The Face ◽  
Copyright Ownership ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Recognition Software

The popular NBA 2K series include a facial recognition software that scans the user's face to generate a lookalike avatar. However, end user licence agreements provide for all intellectual property rights, including copyright, to be licensed or assigned to game publishers or developers. Consequently, the user may have no say whether an avatar with their facial features may be used, for instance in advertising for the game. In addition, the facial features stored in the game may be biometric data, and thus subject to strict data protection rules. This paper will analyse whether the avatar generated using a face scan is a copyrightable work of authorship. The analysis questions whether the face scan fits into different categories of works; photography, film and databases, including the sui generis photography and database rights. It concludes that copyright fails to protect the individual's facial features. Even so, the ownership clause in licence agreements on the one hand and the facial features as biometric data on the other further complicate the question of what the individual can assert as his own.

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