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3-D Shape Estimation and Image Restoration

Exploiting Defocus and Motion-Blur

By: Paolo Favaro,Stefano Soatto

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3-D Shape Estimation and Image Restoration

Exploiting Defocus and Motion-Blur

By: Paolo Favaro,Stefano Soatto

In the areas of image processing and computer vision, there is a particular need for software that can, given an unfocused or motion-blurred image, infer the three-dimensional shape of a scene. This book describes the analytical processes that go into designing such software, delineates the options open to programmers, and presents original algorithms. Written for readers with interests in image processing and computer vision and with backgrounds in engineering, science or mathematics, this highly practical text/reference is accessible to advanced students or those with a degree that includes basic linear algebra and calculus courses.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1846286883

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9781846286889

The Lynx and the Telescope

The Parallel Worlds of Cesi and Galileo

By: Paolo Galluzzi

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The Lynx and the Telescope

The Parallel Worlds of Cesi and Galileo

By: Paolo Galluzzi

The Lynx and the Telescope challenges the traditional interpretation of a programmatic convergence between the visions of Galileo and Cesi’s Academy, while offering a new interpretation of the dynamics that led to the condemnation of Galileo in 1633.

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BRILL

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900434232X

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9789004342323

Suicide in Psychiatric Disorders

By: Roberto Tatarelli,Maurizio Pompili,Paolo Girardi

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Suicide in Psychiatric Disorders

By: Roberto Tatarelli,Maurizio Pompili,Paolo Girardi

The main purpose of this book is to provide the first comprehensive analysis of suicide in psychiatric patients. 95 per cent of those who commit suicide had a psychiatric disorder and yet suicide is rarely investigated in psychiatric patients. The book provides a relevant contribution to the prediction and prevention of suicide. This is a first book devoted to the subject with comprehensive chapters, including epidemiology, risk factors, preventive strategies and available treatments.

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414

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Nova Publishers

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1600217389

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9781600217388

“Don’t Disturb my Masterpiece!”

Towards an Ecology of Learning

By: Paolo Palmieri

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“Don’t Disturb my Masterpiece!”

Towards an Ecology of Learning

By: Paolo Palmieri

This book explores a philosophy of learning inspired by humanistic ideals. It reflects on the transformative possibilities opened up by active engagement with experiential domains. It draws attention to epoch-making transformations in the history of Western civilization that have exposed the dynamic relation between conscience, emotions, and learning. An ecological model of learning is proposed that emphasizes emotional, ethical, and cognitive learning as holistic processes. The model focuses on the pragmatics of learning, the creativity of improvisation, rhetorically mediated experience, emotional settings, and the education of the senses. The book is based on an inclusive worldview. Its fundamental tenet is that rational inquiry, emotions, and morality form a continuum in human nature. Hence the book envisions novel scenarios, where learners are valued for their genuine struggle to realize their humane masterpieces.

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270

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443843466

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9781443843461

Austro-Hungarian Albatros Aces of World War 1

By: Paolo Varriale

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Austro-Hungarian Albatros Aces of World War 1

By: Paolo Varriale

A detailed account of how aces of the calibre of Brumowski, Kiss and Linke-Crawford did their best in their Albatros fighters, which often sported colourful and fanciful insignias. Austro-Hungarian industry produced a series of poor fighter types such as the Phönix D I and Hansa-Brandenburg D I during the early stages of the war, and it was not until licence-built examples of the battle-proven Albatros and D II and D III began to reach Fliegerkompagnien, or Fliks, in May 1917 that the fortunes of pilots began to look up. Unlike the German-built Albatrosen, the Oeffag aircraft were far more robust than German D IIs and D IIIs. They also displayed superior speed, climb, manoeuvrability and infinitely safer flight characteristics. The careful cross-checking of Allied sources with Austrian and German records form the basis for a detailed reconstruction of the dogfights fought by the leading aces. It will also chart the careers of the Austro-Hungarian aces that flew the D II and D III, their successes and their defeats, with additional information about their personal background and their post-war lives in the nations born from the collapse of the Hapsburg Empire.

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158

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1780961154

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9781780961156

The Italian Renaissance of Machines

By: Paolo Galluzzi

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The Italian Renaissance of Machines

By: Paolo Galluzzi

The Renaissance was not just a rebirth of the mind. It was also a new dawn for the machine. When we celebrate the achievements of the Renaissance, we instinctively refer, above all, to its artistic and literary masterpieces. During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, however, the Italian peninsula was the stage of a no-less-impressive revival of technical knowledge and practice. In this rich and lavishly illustrated volume, Paolo Galluzzi guides readers through a singularly inventive period, capturing the fusion of artistry and engineering that spurred some of the Renaissance’s greatest technological breakthroughs. Galluzzi traces the emergence of a new and important historical figure: the artist-engineer. In the medieval world, innovators remained anonymous. By the height of the fifteenth century, artist-engineers like Leonardo da Vinci were sought after by powerful patrons, generously remunerated, and exhibited in royal and noble courts. In an age that witnessed continuous wars, the robust expansion of trade and industry, and intense urbanization, these practitioners—with their multiple skills refined in the laboratory that was the Renaissance workshop—became catalysts for change. Renaissance masters were not only astoundingly creative but also championed a new concept of learning, characterized by observation, technical know-how, growing mathematical competence, and prowess at the draftsman’s table. The Italian Renaissance of Machines enriches our appreciation for Taccola, Giovanni Fontana, and other masters of the quattrocento and reveals how da Vinci’s ambitious achievements paved the way for Galileo’s revolutionary mathematical science of mechanics.

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297

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Harvard University Press

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0674242327

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9780674242326

Cosmology in the Early Modern Age: A Web of Ideas

By: Paolo Bussotti,Brunello Lotti

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Cosmology in the Early Modern Age: A Web of Ideas

By: Paolo Bussotti,Brunello Lotti

This volume addresses the history and epistemology of early modern cosmology. The authors reconstruct the development of cosmological ideas in the age of ‘scientific revolution’ from Copernicus to Leibniz, taking into account the growth of a unified celestial-and-terrestrial mechanics. The volume investigates how, in the rise of the new science, cosmology displayed deep and multifaceted interrelations between scientific notions (stemming from mechanics, mathematics, geometry, astronomy) and philosophical concepts. These were employed to frame a general picture of the universe, as well as to criticize and interpret scientific notions and observational data. This interdisciplinary work reconstructs a conceptual web pervaded by various intellectual attitudes and drives. It presents an historical–epistemological unified itinerary which includes Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Descartes, Huygens, Newton and Leibniz. For each of the scientists and philosophers, a presentation and commentary is made of their cosmological views, and where relevant, outlines of their most relevant physical concepts are given. Furthermore, the authors highlight the philosophical and epistemological implications of their scientific works. This work is helpful both as a synthetic overview of early modern cosmology, and an analytical exposition of the elements that were intertwined in early-modern cosmology. This book addresses historians, philosophers, and scientists and can also be used as a research source book by post-graduate students in epistemology, history of science and history of philosophy.

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346

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Springer Nature

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3031121953

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9783031121951

In Step with the Times

Mapiko Masquerades of Mozambique

By: Paolo Israel

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In Step with the Times

Mapiko Masquerades of Mozambique

By: Paolo Israel

The helmet-shaped mapiko masks of Mozamxadbique have garnered admiration from African art scholars and collectors alike, due to their striking aesthetics and their grotesque allure. This book restores to mapiko its historic and artistic context, charting in detail the transformations of this masquerading tradition throughout the twentieth century. Based on field research spanning seven years, this study shows how mapiko has undergone continuous reinvention by visionary individuals, has diversified into genres with broad generational appeal, and has enacted historical events and political engagements. This dense history of creativity and change has been sustained by a culture of competition deeply ingrained within the logic of ritual itself. The desire to outshine rivals on the dance ground drives performers to search for the new, the astonishing, and the topical. It is this spirit of rivalry and one-upmanship that keeps mapiko attuned to the times that it traverses. In Step with the Times is illustrated with vibrant photographs of mapiko masks and performances. It marks the most radical attempt to date to historicize an African performative tradition.

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349

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Ohio University Press

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0821444867

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9780821444863

3-D Shape Estimation and Image Restoration

Exploiting Defocus and Motion-Blur

By: Paolo Favaro,Stefano Soatto

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3-D Shape Estimation and Image Restoration

Exploiting Defocus and Motion-Blur

By: Paolo Favaro,Stefano Soatto

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The Present Image

Visible Stories in a Digital Habitat

By: Paolo S. H. Favero

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The Present Image

Visible Stories in a Digital Habitat

By: Paolo S. H. Favero

The Present Image explores the world of images in the contemporary, increasingly digitized, habitats of the world. Moving across a theoretical spectrum that brings visual and digital culture in touch with anthropology, political theory, phenomenology and art-history, and based on the author’s practice-based involvement with images, the book argues against the idea of the digital as a revolution in the world of images. “Present images” are the result of a dialectic between the material and the immaterial, the manual and the mechanical, the visible and the audible, the old and the new. Offering an analysis containing simultaneously elements of timeliness and timelessness, the book addressed practices such as VR and 360 degrees, iDocs and action cameras in a dialogue with classical art, religious iconography, early photography and contemporary art. In the final chapter the book explores the significance of images and image-making in the context of dying, mourning and living.

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3319694995

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Book's by Paolo Favaro

3-D Shape Estimation and Image Restoration

3-D Shape Estimation and Image Restoration

The Lynx and the Telescope

The Lynx and the Telescope

Suicide in Psychiatric Disorders

Suicide in Psychiatric Disorders

“Don’t Disturb my Masterpiece!”

“Don’t Disturb my Masterpiece!”

Austro-Hungarian Albatros Aces of World War 1

Austro-Hungarian Albatros Aces of World War 1

The Italian Renaissance of Machines

The Italian Renaissance of Machines

Cosmology in the Early Modern Age: A Web of Ideas

Cosmology in the Early Modern Age: A Web of Ideas

In Step with the Times

In Step with the Times

3-D Shape Estimation and Image Restoration

3-D Shape Estimation and Image Restoration

The Present Image

The Present Image

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