A Recursive Vision

Author : Peter Harries-Jones
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802075918
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Recursive Vision written by Peter Harries-Jones and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gregory Bateson was one of the most original social scientists of this century. He is widely known as author of key ideas used in family therapy - including the well-known condition called 'double bind' . He was also one of the most influential figures in cultural anthropology. In the decade before his death in 1980 Bateson turned toward a consideration of ecology. Standard ecology concentrates on an ecosystem's biomass and on energy budgets supporting life. Bateson came to the conclusion that understanding ecological organization requires a complete switch in scientific perspective. He reasoned that ecological phenomena must be explained primarily through patterns of information and that only through perceiving these informational patterns will we uncover the elusive unity, or integration, of ecosystems. Bateson believed that relying upon the materialist framework of knowledge dominant in ecological science will deepen errors of interpretation and, in the end, promote eco-crisis. He saw recursive patterns of communication as the basis of order in both natural and human domains. He conducted his investigation first in small-scale social settings; then among octopus, otters, and dolphins. Later he took these investigations to the broader setting of evolutionary analysis and developed a framework of thinking he called 'an ecology of mind.' Finally, his inquiry included an ecology of mind in ecological settings - a recursive epistemology. This is the first study of the whole range of Bateson's ecological thought - a comprehensive presentaionof Bateson's matrix of ideas. Drawing on unpublished letters and papers, Harries-Jones clarifies themes scattered throughout Bateson's own writings, revealing the conceptual consistency inherent in Bateson's position, and elaborating ways in which he pioneered aspects of late twentieth-century thought.

Author : Luis Alvarez
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3642332757
Total Pages : 917 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis, Computer Vision, and Applications written by Luis Alvarez and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-08-11 with total page 917 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, CIARP 2012, held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in September 2012. The 109 papers presented, among them two tutorials and four keynotes, were carefully reviewed and selected from various submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on face and iris: detection and recognition; clustering; fuzzy methods; human actions and gestures; graphs; image processing and analysis; shape and texture; learning, mining and neural networks; medical images; robotics, stereo vision and real time; remote sensing; signal processing; speech and handwriting analysis; statistical pattern recognition; theoretical pattern recognition; and video analysis.

Author : Yuk Hui
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1786600544
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recursivity and Contingency written by Yuk Hui and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-01-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an investigation of algorithmic contingency and an elucidation of the contemporary situation that we are living in: the regular arrival of algorithmic catastrophes on a global scale. Through a historical analysis of philosophy, computation and media, this book proposes a renewed relation between nature and technics.

Author : Francis Lowenthal
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461494141
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language and Recursion written by Francis Lowenthal and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As humans, our many levels of language use distinguish us from the rest of the animal world. For many scholars, it is the recursive aspect of human speech that makes it truly human. But linguists continue to argue about what recursion actually is, leading to the central dilemma: is full recursion, as defined by mathematicians, really necessary for human language? Language and Recursion defines the elusive construct with the goal of furthering research into language and cognition. An up-to-date literature review surveys extensive findings based on non-verbal communication devices and neuroimaging techniques. Comparing human and non-human primate communication, the book’s contributors examine meaning in chimpanzee calls, and consider the possibility of a specific brain structure for recursion. The implications are then extended to formal grammars associated with artificial intelligence, and to the question of whether recursion is a valid concept at all. Among the topics covered: • The pragmatic origins of recursion. • Recursive cognition as a prelude to language. • Computer simulations of recursive exercises for a non-verbal communication device. • Early rule learning ability and language acquisition. • Computational language related to recursion, incursion, and fractals • Why there may be no recursion in language. Regardless of where one stands in the debate, Language and Recursion has much to offer the science community, particularly cognitive psychologists and researchers in the science of language. By presenting these multiple viewpoints, the book makes a solid case for eventual reconciliation.

Author : Marty Folsom
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1630873101
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Face to Face, Volume Two written by Marty Folsom and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fullness of human relating is not an accident, nor is it achieved alone. We are created to connect in this shared life as we gain tools and insights to collaborate as companions. In this second volume of Face to Face, Discovering Relational, journey with a relational theologian into the little-explored realm of personal relationships. Are you ready to discover practical steps to enter into ways of deeper knowing and being known? Allow a seasoned adventurer to guide you into moments of discovery through story, metaphor, and simple, penetrating thoughts. Written in rich and revealing language, this companion volume to Missing Love speaks wisdom toward living in joyful relationships. Discover a map to take you there in the pages of this innovative, groundbreaking book.

Author : Earl Mac Cormac
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 902728489X
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fractals of Brain, Fractals of Mind written by Earl Mac Cormac and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1996-06-28 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collective volume is the first to discuss systematically what are the possibilities to model different aspects of brain and mind functioning with the formal means of fractal geometry and deterministic chaos. At stake here is not an approximation to the way of actual performance, but the possibility of brain and mind to implement nonlinear dynamic patterns in their functioning. The contributions discuss the following topics (among others): the edge-of-chaos dynamics in recursively organized neural systems and in intersensory interaction, the fractal timing of the neural functioning on different scales of brain networking, aspects of fractal neurodynamics and quantum chaos in novel biophysics, the fractal maximum-power evolution of brain and mind, the chaotic dynamics in the development of consciousness, etc. It is suggested that the ‘margins’ of our capacity for phenomenal experience, are ‘fractal-limit phenomena’. Here the possibilities to prove the plausibility of fractal modeling with appropriate experimentation and rational reconstruction are also discussed. A conjecture is made that the brain vs. mind differentiation becomes possible, most probably, only with the imposition of appropriate symmetry groups implementing a flowing interface of features of local vs. global brain dynamics. (Series B)

Author : Mahmoud Hassaballah
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030030008
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recent Advances in Computer Vision written by Mahmoud Hassaballah and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-14 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a collection of high-quality research by leading experts in computer vision and its applications. Each of the 16 chapters can be read independently and discusses the principles of a specific topic, reviews up-to-date techniques, presents outcomes, and highlights the challenges and future directions. As such the book explores the latest trends in fashion creative processes, facial features detection, visual odometry, transfer learning, face recognition, feature description, plankton and scene classification, video face alignment, video searching, and object segmentation. It is intended for postgraduate students, researchers, scholars and developers who are interested in computer vision and connected research disciplines, and is also suitable for senior undergraduate students who are taking advanced courses in related topics. However, it is also provides a valuable reference resource for practitioners from industry who want to keep abreast of recent developments in this dynamic, exciting and profitable research field.

Author : Horst Bunke
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9789810222383
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modelling and Planning for Sensor Based Intelligent Robot Systems written by Horst Bunke and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1995 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited and reviewed volume consists of papers that were originally presented at a workshop in the Scientific Center at Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany. It gives an overview of the field and presents the latest developments in the areas of modeling and planning for sensor based robots. The particular topics addressed include active vision, sensor fusion, environment modeling, motion planning, robot navigation, distributed control architectures, reactive behavior, and others.

Author : Roberto Cipolla
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521622530
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Computer Vision for Human-Machine Interaction written by Roberto Cipolla and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-07-13 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading scientists describe how advances in computer vision can change how we interact with computers.

Author : Daniel Chavez Heras
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1399514733
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cinema and Machine Vision written by Daniel Chavez Heras and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cinema and Machine Vision unfolds the aesthetic, epistemic, and ideological dimensions of machine-seeing films and television using computers. With its critical-technical approach, this book presents to the reader key new problems that arise as AI becomes integral to visual culture. It theorises machine through a selection of aesthetics, film theory, and applied machine learning research, dispelling widely held assumptions about computer systems designed to watch and make images on our behalf.At its heart, Cinema and Machine Vision is an invitation for film and media scholars to critically engage with AI at a technical level, a prompt for scientists and engineers working with images and cultural data to critically reflect on where their assumptions about vision come from, and a joint recognition of the fruitful problems of working together to understand the algorithmic governance of the visual.