Vision [[electronic resource] ] : a computational investigation into the human representation and processing of visual information / / David Marr

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910459927603321
• Autore: Marr David <1945-1980.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, c2010
• ISBN: 1-282-63834-3; 9786612638343; 0-262-28961-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (432 p.)
• Disciplina: 612.8/4
• Soggetti: Vision - Data processing; Vision - Mathematical models; Human information processing; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Originally published: San Francisco : W.H. Freeman, c1982.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Detailed Contents; Foreword; Preface; Part I Introduction and Philosophical Preliminaries; General Introduction; Chapter 1 The Philosophy and the Approach; Part II Vision; Chapter 2 Representing the Image; Chapter 3 From Images to Surfaces; Chapter 4 The Immediate Representation of Visible Surfaces; Chapter 5 Representing Shapes for Recognition; Chapter 6 Synopsis; Part III Epilogue; Chapter 7 In Defense of the Approach; Afterword; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "David Marr's posthumously published Vision (1982) influenced a generation of brain and cognitive scientists, inspiring many to enter the field. In Vision, Marr describes a general framework for understanding visual perception and touches on broader questions about how the brain and its functions can be studied and understood. Researchers from a range of brain and cognitive sciences have long valued Marr's creativity, intellectual power, and ability to integrate insights and data from neuroscience, psychology, and computation. This MIT Press edition makes Marr's influential work available to a new generation of students and scientists. In Marr's framework, the process of vision ; constructs a set of representations, starting from a description of the input image and culminating with a description of three-dimensional objects in the surrounding environment. A central theme, and one that has had far-reaching influence in both neuroscience and cognitive science, is the notion of different levels of analysis--in Marr's framework, the computational level, the algorithmic level, and the hardware implementation level. Now, thirty years later, the main problems that occupied Marr remain fundamental open problems in the study of perception. Vision provides inspiration for the continuing efforts to integrate knowledge from cognition and computation to understand vision and the brain."--MIT CogNet.

Assessing organization agility : creating diagnostic profiles to guide transformation / / Christopher G. Worley, Thomas D. Williams, Edward E. Lawler

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910790929803321
• Autore: Worley Christopher G.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: San Francisco, California : , : Jossey-Bass, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 1-118-84705-9; 1-118-84709-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (92 p.)
• Collana: Jossey-Bass Short Format Series
• Disciplina: 658.406
• Soggetti: Organizational change; Ability - Testing; Business; Management
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Assessing Organization Agility: Creating Diagnostic Profiles to Guide Transformation; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: What Is Agility?; Strategizing; Perceiving; Testing; Implementing; Agility Routines and Performance; Summary; Chapter 2: The Agility Survey; ; Survey Development; Sample Database; In Search of Efficiency; Increasing Diagnostic Effectiveness; Sampling and Administration; Summary; Chapter 3: Scoring Guidelines; Calculate Your Agility Profile; Consider Change Recommendations; Summary; Chapter 4: Agility Profile Interpretation; Strong Implementing Scenarios (I); Weak Implementing Scenarios (i )Summary; Chapter 5: Agility Assessment Applications; Advanced Aerospace; Assessment Process; Change Considerations; Global Gigawatt and Echo Energy; Assessment Process; Change Considerations; Summary; Conclusion; Notes; About the Authors
• Sommario/riassunto: This "short format" publication would be a "tools" product that would describe how to assess an organization's level of agility. The book will feature two forms of assessment. The first form will be a longer version that replicates the agility survey used in the research leading to the book. The second form will be an 'on-line' version of the survey which will provide an interactive means for quickly diagnosing and comparing one's organization with different benchmark organizations. The short format book will describe the survey, the agility model, methods for comparing data against best p

Astroparticle, particle and space physics, detectors and medical physics applications [[electronic resource] ] : proceedings of the 9th Conference : Villa Olmo, Como, Italy, 17-21 October 2005 / / editors, Michele Barone ... [et al.]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910778371703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, c2006
• ISBN: 1-281-92490-3; 9786611924904; 981-277-367-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1162 p.)
• Collana: Astroparticle, Particle, Space Physics, Radiation Interaction, Detectors and Medical Physics Applica ; ; v.3
• Altri autori (Persone): BaroneMichele
• Disciplina: 539.7
• Soggetti: Nuclear astrophysics; Particles (Nuclear physics); Particle acceleration; Nuclear counters; Nuclear physics - Instruments; Medical physics - Instruments
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS ; Preface ; Advanced Miniaturized Detectors and Particle Identification ; A Novel Micromegas Detector for In-core Nuclear Reactor Neutron Flux Measurements ; The ALICE TPC ; The ATLAS RPC Test Stands; Performances in High Magnetic Fields of Fine-mesh Photomultipliers for Fast Time-of-flight Detectors Recent Results on GridPix Detectors: An Integrated Micromegas Grid and a Micromegas Ageing Test ; RICH Detector at Jefferson Lab Design Performance and Physics Results; Hybrid-Photon-Detectors in the LHCb RICH System Development of a Fast Transition Radiation and Tracking Detector for ; CBM at FAIR ; R&D on a Detector for Very High Momentum Charged Hadron Identification in ALICE ; The Design and Test of the ATLAS Diamond Beam Conditions Monitor; The AMS02 Transition Radiation Detector (TRD) - A Gasfilled Detector for the International Space Station A New Automatic Microscope for High Speed Analysis of Nuclear Emulsions ; A Novel Type of Proximity Focusing RICH Counter with Multiple Refractive Index Aerogel Radiator; A Subminiature Scintillation Detector for Catheter Operation Analysis of Test-beam Data from a Prototype LHCb RICH Detector ; Single Crystal CVD Diamond Detectors for Hadron Physics ; Improvement of Particle Identification by Energy Loss in a Stack of Silicon Detectors; Studies for a Fast RICH
• Sommario/riassunto: The exploration of the subnuclear world is done through increasingly complex experiments covering a wide range of energies and in a large variety of environments - from particle accelerators, underground detectors to satellites and space laboratories. For these research programs to succeed, novel techniques, new materials and new instrumentation need to be used in detectors, often on a large scale. Hence, particle physics is at the forefront of technological advancement and leads to numerous applications. Among these, medical applications have a particular importance due to the health and soc