Asian Research on English for Specific Purposes : Proceedings of the First Symposium on Asia English for Specific Purposes, 2017 / / edited by Youzhong Sun, Liwen Li, Hong Cai

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910410012103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020
• ISBN: 9789811510373; 9811510377
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2020.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1,280 pages)
• Disciplina: 428.007105
• Soggetti: Language and languages - Study and teaching; Language Teaching and Learning; Language Education
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Getting Published in Peer-Reviewed Journals: Advice for Beginning Academic Authors -- 2. Using an Outside-Expert, Conversational ESP Stimulus to Motivate Chinese ELL Students -- 3. Developing Four English-in-the-Discipline Courses for University Studies in Hong Kong -- 4. Exploratory Practice in an Intensive English-Language Bridging Course for Foreign Nursing Students: Thinking in English -- 5. “Revenge of the Schwa”: A Metaphor for Teaching English Word Stress in Academic Vocabulary -- 6. A Comparative Study of Attitude Resources in English and Chinese Business News Based on Appraisal Theory -- 7. Course Design of EPC from the Perspective of Discursive Competences: A Case in Chongqing University -- 8. Rethinking the Significance of Ma Jianzhong's “Proposal on Establishing a Translation Academy” from the Perspective of ESP Translation Teaching in the 21st Century -- 9. Communication in a Web of Relationship: Evaluation of an ESP Programme with a Blended Teaching Mode -- 10. Exploring the Identity Formation of Chinese ESP Learners -- 11. The Problems Novice Chinese Academic Writers Face in Achieving Complexity in Academic Writing – a Corpus-Driven Approach Focused on Nominal Expressions with Of-Phrases as Post-Modifiers -- 12. The Construction of ESP Teacher Professional Community in Universities -- 13. On the Teaching ; Reform of ESP Course: Hotel English -- 14. Non-English Major Undergraduates’ Perceptions of Business English Learning and Teaching and Curriculum Adaptation in a Chinese University -- 15. Final Paper as Portfolio: An Academic Writing Assessment for Incipient College Student Writers from Large Classes -- 16. Interaction and Collaboration in International Office’s Help Desk Setting.
• Sommario/riassunto: English for Specific Purposes (ESP), addressing the communicative needs and practices of particular professional or occupational groups, has developed rapidly in the past fifty years and is now a major force in English language teaching and research. This critical volume helps innovate the theory, practice, and methodology for ESP teaching and research in Asian countries and areas. Promoting communication and enhancing cooperation on ESP research and pedagogy across cultures, it provides ESP scholars, educators and practitioners with an opportunity to benefit from each other’s research and expertise in an age of globalization and digitalization. The volume provides an in-depth analysis of the latest scholarship on English teaching and research for general and specific academic and occupational purposes; the intercultural communication in ESP contexts; corpus linguistics and data-driven instruction for ESP; computer-assisted language learning and mobile-assisted language learning; evaluation of English writing courses; and ESP translation strategies.

Computer Vision -- ECCV 2010 : 11th European Conference on Computer Vision, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, September 5-11, 2010, Proceedings, Part II / / edited by Kostas Daniilidis, Petros Maragos, Nikos Paragios

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910483838803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2010
• ISBN: 3-642-15552-9
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2010.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XXIII, 813 p. 340 illus.)
• Collana: Image Processing, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, and Graphics, , 3004-9954 ; ; 6312
• Altri autori (Persone): DaniilidisKostas; MaragosPetros; ParagiosNikos
• Disciplina: 006.6; 006.37
• Soggetti: Computer vision; Pattern recognition systems; Image processing - Digital techniques; Biometric identification; Computer graphics; Algorithms; Computer Vision; Automated Pattern Recognition; Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics; Biometrics; Computer Graphics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Spotlights and Posters M2 -- Resampling Structure from Motion -- Sequential Non-Rigid Structure-from-Motion with the 3D-Implicit Low-Rank Shape Model -- Bundle Adjustment in the Large -- Sparse Non-linear Least Squares Optimization for Geometric Vision -- Geometric Image Parsing in Man-Made Environments -- Euclidean Structure ; Recovery from Motion in Perspective Image Sequences via Hankel Rank Minimization -- Exploiting Loops in the Graph of Trifocal Tensors for Calibrating a Network of Cameras -- Efficient Structure from Motion by Graph Optimization -- Conjugate Gradient Bundle Adjustment -- NF-Features – No-Feature-Features for Representing Non-textured Regions -- Detecting Large Repetitive Structures with Salient Boundaries -- Fast Covariance Computation and Dimensionality Reduction for Sub-window Features in Images -- Binary Coherent Edge Descriptors -- Adaptive and Generic Corner Detection Based on the Accelerated Segment Test -- Spatially-Sensitive Affine-Invariant Image Descriptors -- Object Classification Using Heterogeneous Co-occurrence Features -- Maximum Margin Distance Learning for Dynamic Texture Recognition -- Image Invariants for Smooth Reflective Surfaces -- Visibility Subspaces: Uncalibrated Photometric Stereo with Shadows -- Ring-Light Photometric Stereo -- Shape from Second-Bounce of Light Transport -- A Dual Theory of Inverse and Forward Light Transport -- Lighting Aware Preprocessing for Face Recognition across Varying Illumination -- Detecting Ground Shadows in Outdoor Consumer Photographs -- The Semi-explicit Shape Model for Multi-object Detection and Classification -- Humans and Faces -- Coupled Gaussian Process Regression for Pose-Invariant Facial Expression Recognition -- Bilinear Kernel Reduced Rank Regression for Facial Expression Synthesis -- Multi-class Classification on Riemannian Manifolds for Video Surveillance -- Modeling Temporal Structure of Decomposable Motion Segments for Activity Classification -- Cascaded Models for Articulated Pose Estimation -- Spotlightsand Posters T1 -- State Estimation in a Document Image and Its Application in Text Block Identification and Text Line Extraction -- Discriminative Learning with Latent Variables for Cluttered Indoor Scene Understanding -- Simultaneous Segmentation and Figure/Ground Organization Using Angular Embedding -- Cosegmentation Revisited: Models and Optimization -- Optimal Contour Closure by Superpixel Grouping -- Fast and Exact Primal-Dual Iterations for Variational Problems in Computer Vision -- An Experimental Study of Color-Based Segmentation Algorithms Based on the Mean-Shift Concept -- Towards More Efficient and Effective LP-Based Algorithms for MRF Optimization -- Energy Minimization under Constraints on Label Counts -- A Fast Dual Method for HIK SVM Learning -- Weakly-Paired Maximum Covariance Analysis for Multimodal Dimensionality Reduction and Transfer Learning -- Optimizing Complex Loss Functions in Structured Prediction -- A Novel Parameter Estimation Algorithm for the Multivariate t-Distribution and Its Application to Computer Vision -- LACBoost and FisherBoost: Optimally Building Cascade Classifiers -- A Shrinkage Learning Approach for Single Image Super-Resolution with Overcomplete Representations -- Object of Interest Detection by Saliency Learning -- Boundary Detection Using F-Measure-, Filter- and Feature- (F3) Boost -- Unsupervised Learning of Functional Categories in Video Scenes -- Automatic Learning of Background Semantics in Generic Surveilled Scenes -- Why Did the Person Cross the Road (There)? Scene Understanding Using Probabilistic Logic Models and Common Sense Reasoning -- A Data-Driven Approach for Event Prediction -- Activities as Time Series of Human Postures -- Fast Approximate Nearest Neighbor Methods for Non-Euclidean Manifolds with Applications to Human Activity Analysis in Videos -- The Quadratic-Chi Histogram Distance Family -- Membrane Nonrigid Image Registration -- Affine Puzzle: Realigning Deformed Object Fragments without Correspondences -- Location RecognitionUsing Prioritized Feature Matching.
• Sommario/riassunto: The 2010 edition of the European Conference on Computer Vision was held in Heraklion, Crete. The call for papers attracted an absolute record of 1,174 submissions. We describe here the selection of the accepted papers: Thirty-eight area chairs were selected coming from Europe (18), USA and Canada (16), and Asia (4). Their selection was based on the following criteria: (1) Researchers who had served at least two times as Area Chairs within the past two years at major vision conferences were excluded; (2) Researchers who served as Area Chairs at the 2010 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition were also excluded (exception: ECCV 2012 Program Chairs); (3) Minimization of overlap introduced by Area Chairs being former student and advisors; (4) 20% of the Area Chairs had never served before in a major conference; (5) The Area Chair selection process made all possible efforts to achieve a reasonable geographic distribution between countries, thematic areas and trends in computer vision. EachArea Chair was assigned by the Program Chairs between 28–32 papers. Based on paper content, the Area Chair recommended up to seven potential reviewers per paper. Such assignment was made using all reviewers in the database including the conflicting ones. The Program Chairs manually entered the missing conflict domains of approximately 300 reviewers. Based on the recommendation of the Area Chairs, three reviewers were selected per paper (with at least one being of the top three suggestions), with 99.