Lorenzo Magalotti at the court of Charles II : his Relazione d'Inghilterra of 1668 / / Lorenzo Magalotti ; W.E. Knowles Middleton, editor & translator

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910961345503321
• Autore: Magalotti Lorenzo, conte, <1637-1712.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c1980
• ISBN: 9786613810694; 9781554585502; 1554585503; 9781282232952; 1282232959; 9780889206847; 0889206848
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 161 pages)
• Altri autori (Persone): MiddletonW. E. Knowles <1902-1998.> (William Edgar Knowles)
• Disciplina: 941.06/6
• Soggetti: Great Britain History Stuarts, 1603-1714; Great Britain Politics and government 1660-1688; England Description and travel Early works to 1800; Great Britain Court and courtiers Early works to 1800
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Translation of: Relazione d'Inghilterra, 1668.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations for Archives, Libraries, and Works of Reference -- Introduction -- An Account of England in the Year 1667-68 -- Intrigues at the Court of England -- The Bodyguard of the King, the Duke, and the General -- Standing Regiments -- The Naval Forces -- Status of the English Court -- On the Nobility of England in General -- The Lower House, or House of Commons -- The City of London -- The Realms of Ireland and Scotland -- Possessions of the English Crown Inside and Outside Europe -- Celebrated Men of Letters in England -- The More Distinguished People at the University of Cambridge -- Professors at the University of Oxford -- English Poets24 -- Index of Some Exceptional Books by English Authors33 -- The More Famous Artists of ; London -- Beautiful Ladies of London -- Index of Persons
• Sommario/riassunto: In the late 1660s the English court received a visitor from Florence—Lorenzo Magalotti, an intelligent, sensitive writer and diplomat with a passion for observation and description. Magalotti had come from a state governed by an absolute grand duke to a kingdom engaged in a fierce struggle for political liberty, and from a society in which the sexual behaviour of women was closely controlled by law and custom, to one of unexampled licentiousness among the upper classes. This cultural shock produced fascinating portraits by Magalotti of Charles II and his court, accounts of their amorous intrigues, and percipient if sometimes biased observations on politics. There is also substantially accurate account of the armed forces of the kingdom, and a good deal about its intellectual and artistic life. W.E. Knowles Middleton has provided a clear and elegant translation of this document, along with an informative introduction and supplementary notes.

Spatial Coherence for Visual Motion Analysis : First International Workshop, SCVMA 2004, Prague, Czech Republic, May 15, 2004, Revised Papers / / edited by W. James MacLean

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910483242903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2006
• ISBN: 3-540-32534-4
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2006.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (IX, 141 p.)
• Collana: Image Processing, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, and Graphics, , 3004-9954 ; ; 3667
• Altri autori (Persone): MacLeanW. James
• Disciplina: 006.6
• Soggetti: Computer vision; Image processing - Digital techniques; Pattern recognition systems; Artificial intelligence; Computer graphics; Algorithms; Computer Vision; Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics; Automated Pattern Recognition; Artificial Intelligence; 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: 2D Motion Description and Contextual Motion Analysis: Issues and New Models -- Structure from Periodic Motion -- 3D SSD Tracking from Uncalibrated Video -- Comparison of Edge-Driven Algorithms for Model-Based Motion Estimation -- On the Relationship Between Image and Motion Segmentation -- Motion Detection Using Wavelet Analysis and Hierarchical Markov Models -- Segregation of Moving Objects Using Elastic Matching -- Local Descriptors for Spatio-temporal Recognition -- A Generative Model of Dense Optical Flow in Layers -- Analysis and Interpretation of Multiple Motions Through Surface Saliency -- Dense Optic Flow with a Bayesian Occlusion Model.
• Sommario/riassunto: Motionanalysisisacentralproblemincomputervision,andthepasttwodecades have seen important advances in this ?eld. However, visual motion is still often considered on a pixel-by-pixel basis, even though this ignores the fact that image regions corresponding to a single object usually undergo motion that is highly correlated. Further, it is often of interest to accurately measure the boundaries of moving regions. In the case of articulated motion, especially human motion, discovering motion boundaries is non-trivial but an important task nonetheless. Another related problem is identifying and grouping multiple disconnected - gions moving with similar motions, such as a ?ock of geese. Early approaches focused on measuring motion of either the boundaries or the interior, but s- dom both in unison. For several years now, attempts have been made to include spatial coherence terms into algorithms for 2- and 3-D motion recovery, as well as motion boundary estimation. This volume is a record of papers presented at the First International Wo- shop on Spatial Coherence for Visual Motion Analysis, held May 15th, 2004 in Prague, in conjunction with the European Conference on Computer Vision (LNCS 3021–4). The workshop examined techniques for integrating spatial - herence constraints during motion analysis of image sequences. The papers were revised after the workshop to allow for incorporation of feedback from the workshop.