scholarly journals Cloud Physiognomy

2016 ◽  
Vol 135 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorraine Daston
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Facial Recognition ◽  
Focused Attention ◽  
Standardize Nomenclature ◽  
Cloud Classification ◽  
Salient Features ◽  
Human Faces

After centuries of serving as the metaphor for mutability, clouds began to be classified by genera and species in the nineteenth century, on the model of Linnaean taxonomy. In order to standardize nomenclature, cloud watchers had to learn to see in unison, recognizing cloud types as one would recognize human faces. The analogy between cloud and facial recognition runs deep: in both cases, a few salient features (that aquiline nose, those long wispy streaks) are foregrounded at the expense of a great many others. What the art of caricature is to faces, condensed description was to clouds: a few bold strokes that focused attention on the essential and screened out everything else. Cloud classification depended crucially on description by omission.

International Migration and Economic Growth: The Swedish Experience

1965 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 696-699 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A. Tomaske
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
International Migration ◽  
Focused Attention ◽  
Population Movements ◽  
Swedish Experience

The interest of economists in the nature and causes of economic growth has focused attention on demographic phenomena. For the economic historian, this has meant a reexamination of the historically unprecedented international population movements of the nineteenth century and their relationship to the process of economic growth.

Populism and Praxis

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Frank
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Boundary Problem ◽  
Related Question ◽  
Focused Attention ◽  
Political Subjectivity ◽  
Central Importance ◽  
Political Identification ◽  
The People ◽  
American Case

This chapter argues that contemporary democratic theory’s approach to populism has been unduly influenced by Carl Schmitt’s theory of political identification. Both liberal critics and radical democratic admirers of populism have focused attention on the question of who the people are (“the boundary problem”) while neglecting the related question of how the people act (“the enactment problem”). This framework obscures the central importance of populism’s experimentation with different forms of egalitarian praxis, and how these forms come to shape political subjectivity. The formative praxis of populism is clearly indicated in the nineteenth-century American case.

Facial Affect Recognition in Schizophrenia is there a Differential Deficit?

1984 ◽  
Vol 144 (5) ◽  
pp. 533-537 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josh Novic ◽  
Daniel J. Luchins ◽  
Richard Perline
Keyword(s):  
Facial Recognition ◽  
Facial Affect ◽  
Affect Recognition ◽  
Facial Affect Recognition ◽  
Control Task ◽  
Test Items ◽  
Chronic Schizophrenics ◽  
Significant Deficit ◽  
Differential Deficit ◽  
Human Faces

SummarySeveral studies have suggested that schizophrenics have a deficit in their ability to recognize the affect expressed in photos of human faces. In this study, the performance of 17 chronic schizophrenics was compared to that of 17 controls on both a test of facial affect recognition and a control task involving facial recognition. Compared with controls, chronic schizophrenics tended to perform more poorly on the test of facial affect recognition, but this difference was eliminated when facial recognition was entered as a covariate. When all test items, including those with poor reliability and discriminatory power, were included in the analysis the schizophrenics showed a significant deficit in facial affect recognition which persisted even when facial recognition was used as a covariate.

Here Is My Name When I Am Dead

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel McBride Lindsey
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Body ◽  
Focused Attention ◽  
Nineteenth Century America ◽  
Modes Of Representation

This chapter explores death and mourning pictures within a shifting memorial culture that was rooted in historical modes of representation and theologies of redemption. Over the course of the nineteenth century, photographic portraiture emerged within this memorial culture as both the preferred iconography of mourning in nineteenth-century America and, significantly, as a relic of the departed that disclosed future glory to the bereaved. In this chapter, I explore the role of photographs as relics that illuminated the communion of shadows by mediating the body of the deceased with the grieving body of the bereaved. Here, photographs were devised not as tokens of the moldering body of the deceased but of promise of celestial reunion in glory. As memorial portraiture focused attention on the body of the deceased, another facet within the communion of shadows purported to provide evidence of the soul’s survival after death.

scholarly journals History in the Service of Politics: A Reassessment of G. G. Gervinus

1971 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 371-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles E. McClelland
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Focused Attention ◽  
The West ◽  
German Empire ◽  
East And West Germany ◽  
History Of ◽  
Democratic Revolution ◽  
University Of Göttingen ◽  
The University

The year 1971 marks the centenary of the death of Georg Gottfried Gervinus. This fact might seem to warrant attention only of antiquarians, since Gervinus appears in most textbooks (if at all) as a professor dismissed from the University of Göttingen for protesting the revocation of the Hanoverian constitution in 1837. But two facts about his reputation inspire greater attention. First, Gervinus was buried with unseemly haste by a host of unflattering necrologists, from Ranke on down, in the very year of the founding of the German Empire. Second, he has again achieved some attention recently as one of the few German democrats among the nineteenth-century professorate, thanks to publications in both East and West Germany. As an opponent of the “reactionary class compromise which underlay the unification of the Reich from above,” he has become an object of veneration in East Germany. In the west, the publication of his Introduction to the History of the Nineteenth Century and the subsequent Treason Trial against Gervinus has focused attention on the fate of those who sanctioned democratic revolution in the reactionary 1850's.3 In both cases, in obscurity and tendentious revival, Gervinus has been blamed or praised more for what he stood for than for what he was.

scholarly journals Facial Recognition Patterns of Children and Adults Looking at Robotic Faces

10.5772/47836 ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eunil Park ◽  
Ki Joon Kim ◽  
Angel P. del Pobil
Keyword(s):  
Facial Recognition ◽  
Eye Fixation ◽  
Adults And Children ◽  
Human Faces

The present study investigates whether adults and children exhibit different eye-fixation patterns when they look at human faces, machinelike robotic faces, and humanlike robotic faces. The results from two between-subject experiments showed that children and adults did have different facial recognition patterns; children tended to fixate more on the mouth of both machinelike and humanlike robotic faces than they do on human faces, while adults focused more on the eyes. The implications of notable findings and the limitations of the experiment are discussed.

Field Dependence and Facial Recognition

1977 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Curt Hoffman ◽  
Spencer Kagan
Keyword(s):  
Field Dependence ◽  
Facial Recognition ◽  
Embedded Figures Test ◽  
Field Independent ◽  
Field Dependent ◽  
Embedded Figures ◽  
Two Measures ◽  
Human Faces ◽  
Rod And Frame Test ◽  
Rod And Frame

29 male and 28 female undergraduates were administered two measures of Witkin's field-dependence dimension—the Portable Rod-and-frame Test and the Group Embedded-figures Test—and a test of facial recognition. Field-independent males were significantly more accurate in the recognition of photographed human faces than field-dependent males. Field-independent females were also more accurate than field-dependent females, although the relation was nonsignificant. While it has often been claimed that field-dependent individuals remember faces better, the results of the present study, as well as others which have examined this relationship, support the opposite conclusion.

scholarly journals Modelling of Facial Images for Analysis of Recognition System

2021 ◽  
Vol 2107 (1) ◽  
pp. 012041
Author(s):  
Assyakirin M H ◽  
Shafriza Nisha B ◽  
Haniza Y ◽  
Fathinul Syahir A S ◽  
Muhammad Juhairi A S
Keyword(s):  
Face Recognition ◽  
Performance Analysis ◽  
Facial Recognition ◽  
Recognition Performance ◽  
Recognition System ◽  
Background Intensity ◽  
Face Recognition System ◽  
Recognition Systems ◽  
Human Faces ◽  
Facial Images

Abstract Face recognition is categorized as a biometric technology that employs the use of computer ability in image processing to detect and recognize human faces. Face recognition system has numerous applications for many purposes such as for access control, law enforcement and surveillance thus this system is dominant in present technology. Generally, face recognition system become more advance in term of the accuracy and implementation. However, there are a few parameters that effects the accuracy of recognition system for examples, the pose invariant, illumination effect, size of image and noise tolerance. Even though there are a number of systems were already available in the literature, the complete understanding of their performances are relatively limited. This is due to many systems focused on a narrow application band – therefore, a comprehensive analysis are needed in order to understand their performances leading to establishing the conditions for successful face recognition system. In this paper we developed a synthetic model to represent facial images to be used as a platform for performance analysis of facial recognition systems. The model includes 5 face types with the ability to vary all parameters that are affecting recognition performance – measurement noise, face size and face-background intensity differences. The model is important as it provide an avenue for performance analysis of facial recognition systems.

India and Missionary Motives, c. 1850–1900

1974 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. A. Oddie
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Focused Attention ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mission Field

While a number of historians have focused attention on the development of Protestant missionary thought and activity in India during the nineteenth century, comparatively little is known about the social background, education and motives of the missionary candidates eventually selected for service in that part of ‘the mission field’. Who were these men and why did they go? What pressures and motives lay behind the continued expansion of missionary activity in India during this period?

Facial recognition, emotion and race in animated social media

First Monday ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luke Stark
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Emotional Expression ◽  
Facial Recognition ◽  
Smart Phones ◽  
Racial Identities ◽  
Video Sharing ◽  
Digital Animation ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
Recognition Systems ◽  
Human Faces

Facial recognition systems are increasingly common components of commercial smart phones such as the iPhone X and the Samsung Galaxy S9. These technologies are also increasingly being put to use in consumer-facing social media video-sharing applications, such as Apple’s animoji and memoji, Facebook Messenger’s masks and filters and Samsung’s AR Emoji. These animations serve as technical phenomena translating moments of affective and emotional expression into mediated socially legible forms. Through an analysis of these objects and the broader literature on digital animation, this paper critiques the ways these facial recognition systems classify and categorize racial identities in human faces. The paper considers the potential both for racializing logics as part of these systems of classification, and how data regarding emotional expression gathered through these systems might interact with identity-based forms of classification.

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