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Understanding Urbanism
by Dallas Rogers Tooran Alizadeh Adrienne Keane Jacqueline NelsonUnderstanding Urbanism presents built environment students with the latest approaches to studying urbanism. The book is written in an accessible and easy-to-understand format by leading urban academics and practitioners with decades of teaching and practical experience. As students move through the chapters, they will develop a critical understanding of the different ways architects, urban and social planners, urban designers, heritage professionals, engineers and other built environment professionals design our cities. Importantly, the book shows how and why the built environment professional of the future will need to work within the Indigenous context of cities in countries like Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Canada.
Recent Developments in Sustainable Infrastructure: Select Proceedings of ICRDSI 2019 (Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering #75)
by Bibhuti Bhusan Das Salim Barbhuiya Rishi Gupta Purnachandra SahaThis book comprises select peer-reviewed proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Developments in Sustainable Infrastructure (ICRDSI) 2019. The topics span over all major disciplines of civil engineering with regard to sustainable development of infrastructure and innovation in construction materials, especially concrete. The book covers numerical and analytical studies on various topics such as composite and sandwiched structures, green building, groundwater modeling, rainwater harvesting, soil dynamics, seismic resistance and control of structures, waste management, structural health monitoring, and geo-environmental engineering. This book will be useful for students, researchers and professionals working in sustainable technologies in civil engineering.
Reconceptualizing the Digital Humanities in Asia: New Representations of Art, History and Culture (Digital Culture and Humanities #2)
by Kaby Wing-Sze KungThis book examines new forms of representation that have changed our perception and interpretation of the humanities in an Asian, and digital, context. In analyzing written and visual texts, such as the use of digital technology and animation in different works of art originating from Asia, the authors demonstrate how literature, history, and culture are being redefined in spatialized relations amid the trend of digitization. Research studies on Asian animation are in short supply, and so this volume provides new and much needed insights into how art, literature, history, and culture can be presented in innovative ways in the Asian digital world. The first section of this volume focuses on the new conceptualization of the digital humanities in art and film studies, looking at the integration of digital technologies in museum narration and cinematic production. The second section of the volume addresses the importance of framing these discussions within the context of gender issues in the digital world, discussing how women are represented in different forms of social media. The third and final section of the book explores the digital world’s impacts on people’s lives through different forms of digital media, from the electromagnetic unconscious to digital storytelling and digital online games. This book presents a novel contribution to the burgeoning field of the digital humanities by informing new forms of representation and interpretations, and demonstrating how digitization can influence and change cultural practices in Asia, and globally. It will be of interest to students and scholars interested in digitization from the full spectrum of humanities disciplines, including art, literature, film, music, visual culture, media, and animation, gaming, and Internet culture."This is a well-written book, and I enjoyed reading it. The first impression of the book is that it is very innovative - a down-to-the-earth academic volume that discusses digital culture."- Professor Anthony Fung, Professor, Director, School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong "This book has contributed to the existing field of humanities by informing new forms of representation and interpretations, and how digitization may change cultural practices. There is comprehensive information on how the humanities in the digital age can be applied to a wide range of subjects including art, literature, film, pop music, music videos, television, animation, games, and internet culture."- Dr Samuel Chu, Associate Professor, The Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong
Stone: Stories of Urban Materiality
by Tim EdensorIn undertaking a systematic analysis of urban materiality, this book investigates one kind of material in Melbourne: stone. The work draws on a range of pertinent, current theories that consider materiality, assemblages, networks, phenomenology, resource and extraction geographies, memorialisation, maintenance and repair, place identity, skill, sensation and affect, haunting and the vitalism of the non-human. In appealing to the general reader, academics and students, this book provides a highly readable account, replete with evocative examples and fascinating historical and contemporary stories about stone in Melbourne.
Television Series as Literature
by Reto Winckler Víctor Huertas-MartínThis book explores how television series can be understood as a form of literature, bridging the gap between literary and television studies. It goes beyond existing adaptation studies and narratological approaches to television series in both its scope and depth. The respective chapters address literary works, themes, tropes, techniques, values, genres, and movements in relation to a broad variety of television series, while drawing on the theoretical work of a host of scholars from Simone de Beauvoir and Yuri Lotman to Ted Nannicelli and Jason Mittel, and on critical approaches ranging from narratology and semiotics to empirical sociology and phenomenology. The book fosters new ways of understanding television series and literature and lays the groundwork for future scholarship in a number of fields. By questioning the alleged divide between television series and works of literature, it contributes not only to a better understanding of television series and literary texts themselves, but also to the development of interdisciplinary scholarship in the humanities.
Frontiers of Computer Vision: 26th International Workshop, IW-FCV 2020, Ibusuki, Kagoshima, Japan, February 20–22, 2020, Revised Selected Papers (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1212)
by Wataru Ohyama Soon Ki JungThis book constitutes refereed proceedings of the 26th International Workshop Frontiers of Computer Vision, IW-FCV 2020, held in Ibusuki, Kagoshima, Japan, in February 2020. The 27 full papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 68 submissions. The papers in the volume are organized according to the following topics: real-world applications; face, pose, and action recognition; object detection and tracking; inspection and diagnosis; camera, 3D and imaging.
Image Fusion
by Gang Xiao Durga Prasad Bavirisetti Gang Liu Xingchen ZhangThis book systematically discusses the basic concepts, theories, research and latest trends in image fusion. It focuses on three image fusion categories – pixel, feature and decision – presenting various applications, such as medical imaging, remote sensing, night vision, robotics and autonomous vehicles. Further, it introduces readers to a new category: edge-preserving-based image fusion, and provides an overview of image fusion based on machine learning and deep learning. As such, it is a valuable resource for graduate students and scientists in the field of digital image processing and information fusion.
Smart Technologies for Sustainable Development: Select Proceedings of SMTS 2019 (Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering #78)
by Sanjay Kumar Shukla Srinivasan Chandrasekaran Bibhuti Bhusan Das Sreevalsa KolathayarThis book presents select papers from the International Conference on Smart Materials and Techniques for Sustainable Development (SMTS) 2019. The contents focus on a wide range of methods and techniques related to sustainable development fields like smart structures and materials, innovation in water resource development, optical fiber communication, green construction materials, optimization and innovation in structural design, structural dynamics and earthquake engineering, structural health monitoring, nanomaterials, nanotechnology and sensors, smart biomaterials and medical devices, materials for energy conversion and storage devices, and IoT in sustainable development. This book aims to provide up-to-date and authoritative knowledge from both industrial and academic worlds, sharing best practice in the field of smart materials analysis. The contents of this book will be beneficial to students, researchers, and professionals working in the field of smart materials and sustainable development.
Embodying Data: Chinese Aesthetics, Interactive Visualization and Gaming Technologies
by Qi LiThis book investigates a new interactive data visualisation concept that employs traditional Chinese aesthetics as a basis for exploring contemporary digital technological contexts. It outlines the aesthetic approach, which draws on non-Western aesthetic concepts, specifically the Yijing and Taoist cosmological principles, and discusses the development of data-based digital practices within a theoretical framework that combines traditional Taoist ideas with the digital humanities. The book also offers a critique of the Western aesthetics underpinning data visualisation, in particular the Kantian sublime, which prioritises the experience of power over the natural world viewed at a distance. Taoist philosophy, in contrast, highlights the integration of the surface of the body and the surface of nature as a Taoist body, rather than promoting an opposition of mind and body. The book then explores the transformational potential between the human body and technology, particularly in creating an aesthetic approach spanning traditional Chinese aesthetics and gesture-based technology. Representing a valuable contribution to the digital humanities, the book helps readers understand data-based artistic practices, while also bringing the ideas of traditional Chinese aesthetics to Western audiences. In addition, it will be of interest to practitioners in the fields of digital art and data visualisation seeking new models.
Sustainable Practices and Innovations in Civil Engineering: Select Proceedings of SPICE 2019 (Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering #79)
by S. Ramanagopal Madhavi Latha Gali Kartik VenkataramanThis book presents the select proceedings of the International Conference on Sustainable Practices and Innovations in Civil Engineering (SPICE 2019). The chapters discuss emerging and current research in sustainability in different areas of civil engineering, which aim to provide solutions to sustainable development. The contents are broadly divided into the following six categories: (i) structural systems, (ii) environment and water resource systems, (iii) construction technologies, (iv)geotechnical systems, (v) innovative building materials, and (vi) transportation. This book will be of potential interest for students, researchers, and practitioners working in sustainable civil engineering related fields.
Medical Imaging and Computer-Aided Diagnosis: Proceeding of 2020 International Conference on Medical Imaging and Computer-Aided Diagnosis (MICAD 2020) (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering #633)
by Han Liu Ruidan SuThis book covers virtually all aspects of image formation in medical imaging, including systems based on ionizing radiation (x-rays, gamma rays) and non-ionizing techniques (ultrasound, optical, thermal, magnetic resonance, and magnetic particle imaging) alike. In addition, it discusses the development and application of computer-aided detection and diagnosis (CAD) systems in medical imaging. Given its coverage, the book provides both a forum and valuable resource for researchers involved in image formation, experimental methods, image performance, segmentation, pattern recognition, feature extraction, classifier design, machine learning / deep learning, radiomics, CAD workstation design, human–computer interaction, databases, and performance evaluation.
Artificial Intelligence Algorithms and Applications: 11th International Symposium, ISICA 2019, Guangzhou, China, November 16–17, 2019, Revised Selected Papers (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1205)
by Kangshun Li Wei Li Hui Wang Yong LiuThis book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Intelligence Computation and Applications, ISICA 2019, held in Guangzhou, China, in November 2019.The 65 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from the total of 112 submissions. This volume features the most up-to-date research in evolutionary algorithms, parallel computing and quantum computing, evolutionary multi-objective and dynamic optimization, intelligent multimedia systems, virtualization and AI applications, smart scheduling, intelligent control, big data and cloud computing, deep learning, and hybrid machine learning systems.The papers are organized according to the following topical sections: new frontier in evolutionary algorithms; evolutionary multi-objective and dynamic optimization; intelligent multimedia systems; virtualization and AI applications; smart scheduling; intelligent control; big data and cloud computing; statistical learning.
London’s Women Artists, 1900-1914: A Talented and Decorative Group
by Mengting YuDrawing on untapped archives, as well as aggregating a wide range of existing published sources, this book recalibrates the understanding of women artists’ roles, outputs and receptions in London during what was indubitably a vibrant and innovative period in the history of British art, and in which the work of their male contemporaries is so well understood. The book takes its starting point from Alicia Foster’s article “Gwen John’s Self-Portrait: Art, Identity and Women Students at the Slade School,” published in 2000, where the expression “a talented and decorative group” was coined to describe common attitudes towards women artists in the late 19th and early 20th century London. This pejorative attribution strongly implied a status less significant to that of their male counterparts. The author challenges this statement's basic tenet by casting a wide net in examining women’s art education from the Slade School of Fine Art, through to the role of its graduates within a selection of London’s exhibition groups, societies and publications. This book also reconstructs ‘from scratch’ the role of the Women’s International Art Club (WIAC), hitherto entirely overlooked in art historical studies of the era. This book will be of interest to students and researchers in art and cultural history, gender studies,and in sociological studies of pre-War World War Britain.
Image Color Feature Extraction Techniques: Fundamentals and Applications (SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology)
by Jyotismita Chaki Nilanjan DeyThis book introduces a range of image color feature extraction techniques. Readers are encouraged to try implementing the techniques discussed here on their own, all of which are presented in a very simple and step-by-step manner. In addition, the book can be used as an introduction to image color feature techniques for those who are new to the research field and software. The techniques are very easy to understand as most of them are described with pictorial examples. Not only the techniques themselves, but also their applications are covered. Accordingly, the book offers a valuable guide to these tools, which are a vital component of content-based image retrieval (CBIR).
Design Thinking in Higher Education: Interdisciplinary Encounters (Design Science and Innovation)
by Gavin MellesThis book addresses the contributions of design thinking to higher education and explores the benefits and challenges of design thinking discourses and practices in interdisciplinary contexts. With a particular focus on Australia, the USA and UK, the book examines the value and drawbacks of employing design thinking in different disciplines and contexts, and also considers its future.
The Bishan Commune and the Practice of Socially Engaged Art in Rural China: The Bishan Commune And The Practice Of Socially Engaged Art In Rural China
by Mai CorlinThis book is concerned with socially engaged art projects in the Chinese countryside, with the artists and intellectuals who are involved, the villagers they meet and the local authorities with whom they negotiate. In recent years an increasing number of urban artists have turned towards the countryside in an attempt to revive rural areas perceived to be in a crisis. The vantage point of this book is the Bishan Commune. In 2010, Ou Ning drafted a notebook entitled Bishan Commune: How to Start Your Own Utopia. The notebook presents a utopian ideal of life based on anarchist Peter Kropotkin’s idea of mutual aid. In 2011 the Commune was established in Bishan Village in Anhui Province. The main questions of this book thus revolve around how an anarchist, utopian community unfolds to the backdrop of the political, social and historical landscape of rural China, or more directly: How do you start your own utopia in the Chinese countryside?
Ubuntu as Dance Pedagogy in Uganda: Individuality, Community, and Inclusion in Teaching and Learning of Indigenous Dances (Critical Studies in Dance Leadership and Inclusion)
by Alfdaniels MabingoThis book locates the philosophy of Ubuntu as the undergirding framework for indigenous dance pedagogies in local communities in Uganda. Through critical examination of the reflections and practices of selected local dance teachers, the volume reveals how issues of inclusion, belonging, and agency are negotiated through a creatively complex interplay between individuality and communality. The analysis frames pedagogies as sites where reflective thought and kinaesthetic practice converge to facilitate ever-evolving individual imagination and community innovations.
Embracing Industry 4.0: Selected Articles from MUCET 2019 (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering #678)
by Mohd Azraai Mohd Razman Jessnor Arif Mat Jizat Nafrizuan Mat Yahya Hyun Myung Amar Faiz Zainal Abidin Mohamad Shaiful Abdul KarimThis book highlights selected articles from the electrical engineering track, with a focus on the latest trends in electrical and electronic engineering toward embracing Industry 4.0, as part of the Malaysian Technical Universities Conference on Engineering and Technology—MUCET 2019. The event brings together researchers and professionals in the fields of engineering, research, and technology, and provides a platform for future collaborations and exchanges.
Innovations in Computational Intelligence and Computer Vision: Proceedings of ICICV 2020 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing #1189)
by Manoj Kumar Sharma Vijaypal Singh Dhaka Thinagaran Perumal Nilanjan Dey João Manuel R. S. TavaresThis book presents high-quality, peer-reviewed papers from the International Conference on “Innovations in Computational Intelligence and Computer Vision (ICICV 2020),” hosted by Manipal University Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, on January 17–19, 2020. Offering a collection of innovative ideas from researchers, scientists, academics, industry professionals and students, the book covers a variety of topics, such as artificial intelligence and computer vision, image processing and video analysis, applications and services of artificial intelligence and computer vision, interdisciplinary areas combining artificial intelligence and computer vision, and other innovative practices.
Geoinformatics in Sustainable Ecosystem and Society: 7th International Conference, GSES 2019, and First International Conference, GeoAI 2019, Guangzhou, China, November 21–25, 2019, Revised Selected Papers (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1228)
by Yichun Xie Yong Li Ji Yang Jianhui Xu Yingbin DengThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Geoinformatics in Sustainable Ecosystem and Society, GSES 2019, and First International Conference on Geospatial Artificial Intelligence for Urban Computing, GeoAI 2019, held in Guangzhou, China, in November 2019.The 29 full papers and 3 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 80 submissions. The papers are organized according to the following topical sections: the applications of geospatial data in the sustainable development of social economy; new approaches for earth observation data acquisition and processing; remote sensing monitoring of resources and environment and intelligent analysis; intelligent perceptions and services of spatial information; ecology, environment and social sustainable development.
Signal and Image Processing Techniques for the Development of Intelligent Healthcare Systems
by E. Priya V. RajinikanthThis book comprehensively reviews the various automated and semi-automated signal and image processing techniques, as well as deep-learning-based image analysis techniques, used in healthcare diagnostics.It highlights a range of data pre-processing methods used in signal processing for effective data mining in remote healthcare, and discusses pre-processing using filter techniques, noise removal, and contrast-enhanced methods for improving image quality.The book discusses the status quo of artificial intelligence in medical applications, as well as its future. Further, it offers a glimpse of feature extraction methods for reducing dimensionality and extracting discriminatory information hidden in biomedical signals. Given its scope, the book is intended for academics, researchers and practitioners interested in the latest real-world technological innovations.
Design of Autoreaction: A Framework for Kinetic Reaction at Zero Energy (Design Science and Innovation)
by Sandra G.L. PersianiThis book provides the readers with a timely guide to the application and integration of interdisciplinary principles from the fields of kinetic design, mechanics, energy and materials engineering in the fields of architecture and engineering design. It explores the potential integration of autoreactive solutions, unpowered kinetic systems triggered by changes in the surrounding latent energy conditions, within man-made artefacts with added functionality and efficiency. Related interdisciplinary parameters are explored discussing morphology, mechanics, energy and materials in detail. Each chapter examines the implications of autoreactivity in one specific field, providing a general overview and listing relevant motion design parameters and identifying for the reader those aspects that have a high potential to open up for new design directions. The book guides readers through a highly multidisciplinary field of design, offering an extraordinary resource of knowledge for professional architects, engineers and designers, as well as for university teachers, researchers and students. Interdisciplinary research is presented throughout the book as a powerful resource that can serve architecture and design, and a learning method to rethink innovative, optimal and sustainable solutions.
Machine Learning, Image Processing, Network Security and Data Sciences: Second International Conference, MIND 2020, Silchar, India, July 30 - 31, 2020, Proceedings, Part I (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1240)
by Arup Bhattacharjee Samir Kr. Borgohain Badal Soni Gyanendra Verma Xiao-Zhi GaoThis two-volume set (CCIS 1240-1241) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Machine Learning, Image Processing, Network Security and Data Sciences, MIND 2020, held in Silchar, India. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference has been postponed to July 2020. The 79 full papers and 4 short papers were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 219 submissions. The papers are organized according to the following topical sections: data science and big data; image processing and computer vision; machine learning and computational intelligence; network and cyber security.
Paradoxical Urbanism: Anti-Urban Currents in Modern Urbanism
by Malcolm MilesModernist urbanism seems progressive, even Utopian: design for a better world through a democratic and humane built environment. But two currents undermine this vision from within: an Arcadianism which turns to a rural idyll as retreat from change and the effects of industrialization; and an instrumentalism by which the humane vision becomes prescriptive and anti-democratic. Malcolm Miles argues that these two currents undermine modernism’s progressive vision. This book examines the roots of modernist urbanism in the seamless, self-contained systems of Cartesian space; and identifies contradictions within modernist urbanism in its instrumentalism and reliance on de-politicised professional expertise. Miles adroitly reviews the postmodern culture of industrial ruinscapes; and posits that if cities are to be places of proximity, diversity, mobility and agency, this will require a move from modernist instrumentalism to a creative and radically democratic co-production of the built environment.
Advances in Civil Engineering and Infrastructural Development: Select Proceedings of ICRACEID 2019 (Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering #87)
by Laxmikant Madanmanohar Gupta Maya Rajnarayan Ray Pawan Kumar LabhasetwarThis book comprises selected proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advancements in Civil Engineering and Infrastructural Developments (ICRACEID 2019). The contents are broadly divided into five areas (i) smart transportation with urban planning, (ii) clean energy and environment, (iii) water distribution and waste management, (iv) smart materials and structures, and (v) disaster management. The book aims to provide solutions to global challenges using innovative and emerging technologies covering various fields of civil engineering. The major topics covered include urban planning, transportation, water distribution, waste management, disaster management, environmental pollution and control, environmental impact assessment, application of GIS and remote sensing, and structural analysis and design. Given the range of topics discussed, the book will be beneficial for students, researchers as well industry professionals.