As Microsoft notes, "a challenge for consumers and enterprise organizations using web mapping services has been that much of the imagery featured there has historically been a patchwork of satellite and aerial imagery of different vintage, quality, clarity and detail".
Most recently the startling imagery featured in The Ruins of Detroit, a pictorial chronicling the visual relics of Detroit's rise as a global capital and its extraordinary plunge into ruin, has haunted my thoughts.
The set-piece in Bezhin Meadow where the villagers desecrate the village church in response to Stepok's death, which was removed in later versions of the film, has been called "one of the great set-pieces in cinema", and a further demonstration of the Biblical imagery featured in the film.
An online experiment was performed over 6 subjects to validate the algorithm, and the results show that a working BCI can be trained from a single calibration session and that the post motor imagery features are both informative and robust over multiple sessions.
The growing collection of high-quality field recordings and satellite imagery features the patient work of over 30 contributors scattered around the world, and features in stereo recordings made with a pair of mics so as to capture and deliver 360-degree sound direct to your noise-cancelling headphones (go ahead, put yours on now).
The resulting imagery, featuring Westwood herself, her clothes, her husband, Andreas, and Keller's penis, is arresting, to say the least.
Emphasising the real life element of the campaign, the imagery also features the tag line "raw texts, real stories".
Today, the artist tweeted a document sent from Paris Saint-Germain to her management on December 14, requesting the removal of all imagery featuring the shirt from not only the video, but any other media broadcast by the artist.
A number of computer vision problems such as facial age estimation, crowd counting and pose estimation can be solved by learning regression mapping on low-level imagery features.
Along with the development of the Web, image indexing and retrieval have grown into research areas sharing a vision of intelligent agents: computer programs capable of making 'meaningfull interpretations" of images based on automatically extracted imagery features.
