Download or read book Estimation du contexte par vision embarqu e et sch mas de commande pour l automobile written by Moez Ammar and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les systèmes dotés d'autonomie doivent continument évaluer leur environnement, via des capteurs embarqués, afin de prendre des décisions pertinentes au regard de leur mission, mais aussi de l'endosystème et de l'exosystème. Dans le cas de véhicules dits 'intelligents', l'attention quant au contexte environnant se porte principalement d'une part sur des objets parfaitement normalisés, comme la signalisation routière verticale ou horizontale, et d'autre part sur des objets difficilement modélisables de par leur nombre et leur variété (piétons, cyclistes, autres véhicules, animaux, ballons, obstacles quelconques sur la chaussée, etc...). La décision a contrario offre un cadre formel, adapté à ce problème de détection d'objets variables, car modélisant le bruit plutôt qu'énumérant les objets à détecter. La contribution principale de cette thèse est d'adapter des mesures probabilistes de type NFA (Nombre de Fausses Alarmes) au problème de la détection d'objets soit ayant un mouvement propre, soit saillants par rapport au plan de la route. Un point fort des algorithmes développés est qu'ils s'affranchissent de tout seuil de détection. Une première mesure NFA permet d'identifier le sous-domaine de l'image (pixels non nécessairement connexes) dont les valeurs de niveau de gris sont les plus étonnantes, sous hypothèse de bruit gaussien (modèle naïf). Une seconde mesure NFA permet ensuite d'identifier le sous-ensemble des fenêtres de significativité maximale, sous hypothèse de loi binômiale (modèle naïf). Nous montrons que ces mesures NFA peuvent également servir de critères d'optimisation de paramètres, qu'il s'agisse du mouvement 6D de la caméra embarquée, ou d'un seuil de binarisation sur les niveaux de gris. Enfin, nous montrons que les algorithmes proposés sont génériques au sens où ils s'appliquent à différents types d'images en entrée, radiométriques ou de disparité.A l'opposé de l'approche a contrario, les modèles markoviens permettent d'injecter des connaissances a priori sur les objets recherchés. Nous les exploitons dans le cas de la classification de marquages routiers.A partir de l'estimation du contexte (signalisation, détection d'objets 'inconnus'), la partie commande comporte premièrement une spécification des trajectoires possibles et deuxièmement des lois en boucle fermée assurant le suivi de la trajectoire sélectionnée. Les diverses trajectoires possibles sont regroupées en un faisceau, soit un ensemble de fonctions du temps où divers paramètres permettent de régler les invariants géométriques locaux (pente, courbure). Ces paramètres seront globalement fonction du contexte extérieur au véhicule (présence de vulnérables, d'obstacles fixes, de limitations de vitesse, etc.) et permettent de déterminer l'élément du faisceau choisi. Le suivi de la trajectoire choisie s'effectue alors en utilisant des techniques de type platitude différentielle, qui s'avèrent particulièrement bien adaptées aux problèmes de suivi de trajectoire. Un système différentiellement plat est en effet entièrement paramétré par ses sorties plates et leurs dérivées. Une autre propriété caractéristique de ce type de systèmes est d'être linéarisable de manière exacte (et donc globale) par bouclage dynamique endogène et transformation de coordonnées. Le suivi stabilisant est alors trivialement obtenu sur le système linéarisé.
Download or read book Stanley Park written by Timothy Taylor and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-12-17 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young chef who revels in local bounty, a long-ago murder that remains unsolved, the homeless of Stanley Park, a smooth-talking businessman named Dante — these are the ingredients of Timothy Taylor's stunning debut novel — Kitchen Confidential meets The Edible Woman. Trained in France, Jeremy Papier, the young Vancouver chef, is becoming known for his unpretentious dishes that highlight fresh, local ingredients. His restaurant, The Monkey's Paw Bistro, while struggling financially, is attracting the attention of local foodies, and is not going unnoticed by Dante Beale, owner of a successful coffeehouse chain, Dante's Inferno. Meanwhile, Jeremy's father, an eccentric anthropologist, has moved into Stanley Park to better acquaint himself with the homeless and their daily struggles for food, shelter and company. Jeremy's father also has a strange fascination for a years-old unsolved murder case, known as "The Babes in the Wood" and asks Jeremy to help him research it. Dante is dying to get his hands on The Monkey's Paw. When Jeremy's elaborate financial kite begins to fall, he is forced to sell to Dante and become his employee. The restaurant is closed for renovations, Inferno style. Jeremy plans a menu for opening night that he intends to be the greatest culinary statement he's ever made, one that unites the homeless with high foody society in a paparazzi-covered celebration of "local splendour."
Download or read book A Parallel Finite Volume Algorithm for Large eddy Simulation of Turbulent Flows written by Trong T. Bui and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Torn Away written by James Heneghan and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2003-10-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen-year-old Declan lives only for revenge. His mother, father and sister were all killed on the streets of Belfast, and Declan will stop at nothing to settle the score. When he is torn away from his native soil and sent to live with relatives in Canada, he is disgusted by their efforts to welcome him into their lives, and determined to make them regret their hospitality. Can he devise a plan to return to Ireland and rejoin his cause? Or will the strange beauty of his new life and surroundings weaken his resolve?
Download or read book Crabbe written by William Bell and published by . This book was released on 1999-06-01 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angry and rebellious, eighteen-year-old Franklin Crabbe skips his final exams and disappears into the Canadian wilderness, where a woman with her own reasons for hiding teaches him how to survive, as well as how to live.
Download or read book Kerrisdale Elegies written by George Bowering and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bowering responds to Rilke's Duino Elegies to create post-modern literature that discovers the other during the process of writing.
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Download or read book Reading Pictures written by Alberto Manguel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2003-11-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The language in which we speak about art has become steadily more abstruse, though for thousands of years this was not the case, Today, we live in a kaleidoscopic new world of images. Is there a vocabulary we can learn in order to read these images? Is there something we can do so as not to remain passive when we flip through an illustrated book or wander through a gallery, or are there ways in which we can 'read' the stories within paintings, monumnets, buildings and sculptures? We say 'every picture tells a story', but does it? Taking a handful of extraordinary images - photagraphed, painted, built, sculpted - Alberto Manguel explores, with delight and erudition, how each one attempts to tell a story that we, the viewer, must decipher or invent. Whether delving into the love of life in the twentieth-century world of Joan Mitchell, or the brutal complexities of Picasso's treatment of his mistress; revisiting the riddles of the past in the fifteenth-century painting of Robert Campin, or exploring the heartrending life of 'the hairy girl' whose matted fur so astonished sixteenth-century Italy, he helps us to enjoy and explore the visual landscape we live in.
Download or read book Moosewood Sandhills written by Tim Lilburn and published by . This book was released on 2019-11 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Moosewood Sandhills' is akin to a lost sacred text of the desert fathers. It documents a poet's return to the parched Saskatchewan scrubland where 'the dead are believed to meander'. Here Lilburn slept under summer stars and resolved to focus on simple acts of attention. The century was closing. The result was revelation.
Download or read book Fire Song written by Adam Garnet Jones and published by Annick Press. This book was released on 2018-03-12 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can Shane reconcile his feelings for David with his desire for a better life? Shane is still reeling from the suicide of his kid sister, Destiny. How could he have missed the fact that she was so sad? He tries to share his grief with his girlfriend, Tara, but she’s too concerned with her own needs to offer him much comfort. What he really wants is to be able to turn to the one person on the rez whom he loves—his friend, David. Things go from bad to worse as Shane’s dream of going to university is shattered and his grieving mother withdraws from the world. Worst of all, he and David have to hide their relationship from everyone. Shane feels that his only chance of a better life is moving to Toronto, but David refuses to join him. When yet another tragedy strikes, the two boys have to make difficult choices about their future together. With deep insight into the life of Indigenous people on the reserve, this book masterfully portrays how a community looks to the past for guidance and comfort while fearing a future of poverty and shame. Shane’s rocky road to finding himself takes many twists and turns, but ultimately ends with him on a path that doesn’t always offer easy answers, but one that leaves the reader optimistic about his fate.
Download or read book Jazz For Dummies written by Dirk Sutro and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-04-20 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes a list of more than 100 recordings for your jazz collection The fun and easy way to explore the world of jazz Jazz is America's greatest music, but with over a century's worth of styles and artists, where do you begin? Relax! This hep cat's guide delivers the scoop on the masters and their music -- from Duke Ellington to Charlie Parker to Wynton Marsalis. It's just what you need to tune in to the history and musical structure of jazz and become a more savvy listener. Discover how to * Understand the traits and roots of jazz * Tune in to jazz styles, from big band to bebop * Listen to great jazz artists * Catch a live jazz performance * Succeed in a jazz ensemble Praise for Jazz For Dummies "Now you can finally know about one of . . . America's greatest contributions to world culture." --Jon Faddis, jazz trumpeter "Fun to read. . . . An important stepping stone to understanding this complex and profound music." --James Moody, jazz saxophonist "Dirk Sutro is madly in love with jazz and . . . he knows what he's talking about." --"Chubby" Jackson, jazz bassist
Download or read book My Escape written by Benoite Groult and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This witty autobiography captures the rich and varied life of a renowned French author and pioneering feminist, through the obstacles and movements in twentieth-century France. Born in 1920 in Paris, Benoite Groult obtained the right to vote only when she was twenty-five years old. She married four times, bore three children, underwent several illegal abortions, became a writer after she turned forty, and a feminist in her fifties. Groult chronicles her experiences and her intellectual developments through successive phases—as an obedient child, an awkward and bookish adolescent, and a submissive wife—until finally becoming a liberated novelist. Here, she recounts the childhood trips she spent with her family, Paris during the occupation, her marriages, motherhood, and her continuous fight for women’s rights. At ninety-one years old, she concludes that she has been, and still is, a happy woman—lucky to have captured her freedoms, one by one, paying for them, delighting in them, and loving them. Sexy, chatty, and full of shrewd insight, My Escape covers her years of struggle and success—as a daughter, lover, writer, wife, mother, and reluctant socialite—and draws a portrait of the role of French women in the twentieth century.
Download or read book Vermeer s Light written by George Bowering and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Bowering has always maintained that his poems are germinated in secret ways - secrets he has, until now, assiduously kept to himself. In suddenly giving most of those secrets away, Vermeer's Light constitutes an extraordinary gesture of generosity from a poet to his readership. Its alphabet series A, You're Adorable, by Ellen Field, a pseudonym Bowering often used; Imaginary Poems for AMB, addressed to his late wife Angela; He Is Not, a micro-translation of Shelley's Adonais; Q&A, which dares to take on the most fundamental questions of the human condition with level-headed honesty and wit - the list of revelations and the pyrotechnics of Bowering's craft presented here are spellbinding.
Download or read book The Practice of Theory written by Keith Moxey and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many art historians regard poststructuralist theory with suspicion; some even see its focus on the political dimension of language as hostile to an authentic study of the past. Keith Moxey bridges the gap between historical and theoretical approaches with the provocative argument that we cannot have one without the other. "If art history is to take part in the processes of cultural transformation that characterize our society," he writes, "then its historical narratives must come to terms with the most powerful and influential theories that currently determine the way in which we conceive of ourselves." After exploring how the insights offered by deconstruction and semiotics change our understanding of representation, ideology, and authorship, Moxey himself puts theory into practice. In a series of engaging essays accompanied by twenty-eight illustrations, he first examines the impact of cultural values on Erwin Panofsky's writings. Taking a fresh look at work by artists from Albrecht Dürer and Erhard Schön to Barbara Kruger and Julian Schnabel, he then examines the process by which he generic boundaries between "high" and "low" art have helped to sustain class and gender differences. Making particular reference to the literature on Martin Schongauer, Moxey also considers the value of art history when it is reduced to artist's biography. Moxey's interpretation of the work of Hieronymus Bosch not only reassesses its intelligence and imagination, but also brings to light its pragmatic conformity to elite definitions of artistic "genius." With his compelling analysis of the politics of interpretation, Moxey draws attention to a vital aspect of the cultural importance of history.
Download or read book Canada s Military Lawyers written by Ronald Arthur McDonald and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Domestic Deployment of the Armed Forces written by Michael Head and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until recently, internal use of the armed forces has been generally regarded by the public, as well as academic commentators, as conduct to be expected of a military or autocratic regime, not a democratic government. There is however growing concern that the 'war on terror' has been used to condition public opinion to accept the internal deployment of the armed forces, including for broader industrial and political purposes. This book examines the national and international law, human rights and civil liberties issues involved in governments calling out troops to deal with civil unrest or terrorism. As the introduction of military call-out legislation has become an emerging global trend in the opening years of the 21st century, there is considerable and growing interest in the constitutional and related problems surrounding the deployment of military forces for domestic purposes. Examining the changes underway in six comparable countries, the United States, Canada, Britain, Germany, Japan and Australia, this book provides a review and analysis of this trend, including its implications for legal and political rights.
Download or read book Pictures Into Words written by Valerie Robillard and published by Vu University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
