The visual world in memory

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Eric Warrant, Dan-Eric Nilsson

"Invertebrate Vision is a complete synthesis of our current knowledge concerning how invertebrates see, the principles used to process visual information and how vision is used in the daily struggle for survival. With contributions from an international panel of experts in invertebrate vision, this book will appeal to graduates and researchers interested in the visual and sensory sciences as well as in biology, neuroscience, computer science and robotics."--Jacket.

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Pierre Soille

Following the success of the first edition, recent developments in the field of morphological image analysis called for an extended second edition. The text has been fully revised with the goal of improving its clarity while introducing new concepts of interest to real image analysis applications. One chapter devoted to texture analysis has been added. Main extensions include: discussion about multichannel images and their morphological processing, ordering relations on image partitions, connected operators and levellings, homotopy for greytone images, translation-invariant implementations of erosions and dilations by line segments, reinforced emphasis on rank-based morphological operators, grey tone hit-or-miss, ordered independent homotopic thinnings and anchored skeletons, self-dual geodesic transformation and reconstruction, area based self-dual filters, anti-centre, watershed-based texture segmentation, texture models, and new scientific and industrial applications.

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Francine Pelletier

Julianne est chez son père qui est garde-forestier. En son absence, elle est responsable du poste de surveillance et, en plus, il pleut alors qu'elle voulait observer les étoiles. En colère, elle pianote sur le clavier du téléphone vidéo lorsqu'apparaît à l'écran un jeune homme triste et mal razé. La conversation s'engage : elle lui raconte sa vie, sa mauvaise humeur et sa passion, l'astronomie. L'image et le son se brouillent, puis disparaissent. En voulant entrer de nouveau en contact avec son interlocuteur, elle constate qu'elle était en communication avec Vincent Linden de Téléstar, le premier studio en orbite momentanément en difficulté. L'orage terminée, la sonnerie se fait entendre. L'animateur de la station spatiale (réparée) refait surface et l'invite à faire une chronique d'astronomie à son émission "cosmos en direct". Dans cinq minutes : "Standby"--Ce récit léger au personnage spontané est, en plus d'une bonne détente, une invitation à se pencher sur l'astronomie et à pratiquer l'observation des corps célestes.

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John Tulloch

"Watching Television Audiences offers a comprehensive introduction to the current state of research into TV audiences. Written by a leading scholar in the field, it surveys work done on a variety of genres and programmes, including science fiction from Dr. Who through Star Trek to the X-files, sitcoms, cop shows, cartoons, news, documentary and many others. It explores concepts of audience research from the theory of an implied audience to active audience readings, and examines how scholars are now seeking to synthesis the two areas in a way which will constitute a 'third generation' of audience studies. Above all, it provides students and academics not only with an understanding of the theory but also of the different methodologies used to research different types of audience."--Bloomsbury Publishing.