Camera Rental

Fulfil Your Dream of Photography with Camera Rentals

From quite some time, there is a huge increase in number of the Camera Rentals companies everywhere. As a matter of fact, these rental companies are having every type of camera which is entitled for video and audio requirements.

Apart from this, the camera rental companies are having the skilful and the expert group of various professionals. These people are playing a very important role for providing huge support for various users for guiding on the lighting equipments, technicalities and range of the camera and the various available products. Such types of the exceptional support and the services which is provided to users adds to the advantage for the end users and is also responsible for leading a strong customer base for Camera Rentals companies. This is mainly because of the matchless user satisfaction.

Sometimes a question may arise that why a person should go for renting the camera in place of buying the camera. The straight answer to this question is only the factor related with costs. Everyone is aware of the fact that because of the enormous variety of the photography and the other required equipments, one cannot practically think of investing in such expensive things and also stock them. Purchasing these types of the equipments can prove to be a very unaffordable. If a person wants to use the camera within a very limited budget, then going for the rented cameras are the best available option for them.

Many of these Camera Rentals companies are also offering the insurance for the user apart from renting these cameras and the various other accessories. Basically, this means that if by mistake you break any part by mistake, then you will not be accountable for that. It is advisable for not being trapped with those rented cameras that are charging fewer amounts and also demonstrating that their camera and the accessory are more profitable investment. These types of the Camera Rentals companies are basically not offering any kind of the insurance for the rented equipments.

The qualities of their equipments are also very low and because of this they are not generally ensuring you with the appropriate quality. A person while renting a camera should always be very careful because if they are not observant, then they end up renting the wrong type of the equipment, and thus they have to bear the cost of the equipment which is not operating in the correct manner.

Basically, the Camera Rental companies are turning out as an enormous relief and the benefit for various users who try to look for the ways for expressing their imagination. These rental companies can be easily accessed through the medium of the internet. There are various websites that are bridging the gap of the communication between the users and such companies. You should always do a thorough research about the rented camera before going for any one in particular. You have the option of going for the rented cameras from the suggestions of their family and friends. So, if you are passionate about photography and could not afford a camera, then think about going for the rented camera.

About the Author

Abby Fox is a famous writer and shares his knowledge on photography and camera. If you want to know more about cameras for rent, camera rental, video camera rental, film camera rental, photography Camera, video camera visit www.cameraforrent.com.

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A Short Course in Photography $64.6 This easy-to-use book introduces readers/students to the fundamentals of photography and suggests ways in which they might create photographs that have meaning. With a special focus on black and white photography, the book also explores digital techniques and web photography resources, equipment, cameras and camera accessories, the exposure and development of film, and the making and finishing of prints. All aspects of the process are explained and illustrated clearly in two-page spreads, each of which addresses a self-contained topic.

A micro-Doppler sonar for acoustic surveillance in sensor networks. $49.99 Wireless sensor networks have been employed in a wide variety of applications, despite the limited energy and communication resources at each sensor node. Low power custom VLSI chips implementing passive acoustic sensing algorithms have been successfully integrated into an acoustic surveillance unit and demonstrated for detection and location of sound sources. In this dissertation, I explore active and passive acoustic sensing techniques, signal processing and classification algorithms for detection and classification in a multinodal sensor network environment. I will present the design and characterization of a continuous-wave micro-Doppler sonar to image objects with articulated moving components. As an example application for this system, we use it to image gaits of humans and four-legged animals. I will present the micro-Doppler gait signatures of a walking person, a dog and a horse. I will discuss the resolution and range of this micro-Doppler sonar and use experimental results to support the theoretical analyses. In order to reduce the data rate and make the system amenable to wireless sensor networks, I will present a second micro-Doppler sonar that uses bandpass sampling for data acquisition. Speech recognition algorithms are explored for biometric identifications from one's gait, and I will present and compare the classification performance of the two systems. The acoustic micro-Doppler sonar design and biometric identification results are the first in the field as the previous work used either video camera or microwave technology. I will also review bearing estimation algorithms and present results of applying these algorithms for bearing estimation and tracking of moving vehicles. Another major source of the power consumption at each sensor node is the wireless interface. To address the need of low power communications in a wireless sensor network, I will also discuss the design and implementation of ultra wideband transmitters in a three

A study of movement in sitting-volleyball. $49.99 The present investigation focused on movement in the game of sitting-volleyball with the US Paralympic Team. The purpose of the study was to assess the effectiveness of lateral, forward, and posterior hand placement and open and closed body position on speed of movement of sitting-volleyball players. The United States Paralympic Women’s volleyball team volunteered for the study. The team was in training at the time. All subjects were studied at the University of Central Oklahoma Wellness Center located in Edmond, Oklahoma. All trials were filmed on a regulation sitting-volleyball court that was designated by the UCO Paralympic Training Coordinator. The independent variables for movement at the net in the two meter trials were open and closed body position and direction. Open body position was defined as the player’s body facing the sideline with their shoulder to the net, when moving parallel to the net for two meters. Closed body position was defined as the player’s body facing the net as they moved laterally for two meters. Hand placement and direction were the independent variables for the six meter movement trials. Forward and backward were defined as moving facing the sideline in front of them and then behind them. Hand position was defined as anterior, lateral and posterior. Anterior placement was in front of the hips on the floor on the left and right side of the body. Lateral hand placement was on the floor even with the hips on each side of the body. Posterior hand placement was behind the hips on each side respectively. The dependent variable for both the six and two meter trials was the time it took for the player to reach the given distance. For the two meter trial conducted at the net, breaking the plane of the net was the beginning and end point. A Brower Timing System (Draper, UT) was used to measure time for two and six meter trials. Each variable was filmed using a compact digital Sony Compact Digital (Tokyo, Japan) video camera and analyzed using

Accurate tracking of objects using level sets. $49.99 Our current work presents an approach to tackle the challenging task of tracking objects in Internet videos taken from large web repositories such as YouTube. Such videos more often than not, are captured by users using their personal hand-held cameras and cellphones and hence suffer from problems such as poor quality, camera jitter and unconstrained lighting and environmental settings. Also, it has been observed that events being recorded by such videos usually contain objects moving in an unconstrained fashion. Hence, tracking objects in Internet videos is a very challenging task in the field of computer vision since there is no a-priori information about the types of objects we might encounter, their velocities while in motion or intrinsic camera parameters to estimate the location of object in each frame. Hence, in this setting it is clearly not possible to model objects as single homogenous distributions in feature space. The feature space itself cannot be fixed since different objects might be discriminable in different sub-spaces.;Keeping these challenges in mind, in the current proposed technique, each object is divided into multiple fragments or regions and each fragment is represented in Gaussian Mixture model (GMM) in a joint feature-spatial space. Each fragment is automatically selected from the image data by adapting to image statistics using a segmentation technique. We introduce the concept of strength map which represents a probability distribution of the image statistics and is used to detecting the object. We extend our goal of tracking object to tracking them with accurate boundaries thereby making the current task more challenging. We solve this problem by modeling the object using a level sets framework, which helps in preserving accurate boundaries of the object and as well in modeling the target object and background. These extracted object boundaries are learned dynamically over time, enabling object tracking even during occlusion. Our

Acland’s Dvd Atlas of Human Anatomy: Discs 1-6 Anatomy $197.99 The six DVDs in this remarkable and beautifully produced DVD anatomy atlas explore the fundamental structures of the Musculoskeletal System, the Head and Neck, and the Internal Organs. These DVDs show true images of real, exquisitely dissected human anatomical specimens, in three dimensions. As the camera moves from one viewpoint to another, the specimen appears to rotate in space, letting the viewer experience it as a three-dimensional object. Acland’s DVD Atlas uses fresh, un-embalmed specimens that retain the color, texture, mobility—and beauty—of the living human body.

Cengage Advantage Books: Visual Storytelling: Videography and Post Production in the Digital Age (with DVD) $86.95 VISUAL STORYTELLING: VIDEOGRAPHY AND POST PRODUCTION IN THE DIGITAL AGE combines a thorough exploration of essential storytelling concepts with detailed instruction in practical technical skills. Without limiting its focus to a particular range of equipment, applications, or technology, this engaging text covers the key concepts, aesthetics, and techniques of single-camera field production and post production. It includes an abundance of unique images, useful learning tools, and real-life stories and suggestions from working experts. The accompanying DVD illustrates and expands on text concepts, with relevant video and audio footage for editing exercises.

Changing aesthetics, ethics, and politics in Latin American crime cinema and narrative. $49.99 This dissertation analyzes the shifting role of crime as a symptom of transformation in Latin America from 1990's. My research begins exploring gang-related drug trafficking and the ways in which they evolve to corporate organizations. Then I continue with property and sexual crimes—assault, kidnapping, human smuggling and trafficking to Europe in prostitution rings. Finally, I compare these common crimes with political crimes committed by anarchists in the 1930s and movements of national liberation from the 1960s. Instead of focusing on the detective, I study the criminal as the leading figure. For him/her any crime—be it a common one or "explicitly" political—is considered a political act on the part of the offender. In terms of politics, any crime implies a rejection of or a protest against current social conditions, its institutions or its norms. In these works, criminals make power visible in new ways, and open avenues of resistance and critique, involving modifications of gender, race, and social class. In terms of aesthetics, I explore how contemporary Latin American crime fiction reproduces the glamorous violence of Hollywood crime films or dirty realism in narrative, but privileging a symptomatic and realistic aesthetics of violence. By using a flat, unsurprised, but ironic language; by exercising an ice-cold observation; by shooting with a documentary-like eye to reality, often with a frenetically speeding camera and the video clip montage, these fictions indicate a restructuring of time and space in Latin American big cities. Also the preference for non-professional actors, location shooting, and a propensity to develop collective modes of production contributes to this aesthetics. To conclude this brief summary of transformations, instead of representing crime as a monstrous act, these works insist on normalizing the criminal behavior. As many theories from social sciences have found, in general, crime is not an irrational,

Cross-layer resource management for multimedia over wireless networks. $49.99 This dissertation strives to bring enhanced QoS and efficiency for wireless multimedia transmission through fair resource allocation across layers. The focus is on system level algorithm development, since only those allow true system wide optimization and adaptation. My research includes coordinated work on all levels ranging from application requirements, networking protocols, all the way to the communication system, where optimized adaptation and error protection are considered as most critical techniques. The end-to-end QoS provisioning of Mobile WiMAX can achieve more flexible layer constructing and subscription while reliable in diverse channel conditions and fitting users’ demand. By incorporating DiffServ mechanism with the MAC QoS features offered by one of the four proposed WiMAX service flow arrangement, the system reaches the best tradeoff of number of video layers and forward error correction subscription. Inspired by the provisioning work, the cross-layer architecture design in 802.11 networks adaptively ensures wireless video transmission of acceptable quality in a congested uplink, multi-camera topology. The central idea is that airtime fairness is preferred to throughput fairness, and such a policy should be achieved using interplay of control loops across layers. Synchronized by effective throughput estimation, the distributed system features a fast frame-by-frame control in the MAC layer while simultaneously performing source-rate adaptation in the APP layer at a slower timescale. As a result, major issues in WLAN such as performance anomaly, imperfect link adaptation, and available bandwidth are nicely solved. The joint scheduling and resource allocation in OFDMA-based networks appears to be the first resource allocation proposal exploiting opportunistic multicasting layered video and fulfilling the gap between theoretical throughput and implementation concerns. According to the layered video structure, optimization problems are formulated using

Efficient sensor networks for smart environments. $49.99 Wireless sensor networks enable efficient monitoring and control systems required for building a smart environment. Based on the application, the network operations can be either event-driven or time-driven. In this thesis, we introduce novel energy-efficient algorithms for both network operation types, and provide a smart building example using a camera sensor network.;For the event-driven operation, we study the sensing and actuating networks that require immediate notification of rare but urgent events and fast delivery of time sensitive actuation commands. We investigate wake-up scheduling and present a new family of wake-up methods, called multi-parent scheme, in which multiple routes for transfer of messages and wake-up schedules for various nodes are crafted to increase longevity while reducing message delivery latencies. A key step to realizing the multi-parent method is to divide the nodes in the network into disjoint groups. We formulate this step as a graph coloring problem and introduce a heuristic algorithm that can partition nodes efficiently.;For the time-driven operation, we investigate the periodic data collection problem and present an energy-efficient and practical solution. During data aggregation, nodes can exploit the correlation of the sensed data and fuse the data from different sensors to eliminate redundant transmissions. In our solution, energy efficiency is achieved by combining two design methods: (a) Considering the network connectivity graph and the data correlation, the optimal flows for balancing the communication load among all nodes is calculated; (b) Instead of using a fixed communication tree, a set of optimized trees is constructed based on the optimal flows and the communication tree varies over different data aggregation cycles. We show that this method achieves an average energy consumption rate close to the optimal value.;Smart homes are conceptualized as environments responsive to user’s presence and actions and adaptive

Enhancing photographs using content-specific image priors. $49.99 The digital imaging revolution has made the camera ubiquitous; however, image quality has not improved at the same rate as the increase in camera availability. Increasingly more cameras are small, with inexpensive lenses, no flash, and lightweight bodies that are difficult to hold steady, and this results in images with blur, noise, and poor color-balance. Consequently, there is a strong need for simple, automatic, and accurate methods for image correction. This dissertation, presents work that uses “content-specific” image models and priors for image enhancement.;Image enhancement is a challenge problem—corrections such as deblurring, denoising, and color-correction are ill-posed, where the number of unknown values outweighs the number of observations. As a result, it is necessary to add additional information as constraints. Previous work has focused on using generic image priors that are applicable to a large number of images. In this work, we develop constraints that are tuned to the specific content of an image.;First, we discuss a fast, accurate blur estimation method that models all edges in a sharp image as step-edges. The method predicts the “sharp” version of a blurry input image and uses the two images together to solve for a PSF.;Second, we discuss a framework for image deblurring and denoising that uses local color statistics to produce sharp, low-noise results. Even when the blur function is known, deblurring an image is still quite difficult due to information loss during blurring and due to the presence of noise. In our work, we investigate using local-color statistics of an image in a joint framework for deblurring and denoising of images.;Lastly, we discuss work in methods that use “identity-specific” priors to perform corrections for images containing faces. These priors provide the guidance needed to perform high-quality corrections needed for known, familiar faces. Deblurring, super-resolution, color-balancing, and exposure correction operate

Examining and explaining the effects of non-iconic conformal features in advanced head-up displays on pilot performance. $49.99 The primary objective of this study was to assess the impact of Synthetic Vision System (SVS) and Enhanced Vision System (EVS) depictions of terrain features on pilot performance when displayed in an advanced head-up display (HUD) during various phases of a landing approach under instrument meteorological conditions (IMCs). SVS is a display system that presents terrain features using a wireframe grid rendered polygons by integrating terrain databases with a global positioning system. EVS displays present an actual out-of-cockpit view using a forward looking infrared camera.;In the experiment as part of this study, video stimuli presenting varied HUD configurations were pre-recorded using a high-fidelity flight simulator at NASA Langley and presented to eight pilots later in a lab environment. The HUD videos from the high-fidelity simulator were combined with out-of-cockpit views from a lab simulator. The flight scenario consisted of an approach and landing on a runway (Reno, Nevada International Airport (KRNO), 16R (right)) under IMC. Each pilot completed eight trials based on a within-subjects experimental design and one additional trial to collect verbal protocols on specific display feature use. The independent variables included four display configurations (baseline, SVS-only, EVS-only, and a combination of SVS and EVS features) and two visibility conditions (IMC-day versus IMC-night). Every display configuration included tunnel features (highway-in-the sky) showing the designated flight path. The experiment involved observing pilot performance in four segments during the approach and landing. Dependent variables included flight path control performance, pilot SA, workload, and subjective preferences. Flight path control performance was determined based on pilot errors in tracking a flight path marker in the pre-recorded videos with a super-imposed cursor using test pilots yoke controls. Pilot situation awareness (SA) was measured using SAGAT (the Situation

Exploring Basic Black & White Photography $55.95 Abundant photographs and illustrations visually enhance the fundamental information offered in this new book for learning the manual operation of basic equipment, including a 35 mm camera. Unique in its use of student photographs, this introductory-level book provides a starting point for work in black and white photography that fosters ideas, inspires creativity, and serves as a method for measuring one’s own work and techniques. Basic darkroom skills are examined including proper exposure of the negative, processing film, and printing, with an emphasis on camera techniques that helps readers fine-tune their personal vision while also serving as a foundation for more advanced photographic techniques.

Exploring Multimedia for Designers $70.95 Exploring Multimedia for Designers covers the essential concepts and technologies of text, graphics, animation, audio, and video and how they are interwoven to create multimedia products. This user-friendly book introduces the essential concepts and technologies without heavy technical complexities. Every reader will receive a solid introduction to the field of multimedia – - including design principles, storyboarding, comp development, motion graphics, animation principles, camera moves, and storytelling techniques.

Exploring Storyboarding $67.95 An effective combination of creative exercises, real-life examples, and simple illustrations are integrated in this “how-to” book, teaching readers to develop their storyboarding skills for a variety of media types, including film, television, animation, and interactive media. Each aspect of the storyboarding process is carefully examined including creating visually specific shot lists and overhead diagrams, and drawing simple sketches that express a clear understanding of staging, editing, and composition. Coverage is rounded out with a comprehensive overview of camera techniques that helps readers visualize a scene before the process of storyboarding begins.

Face de-identification using multi-factor active appearance models. $49.99 Recent advances in both camera technology as well as supporting computing hardware have made image and video acquisition close to effortless. As a consequence many applications capture image data of people for either immediate inspection or storage and subsequent sharing. These improved recording capabilities, however, ignite concerns about the privacy of people identifiable in the scene. While algorithms have been proposed to de-identify images, currently available methods are lacking in many respects. In this dissertation we develop a general framework for the de-identification of images which subsumes a number of previously introduced approaches. Our goal is to remove as much identifying information as necessary while preserving as much of the original signal as possible. To this extend we propose three privacy protection models and provide multiple algorithms implementing them. We concentrate our work on face images since faces provide strong identity cues that can be extracted from a distance, even for uncooperative and unaware subjects. The appearance of a face depends on a number of factors, including identity, pose, illumination, and facial expression. Algorithms have been developed to factorize images into these underlying factors using linear or bilinear multi-factor models. In this dissertation we propose a unified framework that combines linear, bilinear, and quadratic models. We show how to fit the models to data and discuss ways to avoid overfitting and enforce additional constraints. Through combination of the factorization algorithms with our de-identification framework we are able to preserve more data utility while maintaining privacy protection. We demonstrate this through experiments on the Multi-PIE face database as well as experiments in de-identifying video sequences from a medical face database.

Film Studies: An Introduction $29.5 Ed Sikov builds a step-by-step curriculum for the appreciation of all types of narrative cinema, detailing the essential elements of film form and systematically training the spectator to be an active reader and critic. Sikov primes the eye and mind in the special techniques of film analysis. His description of mise-en-scene helps readers grasp the significance of montage, which in turn reveals the importance of a director’s use of camera movement. He treats a number of fundamental factors in filmmaking, including editing, composition, lighting, the use of color and sound, and narrative. Film Studies works with any screening list and can be used within courses on film history, film theory, or popular culture. Straightforward explanations of core critical concepts, practical advice, and suggested assignments on particular technical, visual, and aesthetic aspects further anchor the reader’s understanding of the formal language and anatomy of film.

High-fidelity image-based modeling. $49.99 Image-based modeling is the process of automatically acquiring geometric object and scene models from photographs or video clips. This dissertation addresses three core problems in image-based modeling: static scene reconstruction, high-fidelity camera calibration, and dynamic scene reconstruction. For static scene reconstruction, we propose two novel multi-view stereo algorithms. In the first algorithm, after building a visual hull model purely from geometric constraints associated with image silhouettes, we identify rims where the surface grazes the visual hull model, which is then carved by maximizing a photometric consistency score defined over the surface while fixing the identified rims. A local iterative deformation step is finally used to recover fine surface details. In the second algorithm, we propose a simple method that outputs a set of planar oriented rectangular patches, which are then converted into a polygonal surface. The method does not require any initialization and is capable of detecting and discarding outliers and obstacles visible in the images. It does not perform any smoothing across nearby features, yet is one of the best algorithm available today according to the recent quantitative evaluations of multi-view stereo algorithms. For high-fidelity camera calibration, given a set of camera parameters possibly containing errors, we use multi-view stereo to construct a rough geometric model of a scene, which is then used to establish feature correspondences, Standard bundle adjustment software is used with the established feature correspondences to tighten up camera parameters. The proposed method has been tested on various real data sets including objects without salient textures, where feature correspondences cannot be established without our method. Lastly, for dynamic scene reconstruction, we propose a dense 3D tracking algorithm that uses multi-view stereo in the first frame to reconstruct an initial surface mesh, then tracks its

Imaging three dimensional visually-evoked calcium dynamics in larval zebrafish optic tectum using light field microscopy. $49.99 Networks of neurons give rise to behavior in complex animals. Determining the relationship between neural activity and sensory input or motor output requires recording network activity over time. Two properties contribute to the difficulty of recording from intact biological neural networks: first, the component neurons are spread across the three-dimensional volume of the brain, and second, all neurons in the network may be active simultaneously. Recently, optical techniques have enabled monitoring activity across many neurons simultaneously. However, the recording range has been limited to the field of view of imaging device, generally the 2D focal plane of a camera or scanning laser system. In order to capture activity information across the full 3D extent of the network, multiple exposures must be acquired at different focal distances, which breaks the synchrony of the activity measurements. Here, I describe a novel neural imaging technique, called light field microscopy (LFM), which is capable of simultaneously recording the activity of many neurons across a volume of tissue. By measuring both the spatial and the angular properties of incoming photons, LFM is able to capture a 3D volume with a single camera exposure. To demonstrate the efficacy of LFM for neural recordings, I loaded the optic tectum of the transparent larval zebrafish with fluorescent calcium-indicator dye and presented the fish with high-contrast 2D visual stimuli. Using this preparation, LFM produces a 4D dataset (three spatial dimensions plus the time dimension) representing the visually-evoked activity patterns across a 3D network of neurons. In this dissertation, I describe the steps required for producing 4D neural activity datasets, and compare the resulting data to that obtained using a classic two-photon scanning laser microscope. The wealth of data captured by the LFM increases the complexity of analysis, and thus motivated the development of a statistical method for

Introduction to Physics in Modern Medicine, Second Edition $62.95 From x-rays to lasers to magnetic resonance imaging, developments in basic physics research have been transformed into medical technologies for imaging, surgery and therapy at an ever accelerating pace. Physics has joined with genetics and molecular biology to define much of what is modern in modern medicine.Covering a wide range of applications, Introduction to Physics in Modern Medicine, Second Edition builds on the bestselling original. Based on a course taught by the author, the book provides medical personnel and students with an exploration of the physics-related applications found in state-of-the-art medical centers.Requiring no previous acquaintance with physics, biology, or chemistry and keeping mathematics to a minimum, the application-dedicated chapters adhere to simple and self-contained qualitative explanations that make use of examples and illustrations. With an enhanced emphasis on digital imaging and computers in medicine, the text gives readers a fundamental understanding of the practical application of each concept and the basic science behind it.This book provides medical students with an excellent introduction to how physics is applied in medicine, while also providing students in physics with an introduction to medical physics. Each chapter includes worked examples and a complete list of problems and questions.That so much of the technology discussed in this book was the stuff of dreams just a few years ago, makes this book as fascinating as it is practical, both for those in medicine as well as those in physics who might one day discover that the project they are working on is basis for the next great medical application.This edition:Covers hybrid scanners for cancer imaging and the interplay of molecular medicine with imaging technologies such as MRI, CT and PETLooks at camera pills that can film from the inside upon swallowing and advances in robotic surgery

Investigating evidence of geologically recent liquid water on Mars. $49.99 Geologically young gullies have been proposed to be evidence of recent liquid water on Mars. This dissertation details work I have done to address issues surrounding the Martian gullies and recent water on Mars.;In order to determine the elevations at which gullies occur, I created a set of Interactive Data Language programs and Unix C-shell scripts to coregister Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter topography with high resolution Mars images. My scripts represent the first public method that does this.;Recently, the Mars Orbiter Camera detected changes in the form of new bright deposits in two gullies. The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera detected more gullies with bright deposits. I used my scripts to identify some of the best candidates for liquid water formation based on their shallow average slopes. A Digital Elevation Model (DEM) was produced using HiRISE stereo images of my selected candidates in Hale Crater. I model two gullies with bright slope deposits in Hale Crater and find that both water-rich and sediment-rich flows could reproduce the bright deposits’ locations and morphologies. Since liquid water is rarely stable on Mars today, I suggest that dry flows formed the bright deposits.;The channel gradient where flows deposit, the apex slope, can tell us whether a flow was likely dry and non-fluidized (slopes ∼21°) or fluidized (shallower slopes). I measured the apex slope of 75 gullies located in five HiRISE DEMs. I find that 72% of the gullies studied were likely emplaced by a fluidized flow. I also find that modified gullies are more likely to have a fluidized emplacement than relatively fresh gullies. My results suggest that there is no evidence requiring water-rich flows in gullies today.;Understanding the concept of water on Mars is crucial to understanding NASA’s Mars Exploration Strategy, “Follow the Water.” I undertook a study investigating alternative conceptions about water on Mars held by middle school science

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Matching slides to presentation videos. $49.99 Video streaming is becoming a major channel for distance learning (or e-learning). A tremendous number of videos for educational purpose are captured and archived in various e-learning systems today throughout schools, corporations and over the Internet. However, making information searchable and browsable, and presenting results optimally for a wide range of users and systems, remains a challenge.;In this work two core algorithms have been developed to support effective browsing and searching of educational videos. The first is a fully automatic approach that recognizes slides in the video with high accuracy. Built upon SIFT (scale invariant feature transformation) keypoint matching using RANSAC (random sample consensus), the approach is independent of capture systems and can handle a variety of videos with different styles and plentiful ambiguities. In particular, we propose a multi-phase matching pipeline that incrementally identifies slides from the easy ones to the difficult ones. We achieve further robustness by using the matching confidence as part of a dynamic Hidden Markov model (HMM) that integrates temporal information, taking camera operations into account as well.;The second algorithm locates slides in the video. We develop a non-linear optimization method (bundle adjustment) to accurately estimate the projective transformations (homographies) between slides and video frames. Different from estimating homography from a single image, our method solves a set of homographies jointly in a frame sequence that is related to a single slide.;These two algorithms open up a series of possibilities for making the video content more searchable, browsable and understandable, thus greatly enriching the user’s learning experience. Their usefulness has been demonstrated in the SLIC (Semantically Linking Instructional Content) system, which aims to turn simple video content into fully interactive learning experience for students and scholars.

Measures of emotion: How feelings are expressed in the body and face during walking. $49.99 The goal of this dissertation was to assess multimodal behavioral patterns associated with emotion expression in the body and face during walking. Motion capture data were collected from 42 individuals walking while experiencing five target emotions. Facial expressions were captured from half of the walkers with a head-mounted video camera. A set of 60 observer subjects viewed videos of the walking trials to determine whether the experienced emotions were observable in the walkers’ body movements. An additional set of 60 observers evaluated the qualitative characteristics of the emotionally expressive movement trials using a scale derived from Effort-Shape analysis. The body movements were also analyzed quantitatively using kinematic analysis. The facial expressions were assessed using the Facial Action Coding System (FACS). Finally, statistical analyses were conducted to determine if: (1) emotion elicitation, recognition, qualitative movement characteristics, and kinematics were similar in walkers with and without the head-mounted camera, (2) Effort-Shape scores were different among target emotions, (3) kinematic outcomes were different among the target emotions, and (4) multimodal behavior patterns could be identified for each target emotion. Results showed that the head-mounted camera did not interfere with a walker’s ability to feel an emotion, an observer’s ability to recognize an emotion, or with qualitative or quantitative aspects of movement characteristics. The qualitative assessment indicated that each target emotion was defined by a unique combination of characteristics related to the six Effort-Shape qualities. The quantitative analysis showed that specific kinematic parameters were associated with emotion recognition. The multimodal analysis demonstrated that emotion-related patterns were most consistent in the face, followed by the face and body combined, and lastly the body. While facial expressions tended to be distinct for each emotion, bodily

Multi-view approaches to tracking, three-dimensional reconstruction and object class detection. $49.99 Multi-camera systems are becoming ubiquitous and have found application in a variety of domains including surveillance, immersive visualization, sports entertainment and movie special effects amongst others. From a computer vision perspective, the challenging task is how to most efficiently fuse information from multiple views in the absence of detailed calibration information and a minimum of human intervention. This thesis presents a new approach to fuse foreground likelihood information from multiple views onto a reference view without explicit processing in 3D space, thereby circumventing the need for complete calibration. Our approach uses a homographic occupancy constraint (HOC), which states that if a foreground pixel has a piercing point that is occupied by foreground object, then the pixel warps to foreground regions in every view under homographies induced by the reference plane, in effect using cameras as occupancy detectors. Using the HOC we are able to resolve occlusions and robustly determine ground plane localizations of the people in the scene. To find tracks we obtain ground localizations over a window of frames and stack them creating a space time volume. Regions belonging to the same person form contiguous spatio-temporal tracks that are clustered using a graph cuts segmentation approach.;Second, we demonstrate that the HOC is equivalent to performing visual hull intersection in the image-plane, resulting in a cross-sectional slice of the object. The process is extended to multiple planes parallel to the reference plane in the framework of plane to plane homologies. Slices from multiple planes are accumulated and the 3D structure of the object is segmented out. Unlike other visual hull based approaches that use 3D constructs like visual cones, voxels or polygonal meshes requiring calibrated views, ours is purely-image based and uses only 2D constructs i.e. planar homographies between views. This feature also renders it conducive to graphics

New image rectification schemes for three-dimensional vision based on sequential virtual rotation. $49.99 Inferring 3D information from 2D images is a fundamental problem in computer vision and has many applications such as robotics, scene modeling, medical imaging, and augmented reality. While the basic geometric principles for typical imaging models have been established and are well understood, successful real world 3D vision systems are still scarce and their functionalities are still very limited, due to various practical challenges. For instance, the camera parameters may be unavailable, the image quality may be poor, and good feature detection may be difficult to achieve. In this dissertation, novel image rectification schemes are proposed in the context of exploring several practical 3D vision problems, i.e. image rectification for stereoscopic visualization, stereoscopic view synthesis from monocular endoscopic images, rapid cone and cylinder modeling from a single image, and monocular vision guided mobile robot navigation. For each problem, novel algorithms are proposed based on the rectification schemes as well as the domain knowledge of the particular problems. These novel schemes are all based on the concept of sequential virtual rotation, which has intuitive geometric meaning and can be estimated from basic image features. As a result, the designed algorithms are not only robust enough for coping with many challenges arising in practical problems, but also able to produce results with some desired properties such as no projective/affine distortion. Further, the intuitive geometry also leads to insightful understanding of the particular problems such as the analysis of degeneracy. For each of the chosen applications, we report extensive experiments that were designed and performed to compare the proposed approach with existing state-of-the-art techniques, demonstrating the effectiveness and advantages of the proposed methods.

Photography: The Concise Guide $87.95 Turn your enthusiasm into striking photographs! The perfect companion while in the field or in the lab, PHOTOGRAPHY: THE CONCISE GUIDE provides a straightforward, comprehensive introduction to photography for the film and digital photographer. From “seeing” and composing the shot to applying special techniques, developing the film and working in Photoshop, this information-packed book covers everything you need to know to become a successful black-and-white and/or color photographer. Fully revised and updated to cover all new camera formats, including the latest digital technology, this book is all you need to get started. Step-by-step photo sequences and concise discussions show you how to execute photography processes and special techniques using actual equipment and materials. A full chapter on troubleshooting provides help when you need it. Numerous high-quality, full-color and duotone reproductions of works by well-known photographers such as Ansel Adams, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston, and Diane Arbus offer inspiration and guidance. The history of photography chapter addresses technical, functional, and aesthetic issues, from the first photographs to the evolution of modern film processes and today’s social landscape.

Photography: The Concise Guide (with Resource Center Printed Access Card) $91.95 The perfect companion while in the field or in the lab, PHOTOGRAPHY: THE CONCISE GUIDE provides a straightforward, comprehensive introduction to photography for the film and digital photographer. From “seeing” and composing the shot to applying special techniques, developing the film and working in Photoshop, this information-packed book covers everything you need to know to become a successful black-and-white and/or color photographer. Fully revised and updated to cover all new camera formats, including the latest digital technology, this book is all you need to get started. Step-by-step photo sequences and concise discussions show you how to execute photography processes and special techniques using actual equipment and materials. A full chapter on troubleshooting provides help when you need it. Numerous high-quality, full-color and duotone reproductions of works by well-known photographers such as Ansel Adams, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston, and Diane Arbus offer inspiration and guidance. The history of photography chapter addresses technical, functional, and aesthetic issues, from the first photographs to the evolution of modern film processes and today’s social landscape.

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Principles of Advertising and IMC $103.3 AdSim is an Advertising Simulation set in the consumer electronics industry where students are required to make decisions about Agency selection; Brand positioning and messages; Media Selection, including traditional and non-traditional; Market Research, both ordering and interpreting; and Budgeting. This simulation, created by SmartSims, provides a highly engaging means of developing a real understanding and appreciation of the fundamentals and dynamics of communications, advertising and promotion in business. AdSim challenges students to apply recently learned concepts, principles and explained practices in development of overall communications, advertising and promotion campaigns, whether against the computer in the Single-Player version or in direct competition with their peers in the Multi-Player version.AdSim for Duncan incorporates an Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) approach as promulgated in Principles of Advertising and IMC, 2/e by Tom Duncan. AdSim for Duncan has been modeled on the contemporary US Digital Camera Market. Using this simulation, students will develop: •A better understanding of how to implement an IMC approach in the development of an overall advertising and promotion plan. •Insights into selecting different media for specific communications goals and target markets while being constrained by a fixed budget. •Insights into the influence of brand awareness and the importance of on-going measurement. •A better understanding of implementing promotion campaigns for existing customers, including the use of customer relationship management (CRM) applications. •Critical decision-making and team participation skills in aninteractive learning environment.

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Protecting the login session from camera based shoulder surfing attacks. $49.99 Fraud and identity theft account for large financial loses each year. One critical component present at virtually all login terminals used today is the traditional text password or numerical PIN. Compromising this authentication component is a critical, yet increasingly feasible, step for criminals looking to gain access to sensitive information. To increase usability and security, graphical password schemes have been proposed that rely on users’ innate ability to recognize pictures for authentication.;Sparked by the general ubiquity of cell phones with video recording technology, our research aims to identify the susceptibility of the Passfaces graphical password system to camera based shoulder surfing attacks while introducing a novel defense to combat recording devices. First, we survey several graphical password schemes in the context of the shoulder surfing attack vector. We then propose a method of subverting video recording capabilities by using high frequency contrast inversion. By preventing cameras from successfully correcting elementary settings in response to contrast inversion, little useful information is extracted from the system.;We mate the contrast inversion defense to an already proven user input method, a ‘cognitive trapdoor game’, and place these mechanisms within a graphical password system. A technological study evaluates the effectiveness of these mechanisms against a variety of recording devices, while a user study evaluates how these mechanisms impact the usability benefits of a graphical password system. We believe our system increases the resource investment for a camera based shoulder surfing attack, yet can be used in most authentication terminals without extensive modifications.

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Television Sports Production $59.95 Television sports production is difficult, and producing a remote sports event is arguably the most complicated to orchestrate. Many factors can adversely affect your production, including weather, lighting, and natural sound. A successful production is dependent on extensive planning, from budgets, technology and location to the intricacies of the sport itself. With so much at stake, why not learn from the experts? Learn television sports production from the ISB, producers of the Olympics, who rely on the very same guide to train their own production staff. “Television Sports Production” walks you through the planning, set-up, directing, announcing, and editing involved with producing an event. Detailed descriptions of mobile units/OB vans, cameras, audio equipment and lighting requirements enable you to produce live or taped coverage of sporting events like an expert. You’ll learn about the special considerations involved with producing various types of sports–from camera placement in figure skating to where to put the microphone during a tennis match.Whether producing a local high school football game, the Super Bowl, or something as complex as the Olympics, this book will give you an inside look at how a remote production operates and the role of each participant.Key Features:* Written by the same sports production experts who bring us the Olympics* Details shooting in high definition and associated special considerations * Teaches different techniques used by producers to capture the essence of individual sports, from alpine skiing to the rough and tumble motorcycle road race* Includes essential diagrams and samples, even an Olympic broadcast planning document* Glossary provides a quick and easy reference of essential terms

The Camera’s Coast: Historic Images of Ship and Shore in New England $20.94 Cameras float coastward. Almost every old family photograph album contains snapshots of children and sand pails, teenagers frolicking in surf or rowing a rental skiff, young couples half blinded by love and half blinded by beach-reflected sun, mothers with infants shaded by makeshift tents, and old-timers ensconced in folding beach chairs, often shielded by umbrellas…. Now and then the rummager of attics and antique shops finds other photographs, usually made from ferries or other commercial craft passing parallel to industrial waterfronts, beneath drawbridges, beside shipyards, sweeping professional and holiday-making image-makers just a wee bit offshore. Sometimes the photographs lie mixed with memorabilia: the steamship ticket or schedule, vacation map, restaurant menu, advertising label or other ephemera that people picked up, brought home, and preserved as they did shells, rounded stones, and sea glass gleaned from beaches. Taken together, arranged and rearranged, juxtaposed and analyzed, they form a kaleidoscopic vision….” From the Introduction by John R. StilgoeThe Camera’s Coast: Historic Images of Ship and Shore in New England is a wonderful collection of historic photographs, paired with a rich assortment of ephemera – the subtle colors of an old postcard, the seductive details of an advertisement, a gay poster – engagingly captioned by W. H. Bunting. This page-by-page panorama of New England coastal activity from the late-nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries ranges from the ordinary to the extraordinary, from leisure and recreation to hard work. The imagery is mostly bygone but still strongly connected to our present-day landscape. The Camera’s Coast beganseveral years ago as a traveling Historic New England exhibition of photographs with informative captions by guest curator Bunting, a maritime historian who brings old photographs to life with small stories – sometimes humorous, sometimes heroic, sometimes tragic, but always

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The design and application of wireless MEMS inertial measurement units for the measurement and analysis of golf swings. $49.99 Golf is a growing sport supported by a multi-billion dollar industry. Part of this growth can be attributed to new technologies including new training aids. Training aids address one of the major obstacles towards advancement in the sport, namely developing a controlled and consistent swing. Popular camera-based systems for golf swing measurement possess one or more major limitations including (1) extensive set-up and alignment, (2) restriction to indoor use, (3) high cost, (4) lack of portability, (5) placement of instruments (markers) on/near the club head, and (6) time-consuming data processing and analysis. This research resolves these limitations by contributing a highly portable, accurate and inexpensive means to measure golf swing dynamics. Introduced herein is a miniature and wireless six degree-of-freedom MEMS inertial measurement unit that fits entirely within the grip end of the golf club shaft. A companion measurement theory enables the computation of the rigid body dynamics of the golf club from sensor outputs. Flexible body dynamics, if and when needed, are estimated using dynamical models of flexible golf shafts. For putting strokes, the sensor system resolves the three-dimensional position of the club face to within 3 millimeters and the three-dimensional orientation of the club face to within 0.5 degrees, both with millisecond updates. This measurement speed and significant precision enable the detailed characterization of putting strokes. A suite of "putting metrics" is identified that pin-points common putting faults from the measured club head trajectory and orientation. For full swings made with drivers and irons, the system resolves the complete three-dimensional rigid body motion of the club and critical metrics for swing instruction including the swing planes, club head velocity, and the club head orientation throughout the swing. Beyond golf, the measurement theory and hardware design hold significant promise for training systems

Video Production: Disciplines and Techniques $56 This text introduces students to the operations underlying multiple-camera video production. Written in an accessible style that appeals to students, it covers the basics of television production with an emphasis on studio production. While the main focus is on equipment and techniques that students use, Video Production also covers more advanced equipment and techniques used in the professional world. The ninth edition adds information about preparing video material for the Web and for DVDs, updates on HDTV, further detail on graphics construction, and more.

Video analysis and compression for surveillance applications . $49.99 With technological advances digital video and imaging are becoming more and more relevant. Medical, remote-learning, surveillance, conferencing and home monitoring are just a few applications of these technologies. Along with compression, there is now a need for analysis and extraction of data. During the days of film and early digital cameras the processing and manipulation of data from such cameras was transparent to the end user. This transparency has been decreasing and the industry is moving towards 'smart users'—people who will be enabled to program and manipulate their video and imaging systems. Smart cameras can currently zoom, refocus and adjust lighting by sourcing out current from the camera itself to the headlight. Such cameras are used in the industry for inspection, quality control and even counting objects in jewelry stores and museums, but could eventually allow user defined programmability. However, all this will not happen without interactive software as well as capabilities in the hardware to allow programmability. In this research, compression, expansion and detail extraction from videos in the surveillance arena are addressed. Here, a video codec is defined that can embed contextual details of a video stream depending on user defined requirements creating a video summary. This codec also carries out motion based segmentation that helps in object detection. Once an object is segmented it is matched against a database using its shape and color information. If the object is not a good match, the user can either add it to the database or consider it an anomaly. RGB vector angle information is used to generate object descriptors to match objects to a database. This descriptor implicitly incorporates the shape and color information while keeping the size of the database manageable. Color images of objects that are considered 'safe' are taken from various angles and distances (with the same background as that covered by the

Why camera cars do not fix the problem: A study of technology use and racial profiling. $49.99 Over the last decade, reports of police and citizen misconduct have continued to surface through mainstream media channels. This behavior is able to be displayed publicly because of the video footage either taken by televisions crews or by in-car video cameras. The in-car video camera is a relatively new form of technology for police organizations. As such, it has been suggested as a potential solution to combat the misconduct of both individual citizens as well as patrol officers.;Specifically, this research addressed the usefulness of in-car cameras with regard to the racial profiling problem. While cameras cars have become ubiquitous, there are no systematic empirical studies of camera car archives that can address questions such as why do officers behave this way when a camera records their behavior?;Data was collected from two suburban police departments that suffer hyper-segregation and that border a predominantly African-American community. Findings about officer compliance with organizational policies regarding camera and microphone use, the circumstances under which tapes are reviewed by supervisors, and forms of resistance by officers which can circumvent accountability are addressed. In addition, the usefulness of the in-car camera video to depict explicit profiling behavior is discussed.