Museums and Silent Objects: Designing Effective Exhibitions

Museums and Silent Objects: Designing Effective Exhibitions
Author: Francesca Monti
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2016-04-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 131709283X

In a society where split-second decisions about the value of things are grounded on how they look, museum visitors are often drawn to visually striking or iconic objects. This book investigates the question of the treatment of items on display in museums which are less conspicuous but potentially just as important as the striking objects, arguing that it is important to show that all objects illustrate potentially interesting cultural contexts and content. The authors explore the disciplines of architecture, design, cognitive science and museology and offer a methodology by which the quality of museum exhibitions can be judged from a visitor-centred perspective. They provide new insights into the visitor-object encounter and the relationship between visitors, objects and museums. In addition the book offers a set of useful practical tools for museum professionals - for audience research, evaluating museum displays, and for designing new galleries and striking exhibitions. Richly illustrated with photos and diagrams, and based on studies of famous galleries in world-renowned museums, the book will be essential reading for all those concerned with creating effective exhibitions in museum.

Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval:User, Context, and Feedback

Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval:User, Context, and Feedback
Author: Stéphane Marchand-Maillet
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2007-06-20
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540715452

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval, AMR 2006, held in Geneva, Switzerland in July 2006. The papers cover ontology-based retrieval and annotation, ranking and similarity measurements, music information retrieval, visual modeling, adaptive retrieval, structuring multimedia, as well as user integration and profiling.

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Image Analysis and Recognition

Image Analysis and Recognition
Author: Aurelio Campilho
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 1146
Release: 2008-06-25
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540698124

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, ICIAR 2008, held in Póvoa do Varzim, Portugal, in June 2008. The 110 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 226 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on image restoration and enhancement, image and video segmentation, non-linear image processing, image and video coding and encryption, indexing and retrieval, computer vision, feature extraction and classification, shape representation and matching, object recognition, character recognition, texture and motion analysis, tracking, biomedical image analysis, biometrics, face recognition, and a special session on recent advances in multimodal biometric systems and applications.