Moments and Moment Invariants in Pattern Recognition

Moments and Moment Invariants in Pattern Recognition
Author: Jan Flusser
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2009-11-04
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780470684764

Moments as projections of an image’s intensity onto a proper polynomial basis can be applied to many different aspects of image processing. These include invariant pattern recognition, image normalization, image registration, focus/ defocus measurement, and watermarking. This book presents a survey of both recent and traditional image analysis and pattern recognition methods, based on image moments, and offers new concepts of invariants to linear filtering and implicit invariants. In addition to the theory, attention is paid to efficient algorithms for moment computation in a discrete domain, and to computational aspects of orthogonal moments. The authors also illustrate the theory through practical examples, demonstrating moment invariants in real applications across computer vision, remote sensing and medical imaging. Key features: Presents a systematic review of the basic definitions and properties of moments covering geometric moments and complex moments. Considers invariants to traditional transforms – translation, rotation, scaling, and affine transform - from a new point of view, which offers new possibilities of designing optimal sets of invariants. Reviews and extends a recent field of invariants with respect to convolution/blurring. Introduces implicit moment invariants as a tool for recognizing elastically deformed objects. Compares various classes of orthogonal moments (Legendre, Zernike, Fourier-Mellin, Chebyshev, among others) and demonstrates their application to image reconstruction from moments. Offers comprehensive advice on the construction of various invariants illustrated with practical examples. Includes an accompanying website providing efficient numerical algorithms for moment computation and for constructing invariants of various kinds, with about 250 slides suitable for a graduate university course. Moments and Moment Invariants in Pattern Recognition is ideal for researchers and engineers involved in pattern recognition in medical imaging, remote sensing, robotics and computer vision. Post graduate students in image processing and pattern recognition will also find the book of interest.

The Power of Moments

The Power of Moments
Author: Chip Heath
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2017-10-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1501147765

The New York Times bestselling authors of Switch and Made to Stick explore why certain brief experiences can jolt us and elevate us and change us—and how we can learn to create such extraordinary moments in our life and work. While human lives are endlessly variable, our most memorable positive moments are dominated by four elements: elevation, insight, pride, and connection. If we embrace these elements, we can conjure more moments that matter. What if a teacher could design a lesson that he knew his students would remember twenty years later? What if a manager knew how to create an experience that would delight customers? What if you had a better sense of how to create memories that matter for your children? This book delves into some fascinating mysteries of experience: Why we tend to remember the best or worst moment of an experience, as well as the last moment, and forget the rest. Why “we feel most comfortable when things are certain, but we feel most alive when they’re not.” And why our most cherished memories are clustered into a brief period during our youth. Readers discover how brief experiences can change lives, such as the experiment in which two strangers meet in a room, and forty-five minutes later, they leave as best friends. (What happens in that time?) Or the tale of the world’s youngest female billionaire, who credits her resilience to something her father asked the family at the dinner table. (What was that simple question?) Many of the defining moments in our lives are the result of accident or luck—but why would we leave our most meaningful, memorable moments to chance when we can create them? The Power of Moments shows us how to be the author of richer experiences.

Moments of Magic

Moments of Magic
Author: Shep Hyken
Publisher: Shepard Presentations, LLC
Total Pages: 80
Release: 1993
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0963782002

Moments of Impact

Moments of Impact
Author: Chris Ertel
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2014-02-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1451697694

Moments of Impact is a book on a mission: to eradicate time-sucking, energy-depleting workshops and meetings. In our fast-changing world, organizations have important challenges and opportunities to address—and no time to waste. Moments of Impact delivers the single most useful resource for managers and leaders who need better strategic conversation—now—to shape the future of their organizations. Moments of Impact is an essential guide for ambitious leaders who get assigned the hardest and most vexing strategic issues in their organizations, for entrepreneurs trying to manage board expectations, for social change agents pioneering new business models for community impact, for hopeful educators and healthcare practitioners trying to transform slow-to-change industries, and for enterprising students committed to tackling global challenges. Drawing on decades of combined experience as innovation strategists, Ertel and Solomon articulate the purpose, principles, and practices of well-designed strategic conversations. They weave together a lively and compelling mix of social science theories and research, interviews with more than 100 thought leaders, organization leaders, and practitioners, as well as dozens of anecdotes and practical cases from diverse organizations. The book also includes a sixty-page Starter Kit with diagnostic questions, best practices, tips and suggestions, and recommended readings to enable you to put the ideas to work immediately.

Disrupt Yourself

Disrupt Yourself
Author: Jay Samit
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2015-07-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1509802894

In Disrupt Yourself, innovator and digital media expert Jay Samit reveals how to achieve your goals and permanently alter the status quo through the art of self-disruption. In today's ever-changing and often-volatile business landscape, adaptability and creativity are more crucial than ever. Samit describes how specific strategies that help companies flourish - challenging assumptions, pinpointing one's unique value, and identifying weaknesses in the structure of current industries - can be applied at an individual level. Incorporating stories from his own experience and anecdotes from other innovators and disruptive businesses - including Richard Branson, Steve Jobs, YouTube, the BBC, Virgin Media and many more - Samit shows how personal transformation can reap entrepreneurial and professional rewards. Disrupt Yourself offers clear and empowering advice for anyone looking to break through a creative barrier; anyone with a big idea but no idea how to apply it; and for anyone worried about being made irrelevant in an era of technological transformation. This engaging, perspective-shifting book demystifies the mechanics of disruption for individuals and businesses alike.

Moments of Moment

Moments of Moment
Author: Wim Tigges
Publisher: Rodopi
Total Pages: 500
Release: 1999
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9789042006362

... a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or in a memorable phase in the mind itself. Thus Stephen Dedalus in James Joyce's Stephen Hero: defines the phenomenon that has ever since been known as the literary epiphany. The essays gathered in this volume comprise a wide survey of this phenomenon. With recurrent reference to its most famous creators, notably William Wordsworth, who was the first to consciously explore and delineate those momentous spots in time in his Prelude, Walter Pater, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, this book intends to provide a broad and unbiased exploration into the various types and categories of the moment of moment that can be distinguished, ranging from William Blake, Ann Radcliffe and Charles Maturin through the nineteenth-century sonnet tradition and the naturalistic novel to modernist and postmodernist exponents such as Ezra Pound and Elizabeth Bowen, Philip larkin and Seamus Heaney, and include contributions by acclaimed experts in the field such as Martin Bidney, Robert Langbaum, Jay Losey, and Ashton Nichol

A Moment

A Moment
Author: Marie Hall
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2013-10-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781492722632

Ryan Cosgrove and Liliana Delgado are on a collision course with destiny. They don't know it yet, but before the night is over their lives will be forever changed.

2D and 3D Image Analysis by Moments

2D and 3D Image Analysis by Moments
Author: Jan Flusser
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 555
Release: 2016-12-19
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1119039355

Presents recent significant and rapid development in the field of 2D and 3D image analysis 2D and 3D Image Analysis by Moments, is a unique compendium of moment-based image analysis which includes traditional methods and also reflects the latest development of the field. The book presents a survey of 2D and 3D moment invariants with respect to similarity and affine spatial transformations and to image blurring and smoothing by various filters. The book comprehensively describes the mathematical background and theorems about the invariants but a large part is also devoted to practical usage of moments. Applications from various fields of computer vision, remote sensing, medical imaging, image retrieval, watermarking, and forensic analysis are demonstrated. Attention is also paid to efficient algorithms of moment computation. Key features: Presents a systematic overview of moment-based features used in 2D and 3D image analysis. Demonstrates invariant properties of moments with respect to various spatial and intensity transformations. Reviews and compares several orthogonal polynomials and respective moments. Describes efficient numerical algorithms for moment computation. It is a "classroom ready" textbook with a self-contained introduction to classifier design. The accompanying website contains around 300 lecture slides, Matlab codes, complete lists of the invariants, test images, and other supplementary material. 2D and 3D Image Analysis by Moments, is ideal for mathematicians, computer scientists, engineers, software developers, and Ph.D students involved in image analysis and recognition. Due to the addition of two introductory chapters on classifier design, the book may also serve as a self-contained textbook for graduate university courses on object recognition.

Silver Lining Moments

Silver Lining Moments
Author: Kerry Raleigh
Publisher: Balboa Press
Total Pages: 121
Release: 2021-05-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1982260335

This journal is your Silver Lining Moments practice, a place for you to acknowledge the clouds and see the sun. Through personal story-telling, blank pages, and gratitude and resilience worksheets, Silver Lining Moments: A Guided Journal of Gratitude & Resilience promotes personal healing and growth, fosters gratitude, and strengthens resilience. In this Journal, Kerry shares 12, short, personal “Silver Lining Moments” from her life. Each story has a heading showcasing the Silver Lining Moments theme, i.e. “A Moment of Falling into Despair is Lined by Angels.” Each story is followed by ten blank, lined pages, with the prompt “A moment of _______ is lined by __________” at the top. These pages are for you, the journaler, to discover and explore your own silver lining moments. After these pages, are gratitude and resilience worksheets. By sharing stories of her Silver Lining Moments practice and by giving writing space, Silver Lining Moments Journal empowers Journalers to start their own Silver Lining Moments practice. It is a practice that can help heal from any loss, trauma, or uncertainty, that celebrates their resilience, and fills them with gratitude. Having a Silver Lining Moments practice in the easy times can pull you through the hard times. Seeing the sun even on the cloudiest of days is a reset in gratitude and resilience. This journal is your Silver Lining Moments practice, a place for you to acknowledge the clouds and see the sun.