Francis L. Cooper, Spruce Hill Photographer

Hill Towns Umbria in Francis Violich

Identity has been a major factor in establishing and maintaining traditional forms of dwellings and settlements. Today this connection between people and place has been fragmented because of social, economic and technological forces. An examination of the hill town of Giove in 1987 revealed how twentieth century people can identify with places built long ago. The author's "reading" of Giove and...

Attorney - Photographer - Interpreter - Inspector

Under these major changes, two former classes of occupationally ĵ. deferred men, the 18-to-25-year olds, and the 25-to-30-year olds, have been lumped into a single Class. The requirement for deferment has been changed to "indispensable and irreplaceable to warsupporting activity" instead of the former "necessary' to and regularly engaged in." This means that Federal agen' «ies employing deferre...

L . , Burghardt , T . , Mirmehdi , M . , Damen , D . , Cooper , A . , Camplani

Deriving a person's energy expenditure accurately forms the foundation for tracking physical activity levels across many health and lifestyle monitoring tasks. In this study, the authors present a method for estimating calorific expenditure from combined visual and accelerometer sensors by way of an RGB-Depth camera and a wearable inertial sensor. The proposed individual-independent framework f...

An autonomous robot photographer

We describe a complete, end-to-end system for taking well-composed photographs using a mobile robot. The general scenario is a reception, or other event, where people are roaming around talking to each other. The robot serves as an “event photographer”, roaming around the same space as the participants, periodically taking photographs. These images are then sent to a workstation where participa...

Boundary crossing: the physician and the photographer.