Spotting famine from space

Tell spotting - surveying near eastern settlement mounds from space

Digital elevation models (DEMs) have become a recognized tool in the visualization of his torical sites. Applications range through various scales from 3D presentations of the settings of individual buildings up to detailed GIS analysis of the hinterlands of archaeological sites. However, the development of space-borne instruments has seen the rise of high resolution DEMs even on the global sca...

Spotting East African Mammals in Open Savannah from Space

Knowledge of population dynamics is essential for managing and conserving wildlife. Traditional methods of counting wild animals such as aerial survey or ground counts not only disturb animals, but also can be labour intensive and costly. New, commercially available very high-resolution satellite images offer great potential for accurate estimates of animal abundance over large open areas. Howe...

Famine Disease and Famine Mortality: Lessons from Ireland, 1845-1850

10740 words This is an abbreviated version of a paper given at a conference on famine demography at Les Treilles, France, 25-30 May 1999. The longer version is available as Mokyr and Ó Gráda, 1999. We are grateful to co-participants for their comments.

Learning from the 2011 Famine

A Proposal of Pattern Space Trajectory for Gesture Spotting Recognition

We propose a new appearance-based feature for real-time gesture recognition from motion images. The feature is the shape of the trajectory caused by human gestures, in the "Pattern Space" defined by the inner-product between patterns on frame images. It has three advantages, 1) it is invariant in term of the target human's position, size and lie, 2) it allows gesture recognition without interpr...