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Kicking off "a year of 16 months," Henrico County officials this morning officially opened the Henrico County Tourist Information Center, located at the Dabbs House Museum at the Eastern Government Center on Nine Mile Road.
The center, which is one of 61 certified visitors center statewide, will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday. The county intends to highlight its 2011 quadricentennial activities through the center and hopes to boost tourism as a result. Henrico is planning 11 featured events as part of its celebration, beginning with this year with the Oct. 16 Harvest Festival at Meadow Farm. {{more}}
"It's our anniversary, and it's our party, and we wanted to get excited," Board of Supervisors Chairwoman Pat O'Bannon said during today's ceremony. O'Bannon, who also serves as the chairwoman of the county's 2011 advisory committee, said she hopes the center will spur increased visitor traffic to Henrico.
"Tourism is our first stop on this journey," she said.
The center features multi-media information about the county's history, historical sites, cultural opportunities and local attractions. A new display highlights four centuries of Henrico history on a timeline. Tours of the facility, which also includes rooms redecorated as they would have looked during the Civil War, also are available.
The Dabbs House facility was built in 1820 and known as High Meadow. It later served as a Confederate hospital and as a military headquarters for General Robert E. Lee and then was purchased by the county in 1883 for use as an alms house for the poor.
The Henrico Division of Police occupied the building from 1941 to 2005, before the county renovated it and reopened it in November 2008 as a museum.
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On June 13, the Short Pump Rotary Club partnered with Schnabel Engineering for a day of volunteer work with Rebuilding Together Richmond. Team members (among them [from left] Chris Rufe, Melissa Abraham, Rick Naschold, and Micky Ogburn) completed a variety of repairs and home improvements ranging from painting and landscaping to cabinet installation and fence building.
"It was a privilege to be involved in this project," said club president Melissa Abraham. "The homeowner kept thanking the volunteers, but I think all of us would agree we are the ones who actually benefited. It was an opportunity to help a community member, fellowship with great people and improve our handyman skills." > Read more.
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Dr. Even Alexander, a New York Times best-selling author who has been featured on Oprah and Dr. Oz, was in town last week to promote his June 27 talk, "Proof of Heaven," at Glen Allen High School.
Alexander (pictured, at right, while Unity of Bon Air church member Harry Simmons interviews him) has written about what he considers to be his journey through the afterlife.
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VIDEO/PHOTOS: 100 meet at library to protest government cuts
NAPLES - It wasn't quite as warm a welcome as they got last week.
A few passersby gave thumbs-down. One man in a large pickup honked his horn and flipped up his middle finger. Another man swerved his family-filled Honda, as if to hit a protester that had stepped out into the street to take a photograph.
Nonetheless, the roughly 100 people who came out Tuesday evening to voice their opposition to state and federal budget-cutting proposals were greeted by horns, waves and thumbs of support from dozens of people who passed the intersection of Airport-Pulling Road and Orange Blossom Drive in North Naples during rush hour.
"Don't cut the teachers, don't cut the cops, collect the taxes from the top," was one of the protesters' chants during the event, which began outside the Collier County Library and concluded there about two hours later with a rally.
The event was organized by the grassroots organizations MoveOn.org and Awake the State, which organized an event last week in downtown Naples and will do so again at 5:30 p.m. March 22 in Cambier Park.
"It's so good to see somebody that isn't ancient here," Naples resident Patti Bryan, 64, said to Golden Gate Estates resident Edwin Alvarez, 21, who stood next to her during the protest. Those in attendance covered the full spectrum of ages.
"It's your future at stake," Bryan said to Alvarez.
"I don't like the way they are trying to cut jobs," Alvarez said of his reasons for attending. "I just want it to go back to the way it was."
At last week's event, the focus was on Gov. Rick Scott and his proposal to cut thousands of state worker positions and reduce funding for education, prisons, and services for children, families, the poor, the sick and the elderly. Scott's goal is to balance the state's budget and decrease corporate income and property taxes and motor vehicle fees by hundreds of millions of dollars to spur economic development.
Tuesday's event focused more on Republican proposals to balance the federal budget by cutting discretionary spending on such services as the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, but there were still many anti-Scott chants and boos, as well as some anger toward Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.
"I think it's great," retired special education teacher Kathleen Avalone said of the protest. "I think it's about time people stood up. We need more of it."
Naples resident Jon Watral, 57, wore his U.S. Postal Service uniform to the protest.
"The National Association of Letter Carriers supports all unions," Watral said of his reason for showing up.
"The unions raise wages for everybody. They aren't a part of the problem, but they are being made a scapegoat," Watral said a few minutes after a man passing in a Mercedes yelled "get a job" toward him.
A deputy in a Collier County Sheriff's Office cruiser passed shortly after, waving in support.
At the rally after the protest, speakers yelled words of support and shared information. One speaker was John Dwyer, who became ill after the sun-showering at the event last week. His wife, Karen Dwyer, organized Tuesday's protest.
"Gov. Scott, we don't want the crumbs you are going to give us," John Dwyer told the group. "We steadfastly demand a fair share of the loaf."
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Men represent the vast majority of IT Network Technicians in the United States. People in this role can earn an average of $45K annually nationwide. Cash earnings for IT Network Technicians — which occasionally include more than $4K from bonuses and more than $6K from profit sharing — stretch from around $28K to approximately $66K. Experience level is the biggest factor affecting pay for this group, followed by geography. A strong majority report receiving medical coverage from their employers and a majority collect dental insurance. The majority of IT Network Technicians claim high levels of job satisfaction. This overview is based on answers to PayScale's salary questionnaire.
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Generally, IT network technicians are responsible for maintaining their company's network systems by performing component installation, system updates, system repair/troubleshooting, and system testing. Although they are not required to program, general knowledge of various programming languages is often necessary in order to communicate effectively with software engineers and/or computer programmers. They must always keep their skills up-to-date to keep up with new technologies, as well.
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The central access point for the McCord Museum's entire collection, the Archives and Documentation Centre provides researchers from Montreal and elsewhere a wide array of resources on various aspects of Canadian life, culture and society, including material culture, anthropology, the history of art and photography, social history, etc.
- General research assistance;
- Consultation of the Museum's database, which comprises more then 280,000 items, 127,000 of which are digitized;
- Access to over 8,000 works and periodicals from the library;
- Access to over 2,000 works from the rare book collection;
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- Access to more than 700 archival fonds and textual or photographic collections;
- Printing of information sheets on the artifacts and documents in the collection (minimal fee);
- Photographic reproductions of the artifacts and documents in the collection (fees available on demand).
The Archives and Documentation Centre of the McCord Museum is certified by Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec and is a partner in several archival organizations, including the Group of Archivists of the Region of Montreal (GARM), the Réseau des services d'archives du Québec (RAQ) and the Regroupement des services d'archives privées agréés du Québec (RSAPAQ).
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Because of Rabbit's trickery to get Tigger to take a bath, Tigger loses his stripes. The gang sees a present for Christopher Robin--a wind up monkey named Bruno. They, however, come to believe that he is going to replace them. That causes a lot of trouble.
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Tigger would again end in the tub in "The Old SwitcheRoo," but that time he didn't lose his stripes, he just got clean.
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Tigger: (after bouncing on Rabbit and gaining his stripe back on the end of his tail along with the other stripes he got back) Thanks Bunny Boy. Now I'm a Tigger on the outside and a Tigger on the inside, too.
Tigger: (after regaining his stripes) Well, Pooh Boy, I got my stripes back (notices one of his stripes is missing at the end of his tail) All except for one.
Tigger: (when Rabbit, Pooh and Piglet grab him out of the mud puddle) Hey, hey! Unhandle me you guys.
Rabbit: One, two, three! (throws Tigger into the air)
Tigger: (landing onto a bath tub filled with suds) No, this bouncing Tigger's not touching those bubbles.
Rabbit: (pushing Tigger in) If you're going to bounce in mud puddles, you're going to take baths! (pushes Tigger into the sudsy water and he Pooh and Piglet start washing him)
Eeyore: Hello, Tigger.
Tigger: You know, that's the third time you've called me Tigger.
Eeyore: Well, aren't you?
Tigger: No. I don't have any stripes!
Eeyore: It doesn't matter. You're still Tigger on the inside.
Tigger: (covered with Christmas lights) I feel like a Christmas tree.
Piglet: Well, you're too big to be a Piglet. I just love the holidays.
Eeyore: A yuletide celebration. A Tigger tree and everything. how festive, obviously, I wasn't invited...
Tigger: This is ridiculous! I don't want to be a scotch pine!
Tigger: What is a guy when he's a nothin'?
And nothin' but stuffin'. Ain't even got a name.
(sings) I know I've changed on the outside.
But on the inside, I feel the same.
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Writing and living with an eye on the future in 'Legacy'
Daniel Goldfarb's smartly layered new play examines our need to strive for some kind of immortality, however illusory.
The silence is deafening on Ex-Im Bank demise
The federal budget is thick with forests of corporate welfare built up over decades.
William Inge's flawed 'Off the Main Road' now at Williamstown Theatre Festival
The first-ever full production of William Inge's drama makes news, but not always a lot of sense.
Big Smo brings heartland hick-hop to Brighton Music Hall
Tennessee rapper Big Smo fused hip-hop's storytelling and beats with heartland-friendly tropes about trucks and hard work at Brighton Music Hall on Friday.
Death in Synergy nursing home raises fresh concerns
Marie Crean's experience raises questions about the state health department's oversight of the 414 nursing homes in Mass.
Plymouth DA faces fire for witness deals
In the last four months, three judges have separately rebuked Timothy Cruz's office for its handling of cases before them.
Bringing parents' strength to all of Boston's public schools
In a city like Boston, poor kids tend to go to poor schools, and wealthy kids to affluent schools.
Richmond split over Confederate history
It's not just the city's history of inequality but its continuing unequal treatment of the Confederacy over slavery, says one activist.
Changed by Emily Dickinson — and a stray baseball
Alice Kociemba is the director of the Calliope Poetry Series in Falmouth and the author of "Death of Teaticket Hardware."
Higher egg prices hitting shops, consumers
The price of eggs has doubled in just a few short weeks after an outbreak of bird flu in the Midwest.
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The Cape is covered with spectacular natural landscapes, but Mass Audubon's Long Pasture Wildlife Sanctuary in Cummaquid takes your breath away.
The Farmer's Daughter Hotel is a down-home oasis in LA
It's a boutique hotel with honky-tonk character and a storied, and sometimes seedy, past.
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Free speech can be irritating, but if somebody harbors views you find offensive, it's better to know it.
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Many of the children who arrived from Central America a year ago still have cases churning through the immigration courts.
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Christians in the region are a convenient target anytime someone is mad at the state, the West, or any other perceived enemy.
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The development of the upscale Pinehills community helped kick things off, but downtown Plymouth has also seen a vigorous revitalization.
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"Night Vision: Nocturnes in American Art, 1860-1960" investigates the implications of night vision in American art.
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Described is a technology in which image near-duplicate retrieval is performed using similarities between patterns of query image words and patterns of database image words. In general, the image retrieval problems resulting from visual polysemy are reduced by using such visual patterns. Visual word vectors and visual pattern vectors are determined for the query image and a database image. These four vectors are used to determine similarity between the database image and the query image. The similarity scores may be used for ranking and/or re-ranking the database image similarity to the query image relative to other database images' similarity scores. Also described is expanding a query visual word of the query image to a set of visual words that are visual synonyms with the query visual word, to help reduce image retrieval problems resulting from visual synonymy.
1. In a computing environment, a method comprising, performing near-duplicate image retrieval, including by detecting visual patterns in images, representing the visual patterns as visual pattern vectors, and using the visual pattern vectors and visual word vectors to determine similarity between images.
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determining a visual pattern vector for the query image;
determining similarity with each image of a set of database images, including, for each image, computing a first similarity score by evaluating the visual word vector for the query image with a visual word vector for each database image and computing a second similarity score by evaluating the visual pattern vector for the query image with a visual pattern vector for that database image; and
using the first and second similarity scores according to a usage model.
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In general, Image Near-Duplicate (IND) refers to a pair of images that are close to being exact duplicates of one another, such as two images of the same object or location that differ only slightly due to changed capturing conditions, times, rendering conditions, and/or editing operations, and so forth. Detection or retrieval of IND is very useful in a variety of real-world applications. For example, IND can improve traditional tag-based image searches by filtering out duplicate images returned by search engine; IND can be used as a way of building bridges between two web pages in different languages; IND can provide similarity clues for recognizing visual events and searching news video clips.
Image Near-duplicate (IND) retrieval thus aims at finding images which are duplicates or near duplicate to another (e.g., query) image. One of the most popular and practical methods toward IND retrieval is based on Bag-of-Words (BoW) model which assumes that image retrieval is analogous to document retrieval. The general idea behind BoW methods is that local regions of images are characterized using high-dimensional descriptors, which are then mapped to "visual words" selected from a visual vocabulary.
However, the BoW approach is problematic in that visual words are poor in their ability to express regions relative to text words. As image retrieval is a growing in importance, including with respect to image-based querying, any improvements in image retrieval are beneficial.
This Summary is provided to introduce a selection of representative concepts in a simplified form that are further described below in the Detailed Description. This Summary is not intended to identify key features or essential features of the claimed subject matter, nor is it intended to be used in any way that would limit the scope of the claimed subject matter.
Briefly, various aspects of the subject matter described herein are directed towards a technology by which image near-duplicate retrieval is performed based at least in part on similarities between patterns of query image words and patterns of database image words. In general, the problems resulting from visual polysemy are reduced by using such visual patterns.
Upon receiving a query image, a visual word vector and visual pattern vector is determined for the query image. The vectors are used with like vectors of database images to determine a similarity score indicative of the similarity between each database image and the query image.
In one aspect, the similarity scores may be used for ranking and/or re-ranking the database images according to various ranking usage models. The scores for pattern and word vector comparisons may be combined, or the pattern and word vector of a database image may be merged with each other before comparison with like-merged vectors of the query image.
In one aspect, a query visual word of the query image is expanded to a set of visual words that are visual synonyms with the query visual word. This reduces problems resulting from visual synonymy.
Other advantages may become apparent from the following detailed description when taken in conjunction with the drawings.
The present invention is illustrated by way of example and not limited in the accompanying figures in which like reference numerals indicate similar elements and in which:
Various aspects of the technology described herein are generally directed towards improving the expressional ability of visual words. In one aspect, this is accomplished by likening visual word expression aspects to visual "synonymy" and "polysemy." Visual synonymy is used herein in a very general sense to describe the fact that there are many different visual words that refer to the same physical meaning. Visual polysemy refers to the fact that most visual words have more than one distinct physical meaning.
By way of example of how visual words have poor expressional ability compared to text words, consider that a concrete object is named with a text word or phrase. However, this cannot apply to visual words because one visual word can represent many different concrete objects when combined with different visual words. At the same time, several different visual words can represent the exact same object. This poor expressional ability issue hampers the performance of image near-duplicate retrieval.
It should be understood that any of the examples herein are non-limiting examples. As such, the present invention is not limited to any particular embodiments, aspects, concepts, structures, functionalities or examples described herein. Rather, any of the embodiments, aspects, concepts, structures, functionalities or examples described herein are non-limiting, and the present invention may be used various ways that provide benefits and advantages in computing and image retrieval in general.
Turning to
As mentioned above, there are usually many visual words that can represent a same visual meaning, which is referred to as visual synonymy, with corresponding visual words referred to as visual synonyms. The prevalence of visual synonymy tends to decrease the recall performance of image retrieval systems.
To eliminate the effects of visual synonymy, the image retrieval mechanism described herein provides a new image similarity function, which implicitly extends a query visual word to a set of visual words which are visual synonyms with the query visual word. In general, this extended similarity function is referred to as a query expansion technique (block 108).
As also mentioned above, many visual words have multiple visual meanings, referred to herein as visual polysemy, with the corresponding visual words referred to as visual polysemies. Visual polysemy is one factor underlying the relatively poor precision of existing IND retrieval systems.
To eliminate the effects of visual polysemy, a visual pattern (which refers to a meaningful adjacent visual word set) is used in BoW model. In general, using adjacent visual word sets helps disambiguate a visual word which has multiple meanings. Aspects of visual patterns are how to find a visual pattern, and how to use a visual pattern. For finding a visual pattern, a known Apriori algorithm (which is capable of discovering visual patterns comprising different visual words) is modified so as to mine a quantitative pattern, which is defined as visual patterns containing duplicate items (e.g., {wa, wa}).
For using a visual pattern, various usage models 110 are set forth herein. One usage model is pre-ranking, which refers to ranking database images according to their similarity scores based on their visual pattern vector, and the re-ranking the top K database images found in this way according to their similarity scores as computed by their visual word vectors.
Re-ranking refers to locating images in the opposite order, e.g., by first ranking according to similarity scores as computed based upon their visual word vectors, selecting the top K images based on the visual word vector ranking, and then re-ranking the top K images according to their similarity scores computed based upon their visual pattern vectors.
Similarity-Merging refers to computing overall similarity score, e.g., obtained by adding a similarity score based upon the visual word vector to a similarity score of based upon the visual pattern vector. Note that adding is only one such way of mathematically combining such scores, and further, that the types of scores may be weighted differently in computing the merged result.
Vector-Merging is another usage model, in which the visual word vector and the pattern vector are merged into one overall vector first. Then, a similarity score is determined from the overall vector 112.
In the BoW model, two descriptors are assumed to be identical only if they are assigned to the same cluster (a visual word). Conversely, two descriptors are not matched if they are assigned to different clusters (visual words), because visual words are assumed to be independent in the BoW model. Practical quantization methods such as K-means and HKM cannot grantee that the descriptors can be assigned to the same cluster (visual word) with their nearest descriptors.
FIG. shows a simplified example of descriptors and visual words. Points A, B and C are three visual words (cluster centers), and points 1 through 9 are descriptors. Two descriptors are a "matching descriptor couple" if they are each the nearest neighbor to one another. For example, in
In many situations, a large percentage of matching descriptor couples are clustered to two different visual words. These matching descriptor couples are no longer correlated in BoW model processes, that is, these matching descriptor couples are lost during quantization, and are thus referred to herein as lost descriptor couples. Further, lost descriptor couples often describe corresponding physical parts of two very close (nearly duplicate scenes), but are not clustered to the same visual word.
A possible potential method to maintain descriptor couples' correlation is to estimate the interrelation between visual words and re-correlate the lost descriptor couples by correlating the visual words to which they belong. Current BoW methods often assume that visual words are independent and are not related when computing image similarities. Assume A={wA 1,wA 2, . . . ,wA N} and B={wB 1,wB 2, . . . ,wB N} are two vectors of visual words, usually they are TF-IDF [2] vectors of the images for image retrieval. The cosine similarity is represented using a dot product:
Under the assumption of independence between visual words, the similarity kernel s(i, j) is reduced to the Kronecker delta function which means one visual word is only related to itself:
However, as described above, many matched descriptor couples are assigned to different visual words and therefore those visual words are actually dependent. Instead of the original identity matrix, there is provided a diagonal matrix to present the interrelation of visual words, referred to herein as a correlation matrix:
M(i,j) indicates the percentage of matched descriptor couples that are shared between visual word i and visual word j. In other words, when the cluster of visual word i contains Ni descriptors and the cluster of visual word j contains Nj descriptors, N out of the Ni descriptors in visual word i are matched descriptor couples with descriptors in the cluster of visual word j, M(i,j) is computed as:
Returning to
A precise estimation of the correlation matrix is achieved by traversing the entire descriptor space to find nearest neighbor for each descriptor, which actually has the complexity of O((DN)2) (assuming there are D images and each has N descriptors on average). To reduce the complexity, an approximation is used in one approach. More particularly, the dataset is divided into F subsets, each with D/F images on average. A traversal search for matching descriptor couples is executed in the descriptor space of these subsets. The complexity is reduced to O((DN)2/F).
Turning to reducing visual polysemy, as with visual synonymy, visual polysemy results from improper quantization. In general, the cluster of a visual word may contain several to several hundred descriptors. Unbalanced distributed feature space, inappropriate clustering parameters, and so forth result in descriptors that represent totally different physical meanings being clustered to the same visual word.
Often, descriptors that are clustered to the same visual word are significantly different in their physical meanings. As a result, regarding such descriptors as one identical visual word reduces the precision of IND retrieval.
To deal with the visual polysemy problem, visual patterns are evaluated, which are defined as a meaningful adjacent word set. The use of visual patterns in the IND retrieval system describe herein is based upon determining which visual word sets are visual patterns, determining whether a visual pattern exists in an image, determining how visual patterns may be treated in a vector space model, a determining appropriate weighting for visual patterns; standard TF-IDF techniques may be used for the weighing determination.
For determining which visual word sets are visual patterns, a modified Apriori algorithm is used to mine visual patterns from visual word vocabulary. Because a visual word may occur multiple times in an adjacent area the modified Apriori algorithm also mines a quantitative pattern, which is defined as pattern containing duplicate visual words, e.g., {Wa, Wa}.
In one aspect, there are two mechanisms to determine whether the referencing visual pattern occurs in the image, namely a hard decision mechanism and/or a soft decision mechanism. For the hard decision mechanism, a visual pattern is considered as occurring only when all of the single visual words in it occur in a same adjacent area. The soft decision mechanism is based upon measuring the possibility that a visual pattern has occurred in the image by computing how many of the visual words in it has occurred in this adjacent area. For example, assume {wA,wB} and {wC,wD} are two visual patterns. Visual words in one adjacent area are {wA,wB,wC,wE,wF}. In hard decision way, pattern {wA,wB} occurs one time in this area while {wC,wD} occurs zero time in this area. However, in soft decision way, pattern {wA,wB} occurs one time in this area and {wC,wD} occurs 0.5 times because wC, one of the two visual words in pattern {wC,wD}, occurs in this area. The hard decision mechanism is described hereinafter.
Turning to visual pattern mining (blocks/data stores 121-124), transactions are defined over space so that an Apriori-like algorithm can be used. The frequent item sets that are mined from a transaction database are the visual patterns.
Before mining the patterns, a transaction for image features is defined by a reference-feature centric method. In this method, transactions are created around one specified feature. K-nearest neighborhood is chosen herein: Let I={w1,w2, . . . ,wk} be a set of visual words. Transaction database D={T1,T2, . . . ,Tn} is a set of n transactions with unique identifiers, where Ti is one transaction. Each item in Ti is a descriptor being clustered to a certain visual word in I and therefore, can be regard as one instance of this certain visual word. Pattern mining method aims to mine frequently co-occurring visual word subsets from transaction database D.
The support of a word set A
describe one set's occurrence frequency. A is called frequent if support (A)≧s where s is a threshold defined by user.
Another measurement of a set is described as the confidence of a word set:
where A and B are two visual word sets. The confidence can be seen as a maximum likelihood estimation of the conditional probability that B is true given that A is true.
Also defined are Association Hyperedges (AH) of a item set A={w1,w2, . . . wN} to give an average estimation of the confidence between words in the set:
The Association Hyperedges are regarded as a measurement to rank patterns for it can measure how often a set of words co-occur in general. The K largest AH pattern word sets compose visual pattern list in one implemented system.
Turning to quantitative pattern mining, the original (unmodified) Apriori algorithm can be conceptually viewed as a question of finding associations between "1" values in a relational table where all the attributes are Boolean. The relational table has an attribute corresponding to each visual word and a record corresponding to each transaction. The value of an attribute is "1" if the corresponding visual word is presented in the transaction, or "0" if not. More particularly, the original Apriori algorithm cares about how often different visual words co-occur and ignores those co-occurred visual words with the same indexes.
However, a large portion of transactions contain visual words with same indexes. Mining the quantitative patterns provides benefits with respect to improved retrieval.
In general, to mine quantitative visual patterns, the transactions are preprocessed so that duplicated visual words in one transaction are distinguishable by the Apriori algorithm. Algorithm 1 shows preprocessing of the input transactions. The indexes of duplicated visual words are changed using an encoding rule. For example, {wa,wa,wb,wa} is encoded as {wa,wa2,wb,wa3} after preprocessing. Note that the "order" of a visual word in our algorithm corresponds to the order of appearance of the visual word among visual words of the same index. Thus the orders of the first, second and third "wa" in the transaction {wa,wa2,wb,wa3} are 1, 2 and 3, respectively.
The preprocessed transactions are then used as the input of the Apriori algorithm to generate frequent visual patterns. A simple post-processing step inverse to the preprocessing step can decode the visual patterns from ones like {wa,wa2} to {wa,wa} as desired. For those duplicate visual words, their repeating time equals their highest order. For example, {wa,wa3} is decoded as {wa,wa,wa} and {wb,wa2} is decoded as {wb,wa,wa}.
The visual patterns are then ranked according to their AH. The top K visual patterns provide the visual pattern vocabulary.
Visual pattern counting counts the occurrence number of a visual pattern in an image. Assume A is one image, {right arrow over (Aw)} and {right arrow over (Ap)} is a visual word vector and visual pattern vector of image A, respectively, and transactions belonging to A are {T1,T2, . . . ,Tk}. The ith dimension of {right arrow over (Ap)} plus one when all visual words belonging to the ith visual pattern appear in one transaction. If a visual word has already been counted as a part of a visual pattern, it no longer contributes to the corresponding dimension of the visual word vector. This approach follows the hard decision mechanism.
Visual pattern usage models provide various ways to use visual patterns in vector space model. Four such approaches are described herein, three of which are represented in
For score-merging, database images are ranked by their overall similarities, which in one implementation is the sum of their similarities computed by the visual pattern vector and the similarities computed by visual word vectors. Assume A and B are two images, {right arrow over (Aw)} and {right arrow over (Ap)} are image A's visual word vector and visual pattern vector while {right arrow over (Bw)} and {right arrow over (Bp)} are those for image B. The overall similarity between image A and image B may be determined as follows:
where twA i is the tf-idf weight of the ith visual word in image A and tpA i is the tf-idf weight of the ith visual pattern in image A.
Note that α is an adjustable parameter which can be used to change a visual pattern's significance in the IND retrieval. Experimentally, α should be set to less than 1.
Another usage model is vector-merging, in which the overall visual feature vectors, which are actually the strings of visual word vectors and visual pattern vectors, are combined to compute similarities and rank database images. Taking image A as an example, visual word vector {right arrow over (Aw)}={w1,w2, . . . ,wN} and visual pattern vector {right arrow over (Ap)}={p1,p2, . . . ,pM} will be merged into one overall visual feature vector {right arrow over (A)}={w1,w2, . . . ,wN,p1,p2, . . . ,pM}. An image's similarities with a query image may be measured by the overall visual feature vectors as follows:
where tA i is the tf-idf weight of the ith visual feature (visual word or visual pattern) and:
A difference between score-merging and vector-Merging method lies in the assumption about whether visual patterns are related to visual words. In score-merging, visual patterns are assumed to be independent with visual words for they have independent weights and unrelated vector space. In vector-merging, visual patterns are regarded as special visual words and weighted together with visual words.
Thus, to summarize, a visual word vocabulary is obtained by clustering (block 128) detected local descriptors in database images 130, e.g., via a known DoG detector and SIFT descriptor; SIFT descriptors are quantized using hierarchical K-means clustering. The descriptors in the database are assigned to the nearest cluster center. In this way, a visual word vocabulary 132 is constructed. According to the visual word vocabulary 132, the images in databases are represented as vectors of visual words.
Based on the visual word vocabulary, the modified Apriori algorithm is used to discover frequent visual patterns,. Similarly, the set of frequent visual patterns is defined as a visual pattern vocabulary. The above-described hard decision mechanism may be utilized to count the occurrence of visual patterns in each image.
When a query image 140 enters the system, a visual word vector 142 and visual pattern vector 144 for it are obtained, e.g., in the same local feature detection and describing way as for the database images. This is shown via steps 302, 304 and 306 of
Database images are then ranked according to their similarities with a query image 140 according to one of the desired usage models (step 306). In one implementation, similarities are simply the cosine distance between visual word vectors of query image and database images. However, an extended similarity function (in block 108) may be used to expand the query image's visual word vector 142 before computing the cosine distance of the visual word vectors for comparison.
The invention is operational with numerous other general purpose or special purpose computing system environments or configurations. Examples of well known computing systems, environments, and/or configurations that may be suitable for use with the invention include, but are not limited to: personal computers, server computers, hand-held or laptop devices, tablet devices, multiprocessor systems, microprocessor-based systems, set top boxes, programmable consumer electronics, network PCs, minicomputers, mainframe computers, distributed computing environments that include any of the above systems or devices, and the like.
The invention may be described in the general context of computer-executable instructions, such as program modules, being executed by a computer. Generally, program modules include routines, programs, objects, components, data structures, and so forth, which perform particular tasks or implement particular abstract data types. The invention may also be practiced in distributed computing environments where tasks are performed by remote processing devices that are linked through a communications network. In a distributed computing environment, program modules may be located in local and/or remote computer storage media including memory storage devices.
With reference to
The computer 410 typically includes a variety of computer-readable media. Computer-readable media can be any available media that can be accessed by the computer 410 and includes both volatile and nonvolatile media, and removable and non-removable media. By way of example, and not limitation, computer-readable media may comprise computer storage media and communication media. Computer storage media includes volatile and nonvolatile, removable and non-removable media implemented in any method or technology for storage of information such as computer-readable instructions, data structures, program modules or other data. Computer storage media includes, but is not limited to, RAM, ROM, EEPROM, flash memory or other memory technology, CD-ROM, digital versatile disks (DVD) or other optical disk storage, magnetic cassettes, magnetic tape, magnetic disk storage or other magnetic storage devices, or any other medium which can be used to store the desired information and which can accessed by the computer 410. Communication media typically embodies computer-readable instructions, data structures, program modules or other data in a modulated data signal such as a carrier wave or other transport mechanism and includes any information delivery media. The term "modulated data signal" means a signal that has one or more of its characteristics set or changed in such a manner as to encode information in the signal. By way of example, and not limitation, communication media includes wired media such as a wired network or direct-wired connection, and wireless media such as acoustic, RF, infrared and other wireless media. Combinations of the any of the above may also be included within the scope of computer-readable media.
The system memory 430 includes computer storage media in the form of volatile and/or nonvolatile memory such as read only memory (ROM) 431 and random access memory (RAM) 432. A basic input/output system 433 (BIOS), containing the basic routines that help to transfer information between elements within computer 410, such as during start-up, is typically stored in ROM 431. RAM 432 typically contains data and/or program modules that are immediately accessible to and/or presently being operated on by processing unit 420. By way of example, and not limitation,
The computer 410 may also include other removable/non-removable, volatile/nonvolatile computer storage media. By way of example only,
The drives and their associated computer storage media, described above and illustrated in
The computer 410 may operate in a networked environment using logical connections to one or more remote computers, such as a remote computer 480. The remote computer 480 may be a personal computer, a server, a router, a network PC, a peer device or other common network node, and typically includes many or all of the elements described above relative to the computer 410, although only a memory storage device 481 has been illustrated in
When used in a LAN networking environment, the computer 410 is connected to the LAN 471 through a network interface or adapter 470. When used in a WAN networking environment, the computer 410 typically includes a modem 472 or other means for establishing communications over the WAN 473, such as the Internet. The modem 472, which may be internal or external, may be connected to the system bus 421 via the user input interface 460 or other appropriate mechanism. A wireless networking component 474 such as comprising an interface and antenna may be coupled through a suitable device such as an access point or peer computer to a WAN or LAN. In a networked environment, program modules depicted relative to the computer 410, or portions thereof, may be stored in the remote memory storage device. By way of example, and not limitation,
An auxiliary subsystem 499 (e.g., for auxiliary display of content) may be connected via the user interface 460 to allow data such as program content, system status and event notifications to be provided to the user, even if the main portions of the computer system are in a low power state. The auxiliary subsystem 499 may be connected to the modem 472 and/or network interface 470 to allow communication between these systems while the main processing unit 420 is in a low power state.
While the invention is susceptible to various modifications and alternative constructions, certain illustrated embodiments thereof are shown in the drawings and have been described above in detail. It should be understood, however, that there is no intention to limit the invention to the specific forms disclosed, but on the contrary, the intention is to cover all modifications, alternative constructions, and equivalents falling within the spirit and scope of the invention.
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Jimmy Ray, left, parade grand marshal, shakes hands with supporters after receiving the traditional blessing from Bishop Gregory J. Hartmayer, center, during the St. Patricks Day parade Saturday in Savannah, Ga.NEW YORK Crowds cheered and bagpipes bellowed as New York Citys annual St. Patricks Day parade kicked off Saturday, and people with a fondness for anything Irish began a weekend of festivities from the Louisiana bayou to Dublins Parnell Square.
With the holiday itself falling on a Sunday, many celebrations were scheduled instead for Saturday because of religious observances.
In New York, the massive parade, which predates the United States, was led by 750 members of the New York Army National Guard. The 1st Battalion of the 69th Infantry has been marching in the parade since 1851.
Michael Bloomberg took in his last St. Patricks Day parade as mayor, waving to a cheering crowd as snowflakes fell on Fifth Avenue.
Marching just behind him was Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny, who presented Bloomberg with a historic Irish teapot earlier.
The Irish are found in every borough, every corner of New York, Kenny said at a holiday breakfast. In previous generations they came heartbroken and hungry, in search of new life, new hope; today they come in search of opportunity to work in finance, fashion, film.
Hundreds of thousands line the parade route in New York, cheering the marching bands, dance troupes and politicians.
Were crazy, the Irish, were funny and we talk to everyone, said 23-year-old Lauren Dawson, of Paramus, N.J., who came to her first St. Patricks Day parade.
In downtown Chicago, thousands lined the Chicago River and cheered as workers on a boat dumped dye into the water, turning it a bright fluorescent green for at least a few hours in an eye-catching local custom.
In a sea of people in green shirts, coats, winter hats, sunglasses and even wigs and beards, 29-year-old Ben May managed to stand out. The Elkhart, Ind., man wore a full leprechaun costume, complete with a tall green hat he had to hold onto in the wind.
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Thats what Im hoping, said his girlfriend, Angela Gibson.
Kenny, who visited Chicago for St. Patricks Day last year, was again making the holiday a jumping-off point for an extended trip to the U.S., with stops in Washington and on the West Coast over the ensuing several days.
I will use my visit to promote Irelands many strengths and to further reinforce our deep and abiding political and economic relationship with the United States, Kenny said in a statement this week.
He and President Barack Obama were scheduled to meet at the White House on Tuesday and exchange shamrocks, a tradition that dates to Harry S. Trumans administration. Obama also is slated to meet separately Tuesday with Peter Robinson, the leader of Northern Irelands Catholic-Protestant government.
Thousands of revelers gaudily garbed in green crammed the oak-shaded squares and sidewalks of downtown Savannah, Ga., on Saturday, for a celebration thats a 189-year-old tradition.
Led by bagpipers in green kilts, a parade kicked off Saturday morning, hours after customers began lining up at downtown bars. More than 1,000 worshippers also packed the pews of the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist for the Mass that traditionally precedes the parade.
Bev Kehayes, of Greensboro, N.C., joined friends near the start of the parade route. She made hats with green feathers and flowers just for the occasion.
Its good, clean fun. Heaven forbid theres a little alcohol involved, said Kehayes, who says shes missed only three of the celebrations in Savannah in 29 years.
In Ireland, Dublins five-day St. Patricks Day festival was unfolding with a new addition. For the first time, up to 8,000 visitors from around the world were due to march in a so-called peoples parade on Sunday, when Irelands capital city also intends hold its usual procession of bands and pageantry.
In Maine, St. Patricks Day prompted Gov. Paul LePage to relent on a vow to veto any bill that reached his desk before lawmakers pass his proposal to pay a state debt to hospitals. He signed a measure Friday allowing bars to serve alcohol a few hours earlier than usual, starting at 6 a.m., on the Sunday holiday.
About 1,500 miles southwest, the city of Houma, La., was holding its unconventional celebration an Irish-Italian parade, with a celebration that features both Irish cabbage and Italian sausage on Sunday. The event resumed last year after a 10-year hiatus.
In Rolla, Mo., the Missouri University of Science and Technology continued a St. Patricks tradition that began in 1908, when students declared that the patron saint of Ireland also was the patron saint of engineers. A slate of events, which included a student portraying St. Patrick being transported downtown on a manure spreader, were to wrap up with a parade Saturday.
Annapolis, Md., held its first St. Patricks Day parade March 10. A 40-year-old parade tradition took on a sense of renewal March 3 in Belmar, N.J., a shore town that took a heavy blow from Superstorm Sandy.
But along with the festivities, in some places, came warnings from police that they would be on the lookout for drunken drivers and other misbehavior.
New Jersey Transit officials said alcoholic beverages would be prohibited Saturday on any train between Manhattan and Hoboken, N.J., a nightlife-friendly city across the Hudson River. Transit police arrested 16 people during St. Patricks Day last year, including two people who were charged with aggravated assault on two conductors.
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God Made You Special! A VeggieTales Board Book
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|Format: Hardcover
Number of Pages: 18
Vendor: ZonderKidz
Publication Date: 2002
Dimensions: 11 X 8.5 (inches)
Availability: In Stock
Ages: 2-6
Series: VeggieTales
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Bobs red and round, and he bounces cause he has no feet. Madame Blueberry lives in a tree. What makes her special? Shes as blue as can be. What about those French Peas? They speak with "zee accent." Tots will discover that its okay to be different, because God made you special and he loves you very much. Through fun rhymes and humor, and some help from those lovable Veggies, little ones will realize that God makes everyone special!"
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Eric Metaxas is the author of the New York Times bestseller Amazing Grace, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About God (But Were Afraid to Ask), Everything Else You Always Wanted to Know About God, and thirty childrens books. He is founder and host of Socrates in the City in New York City, where he lives with his wife and daughter. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic, Washington Post, Books & Culture, Christianity Today, Marks Hill Review, and Fist Things. He has written for VeggieTales and Rabbit Ears Productions, earning three Grammy nominations for Best Childrens Recording.
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sophia5 Stars Out Of 5December 28, 2010sophiaQuality: 5Value: 5Meets Expectations: 5My son is a huge veggie tales fan at 20mths. This book has been one of his favorite christmas gifts so far this year. Great pictures and rhyme like story. And of coarse teaches good moral to our children.
barbarajoChicago, ILAge: 55-65Gender: female5 Stars Out Of 5December 7, 2010barbarajoChicago, ILAge: 55-65Gender: femaleQuality: 5Value: 5Meets Expectations: 5I bought this for my grandson online without every reviewing the book, but Veggie Tales did not let me down! It is a delightful book, written well for young children, and he loves it!
Jackie Kerstetter5 Stars Out Of 5August 5, 2008Jackie KerstetterMy son was only around 2 months old when I first read this book to him. He squealed in delight at the pictures! I'm sure that as he begins to understand the text of this book, it will bring him great assurance that he is special, just as God made him. (He's adopted and is a different race than I am...so this will be important as he begins to notice the differences between himself and his parents.)
Jerry5 Stars Out Of 5August 17, 2007JerryI bought this book when my daughter was born and have read it to her several times in the last 20 months. It is wonderful and I would recommend it to all young children to begin to grow their self-esteem and assurance that God Loves them.
Genia Wayne5 Stars Out Of 5September 29, 2004Genia WayneMy son, who is not yet two, checked this board book out from our church library. It quickly became his favorite---it's actually long overdue, but I just can't bear to take it from him and return it! I am so excited to find it here, and am purchasing it and its companion book (God Loves You Very Much) for his birthday. What a great way to teach a young child that God made him and loves him very much! P.S. - The book is oversized (little ones love that!) and very durable. Unfortunately, my son is very rough with books, but this one has held up well.


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Beer Braised Loin of Pork
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|5 Pound (1 roast)
|3 Large, chopped
|1 Pound, peeled, diced
|Dark beer
|10 Ounce (1 bottle or can)
|2 Teaspoon
|1⁄4 Teaspoon
|Bay leaf
|Whole cloves
1) Preheat the oven to 350°F.
2) In a kettle or Dutch oven, add the pork loin and brown it well. Take the pork out of the pan.
3) Add in the onions and carrots and saute in the pork drippings till it turns soft.
4) Add in the dark beer, salt, pepper, bay leaf and whole cloves. Add in the browned pork into the mixture. Mix well and cover.
5) Transfer the kettle to the oven and braise the pork for about 2 hours. When the pork can be easily pierced with a fork, it is done.
6) Transfer only the pork onto the serving platter and keep warm.
7) Transfer the liquid from the kettle into a large bowl. Remove the fat from the surface and also the bay leaf.
8) In a blender, blend the vegetables along with the liquid on low into a smooth sauce.
9) Heat the smooth sauce in a saucepan, bringing it to a boil. Stir often.
10) You may add a little gravy colouring, if desired.
11) Slice the pork while serving. Pour the sauce over the pork slices.


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