Search results for "kuva-analyysi"
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Simple Muscle Architecture Analysis (SMA): An ImageJ macro tool to automate measurements in B-mode ultrasound scans
2020
In vivo measurements of muscle architecture (i.e. the spatial arrangement of muscle fascicles) are routinely included in research and clinical settings to monitor muscle structure, function and plasticity. However, in most cases such measurements are performed manually, and more reliable and time-efficient automated methods are either lacking completely, or are inaccessible to those without expertise in image analysis. In this work, we propose an ImageJ script to automate the entire analysis process of muscle architecture in ultrasound images: Simple Muscle Architecture Analysis (SMA). Images are filtered in the spatial and frequency domains with built-in commands and external plugins to hi…
Symbol, Munch and creativity: metabolism of visual symbols
2010
In this dissertation the relationship between visual symbols and creative thinking is studied through visual, textual and conceptual analysis. The first part of the work focuses on the concept of symbol, the second part on the imagery of Edvard Munch (1863–1944), and the third part on creative thinking. The problematics of visual symbols is approached through the concept of metabolism by assuming that both perceivable and non-perceivable properties of symbols can transform when symbols are used. Because visual symbols are frequently understood as conventional signs with fixed meanings, their perceivable properties are easily ignored. However, symbols can also be unconventionally used, for e…
Koiran ja jäniksen konnotaatiot : Roland Barthesin konnotaatiotavat Steve Purcellin Sam & Max -sarjakuvissa ja -peleissä
2010
Pro gradu -tutkielma käsittelee Roland Barthesin konnotaatiotapoja sarjakuvan ja digitaalisen pelin kontekstissa. Tutkielman kohteena on Steve Purcellin Sam & Max -sarja, joka on jatkunut 1980-luvulta nykypäivään siirtyen mediavälineestä toiseen, mutta silti alkuperäisen tekijänsä suunnittelemana. Työn aineisto käsittää alkuperäisen sarjakuvasarjan lisäksi myös vuonna 1993 julkaistun Sam & Max Hit the Road -pelin sekä 2000-luvulla julkaistun uuden pelisarjan kaksi ensimmäistä tuotantokautta. Aineisto on laaja, käsittäen yhteensä 12 peliä ja sarjakuvasarjan kokonaisuudessaan. Laajuudesta johtuen hahmojen pohjalta 1990-luvulla tehty animaatiosarja jäi tutkielman ulkopuolelle. Tutkielman analy…
Virikkeitä antiikin Kreikan vaasimaalauksesta modernistien ilmaisuun : tapaustutkimuksina Gustav Klimt ja Pablo Picasso
2014
Tässä tutkielmassa tarkastelen antiikin Kreikan vaasimaalausten modernistien ilmaisuun antamia virikkeitä keskittyen formaalien piirteiden suoraan vaikutukseen, sivuten aiheita ja symboleita sekä epäsuoraa vaikutusta. Tutkielman rakenteen muotoutumiseen ja kuva-aineiston, lähinnä formalistiseen, purkuun on löytynyt työkaluja sekä taidehistorian että semiotiikan metodeista: tärkeimpinä Panofskyn kolmitasoinen malli, Gombrichin skeeman käsite sekä Kandinskyn, Arnheimin ja Rieglin näkemykset. Olen rajannut tarkasteltavan kuvaston antiikin Kreikasta alueellisesti Attikan niemimaahan keskittyen Ateenaan, mikä antaa luontevasti aikarajaukseksi geometrisen, arkaaisen ja klassisen kauden. Modernist…
S-pot - A benchmark in spotting signs within continuous signing
2014
In this paper we present S-pot, a benchmark setting for evaluating the performance of automatic spotting of signs in continuous sign language videos. The benchmark includes 5539 video files of Finnish Sign Language, ground truth sign spotting results, a tool for assessing the spottings against the ground truth, and a repository for storing information on the results. In addition we will make our sign detection system and results made with it publicly available as a baseline for comparison and further developments. peerReviewed
Cluster priors in the Bayesian modelling of fMRI data
2001
Images of Japan and the Japanese : the representations of the Japanese culture in the popular literature targeted at the Western World in the 1980s-1…
2002
This study draws together a number of popular issues: images, intercultural communication and Japan. In particular, Japan has been a popular topic for at least the last three decades. The Japanese Economical Miracle awoke a real boom in the Western literature at the end of 1970s, and in the 1980s the Miracle became a fashionable topic in the Western world. Because of this a great amount of studies, books and articles is available for those who want to learn about this nation. The aim of this study is to examine “images of Japan and the Japanese in the Western world” on the basis of the literature targeted at Western audiences during the big boom. Mari Suvanto selvittää väitöstutkimuksessaan…
Interpretation of journalistic photographs as an instrument of visual literacy education
2016
Images are produced, used and distributed on an enormous scale. However, the skills of understanding, interpreting and using images as well as thinking and learning in terms of images are taken for granted, and thus, they are not sufficiently taught and developed, especially in higher education. The need for introducing visual literacy into the curriculum was identified in late 1960s, but no concrete guidelines have followed. This study proposes to apply interpretation of journalistic photographs as an instrument of visual literacy education. The main focus is on the image interpretation process and the kinds of meanings viewers apply to a photograph in the interpretation process. In each o…