We then borrow from the static facial hair capture method ofBeeler et al . [2012] and compute initial and sparse per-frame hairreconstructions, adapting the method to work well with our spe-cific camera layout and image resolution.
This shit is magic. I saw the video for it, but still need to read the deets. Here: https://studios.disneyresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Coupled-3D-Reconstruction-of-Sparse-Facial-Hair-and-Skin.pdf
where each triplet contains a stereo pair anda third central camera that is cross-polarized relative to the light-ing; this central camera does not capture specular highlights andcross-polarization is only required to capture the appearance pa-rameters of facial skin [Riviere et al . 2020].
Does that mean they rely on essentially 4 cameras in a + shape for the entire cross-polarized reconstruction, and 8 for the specular?
We use a commoncapture setup comprised of 16 banks of LED lights, for constant anduniform lighting, and 14 synchronized, color video cameras withresolutions ranging from 12 to 50 megapixels. All cameras and lightsare placed around the frontal hemisphere of the captured subject,who can deliver facial performances in a fixed seated position, Fig. 2
14 cameras only, and only capturing the front, not the backhead. We capture the backhead to better stitch the Front head and back head geometries, right?
So does that mean their approach could be extrapolated to removing the vellus hair from trad photogrammetry as well?
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So, wouldn't purposefully adopting only one of these temperaments provide an intentionally ignorant conclusion? Is the truth of an argument not reliant on a holistic approach? Are there situations where including just one is preferable to including both for consideration?
This sort of pleas-ure pushes philosophers towards (and away from) various views.
So then, is it the same as or connected to personal bias?
have some unique fea-tures which can render it particularly meaningful, for the right persons.
encroaching on individualist motivations here...
Nor do I think there is any point at all in comparing the two options,
Then why even bring this up??
There are some exceptions, but the general tendency is to canvass ‘personal’ reasons in order to determine which of them is morally acceptable or permissible.
I also want to point out that these reasons are usually not so much personal as they are individualistic and circumstantial, and therefore not generalizable. What I suspect Benatar was trying to do was create a generalizable standpoint on procreation ethics, and skipped over 'personal' right to 'societal', 'environmental', etc. Which is stupid. :)
One interesting question, to which I cannot devote any attention here, concerns the extent to which the meaningfulness of childbearing is obscured from the view of comparatively privileged academics writing in communities dominated by the atomistic nuclear family ideal, communi-ties whose economies require high levels of mobility from adults and which there-fore produce the routine disruption of extended families and social networks
From an evaluative standpoint, what is the purpose of mentioning this, making no claims one way or another, and leaving it here with no support, explanation, or connection to the argument? Seems like an abandoned tangent.
If I discover that my temperament is leading me to say things that are contradictory, or that it is rendering me unable to answer cru-cially important questions in my chosen field, I can try to become consciously aware of its operation and try to suppress or moderate its extremes.
This kind of exercise also leads nicely to the discussion of moral luck: moral by circumstance or moral by consideration!
It simply makes sense to us in a gently pleasant way, cohering neatly with our experience or with nagging feelings we have always had but never consciously articulated.
Hold on, this sounds like confirmation bias
Rather, something about the idea strikes us as simply intuitive or important.
The point at which we stop questioning the premise.
but immediately clarifies that for him, the relation between positive judgments or cheering up and quality of life can only be contingent and causal, characterized by a “feedback loop” that might get started by an initial optimistic judgment.
This is so stupid I don't even know where to start. The implication here is that, in an inherently negative world, positive judgement is only reactionary. It ignores the negativity itself is a reaction, and that one can be in what he concludes as a negative situation, not know it, and therefore not see it as negative (unless he thinks people in poverty have never experienced happiness and will never as long as they are in that situation, which is just so wrong). The longevity of life argument can be used here as well: As life expectancy increases, do the shorter lives of people before us become negative in consequence? They probably didn't think so and considered it a positive to live to 40. Is a short, successful life now more negative than a long unfulfilled one? Benatar's argument is reminiscent of a child playing make-believe and deciding the rules of the game on-the-fly with the only consistency being "What I say goes."
that prospective biological parents ought to make this their guiding practical principle
So basically he's arguing Malthusianism but from a world-ranking standpoint. I think the same philosophical arguments that contradict Malthusian anti-natalism can be applied here?
One way in which we can judge which of these possible worlds is better, is with reference to the interests of the person who exists in one (and only one) of these two possible worlds. Obviously those interests only exist in the pos-sible world in which the person exists, but this does not preclude our making judgments about the value of an alternative possible world, and doing so with reference to the interests of the person in the possible world in which he does exist.
Is this not just an anecdote at best? "There's this other reality which is better." "Yeah and I can picture two realities which are worse. There; I win." ?? What is the value of trying to quantify infinite possibilities?
applied ethics which cannot be applied
So application of dialectics relies on materialism?
This ‘pessimist’ will reveal their carefully concealed cheerful, life-affirming spirit as soon as they start to try to accomplish something
What is the explanation for the argument that the pessimist always acts with purpose?
To do this, European capitalists advanced a dualist ontology that cast humans as subjects with mind and agency, and nature as an object to be exploited and controlled for human ends.
a.k.a. natural "resources" for us to source.
Late last year, shortly after his return from the South Pacific, a Chinese squid jigger, RUN DA 608, ducked inside Peru’s exclusive economic zone, which extends 200 nautical miles from its coast. The authorities intercepted the vessel and found 19 tonnes of squid. At that stage, Aroni set to work on retracing the vessel’s fishing track. “The freshness of the squid didn’t match their purported fishing location”, says Bergman, “so we tracked the vessel in reverse and we identified a detour.” In the night, the vessel had slowed for three to four hours, presumably starting to fish in Peru’s waters. “We had the vessel and the fish seized,” he says. “Before GFW, we did not have the data to do this.”
Case 3: Checking the "freshness" of squid to identify suspicious vessels then check their detours via GFW data.
In August 2017, for example, Bergman got a call to say that the Ecuadorian navy had just intercepted a vessel near the Galapagos islands. A Chinese-flagged reefer, the Fu Yuan Yu Leng 999, had repeatedly refused to respond to radio calls from the navy, and so a helicopter and coast guard boat were dispatched to take a closer look. On boarding the vessel, the officers were stunned to find more than 6,000 dead sharks – the largest seizure of sharks in the history of Galapagos.Despite the arrest, it wasn’t known where the sharks – some of which were endangered – were caught, or what other boats the trawlers had liaised with. “Just having sharks on a boat in Galapagos is illegal, but they also wanted to know how they got them,” explains Bergman, who set about retracing the movements of the Fu Yuan Yu Leng 999. During his trial in Ecuador, the captain named two Taiwanese vessels as the source of the sharks. But Bergman could see from the data that the reefer had a rendezvous with four Chinese longliners to the west of Galapagos. “He clearly gave false testimony at the trial,” says Bergman. The ship’s owner was fined US$5.9 million and the captain sentenced to four years in prison. Last year, a crew member from one of the Chinese longliners confirmed that Bergman was right; they had offloaded their catch on to the Fu Yuan Yu Leng 999.
Case 2: Tracking vessels co-operating in illegal activity.
In January 2016, of the 120,000 vessels at sea, Bergman noticed six that looked suspicious. They were Chinese longliners fishing a remote part of the southern Indian Ocean, close to the search site for the lost Malaysian passenger plane MH370. It wasn’t an obvious location for a fishing fleet, and “they were moving in a way that I wasn’t familiar with,” says Bergman, who noticed an unusually high number of AIS signals coming from the area. “When I looked closer, I could see them laying out a long string of AIS beacons and then reeling them in”, he says. Bergman contacted the local fisheries registries, but none of them recognised the vessels. That was enough to raise the alarm. From SkyTruth’s office in West Virginia, Bergman wrote a blog post detailing the suspect behaviour. Over in Perth, Australia, Sea Shepherd captain Sid Chakravarty read Bergman’s blog and immediately launched a patrol mission. What he discovered was shocking – the entire fleet was using banned drift nets laid out over kilometres of ocean, ensnaring species such as tuna, sharks, turtles and dolphins. The trawlers were attaching AIS beacons to the nets so as not to lose them, which explained the pattern Bergman had noticed from his landlocked position in the US. Read next This coronavirus vaccine would be two breakthroughs in one <img src="https://via.hypothes.is/im_/https://wi-images.condecdn.net/image/a86VO3gQW7n/crop/200/square/f/0911ftvaccines01.jpg" class="" alt=""/> This coronavirus vaccine would be two breakthroughs in one By Stephen Buranyi The activists intercepted the fleet, hauled in some of their nets and videoed them. After that, the ships scattered and went dark. But a month later, one boat turned on its transponder again, allowing Bergman to relay an updated position to Sea Shepherd. The team ended up chasing the vessel for 8,000km across the ocean to the Chinese port of Zhuhai, where the entire fleet was eventually detained and suspended. The fleet owner was fined nearly a million dollars (£800,000) by the Chinese authorities.
Case 1: Catching 6 illegal fishing boats in China
In 2014, Amos and Woods teamed up with Google and the marine conservation organisation Oceana to found Global Fishing Watch. The following year, they hired Kroodsma, an experienced ocean scientist, to lead their research programme. For data analysis, they brought in Bergman.
How GFW started
You have conversations about the impact and role of art in shaping societies and shaping global ideologies. Can you comment and tell us a little bit about how those conversations go with politicians, legislators, and the people that social impact projects are often trying to reach?
The Council deliberately chose not to make the artists and organizations it supports responsible for demonstrating the value of our investments. Implementing approaches and research projects to champion the crucial importance of public funding and access to the arts across society is our responsibility, and we’re taking on that responsibility with the collaboration and contribution of the sector.
This is a risk appropriate to the power of the organization, and I think it's great. If measuring impact is the responsibility of the Council, what are the responsibilities of the artists in regards to social impact?
No matter where I go in the world to pursue the discussion about the transformative power of the arts, the major challenges confronting our various cities and countries are similar and deeply interconnected. These include an increase in social isolation, identity-based clashes, and—ultimately—a growing deficit of social cohesion. This is today’s reality. This manifests in different ways at different levels—from the rise of populism and nativism in the political sphere right down to racist comments in everyday conversations at the street level. These challenges have been exacerbated by systems that prescribe our behaviors, be they political, economic, nationalistic, organizational and—perhaps above all—algorithm-driven platforms. In this context, decision-making at the highest levels has been plagued with polemical struggles that place winning an ideological battle over finding real solutions for the good of everyone.
This is a really interesting section and there's a lot to unpack here. I'd love to hear more about this increased social isolation; usually the digital age is spoken of as having made the world smaller, brought people closer together. what is "a growing deficit of social cohesion"? Also it almost sounds like the arts are absolved of contributing to these behaviours and yet we can definitely find examples of arts that propagate or even embolden some of these, from the lack of representation in games, dystopian literary novels (looking @ you, William Golding) to #OscarsSoWhite.(and of course, propaganda media).To what extent does art inform our political/economic/nationalistic/organizational etc. structures into prescribing these behaviours, and how do they also shape how art is received by audiences?
about the power of the arts to transform lives and build a better future for all people
What is the framework for investment from the Canada Council? Does art, for example, need to experienced the same way by all audiences? Does it need to be something that serves an artistic purpose only, or would something like universal design-style transportation qualify? What are the parameters of what is considered 'art' to the council, and how has that changed in the last 50 years?
Between 2016 and 2021, our annual budget will have doubled and reached approximately $360 million
Although you've mentioned the importance of the arts in social development, I'm sure there are those that would argue that, that $360 million could better serve communities in Canada if it was allocated to public services and equity programs. What is the hidden benefit if any, to investing in arts that try to drive change in those sectors instead?
However, a word of caution is appropriate here because the notion of soft power so often expressed in international forums needs to be viewed with caution and circumspection. Soft power must not become just another bargaining chip, a new allegory that facilitates unfair transactions. Although soft power clearly entails economic and political dimensions, it should not be reduced to simply a means of achieving short-term outcomes. For this reason, I prefer to advocate for an international vision—one based on cultural rights, democracy and diplomacy, as well as on the pursuit of cultural exchanges. It is a vision firmly grounded in the reality of citizens, whether Canadian or of other countries.
ちょっと分からん。つまり、ソフトパワーに考えずに、芸術や芸術家が国々の間に文化的な国際交流されるべきだってかな？
“A world constructed from the familiar is a world where there is nothing to be learned…” and “the ultimate and plausible ambition of a search engine is to show us the question we want to ask before we ask it.” While these two remarks highlight a particular aspect of our digital reality, they are equally applicable to other systems that invite us to blindly uphold a comfortable yet alienating status quo.
Interesting idea on the importance of creation for change, that without creating something new or reforming something into new, change will not happen.
To envisage such a transformation in daily life around the world, we must clearly acknowledge and advocate values that unite and define us as a global society.
Suggesting the need for global peace and unification is a precursor to creating "the kind of civilization we wish to see", and cultural diplomacy via art is the way to make this happen?
It is obviously easier to compile data about commercial exports than to measure the circulation of ideas and values,
love this
Public arts funding is not based simply on short-term financial needs—even though these are obviously important; it is about building the society in which we want to live.
Why the arts need to be supported / The impact the arts have on society.
Sage-on-the-stage education delivered to large classes is, therefore, financially valuable to the institution (and prioritized above humanism, dialogue, intellectualism, or social transgression).
So my question here would be: under performance-based analysis that includes employment after graduation, would this still be most financially valuable? Lecture-style education does lead to [at best] encyclopaedic knowledge as proof of competency; it doesn't develop skills efficiently, which I think most employment opportunities (once they get past prestige) l look at more favourably than content knowledge. So if this model continues, 1 of 2 things can happen: the competency of the workforce as a whole stagnates and, 1) the employed provincial workforce ends up as lower competency, or 2) employers are disappointed by the lower-competency applicants, hire less, and employment post-graduation from an institution that uses lecture-style decreases and they stop getting funding.
and therefore they will not be a focus of critique here
I can't wait till it is the focus. There's a LOT wrong with performance-rewarded funding...
oppose learning to strict curricula or standardized evaluation criteria—adaptations of the Socratic teaching method.
My ongoing feud with summative assessment right here
self-directed
Student-centered learning still involves the teacher as a guide, right? So do you differentiate between student-directed learning with and without a teacher? If yes, in the teacher-student-text trichotomy, what guiding falls under the responsibility of the teacher?
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This would be interesting