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The Material, The Technological, The Spiritual, The Ancestral: Disciplines Unite in the Vision of Qudus Onikeku
March 11, 2020 at 8:00 am by Sharon Hoyer
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The Africologne premiere of "Spirit Child"/Photo: Marie Koehler
Qudus Onikeku's performances of "Spirit Child" at the Dance Center of Columbia College have been postponed due to complications with travel visas for performing artists. The rescheduled date will be announced in May, as part of the fall 2020-21 season.
Qudus Onikeku is a visionary. The Nigeria-based choreographer has collaborated with countless artists and thinkers worldwide, touring extensively with his QDance Company to more than fifty countries, touching communities with a philosophy that unites creative and social practices to answer large-scale, systemic problems. He created danceGATHERING in 2017, an annual event that draws creative minds from around the globe to Lagos for two weeks of inspired cooperation. Onikeku is only now making his U.S. debut, in a short run at the Dance Center of Columbia College this March. Luckily for us, Onye Ozuzu, former director of the Dance Center, connected with Onikeku in Lagos (and co-curated danceGATHERING the last two years), and invited him to teach and perform in Chicago. Onikeku discussed in a phone call the performance, entitled "Spirit Child," his work beyond the stage, and his expansive, inclusive approach to tackling the biggest questions we face.
I'm curious about a phrase you use to describe danceGATHERING. You say that it's anti-disciplinary. Could you expand on that?
The last several years we compartmentalized knowledge in discipline forms. I have a feeling that the problems we are facing are beyond what one discipline, isolating itself, can solve. What would happen if we bring people who are very different in their intellectual upbringing? That is to say, the way an architect has been trained and nurtured is different than how a dancer has been trained and nurtured, in how to understand space and time. Same for a poet: we are attacking the same thing, with different tools. What would happen if we put problems we want to solve at the center and not pay too much attention to the disciplines? The problem of memory: how does a poet deal with that? How does a chemical engineer deal with that? How does a historian deal with that? What they produce comes out of an active collaboration. Then we are not focusing on our discipline, but using all the energy together.
How is this approach manifested in QDance Center?
I was thinking about how to move our work as artists away from art works and toward the practice of art. How do we bring all the logic and ideas into a situation whereby we are choreographing to a particular situation or problem in a given context? If I want to use improvisation as a tool of performance, what are the ways we create a space where people are being activated? Not just in a theatrical space, but in the context of a city. We use other forms of engagement, not just the economic motor of touring and playing gigs.
"Spirit Child"/Photo: Fernando Velaquez
You talk about rhythms being central to your work. Not just musical rhythms, but overarching ones, the rhythms of cities.
Rhythms, the rhythms of young people, the rhythm of cities, the rhythm of technologies. They have their way of aggregating the world. The way cities use energy and the way energy shows up in different ways. These are the things I'm excited about. There are these things about cryptocurrency, about mega-data, I'm excited about what can they become in the hands of young people, or people who are into spiritual practices. So we take these away from the hands of scientists and into the hands of people who don't always have access. And how we can solve problems.
Talk a little about the upcoming performance of "Spirit Child." "Spirit Child" is inspired by the main character in Nigerian author Ben Okri's Booker Prize-winning novel, "The Famished Road." What in Okri's novel spoke to you?
The first thing was not the book. I've been engaging in the idea of Afrofuturism for the last few years. In the United States we're prone to talk about Black Panthers and such, which is a mainstream idea of Afrofuturism. In Africa, we have urgent matters. I'm looking at African spirituality and history. We look at time as not being linear, so the new ideas of augmented reality, we've been doing this long ago. How do we use your idea of new technology to explain what we've been trying to say all this while? This virtual reality goggle, these augmented reality glasses: people think it's going to take them to a different space. I'm interested in pointing us back.
Let me give an example: voodoo, that people can send you a bad omen, they can alter your state of well-being through rituals. The best way for me to explain what happens there is what's happening now in the big data industry. People now have access to your data; everything you've done online since the beginning of the internet is now stored. When Amazon wants to sell you something they have access to your information and use it to alter what you buy, who you vote for. This influences your spiritual state.
What Ben Okri said that's interesting is how to bring together the physical, spiritual and ancestral spaces. He was the first writer who was able to bring it into popular literature. The main character is a boy who had access to physical and spiritual planes. He managed to convince the people in the physical world that he had renounced the spiritual space but he hadn't. For me, this was a way to reconcile as an artist, someone who moves between worlds, making work in Africa, in Europe.
The Dance Center of Columbia College, 1306 South Michigan, (312)369-8330. Friday and Saturday, March 13 and 14 at 7:30pm. $30 general admission, $24 seniors, $10 students. Tickets at dance.colum.edu.
Dance Top 5: March 2020 March is a month for big-name companies and a wealth of fresh new work.
Sci-Fi Psycho Spiritual Pinter Play: A Review of Home Invasion at Silencio The site-specific company returns for a production that is aesthetically radical though politically opaque.
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Theater Top 5: November 2019 A month of musical revivals and plentiful premieres.
As Human As It Gets: A Review of 16th Street Theater's "Rastus and Hattie" Lisa Langford's comedy delving into race and trauma is adapted for radio, with illustrations.
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Tough to evaluate this team after 3 games, they've only looked good against bad teams and looked awful against the Celtics (their only road game at that).
The only thing that was a constant between the 3 is Derrick Rose. He's the only one that can perform against any level of competition. The rest of the team (i.e. the '07-'08 Bulls) kinda stinks.
I want to erase any memory of that Boston game, they're too good and the Bulls are just learning to play with a new PG running a new system. But for that to be fair, most of the Memphis game has to be erased as well, because that's a team the Bulls outclasses in talent, especially in the front court. So it was very frustrating to see them down 9 points in the first half, a period where everyone was shooting jumpers, and if not for Hinrich and Noc's 3-pointers things could've been a lot worse. Deng/Gooden/Thomas were awful from the field, and it was pretty much exclusively on jump shots.
The 3rd quarter is what turned it around. They were able to force TOs, run, and finish. And yes, as it is the type of game he can excel in, Thabo was a big part of it.
Then after all this running basketball, Vinny puts in Aaron Gray for an excruciating 10 minutes. It was like VDN and Mike Ivaroni were playing a game of big stiff chicken, where Gray was countered with Darko and it was a race to see what coach realized they were nuts (for the record Darko was pulled first). Noah didn't play the whole 2nd half, so there was a lot of Gray/Gooden, Gray/Nocioni and Gooden/Nocioni....which is a bad way to defend the basket. Tyrus Thomas had another poor game from the field (after his nationally-embarrassing 2-17 shooting performance on Friday), but he still effects the game with his rebounding and defense, and Saturday he was devouring souls with some of those weak-side shotblocks. Obviously on offense he needs to not think jumper first, and play closer to the basket in general, but I do not mind leaving him out there through all of it...even with a blown lob attempt or two.
None of this really hurt the Bulls since they (especially Luol) eventually started attacking the rim, Memphis' only line of defense was fouling, and the Bulls have the depth that can help them wear down a bad team playing its 2nd consecutive night, even if they are themselves.
(another rotation note: I would've liked to have seen Thabo guard Rudy Gay. Deng had rough time (until the 4th), and Nocioni had no chance. It would've helped free up guard minutes, though somehow Vinny managed to both have a Rose/Gordon/Hinrich lineup and another one with Deng as the SG. What the hell?)
This week may bring some pain, with Orlando/@Cleveland/Phoenix/Cleveland the upcoming opponents. We know the Bulls can win when things are made easy for them, but so far only Rose comes through when it gets tough, both within a game and against the best teams. The rest of the team (namely Deng and Gordon, who've now put in more stinkers than Hinrich and Noc) needs to at least try and keep up with Rose for them to beat the better teams in the league.

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It was like something from a disaster movie and I still find it hard to believe I was at the centre of it all. An aeroplane full of passengers, out of control at 17,000 feet, with the captain stuck outside the aircraft.
I think about what happened every day. It was Sunday June 10, 1990. It was a beautiful morning and I was up early because I was working on the British Airways 7.30am flight from Birmingham to Malaga in Spain. I was 36, had been an air steward with British Airways for 12 years, and loved my job with a passion.
I expected that day to be especially enjoyable. It was a holiday flight, so the 81 passengers would be relaxed, and the crew - Captain Tim Lancaster, stewards Simon Rogers and John Heward, and stewardess Sue Prince - had worked together, on and off, for years. The only member of the crew new to us was the co-pilot, Alistair Atcheson. The aircraft was a 43-tonne BAC 1-11, which was known as the jeep of the skies, because it was a workhorse - reliable and easy to maintain.
The flight was delayed for an hour, so I wandered up and down the plane, making sure everyone knew what was going on. Tim made an announcement - "You'll be pleased to know the weather is sunny and dry in Malaga and we should be on our way shortly."
It was 13 minutes after take-off and we had just reached 17,300 feet, 5000 feet beneath our assigned altitude. I went onto the flight deck and asked if they'd like tea. I was just stepping out, with my hand on the door handle, when there was an enormous explosion and the door was blown out of my hands. I thought, "My God. It's a bomb." Explosive decompression made the whole cabin mist up like fog for a second - then the plane started to plummet.
I whipped round and saw the front windscreen had disappeared and Tim, the pilot, was going out through it. He had been sucked out of his seatbelt and all I could see were his legs. I jumped over the control column and grabbed him round his waist to avoid him going out completely. His shirt had been pulled off his back and his body was bent upwards, doubled over round the top of the aircraft. His legs were jammed forward, disconnecting the autopilot, and the flight door was resting on the controls, sending the plane hurtling down at nearly 650kmh through some of the most congested skies in the world.
Everything was being sucked out of the aircraft: even an oxygen bottle that had been bolted down went flying and nearly knocked my head off. I was holding on for grim death but I could feel myself being sucked out, too. John rushed in behind me and saw me disappearing, so he grabbed my trouser belt to stop me slipping further, then wrapped the captain's shoulder strap around me. Luckily, Alistair, the co-pilot, was still wearing his safety harness from take-off, otherwise he would have gone, too.
The aircraft was losing height so quickly the pressure soon equalised and the wind started rushing in - at 630kmh and -17C. Paper was blowing round all over the place and it was impossible for Alistair to hear air-traffic control. We were spiralling down at 80 feet per second with no autopilot and no radio.
I was still holding on to Tim but the pressure made him weigh the equivalent of 500 pounds [about 200 kilograms]. It was a good thing I'd had so much training at rugby tackles, but my arms were getting colder and colder and I could feel them being pulled out of their sockets.
Simon came rushing through and, with John unwrapped Tim's legs and the remains of the doors from the controls, and Alistair got the autopilot back on. But he continued to increase speed, to lessen the risk of a mid-air collision and to get us down to an altitude where there was more oxygen. He dived to 11,000 feet in 2 minutes, then got the speed down to 300kmh.
I was still holding Tim, but my arms were getting weaker, and then he slipped. I thought I was going to lose him, but he ended up bent in a U-shape around the windows. His face was banging against the window with blood coming out of his nose and the side of his head, his arms were flailing and seemed about 6 feet [1.8 metres] long. Most terrifyingly, his eyes were wide open. I'll never forget that sight as long as I live.
I couldn't hold on any more, so Simon strapped himself into the third pilot's seat and hooked Tim's feet over the back of the captain's seat and held on to his ankles. One of the others said: "We're going to have to let him go." I said: "I'll never do that." I knew I wouldn't be able to face his family, handing them a matchbox and saying: "This is what is left of your husband." If we'd let go of his body, it might have got jammed in a wing or the engines.
I left Simon hanging on to Tim and staggered back into the main cabin. For a moment, I just sat totally exhausted in a jump seat, my head in my hands, then Sue came up to me, very shaken. In front of all the passengers, I put my arms around her and whispered in her ear: "I think the Captain's dead." But then I said: "Come on, love, we've got a job to do."
By now, Alistair was talking to air traffic control, who were talking him through landing at Southampton Airport. All pilot training is done on the basis of two pilots, one to fly and one doing the emergency drill, but Alistair was alone, with a crew he didn't know and relying on memory, because all the manuals and charts had blown away. He asked for a runway of 2500 metres because he was worried that the plane was so heavy with fuel, a tyre would burst or it would go off the runway, but all they could offer was 1800 metres.
Over the intercom he told the passengers we'd lost the windscreen. Some of them could see Tim out of the window but the cabin was silent as the grave. We walked up and down, preparing the passengers for an emergency landing. People gasped as they saw the blood on my face. The plane was very shuddery, very rocky. I remember one man at the very back, with a little baby on his knee, saying to me: "We're going to die," and I said, "No, we are not," lying through my teeth.
All I could see out of the windows was a line of trees, and I thought we'd either smash into those or into the housing estate beyond. I had a partner, Jean, and a stepson, Jamie, but I was thinking most about my Mum. She'd lost my brother in a car crash the year before, and I couldn't bear to think how she'd take the news. But, in spite of everything, Alistair did the most amazing landing, what we call a greaser - completely smooth and stopping the aircraft only three-quarters of the way down the runway.
There wasn't even any need to use the emergency chutes. We got all the passengers down the steps in an orderly fashion, although I did have to shout at a couple of people who were trying to get their handbags from the lockers. The whole time from the explosion to the landing had been 18 minutes, but it seemed like hours.
I got back on board to check everyone had left. The paramedics had Tim in the cockpit on a stretcher and I went in to see him.
He was lying there, covered in blood, but to my amazement I heard him say: "I want to eat." I just exclaimed: "Typical bloody pilot." Luckily, he'd been in a coma throughout the ordeal, his body had just shut down. I went out onto the front steps, and shouted at the others "He's alive!" and then I cried my eyes out.
Air steward Nigel Ogden was left with a dislocated shoulder, frostbitten face and some frostbite damage to his left eye. Amazingly, Captain Tim Lancaster suffered only frostbite, fractures to his arm and wrist and a broken thumb. Within five months he was flying again and today he's a pilot for easyJet.
Ogden returned to work after a break but suffered post-traumatic stress and took early retirement in 2001 on the grounds of ill health. He is now a night watchman at a Salvation Army hospital.
In 1992, a report was published showing that a BA engineer, working under pressure, had fitted a new windscreen with bolts that were too small.


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Infinity Ward's Warzone 2 KD tracker is being delayed indefinitely
If you were hoping to see Combat Records and a Warzone 2 KD tracker in-game, you're out of luck - Infinity Ward is delaying these features indefinitely
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It goes without saying, but Infinity Ward's battle royale has had something of a rocky start. But, things are on the up for Warzone 2 and the Season 1 Reloaded update is quite-literally right around the corner. If you're looking for a built-in Warzone 2 KD tracker and access to your Combat Record in the battle royale shooter, you're flat out of luck. Ahead of the aforementioned mid-season update, Infinity Ward confirmed that the Warzone 2 KD tracker and Combat Record features will be missing from the Season 1 Reloaded update.
Yes, you're reading that right – sadly. Infinity Ward has confirmed that the "Warzone 2 Combat Records will not be launching with Season 1 Reloaded" when the Warzone 2 Season 1 Reloaded release time rolls around.
According to this Call of Duty social media post, the decision to delay the feature was made due to "the accuracy of the data population". From what we can tell, this means that the data collated isn't accurate enough to present to players through an in-game Combat Record. But, it's not quite as clear as it could be.
Infinity Ward has gone on to say that it will work on this feature and the "implementation of Leaderboards", but hasn't offere any sort of ETA as to when both of these will be available.
Hilariously, Tim 'TimTheTatman' Betar has declared himself the best Call of Duty Warzone player in the world – as there's no way of telling if he is indeed the best or not. WZRanked, a Warzone stat tracking site, has also mocked the announcement with an offer to "work for free and during holidays" on the features.
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TAMPA, Fla., Oct. 5, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc. (Nasdaq:OMEX), pioneers in the field of deep-ocean shipwreck exploration, today announced that Odyssey President and Chief Operating Officer Mark Gordon will present the Company's business strategy at the 2010 Craig-Hallum Capital Group Alpha Select Investor Conference at 10:25 AM ET on Wednesday, October 6, 2010, at The Roosevelt Hotel in New York.
Oct. 5, 2010, 11:45 AM UTC / Source: GlobeNewswire
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County Senior Hurling Championship Group 1 Table
This is the league table after the fourth round of games in Abbeyside's County Senior Hurling Championship Group.
Ballygunner
Abbeyside
Fourmilewater
Ballyduff Upper
The first four teams qualify for the quarter finals. The league position of teams on equal points is determined by the result between both teams.
Celebrations following County U21 Football
Championship victory, 2007
Standing (L to R): John Gorman, Billy Ryan, Eoin Brackett, Brendan Walsh, Diarmuid O'Hare, Donncha Enright, Shane Delahunty, Alan Tobin, Diarmuid Sheehan.
Seated (L to R): Alan Deegan, Richie Foley, Seán O'Hare, Mark Ferncombe.
This week's photo shows some of the Ballinacourty U21 Football team at the post-match meal in the Park Hotel celebrating their 1-10 to 0-6 victory over De La Salle in the 2007 County Final. This win secured a three-in-a-row of county titles, which would be made four-in-a-row the following year.
Labels: History, News
Club Notes - 26th August
Jack The Joker
No. Drawn - 1
Our ever popular Jack the Joker fundraiser continues this Sunday night in Minnies Bar where the jackpot is €4,600 as on Sunday night last Laurance Power was drawn out of the drum and chose card number 1 which wasn't the Joker although he did win €50. Ned C/O Crow and Rita Power won €25 each. As well as our group of ticket sellers tickets can be purchased from Convenience Store Ballinroad, Village Flowers, Spar, Mousies Takeaway, Minnies Bar and Crotty's Corner Bar.
On Saturday last our Senior Footballers returned to winning ways with a hard fought win over Ardmore in Fraher Field. We have one game remaining in the group stages of the Championship against Clashmore, which hasn't be fixed yet.
This Sunday at 2pm we play Ballygunner in Kill in our 4th game of the Championship.
On behalf of all in the club we would like to congratulate Eoin Enright and Sarah O'Brien who announced their engagement recently.
As most of our supporters and members are probably aware by now Shane Briggs will not be available to our Senior teams for the remainder of this year or next year as he has travelled to Dubai where he has taken a teaching job for 2 years. Since making his adult debut as a 16 year old back in 1998 Shane has been an ever present on both hurling and football teams winning 3 County Senior Football and 2 Intermediate Hurling County titles along with many other underage titles. Throughout this time Shane always gave of his all in the club jersey and it is indeed an understatement that he will be sorely missed on both teams. We wish Shane the very best during his time in Dubai and hopefully he will return to wear the Club Jersey in the future.
Club Bingo
Our Club Bingo will continue this Sunday night in the CBS Hall where the jackpot is €950.
Juvenile Notes - 26th August
Underage Hurling
Underage hurling training for U5, 6, 7 and 8 will take place this Saturday morning 29th August in the club grounds. The session begins at 10:30. We are looking forward to seeing some of the new faces that participated in the 'Hurling on the Green' come and join in our regular Saturday sessions. All children are welcome to attend.
On Thursday last we took on Roanmore in the 5th round of the county minor hurling championship at home. After a good display by everyone involved we came away with victory on the night. We are now after winning all our matches in the group stages so far and have qualified for the knockout stages. Our next match at this level takes place on Thursday, 3rd September against Clonea in Clonea.
On Monday of last week we took on De Le Salle in the under 16 hurling championship. On the night the city team were slicker and sharper to every ball and came away with a comprehensive victory. Our next match up here is next Monday night the 31st August at home to Mount Sion.
Pride and place this week goes to our under 15 football team who on Sunday last won the Under 15 Western Football Final against a gallant St Oliver's team. On the day the lads played some lovely football and many thanks must go to all the players and mentors involved.
We were beaten in the 5th round of the County Under 14 Hurling Championship this week against Passage. Next match here is against Lismore in the quarter final on the 7th September.
We would like to wish everyone involved in the Tony Forristal and Sonny Walsh tournaments this weekend well. We have three players involved and of course we are represented on the Tony Forristal team by selector Michael Kelleher also.
Our Under 13 hurlers were due to play Lismore last night Tuesday in the under 13 championship. At the time of going to print the result of this match was not available but will be included in next week's notes.
Hurling on the Green
Hurling on the Green will take place this Wednesday night, 26th August between 7:00pm and 8:00pm in Sallybrook.
Nathan Norris
Name: Nathan Norris
Age: 7½
Favourite Food: Carrots
Favourite Sport: Golf
Favourite TV: Tom & Jerry
Scott Collins
Name: Scott Collins
Favourite Food: Pasta
Favourite Sport: Soccer
Favourite TV: Simpsons
Labels: Juvenile, News
County Senior Football Championship Group 1 Table
This is the league table after the fourth round of games in Ballinacourty's County Senior Football Championship Group.
Clashmore
Nire
Ballinacourty
Rathgormack
Hurling on the Green - Sallybrook
'Hurling on the Green' continues this Wednesday evening, 26th August between 7:00pm and 8:00pm in Sallybrook, Abbeyside. All children from 5 to 8 years of age are welcome to attend. Hurleys and helmets will be supplied for those needing them. Refreshments will be provided afterwards.
Western U15 Division 1 Football Champions
Congratulations to our U15 panel and management team on their comprehensive 4-6 to 1-1 victory over St. Oliver's in the Western Division 1 Football Championship Final played at Fraher Field today.
Western U15 Division 1 Football Champions, 2015
U21 Hurling Championship Celebrations, 2006
L to R: Bernard Gorman, Michael Scanlon, Tony Mansfield, Pakie Hurney, Jimmy O'Leary, Pajo Lanigan.
This week's photo shows members of the management team and club officers at the post-match meal following Abbeyside's 2-9 to 1-11 County U21 Hurling Championship Final victory over Ballygunner at Fraher Field in 2006. The win over the Eastern Champions secured our third county title at this grade and second in three years.
Hurling on the Green - Night 4
Night 4 of 'Hurling on the Green' took place on Wednesday night last, 19th August in Páirc na mBláth, Ballinroad. Almost 50 children between the ages of 5 and 8 participated in an evening of fun and games in the estate. Again, many thanks to all who helped out on the night and to Audrey Hallahan for the pictures which can be seen below.
Hurling on the Green - Páirc na mBláth
Western U14 Division 1 Hurling Champions
Hurling on the Green Night 3 - Cancelled
Club Notes - 5th August
Juvenile Notes - 5th August
Abbeyside / Ballinacourty GAA Club was formed in 1967 as a result of the amalgamation of Abbeyside Hurling and Football Clubs and Ballinacourty Football Club. It is situated within the Parish of Abbeyside, Ballinroad and Garranbane. Located on the eastern side of the River Colligan, it forms the northern and eastern shorelines of Dungarvan Harbour from Abbeyside Church to Ballinacourty Lighthouse
Development Fund
Abbeyside/Ballinacourty GAA Club has been growing at a dramatic pace over the past 10 years with the population of our parish increasing rapidly. We must ensure that we have the best facilities for all our players. We want to ensure that the next generation have the facilities that they need and deserve. We are asking supporters and friends to support this project over the next five years.
Past generations have had their visions for the future of our club. These are our current aims and with these achieved we hope to hand on the club to future generations in the same healthy state it was passed onto us.
Abbeyside/Ballinacourty GAA Club, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, Ireland.
Website by: Déise Design


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use TreeHouse\IoBundle\Import\Event\SkippedItemEvent;
use TreeHouse\IoBundle\Import\Event\SuccessItemEvent;
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{
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DoubleTree by Hilton Tinton Falls celebrates Christmas in July by giving back to Monmouth County community
WEBWIRE – Thursday, July 28, 2011
TINTON FALLS, NJ July 22, 2011- www.tintonfallseatontown.doubletree.com DoubleTree Hotel Tinton Falls - Eatontown announced today that it is extending its collection of canned goods and toiletries until August 12 for Lunch Break, a local non-profit soup kitchen and food bank that serves the Monmouth County New Jersey area.
"We donated time and helped them serve lunch to the less privileged, as well as on occasion donated our meeting space for their gatherings," says Cathy Coanda, Director of Sales at DoubleTree Hotel Tinton Falls. "With all the success of collecting these items, we wanted to extend our offer to August so that we can continue to develop our relationship with the community. We are proud to be a part of the community and giving back is one of the best ways of getting involved."
Lunch Break has been serving the Red Bank NJ community for over 30 years. They serve over 38,000 meals in their soup kitchen annually. Monthly, they provide clothes to over 350 families and groceries to over 300 families in need.
Along with these local community partners, the MITRE Corporation provided support to help make event possible.
All donors and community members are encouraged to bring boxes of canned goods and toiletries to the DoubleTree Hotel Tinton Falls lobby and receive free cookies and milk, in honor of the spirit of giving.
About Hotels Unlimited & DoubleTree by Hilton Tinton Falls
The Tajfel Family, currently operating as Hotels Unlimited, Inc. and The Tajfel Group, has been in the hotel business since 1979. The company was pioneered by Henry Tajfel, the Chairman of the Board, and is now run by his sons Doran and Carey, Co-Presidents.
The family enterprise has expanded and matured, and now includes ten hotels as well as retail and office space, self-storage facilities, and other hotel complexes under development. The various hotels are affiliated with HOLIDAY INN, RADISSON, RAMADA, DAYS INN, HILTON GARDEN INN, and DOUBLETREE. Currently, Hotels Unlimited owns and operates the HOLIDAY INN of Toms River, NJ, the HOLIDAY INN of East Windsor, NJ, the HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS of Neptune, NJ, the HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS HOTEL & SUITES of West Long Branch, NJ, the RAMADA of Toms River, NJ, the DAYS INN of East Windsor, NJ, the RADISSON HOTEL of Freehold, NJ, the HILTON GARDEN INN of Lakewood, NJ, the DOUBLETREE HOTEL of Tinton Falls, NJ, and the DOUBLETREE HOTEL of West Palm Beach, FL.
All of their hotels are rated "Three Diamonds" by AAA, and have received many awards of recognition from their respective brands.
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Mahindra is expected to launch their new flagship SUV, the XUV700 in India, sometime within the next three months. The new premium SUV offering from Mahindra is based on the Ssangyong Rexton and was first showcased at the 2018 Auto Expo. The car has already been spotted testing in India on multiple occasions, ahead of its launch.
In an interview with ET Auto, Rajan Wadhera, Executive Vice-President, R&D, and Global Product Development, stated "One of the products that we'll be launching, the G-4 version of erstwhile 'Rexton' is a completely new platform which will come from Ssangyong and that will also be launched in two to three months from now."
This new SUV will be placed above the existing XUV500. Mahindra is also planning to launch two other products in the Indian market along with the XUV700: a compact-SUV codenamed the S201 and the Marazzo MPV. All three models are expected to launch in India, by the end of 2018.
The new Mahindra XUV700 will be powered by a 2.2-litre, turbo-diesel engine. This engine will churn out a maximum of 180bhp and a peak torque of 420Nm at 1,500 to 2,500rpm. The engine will further come mated to either a six-speed manual or a seven-speed automatic transmission. A part-time 4WD system will also be on offer.
The Mahindra XUV700 is based on the company's body-on-frame platform. The SUV is said to come with a long wheelbase measuring 2,865mm.
The XUV700 will come with automatic LED headlamps, Daytime Running Lights and LED tail lamps. It will also feature five-spoke dual-tone alloy wheels and a powered tailgate.
The feature list also includes an electric sunroof, ventilated seats, dual-zone automatic climate control, eight-inch touchscreen infotainment system, electric parking brake, nine airbags and much more.
Inside, the new SUV could feature a slightly different steering wheel design, along with a new colour scheme. We are hoping that most of the XUV700's design will stay true to its concept. The upcoming SUV will also offer three rows of seats, suitable for six to seven passengers.
The Mahindra XUV700 once launched will go up against the likes of the Ford Endeavour, Toyota Fortuner and the Isuzu MU-X. Although the pricing of the upcoming SUV is yet to be revealed, we can expect it to be around Rs 20 lakh, ex-showroom.
To give it an edge over its rivals, Mahindra is expected to price their new SUV competitively, while still offering a host of features. Also, the high capacity 2.2-litre diesel engine developed by Ssangyong will give a smooth driving experience.


A few weeks ago, a client asked me to develop some forms for him from some screenshots he'd taken. I was up for the challenge, so I thought about the right tool for the job, did a little research and saw that Microsoft Word has a fillable forms tool. What I didn't find, until I was way into the job, was how awkward, bordering on difficult it was.
From my research, I knew I needed to install/invoke the Developer Tool add-on for Microsoft Word. The video (at end of article), tells you how to do this. Once it's installed, then you'll need to use some of the tools I've highlighted in the image. You'll be able to add check boxes, radio buttons, dropdowns and more to develop your form.
I had to read up on how to add the buttons I needed because it wasn't very intuitive. Once I got the button creation down, I thought it looked pretty cool – until I discovered that the block of buttons I created would not align with my text. I've taken a screenshot from one of my forms of my workaround. I made it work by inserting a text box (note the dotted lines around the text), and aligning the text with the buttons – very awkward. I found that after I got my series of buttons created, they were pretty much impossible to move anywhere. I tried quite a few ways and could not find something that would work. (If any one out there knows how to move them, PLEASE leave a comment).
So parts of the forms were built with text boxes in order to match the buttons – it took much longer and was tedious.
I was thinking of doing a video on how I accomplished making these forms, but decided it's probably not the best method to promote.
Then I found one of the Office Webinar videos on Creating Forms in Word. I eagerly watched it only to find out that the presenter went to the 'backstage' area of Word, typed in 'Forms', and simply found one there to show on the video. He didn't really 'make' a form, so I was rather disappointed about that – but he probably knew how painful it is to try to really create something.
So, lesson learned. If I need to create another form, I think I'll surf through the many, many available on-line and see if I can revise it to work. If you want to check out the forms on Microsoft Word, here's how: while in Word, click on 'File', click 'New', then in the search box, type in 'forms' and it'll show you quite a few.
Here's the video from Doug, the office guy, if you care to watch it. So if you need to create a form, I'd stay away from Word, unless you can find a template that won't need much revising.


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A: You must restructure your HTML
I've placed the .image and .details inside another div and added the hover event to the new div, not only the .box
Try this:

.box {
  width: 320px;
  position: relative;
}

img {
  max-width: 100%;
  height: auto;
}

.image>a {
  position: relative;
  display: block;
  overflow: hidden;
  text-decoration: none;
}

.image>a:after {
  background: rgba(255, 99, 71, 0.75);
  position: absolute;
  left: 0;
  top: 0;
  bottom: 0;
  right: 0;
  opacity: 0;
  -webkit-transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out 0s;
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  transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out 0s;
  content: '';
  display: block;
}

.details {
  position: absolute;
  top: 80%;
  left: 0;
  opacity: 0;
  -webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;
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  transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;
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.box:hover .hoverEffect:hover .image>a:after {
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.box:hover .hoverEffect:hover .details {
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A: You should target the div class that is the parent of the link tag, in this case, class= details
by default :
.details {

display: none;

}

While on Hover state

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display : block;

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Decoding subcategories of human bodies from both body- and face-responsive cortical regions
Foster, C., Zhao, M., Romero, J., Black, M. J., Mohler, B. J., Bartels, A., Bülthoff, I.
NeuroImage, 202(15):116085, November 2019 (article)
Our visual system can easily categorize objects (e.g. faces vs. bodies) and further differentiate them into subcategories (e.g. male vs. female). This ability is particularly important for objects of social significance, such as human faces and bodies. While many studies have demonstrated category selectivity to faces and bodies in the brain, how subcategories of faces and bodies are represented remains unclear. Here, we investigated how the brain encodes two prominent subcategories shared by both faces and bodies, sex and weight, and whether neural responses to these subcategories rely on low-level visual, high-level visual or semantic similarity. We recorded brain activity with fMRI while participants viewed faces and bodies that varied in sex, weight, and image size. The results showed that the sex of bodies can be decoded from both body- and face-responsive brain areas, with the former exhibiting more consistent size-invariant decoding than the latter. Body weight could also be decoded in face-responsive areas and in distributed body-responsive areas, and this decoding was also invariant to image size. The weight of faces could be decoded from the fusiform body area (FBA), and weight could be decoded across face and body stimuli in the extrastriate body area (EBA) and a distributed body-responsive area. The sex of well-controlled faces (e.g. excluding hairstyles) could not be decoded from face- or body-responsive regions. These results demonstrate that both face- and body-responsive brain regions encode information that can distinguish the sex and weight of bodies. Moreover, the neural patterns corresponding to sex and weight were invariant to image size and could sometimes generalize across face and body stimuli, suggesting that such subcategorical information is encoded with a high-level visual or semantic code.
paper pdf DOI [BibTex]
Foster, C., Zhao, M., Romero, J., Black, M. J., Mohler, B. J., Bartels, A., Bülthoff, I. Decoding subcategories of human bodies from both body- and face-responsive cortical regions NeuroImage, 202(15):116085, November 2019 (article)
Active Perception based Formation Control for Multiple Aerial Vehicles
Tallamraju, R., Price, E., Ludwig, R., Karlapalem, K., Bülthoff, H. H., Black, M. J., Ahmad, A.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Robotics and Automation Letters, 4(4):4491-4498, IEEE, October 2019 (article)
We present a novel robotic front-end for autonomous aerial motion-capture (mocap) in outdoor environments. In previous work, we presented an approach for cooperative detection and tracking (CDT) of a subject using multiple micro-aerial vehicles (MAVs). However, it did not ensure optimal view-point configurations of the MAVs to minimize the uncertainty in the person's cooperatively tracked 3D position estimate. In this article, we introduce an active approach for CDT. In contrast to cooperatively tracking only the 3D positions of the person, the MAVs can actively compute optimal local motion plans, resulting in optimal view-point configurations, which minimize the uncertainty in the tracked estimate. We achieve this by decoupling the goal of active tracking into a quadratic objective and non-convex constraints corresponding to angular configurations of the MAVs w.r.t. the person. We derive this decoupling using Gaussian observation model assumptions within the CDT algorithm. We preserve convexity in optimization by embedding all the non-convex constraints, including those for dynamic obstacle avoidance, as external control inputs in the MPC dynamics. Multiple real robot experiments and comparisons involving 3 MAVs in several challenging scenarios are presented.
Tallamraju, R., Price, E., Ludwig, R., Karlapalem, K., Bülthoff, H. H., Black, M. J., Ahmad, A. Active Perception based Formation Control for Multiple Aerial Vehicles IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Robotics and Automation Letters, 4(4):4491-4498, IEEE, October 2019 (article)
3D Morphable Face Models - Past, Present and Future
Egger, B., Smith, W. A. P., Tewari, A., Wuhrer, S., Zollhoefer, M., Beeler, T., Bernard, F., Bolkart, T., Kortylewski, A., Romdhani, S., Theobalt, C., Blanz, V., Vetter, T.
arxiv preprint arXiv:1909.01815, September 2019 (article)
In this paper, we provide a detailed survey of 3D Morphable Face Models over the 20 years since they were first proposed. The challenges in building and applying these models, namely capture, modeling, image formation,and image analysis, are still active research topics, and we review the state-of-the-art in each of these areas. We also look ahead, identifying unsolved challenges, proposing directions for future research and highlighting the broad range of current and future applications.
paper project page [BibTex]
Egger, B., Smith, W. A. P., Tewari, A., Wuhrer, S., Zollhoefer, M., Beeler, T., Bernard, F., Bolkart, T., Kortylewski, A., Romdhani, S., Theobalt, C., Blanz, V., Vetter, T. 3D Morphable Face Models - Past, Present and Future arxiv preprint arXiv:1909.01815, September 2019 (article)
Learning and Tracking the 3D Body Shape of Freely Moving Infants from RGB-D sequences
Hesse, N., Pujades, S., Black, M., Arens, M., Hofmann, U., Schroeder, S.
Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2019 (article)
Statistical models of the human body surface are generally learned from thousands of high-quality 3D scans in predefined poses to cover the wide variety of human body shapes and articulations. Acquisition of such data requires expensive equipment, calibration procedures, and is limited to cooperative subjects who can understand and follow instructions, such as adults. We present a method for learning a statistical 3D Skinned Multi-Infant Linear body model (SMIL) from incomplete, low-quality RGB-D sequences of freely moving infants. Quantitative experiments show that SMIL faithfully represents the RGB-D data and properly factorizes the shape and pose of the infants. To demonstrate the applicability of SMIL, we fit the model to RGB-D sequences of freely moving infants and show, with a case study, that our method captures enough motion detail for General Movements Assessment (GMA), a method used in clinical practice for early detection of neurodevelopmental disorders in infants. SMIL provides a new tool for analyzing infant shape and movement and is a step towards an automated system for GMA.
pdf Journal DOI [BibTex]
Hesse, N., Pujades, S., Black, M., Arens, M., Hofmann, U., Schroeder, S. Learning and Tracking the 3D Body Shape of Freely Moving Infants from RGB-D sequences Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2019 (article)
Perceptual Effects of Inconsistency in Human Animations
ACM Trans. Appl. Percept., 16(1):2:1-2:18, Febuary 2019 (article)
The individual shape of the human body, including the geometry of its articulated structure and the distribution of weight over that structure, influences the kinematics of a person's movements. How sensitive is the visual system to inconsistencies between shape and motion introduced by retargeting motion from one person onto the shape of another? We used optical motion capture to record five pairs of male performers with large differences in body weight, while they pushed, lifted, and threw objects. From these data, we estimated both the kinematics of the actions as well as the performer's individual body shape. To obtain consistent and inconsistent stimuli, we created animated avatars by combining the shape and motion estimates from either a single performer or from different performers. Using these stimuli we conducted three experiments in an immersive virtual reality environment. First, a group of participants detected which of two stimuli was inconsistent. Performance was very low, and results were only marginally significant. Next, a second group of participants rated perceived attractiveness, eeriness, and humanness of consistent and inconsistent stimuli, but these judgements of animation characteristics were not affected by consistency of the stimuli. Finally, a third group of participants rated properties of the objects rather than of the performers. Here, we found strong influences of shape-motion inconsistency on perceived weight and thrown distance of objects. This suggests that the visual system relies on its knowledge of shape and motion and that these components are assimilated into an altered perception of the action outcome. We propose that the visual system attempts to resist inconsistent interpretations of human animations. Actions involving object manipulations present an opportunity for the visual system to reinterpret the introduced inconsistencies as a change in the dynamics of an object rather than as an unexpected combination of body shape and body motion.
publisher pdf DOI [BibTex]
Kenny, S., Mahmood, N., Honda, C., Black, M. J., Troje, N. F. Perceptual Effects of Inconsistency in Human Animations ACM Trans. Appl. Percept., 16(1):2:1-2:18, Febuary 2019 (article)
The Virtual Caliper: Rapid Creation of Metrically Accurate Avatars from 3D Measurements
Pujades, S., Mohler, B., Thaler, A., Tesch, J., Mahmood, N., Hesse, N., Bülthoff, H. H., Black, M. J.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 25, pages: 1887,1897, IEEE, 2019 (article)
Creating metrically accurate avatars is important for many applications such as virtual clothing try-on, ergonomics, medicine, immersive social media, telepresence, and gaming. Creating avatars that precisely represent a particular individual is challenging however, due to the need for expensive 3D scanners, privacy issues with photographs or videos, and difficulty in making accurate tailoring measurements. We overcome these challenges by creating "The Virtual Caliper", which uses VR game controllers to make simple measurements. First, we establish what body measurements users can reliably make on their own body. We find several distance measurements to be good candidates and then verify that these are linearly related to 3D body shape as represented by the SMPL body model. The Virtual Caliper enables novice users to accurately measure themselves and create an avatar with their own body shape. We evaluate the metric accuracy relative to ground truth 3D body scan data, compare the method quantitatively to other avatar creation tools, and perform extensive perceptual studies. We also provide a software application to the community that enables novices to rapidly create avatars in fewer than five minutes. Not only is our approach more rapid than existing methods, it exports a metrically accurate 3D avatar model that is rigged and skinned.
Project Page IEEE Open Access IEEE Open Access PDF DOI [BibTex]
Pujades, S., Mohler, B., Thaler, A., Tesch, J., Mahmood, N., Hesse, N., Bülthoff, H. H., Black, M. J. The Virtual Caliper: Rapid Creation of Metrically Accurate Avatars from 3D Measurements IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 25, pages: 1887,1897, IEEE, 2019 (article)
Learning static Gestalt laws through dynamic experience
Ostrovsky, Y., Wulff, J., Sinha, P.
Journal of Vision, 7(9):315-315, ARVO, June 2007 (article)
The Gestalt laws (Wertheimer 1923) are widely regarded as the rules that help us parse the world into objects. However, it is unclear as to how these laws are acquired by an infant's visual system. Classically, these "laws" have been presumed to be innate (Kellman and Spelke 1983). But, more recent work in infant development, showing the protracted time-course over which these grouping principles emerge (e.g., Johnson and Aslin 1995; Craton 1996), suggests that visual experience might play a role in their genesis. Specifically, our studies of patients with late-onset vision (Project Prakash; VSS 2006) and evidence from infant development both point to an early role of common motion cues for object grouping. Here we explore the possibility that the privileged status of motion in the developmental timeline is not happenstance, but rather serves to bootstrap the learning of static Gestalt cues. Our approach involves computational analyses of real-world motion sequences to investigate whether primitive optic flow information is correlated with static figural cues that could eventually come to serve as proxies for grouping in the form of Gestalt principles. We calculated local optic flow maps and then examined how similarity of motion across image patches co-varied with similarity of certain figural properties in static frames. Results indicate that patches with similar motion are much more likely to have similar luminance, color, and orientation as compared to patches with dissimilar motion vectors. This regularity suggests that, in principle, common motion extracted from dynamic visual experience can provide enough information to bootstrap region grouping based on luminance and color and contour continuation mechanisms in static scenes. These observations, coupled with the cited experimental studies, lend credence to the hypothesis that static Gestalt laws might be learned through a bootstrapping process based on early dynamic experience.
Ostrovsky, Y., Wulff, J., Sinha, P. Learning static Gestalt laws through dynamic experience Journal of Vision, 7(9):315-315, ARVO, June 2007 (article)
Neuromotor prosthesis development
Donoghue, J., Hochberg, L., Nurmikko, A., Black, M., Simeral, J., Friehs, G.
Medicine & Health Rhode Island, 90(1):12-15, January 2007 (article)
Article describes a neuromotor prosthesis (NMP), in development at Brown University, that records human brain signals, decodes them, and transforms them into movement commands. An NMP is described as a system consisting of a neural interface, a decoding system, and a user interface, also called an effector; a closed-loop system would be completed by a feedback signal from the effector to the brain. The interface is based on neural spiking, a source of information-rich, rapid, complex control signals from the nervous system. The NMP described, named BrainGate, consists of a match-head sized platform with 100 thread-thin electrodes implanted just into the surface of the motor cortex where commands to move the hand emanate. Neural signals are decoded by a rack of computers that displays the resultant output as the motion of a cursor on a computer monitor. While computer cursor motion represents a form of virtual device control, this same command signal could be routed to a device to command motion of paralyzed muscles or the actions of prosthetic limbs. The researchers' overall goal is the development of a fully implantable, wireless multi-neuron sensor for broad research, neural prosthetic, and human neurodiagnostic applications.
Donoghue, J., Hochberg, L., Nurmikko, A., Black, M., Simeral, J., Friehs, G. Neuromotor prosthesis development Medicine & Health Rhode Island, 90(1):12-15, January 2007 (article)
On the spatial statistics of optical flow
International Journal of Computer Vision, 74(1):33-50, 2007 (article)
We present an analysis of the spatial and temporal statistics of "natural" optical flow fields and a novel flow algorithm that exploits their spatial statistics. Training flow fields are constructed using range images of natural scenes and 3D camera motions recovered from hand-held and car-mounted video sequences. A detailed analysis of optical flow statistics in natural scenes is presented and machine learning methods are developed to learn a Markov random field model of optical flow. The prior probability of a flow field is formulated as a Field-of-Experts model that captures the spatial statistics in overlapping patches and is trained using contrastive divergence. This new optical flow prior is compared with previous robust priors and is incorporated into a recent, accurate algorithm for dense optical flow computation. Experiments with natural and synthetic sequences illustrate how the learned optical flow prior quantitatively improves flow accuracy and how it captures the rich spatial structure found in natural scene motion.
Roth, S., Black, M. J. On the spatial statistics of optical flow International Journal of Computer Vision, 74(1):33-50, 2007 (article)
Assistive technology and robotic control using MI ensemble-based neural interface systems in humans with tetraplegia
Donoghue, J. P., Nurmikko, A., Black, M. J., Hochberg, L.
Journal of Physiology, Special Issue on Brain Computer Interfaces, 579, pages: 603-611, 2007 (article)
This review describes the rationale, early stage development, and initial human application of neural interface systems (NISs) for humans with paralysis. NISs are emerging medical devices designed to allowpersonswith paralysis to operate assistive technologies or to reanimatemuscles based upon a command signal that is obtained directly fromthe brain. Such systems require the development of sensors to detect brain signals, decoders to transformneural activity signals into a useful command, and an interface for the user.We review initial pilot trial results of an NIS that is based on an intracortical microelectrode sensor that derives control signals from the motor cortex.We review recent findings showing, first, that neurons engaged by movement intentions persist in motor cortex years after injury or disease to the motor system, and second, that signals derived from motor cortex can be used by persons with paralysis to operate a range of devices. We suggest that, with further development, this form of NIS holds promise as a useful new neurotechnology for those with limited motor function or communication.We also discuss the additional potential for neural sensors to be used in the diagnosis and management of various neurological conditions and as a new way to learn about human brain function.
pdf preprint pdf from publisher DOI [BibTex]
Donoghue, J. P., Nurmikko, A., Black, M. J., Hochberg, L. Assistive technology and robotic control using MI ensemble-based neural interface systems in humans with tetraplegia Journal of Physiology, Special Issue on Brain Computer Interfaces, 579, pages: 603-611, 2007 (article)
Probabilistically modeling and decoding neural population activity in motor cortex
Black, M. J., Donoghue, J. P.
In Toward Brain-Computer Interfacing, pages: 147-159, (Editors: Dornhege, G. and del R. Millan, J. and Hinterberger, T. and McFarland, D. and Muller, K.-R.), MIT Press, London, 2007 (incollection)
Black, M. J., Donoghue, J. P. Probabilistically modeling and decoding neural population activity in motor cortex In Toward Brain-Computer Interfacing, pages: 147-159, (Editors: Dornhege, G. and del R. Millan, J. and Hinterberger, T. and McFarland, D. and Muller, K.-R.), MIT Press, London, 2007 (incollection)
Probabilistic detection and tracking of motion boundaries
Black, M. J., Fleet, D. J.
Int. J. of Computer Vision, 38(3):231-245, July 2000 (article)
We propose a Bayesian framework for representing and recognizing local image motion in terms of two basic models: translational motion and motion boundaries. Motion boundaries are represented using a non-linear generative model that explicitly encodes the orientation of the boundary, the velocities on either side, the motion of the occluding edge over time, and the appearance/disappearance of pixels at the boundary. We represent the posterior probability distribution over the model parameters given the image data using discrete samples. This distribution is propagated over time using a particle filtering algorithm. To efficiently represent such a high-dimensional space we initialize samples using the responses of a low-level motion discontinuity detector. The formulation and computational model provide a general probabilistic framework for motion estimation with multiple, non-linear, models.
Black, M. J., Fleet, D. J. Probabilistic detection and tracking of motion boundaries Int. J. of Computer Vision, 38(3):231-245, July 2000 (article)
Design and use of linear models for image motion analysis
Fleet, D. J., Black, M. J., Yacoob, Y., Jepson, A. D.
Int. J. of Computer Vision, 36(3):171-193, 2000 (article)
Linear parameterized models of optical flow, particularly affine models, have become widespread in image motion analysis. The linear model coefficients are straightforward to estimate, and they provide reliable estimates of the optical flow of smooth surfaces. Here we explore the use of parameterized motion models that represent much more varied and complex motions. Our goals are threefold: to construct linear bases for complex motion phenomena; to estimate the coefficients of these linear models; and to recognize or classify image motions from the estimated coefficients. We consider two broad classes of motions: i) generic "motion features" such as motion discontinuities and moving bars; and ii) non-rigid, object-specific, motions such as the motion of human mouths. For motion features we construct a basis of steerable flow fields that approximate the motion features. For object-specific motions we construct basis flow fields from example motions using principal component analysis. In both cases, the model coefficients can be estimated directly from spatiotemporal image derivatives with a robust, multi-resolution scheme. Finally, we show how these model coefficients can be use to detect and recognize specific motions such as occlusion boundaries and facial expressions.
Fleet, D. J., Black, M. J., Yacoob, Y., Jepson, A. D. Design and use of linear models for image motion analysis Int. J. of Computer Vision, 36(3):171-193, 2000 (article)
Robustly estimating changes in image appearance
Black, M. J., Fleet, D. J., Yacoob, Y.
Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 78(1):8-31, 2000 (article)
We propose a generalized model of image "appearance change" in which brightness variation over time is represented as a probabilistic mixture of different causes. We define four generative models of appearance change due to (1) object or camera motion; (2) illumination phenomena; (3) specular reflections; and (4) "iconic changes" which are specific to the objects being viewed. These iconic changes include complex occlusion events and changes in the material properties of the objects. We develop a robust statistical framework for recovering these appearance changes in image sequences. This approach generalizes previous work on optical flow to provide a richer description of image events and more reliable estimates of image motion in the presence of shadows and specular reflections.
Black, M. J., Fleet, D. J., Yacoob, Y. Robustly estimating changes in image appearance Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 78(1):8-31, 2000 (article)