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“…The Case of Hospitaller Rhodes (ca. 1309-1522) Sofia Zoitou offers a study of the history of relic collections, devotional rituals and sites invested with special meaning in Rhodes, during a time when the island became one of the most frequented ports of call for ships carrying pilgrims from Venice to the Holy Land. …”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…7.2.3 Object Detection with a Training Set 236 -- 7.2.4 Object Recognition Combined with Bottom-up Attention 239 -- 7.3 Object Detection and Recognition in Satellite Imagery 240 -- 7.3.1 Ship Detection based on Visual Attention 242 -- 7.3.2 Airport Detection in a Land Region 245 -- 7.3.3 Saliency and Gist Feature for Target Detection 248 -- 7.4 Image Retrieval via Visual Attention 250 -- 7.4.1 Elements of General Image Retrieval 251 -- 7.4.2 Attention Based Image Retrieval 253 -- 7.5 Applications of Visual Attention in Robots 256 -- 7.5.1 Robot Self-localization 257 -- 7.5.2 Visual SLAM System with Attention 259 -- 7.5.3 Moving Object Detection using Visual Attention 262 -- 7.6 Summary 265 -- References 265 -- 8 Application of Attention Models in Image Processing 271 -- 8.1 Attention-modulated Just Noticeable Difference 271 -- 8.1.1 JND Modelling 272 -- 8.1.2 Modulation via Non-linear Mapping 274 -- 8.1.3 Modulation via Foveation 276 -- 8.2 Use of Visual Attention in Quality Assessment 277 -- 8.2.1 Image/Video Quality Assessment 278 -- 8.2.2 Weighted Quality Assessment by Salient Values 279 -- 8.2.3 Weighting through Attention-modulated JND Map 280 -- 8.2.4 Weighting through Fixation 281 -- 8.2.5 Weighting through Quality Distribution 281 -- 8.3 Applications in Image/Video Coding 282 -- 8.3.1 Image and Video Coding 282 -- 8.3.2 Attention-modulated JND based Coding 284 -- 8.3.3 Visual Attention Map based Coding 285 -- 8.4 Visual Attention for Image Retargeting 287 -- 8.4.1 Literature Review for Image Retargeting 288 -- 8.4.2 Saliency-based Image Retargeting in the Compressed Domain 289 -- 8.5 Application in Compressive Sampling 292 -- 8.5.1 Compressive Sampling 293 -- 8.5.2 Compressive Sampling via Visual Attention 296 -- 8.6 Summary 300 -- References 300 -- PART IV SUMMARY 305 -- 9 Summary, Further Discussions and Conclusions 307 -- 9.1 Summary 308 -- 9.1.1 Research Results from Physiology and Anatomy 308 -- 9.1.2 Research from Psychology and Neuroscience 309 -- 9.1.3 Theory of Statistical Signal Processing 310.…”

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