Search for dissertations about: "visual identity"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 46 swedish dissertations containing the words visual identity.

2. 1. Class, Place and Identity in a Satellite Town

   Author : Elias le Grand; Patrik Aspers; Lars Udehn; Les Back; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; class; identity; place; chav; stigma; symbolic boundaries; youths; moral panics; Sociology; Sociologi; Sociology; sociologi;

   Abstract : The central aim of this study is to examine processes of identity formation among white, working-class youths in a marginalized area located on the outskirts of South London. It is primarily based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork but also on analyses of web sites, newspapers and popular culture. READ MORE

4. 2. Lip-motion biometrics for audio-visual identity recognition

   Author : Maycel Isaac Faraj; Massimo Tistarelli; Högskolan i Halmstad; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Biometrics; Lip motion; Audio-visual signals; Speech recognition; Speaker recognition; Digit recognition; Image analysis; Bildanalys;

   Abstract : Biometric recognition systems have been established as powerful security tools to prevent unknown users from entering high risk systems and areas. They are increasingly being utilized in surveillance and access management (city centers, banks, etc.) by using individuals' physical or biological characteristics. READ MORE

5. 3. Predictive eyes precede retrieval : visual recognition as hypothesis testing

   Author : Linus Holm; Timo Mäntylä; Lars Nyberg; David Melcher; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; declarative memory; face perception; object recognition; scene recognition; eye movements; visual awareness; recollection; familiarity; Psychology; Psykologi;

   Abstract : Does visual recognition entail verifying an idea about what is perceived? This question was addressed in the three studies of this thesis. The main hypothesis underlying the investigation was that visual recognition is an active process involving hypothesis testing. READ MORE

6. 4. Ecologies of Practices and Thinking

   Author : Elke Marhöfer; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; new materialism; film; image; matter; nonhuman; more-than-human; other-than-human; not-so-human; ecology; agriculture; otherness; storytelling; enunciation; post-context; post-history; animism; colonialism; becoming with; seeing together; lines of flight; modes; animals; plants; things; territories; multiplicities; chaos; expressive continuum; rerational aesthetics; radical empiricism; Baruch Spinoza; Gilles Deleuze; Félix Guattari; Isabelle Stengers; Donna Haraway; Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing; Brian Massumi; Danièle Huillet; Jean Marie Straub;

   Abstract : How does a new materialist film practice look? To approach this question the practice-led material driven research explores dynamic ecological relations and processes of thinking and practicing. It employs an animist methodology which allows it to relate to the nonhuman as an active participant, rather than a passive object of inquiry. READ MORE

7. 5. Sounding Expanded Affinities : A Polytemporal Approach to Reconceptualizing Egalitarian Social Relations

   Author : Andrea Ray; Konsthögskolan i Malmö; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Sound art; Installation; Feminism; Polyamory; Free love; Expanded affinities; Queer theory; USA; Nineteenth century; Twenty-first century;

   Abstract : My doctoral submission, Sounding Expanded Affinities, examines how strides toward gender equality might be made, but it postulates that this is too difficult while marriage remains at the core of our patriarchal value system. This patriarchal system is one which oppresses women by manipulating subjects into its preferred roles often in subtle, chronic ways, using repetition and pairing as its tools. READ MORE