535 research outputs found

    Raiskauskulttuurin representaatiot japanilaisessa Boys Love -sarjakuvassa

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    Tiivistelmä – Referat – Abstract Tarkastelen tutkielmassani tapaustutkimuksena raiskauskulttuurin representaatioita japanilaisen Boys Love (BL) -sarjakuvien kontekstissa kahden sarjakuvan kautta. Käsite BL on rajattu tutkielmassa koskemaan naisten kirjoittamia tyttö- ja naisyleisölle suunnattuja kaupallisia sarjakuvia, joissa mies- ja poikahahmojen väliset homoromanttiset ja -eroottiset suhteet sekä niiden tunnelataus ovat keskiössä. Sarjakuvien romanttisen tarinankerronnan osana esiintyy kuitenkin arkipäiväisenä esitettyä seksuaalista ja henkistä väkivaltaa juonta edistävinä tehokeinoina, kuten esimerkiksi tietynlaista maskuliinisuutta pönkittäviä toteamuksia vitseinä esitettyinä. Analysoin tapaustutkimuksen kautta sitä, millaisilla kielellisillä keinoilla raiskauskulttuuri on edustettuna BL-sarjakuvissa päähenkilöiden välisessä vuorovaikutuksessa. Kirjallisuutena on pääasiassa englanninkielistä kirjallisuutta ja tutkimusartikkeleita sekä euroamerikkalaisista että itäaasialaisista lähteistä. Analyysissä primääriaineistona käytetyt kaksi sarjakuvaa ovat japaninkielisiä, joiden analyysissä käytetyt kohtaukset olen kääntänyt itse englanniksi. Analyysissäni pyrin havainnollistamaan, kuinka raiskauskulttuurin representaatiot ja niiden esittäminen osana romanttista tarinankerrontaa saattavat vahvistaa, normalisoida ja uudelleen tuottaa raiskauskulttuuria osana populäärikulttuuria BL:n kontekstissa. Tapaustutkimuksessa analysoin kriittisen diskurssianalyysin metodologisia raameja noudattaen kahta miljööltään erilaisista BL-sarjakuvista poimittuja otteita. Nämä otteet näyttävät esimerkkejä tilanteista, joissa raiskausmyyttejä käytetään tehokeinona romanttisiksi tai seksuaalisiksi koodattujen tilanteiden yhteydessä. Raiskauskulttuurin olemassaolo näyttäytyy esimerkeissä kielellisin keinoin ja hahmojen kehollisissa teoissa. Näitä keinoja ovat muun muassa uhrin syyllistäminen ja tarkoituksenmukainen harhauttaminen, mikä vaikeuttaa käsillä olevan tilanteen todellisen luonteen tulkitsemista. Nämä diskurssit merkitsevät sarjakuvissa artikuloidun seksuaalisuuden ja rakkauden väkivaltaisia piirteitä sisältäviksi. Analyysini havainnollistaa, että raiskauskulttuuri voi ilmetä monitasoisena ja arkipäiväisenä osana BL:n romanttista tarinankerrontaa. Suosittujen narratiivien ja hahmotyyppien laaja kaupallinen tuotanto saavuttaa laajan yleisön. Näin ollen ehdotan, että ilmiön kriittistä tulkintaa diskursseissa on perusteltua korostaa, jotta raiskauskulttuurin tunnistamisen ja tietoisuuden kasvattamisen kautta rakkauden representaatioita populäärikulttuurissa olisi mahdollista muuttaa lempeämmiksi tulevaisuudessa

    Hyperbolic Geometry in Computer Vision: A Survey

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    Hyperbolic geometry, a Riemannian manifold endowed with constant sectional negative curvature, has been considered an alternative embedding space in many learning scenarios, \eg, natural language processing, graph learning, \etc, as a result of its intriguing property of encoding the data's hierarchical structure (like irregular graph or tree-likeness data). Recent studies prove that such data hierarchy also exists in the visual dataset, and investigate the successful practice of hyperbolic geometry in the computer vision (CV) regime, ranging from the classical image classification to advanced model adaptation learning. This paper presents the first and most up-to-date literature review of hyperbolic spaces for CV applications. To this end, we first introduce the background of hyperbolic geometry, followed by a comprehensive investigation of algorithms, with geometric prior of hyperbolic space, in the context of visual applications. We also conclude this manuscript and identify possible future directions.Comment: First survey paper for the hyperbolic geometry in CV application

    Choreographing and Reinventing Chinese Diasporic Identities - An East-West Collaboration

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    In demonstrating Eastern- and Western-based Chinese diasporic dances as equally critical and question-provoking in Chinese identity reconstructions, this research compares choreographic implications in the Hong Kong-Taiwan and Toronto-Vancouver dance milieus of recent decades (1990s 2010s). An auto-ethnographic study of Yuri Ngs (Hong Kong) and Lin Hwai-mins (Taiwan) works versus my own (Toronto) and Wen Wei Wangs (Vancouver), it probes identities choreographed in place-constituted third spaces between Chinese selves and Euro-American Others. I suggest that these identities perpetrate hybrid movements and aesthetics of geo-cultural-political distinctness from the Chinese ancestral land ones manifesting ultimate glocalization intersecting global political economies and local cultural-creative experiences. Echoing the diasporic habitats cultural and socio-historical specificities, they are constantly (re) appropriated and reinvented via translation, interpretation, negotiation, and integration of East-West cultural-artistic and socio-political ingredients. The event unfolds such identities placial uniqueness that indicates the same Chinese roots yet divergent diasporic routes. In reviewing Ngs balletic and contemporary photo-choreographic productions of post-British colonial Hong Kong-ness alongside Lins repertories of Chinese traditional, Taiwan indigenous, American modern and Other artistic impacts noting Taiwanese-ness, the study unearths cultural roots as the core source of Chinese identity rebuilding from East Asian displacements. It traces an ingrained third space between Chinese historic-social values, Western cultural elements, and Other performing artistries of Hong Kong and Taiwanese belongings. Juxtaposing my Chinese traditional-based and transcultural Toronto dance projects with Wangs Vancouver balletic-contemporary fusions of Chinese iconicity, Chinese-Canadian identities marked by a hyphenated (third/in-between) space are associated as varying North American self-generated routes of social and artistic possibilities in a Canadian mosaic-cosmopolitical setting the persistent state of Canadian becoming. My conclusion resolves the examined choreographic cases as continually developed through third-space instigated East-West cultural-political crossings plus interpenetrative local creativities and global receptivity. Of gains or losses, struggles or rebirths, the cases of placial-temporal significations elicit multiple questions on Chinese diasporic cultural infusions, social sustenance, artistic integrity, and identity representations amid East-West negotiations my experiential reflection on the dance role and potency in the reimagining and remaking of Chinese diasporic identities

    GroundLink: A Dataset Unifying Human Body Movement and Ground Reaction Dynamics

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    The physical plausibility of human motions is vital to various applications in fields including but not limited to graphics, animation, robotics, vision, biomechanics, and sports science. While fully simulating human motions with physics is an extreme challenge, we hypothesize that we can treat this complexity as a black box in a data-driven manner if we focus on the ground contact, and have sufficient observations of physics and human activities in the real world. To prove our hypothesis, we present GroundLink, a unified dataset comprised of captured ground reaction force (GRF) and center of pressure (CoP) synchronized to standard kinematic motion captures. GRF and CoP of GroundLink are not simulated but captured at high temporal resolution using force platforms embedded in the ground for uncompromising measurement accuracy. This dataset contains 368 processed motion trials (~1.59M recorded frames) with 19 different movements including locomotion and weight-shifting actions such as tennis swings to signify the importance of capturing physics paired with kinematics. GroundLinkNet, our benchmark neural network model trained with GroundLink, supports our hypothesis by predicting GRFs and CoPs accurately and plausibly on unseen motions from various sources. The dataset, code, and benchmark models are made public for further research on various downstream tasks leveraging the rich physics information at https://csr.bu.edu/groundlink/

    LIKE A DUCK ON WATER: CHINESE ACADEMIC MIGRANTS IN THE U.S. AND THEIR SUBURBAN WEEKEND CHINESE SCHOOL

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    Current literature is scarce on the diverse experiences of hundreds of thousands of mainland Chinese who, since 1979, have come to the U.S. primarily for graduate study and mostly settled here afterwards in dispersed university or corporate jobs and suburban residences. After the Immigration Act of 1990, many of them have become visible experts in science and engineering. Yet their struggles as Chinese academic migrants simultaneously privileged by their educational backgrounds and disadvantaged by their outsider status in the U.S. often remain invisible. Possibly due to the myth of “model minority,” mainstream America has seen them as doing-well and well-behaving, and scholarship in gender studies, Asian-American studies, science and technology studies, and (sub)urban studies has barely acknowledged this group. This dissertation documents how a group of Chinese academic migrants engage with everyday struggles around their paradoxical (im)migrant statuses through participation in a weekend Chinese language school. The title of this dissertation speaks to how this group, while appearing peaceful and at ease on the surface, is actually paddling non-stop underneath. Through individual and communal bootstrapping, they manage to survive harsh disciplining mechanisms such as an often-excruciating immigration policy and the tricky discourses of multiculturalism. My data analysis draws upon diverse fields including education, sociology, philosophy, cultural geography, Asian-American studies, gender studies, migration and globalization studies. What is also interesting about this research is that it focuses on Chinese schools (instead of Chinatowns) as significant institutions that mediate this group’s migration experience

    Latent Image Animator: Learning to Animate Images via Latent Space Navigation

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    International audienceDue to the remarkable progress of deep generative models, animating images has become increasingly efficient, whereas associated results have become increasingly realistic. Current animation-approaches commonly exploit structure representation extracted from driving videos. Such structure representation is instrumental in transferring motion from driving videos to still images. However, such approaches fail in case the source image and driving video encompass large appearance variation. Moreover, the extraction of structure information requires additional modules that endow the animation-model with increased complexity. Deviating from such models, we here introduce the Latent Image Animator (LIA), a self-supervised autoencoder that evades need for structure representation. LIA is streamlined to animate images by linear navigation in the latent space. Specifically, motion in generated video is constructed by linear displacement of codes in the latent space. Towards this, we learn a set of orthogonal motion directions simultaneously, and use their linear combination, in order to represent any displacement in the latent space. Extensive quantitative and qualitative analysis suggests that our model systematically and significantly outperforms state-of-art methods on VoxCeleb, Taichi and TED-talk datasets w.r.t. generated quality
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