Multi-feature Bottom-up Processing and Top-down Selection for an Object-based Visual Attention Model

Artificial vision systems can not process all the information that they receive from the world in real time because it is highly expensive and inefficient in terms of computational cost. However, inspired by biological perception systems, it is possible to develop an artificial attention model able to select only the relevant part of the scene, as human vision does. This paper presents an attention model which draws attention over perceptual units of visual information, called proto-objects, and which uses a linear combination of multiple low-level features (such as colour, symmetry or shape) in order to calculate the saliency of each of them. But not only bottom-up processing is addressed, the proposed model also deals with the top-down component of attention. It is shown how a high-level task can modulate the global saliency computation, modifying the weights involved in the basic features linear combination.Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO), proyectos: TIN2008-06196 y TIN2012-38079-C03-03. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Innovative and integrated new solutions for sustainable employability project

Innovative and Integrated New Solutions for Sustainable Employability (INTENSE) project aims at improving youth employment in Europe. It is focused on a sub-group so-called NEETs (not in education, employment and training) which is not reached (compare Eurofound 2012, Eurofound 2015) by usual means of employment centred initiatives for educationally deprived youth with psychosocial, mental, multifactorial problems, problematic lifestyles, disabilities, etc. Eurofound 2015, identifies a europe-wide need of this target group to be addressed. They also include the call for the development of holistic approaches in order to achieve sustainability. The above- mentioned need provides the stimulus for the consortium to develop (1st part of the project) and test (2nd part of the project) a client-centered educational concept. In essence, the following 3 dimensions are taken into account: 1st dimension - Compensation. The compensatory aspect concerns the assignment of a Transition Coach who works systemically and enables the clients to recognise their own educational needs, to ask for the coach's support on their own initiative, to develop their own goals and work on the achievement of the latter in an independent manner. 2nd dimension - prevention. The studies which identified the need for a holistic approach, define the requirement of national support systems to act in a preventive manner in order to produce as few NEETs as possible and, if applicable, start the holistic approach at an early stage. 3rd dimension - Structure and Cooperation. The issue going hand in hand with the points mentioned above is the explanation of structural aspects with regards to the success of integrated approaches. By involving the stakeholders at an early stage and throughout the entire project, a solid basis for achieving cross-sectoral cooperation is created. The role of the University of Malaga is to ensure the evaluation of the project development (1st part of the project) and implementation (2nd part of the project) using modern, and scientific methods. For this purpose, the university will apply the Stufflebeam Model during the development phase and evaluates the implementation phase according to effectiveness and efficiency by applying the Contribution Analysis (Mayne 2008).Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

“La mascarada femenina: la narratividad fotográfica de Noelia García Bandera”

Recorrido por la trayectoria y obra de la fotógrafa Noelia García Bandera

Narrativas femeninas. Visiones subjetivas: la obra fotográfica de Noelia García Bandera

Ha sido una actividad de clase de cuarto de Grado de Historia del Arte dentro de la asignatura Historia de la Fotografía.Antes de nada, quiero agradecer a Eva Ramos y al Departamento de Historia del Arte la invitación para mostraros el trabajo que realizo a través de mi visión artística. Como bien sabéis, estudié en estas mismas aulas durante 5 años a finales de los 90 y ello provocó que mi mirada se volviese icónica, simbólica y llena de referentes artísticos. Ello, trasladado a mi trabajo fotográfico, hace que nazcan una serie de p royectos que, sin mis conocimientos sobre Arte, no hubiera sido posible. Conjugar Arte y Fotografía ha sido de lo más enriquecedor tanto para mi carrera como artista como docente dentro de las enseñanzas artísticas. En resumidas cuentas, mi obra se tradu ce en imágenes fotográficas en las que se ve representada la figura femenina. Si me preguntáis si me baso principalmente en la fotografía de mujeres os responderé que sí y si queréis saber por qué, os responderé porque soy mujer. Y por todo ello, me interesa hacer una interpretación por y desde mi cuerpo y mi identidad, sumergiéndome y analizando en los problemas en los que nos movemos hoy día. No me considero una artista feminista, sino femenina, ya que me siento víctima y verdugo de mis vivencias diarias, y así lo quiero hacer constar en mi obra. Creo que la autocrítica desde una perspectiva de lo femenino enriquece mi crecimiento como creadora y como persona. He realizado una selección de los proyectos en los que he trabajado, en los que trato temas como la vejez, el vestido de novia, la belleza, la máscara como artificio o la apariencia, pero siempre dentro de una narratividad que me conduce a una lectura, una visión, que como el propio título vislumbra, mi propio ser.Universidad de Málaga. Campues de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tec

Special Issue on Advances on Physical Agents 2016

The Workshop on Physical Agents is a forum for information and experience exchange in different areas regarding the concept of embodied agents, especially applied to the control and coordination of autonomous systems: robots, mobile robots, domotics, agents, industrial applications or complex systems. This special issue brings together a selection of revised and extended papers that were first presented at the XVII Workshop on Physical Agents (WAF’2016), which was held on June 16-17, 2016 at the School of Telecommunication Engineering and Information Technology of the University of Málaga (Spain)

Asterocheres hirsutus, a new species of parasitic copepod (Siphonostomatoida : Asterocheridae) associated with an Antarctic hexactinellid sponge

The asterocherid siphonostomatoid copepod Asterocheres hirsutus, a new species, is described from a hexactinellid sponge of the genus Rossella Carter collected during the Polastern cruise ANT XVII/3, off South Shetland Islands. The distinctive features of this new species are: a female with 21-segmented and a male with 17-segmented antennules, praecoxal endite of maxillule more than four times longer than palp and the ornamentation of the posterior surface of legs 1–4. A detailed description of both sexes is presented