Pose Induction for Novel Object Categories

We address the task of predicting pose for objects of unannotated object categories from a small seed set of annotated object classes. We present a generalized classifier that can reliably induce pose given a single instance of a novel category. In case of availability of a large collection of novel instances, our approach then jointly reasons over all instances to improve the initial estimates. We empirically validate the various components of our algorithm and quantitatively show that our method produces reliable pose estimates. We also show qualitative results on a diverse set of classes and further demonstrate the applicability of our system for learning shape models of novel object classes

The Visual Centrifuge: Model-Free Layered Video Representations

True video understanding requires making sense of non-lambertian scenes where the color of light arriving at the camera sensor encodes information about not just the last object it collided with, but about multiple mediums -- colored windows, dirty mirrors, smoke or rain. Layered video representations have the potential of accurately modelling realistic scenes but have so far required stringent assumptions on motion, lighting and shape. Here we propose a learning-based approach for multi-layered video representation: we introduce novel uncertainty-capturing 3D convolutional architectures and train them to separate blended videos. We show that these models then generalize to single videos, where they exhibit interesting abilities: color constancy, factoring out shadows and separating reflections. We present quantitative and qualitative results on real world videos.Comment: Appears in: 2019 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2019). This arXiv contains the CVPR Camera Ready version of the paper (although we have included larger figures) as well as an appendix detailing the model architectur

Why do some (weird) people inject faults?

http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/272263.27227

27th Annual Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot

realizado entre 4 a 9 de Abril de 2020 em Viena de Áustri

Algebraic thinking of grade 8 students in solving word problems with a spreadsheet

This paper describes and discusses the activity of grade 8 students on two word problems, using a spreadsheet. We look at particular uses of the spreadsheet, namely at the students’ representations, as ways of eliciting forms of algebraic thinking involved in solving the problems. We aim to see how the spreadsheet allows the solution of formally impracticable problems at students’ level of algebra knowledge, by making them treatable through the computational logic that is intrinsic to the operating modes of the spreadsheet. The protocols of the problem solving sessions provided ways to describe and interpret the relationships that students established between the variables in the problems and their representations in the spreadsheet

Professional competences of the physiotherapists in the field of mental health in Portugal : a questionnaire based survey

Abstract in proceedings of the Fourth International Congress of CiiEM: Health, Well-Being and Ageing in the 21st Century, held at Egas Moniz’ University Campus in Monte de Caparica, Almada, from 3–5 June 2019.This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

The impact of family-friendly policies on companies´ performance in Portugal

Mestrado em FinançasNas últimas décadas registaram-se mudanças significativas no mundo do trabalho e da família. O aumento competitivo do mercado de trabalho associado ao aumento das horas de trabalho e contacto permanente, despertou a atenção das políticas family-friendly, com o objetivo de proporcionar aos trabalhadores o equilíbrio entre o trabalho e a vida pessoal (work-life balance) como também de melhorar a performance das empresas consequentemente. Devido ao grande potencial que estas políticas podem exercer na vida de um trabalhador, que por conseguinte, podem afetar a performance das empresas, é crucial estudar como estas políticas podem afetar a performance das empresas a nível académico, de gestão e político. Usando uma amostra de empresas S.A., o presente estudo avalia a relação entre a performance das empresas e as políticas family-friendly. Os resultados deste trabalho mostram que existe uma relação positiva entre as políticas family-friendly e a performance das empresas S.A. em Portugal. Esta conclusão poderá encorajar e estimular os gestores de topo, especialmente os que são mais tradicionais e conservadores, à implementação destas políticas como também dar uma nova visão ao Governo de modo a criar incentivos que possam influenciar positivamente à decisão de implementação destas políticas nas empresas.The last twenty years have been engraved by significant changes in the world of work and family. Adding to this, a more competitive job market associated with an increasing of working hours and an almost permanently contact with the workplace, have increased the attention on family-friendly policies, with the purpose to achieve work-life balance as well to improve company performance consequently. Due to the huge potential that these policies can exercise in all the extension of an employee´s life, that can in turn, affect the company performance, it is pivotal for academic, management and policy level to study how family-friendly policies affect company performance. Using a sample of Portuguese public limited companies, the present study assesses the relationship between company performance and family-friendly policies. The results of this study show that there is a positive relationship between companies that have family-friendly policies and its performance. This conclusion may encourage and stimulate top-level managers, especially those who are more traditional and conservative, to the implementation of these policies as well give a new sight to the Government to create more incentives that can also influence positively on the implementation decision.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Materiais campaniformes e da Idade do Bronze do Concelho de Sintra

Neste trabalho publicam-se materiais inéditos, cerâmicos e líticos, de época campaniforme e da Idade do Bronze, provenientes de diversas estações do concelho de Sintra, prospectadas em diversas épocas e por diferentes investigadores. Assim, do povoado do Alto do Montijo, conhecido desde a década de 1950 (FRANÇA & FERREIRA, 1951), estuda-se conjunto coerente de materiais campaniformes recolhidos pelo Arq. Gustavo Marques. Do Museu Regional de Sintra, estudam-se materiais campaniformes dos pequenos núcleos domésticos de Fetal, Pombal e Funchal, os últimos também com espólio do Bronze Final. Embora já objecto de curto estudo anterior (CARNEIRO, 1991), a publicação de tais cerâmicas, na totalidade inéditas, justifica-se plenamente. Enfim, à colecção Medeiros (Mafra), pertencem os materiais campaniformes e da Idade do Bronze do povoado de Anços, também inéditos. A distribuição geográfica das estações, todas de natureza habitacional apresenta-se na Fig. 1. Trata-se de sítios implantados ora em zonas abertas e aplanadas, com coberturas arenosas, próximas do litoral (Pombal e Fetal) ora em domínios de geomorfologia mais movimentada, situados mais no interior, possuindo, aparentemente, estreitas relações com afloramentos monolíticos de rochas ígneas (Anços). Porém, apenas o Alto do Montijo se situa em elevação individualizada