Coarse-to-Fine Adaptive People Detection for Video Sequences by Maximizing Mutual Information

Applying people detectors to unseen data is challenging since patterns distributions, such as viewpoints, motion, poses, backgrounds, occlusions and people sizes, may significantly differ from the ones of the training dataset. In this paper, we propose a coarse-to-fine framework to adapt frame by frame people detectors during runtime classification, without requiring any additional manually labeled ground truth apart from the offline training of the detection model. Such adaptation make use of multiple detectors mutual information, i.e., similarities and dissimilarities of detectors estimated and agreed by pair-wise correlating their outputs. Globally, the proposed adaptation discriminates between relevant instants in a video sequence, i.e., identifies the representative frames for an adaptation of the system. Locally, the proposed adaptation identifies the best configuration (i.e., detection threshold) of each detector under analysis, maximizing the mutual information to obtain the detection threshold of each detector. The proposed coarse-to-fine approach does not require training the detectors for each new scenario and uses standard people detector outputs, i.e., bounding boxes. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach outperforms state-of-the-art detectors whose optimal threshold configurations are previously determined and fixed from offline training dataThis work has been partially supported by the Spanish government under the project TEC2014-53176-R (HAVideo

Social climate in social work training : the influence of the learning environment on the emerging social worker\u27s professional identity as an agent of social justice

In Master of Social Work programs, one of the objectives of the field practicum is the development of a professional self. A field placement agency may encourage, discourage, and/or limit the student’s ability to implement social justice interventions in their work with clients which may impact their development of a professional identity as it relates to social justice. In this exploratory study, qualitative data was obtained through eight semi-structured interviews. The findings confirm that the social climate of a field placement agency influences the student’s ability to develop aspects of their professional identity dedicated to engaging in social action activities. Additionally, these experiences were found to have long-term consequences on the student’s later professional behavior in advocacy work as well as in relationships with supervisors and other social workers

Luchas por el significado del término ‘indígena’ en la teología de la inculturación en Ecuador

Andrew Orta ha definido la Teología de la Inculturación como una tendencia de la Iglesia católica de “codificar y reforzar la religiosidad indígena como parte del esfuerzo más amplio de la Iglesia de abarcar ‘las teologías locales’ e ‘inculturarse’ dentro de los contextos culturales específicos” (Orta, 2004: 105). Después de siglos de predicar que los indígenas deben abandonar sus prácticas culturales y sus creencias tradicionales, y convertirse en cristianos, muchos misioneros católicos, en la actualidad, aseguran que las creencias indígenas ya eran de por sí cristianas: los indígenas deberían volver a ser más “indios” y regresar a sus tradiciones ancestrales ya que los misioneros las consideran ahora expresiones culturales locales de los valores cristianos (Orta, 2004: vii).

El modelo Avilés para la implantación del tratamiento asertivo comunitario en España

Tesis doctoral inédita leída en la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Facultad de Medicina, Departamento de Psiquiatría. Fecha de lectura: 4-09-201

Literature circles : Latina/o students' daily experiences as part of the classroom curriculum

textAfter the Mexican-American war, the educational experience of Mexican and Mexican -American students was one of segregation, discrimination, and inequalities. Latina/o histories and funds of knowledge have not been historically part of the classroom curriculum. Although scholars, educators, and social movements have challenged such inequalities, they still persist. Students became objects of the educational process. New theories and educational practices, such as critical pedagogy, have helped empowered students to become aware of their situation and encouraged students to become social agents of change. Literature circles, an educational practice of critical pedagogy, enable educators to provide students with an educational experience where they become the Subjects of their own learning; thus, transforming their educational experiences.Curriculum and Instructio