Digital Visuality in Cultural Identity Construction: Notes from the Festival of Pacific Arts

In July 2012 in Solomon Islands, 27 different Pacific nations came together for two weeks for the 11th Festival of Pacific Arts to express and articulate their traditions in their present forms for other Pacific Islanders (few non-Pacific Islanders attended the event). The festival was all about producing, reproducing and transforming Pacific identities, and much of this took an explicitly visual form, which the festival context fully supported. Cameras were everywhere and shooting was continuous both in photography and video, among the audience, the performers and the organizers as well. The photos were quickly transformed into YouTube, Facebook and offline video files, Flickr photo albums and countless other forms and formats shared among and between Pacific communities online and offline. The paper analyses this visual production in the cultural framework of Rennell and Bellona Islanders that the author has been working with. In particular, it highlights issues of cultural identity construction and aspects of cultural agency related with this visual production in the context of the overall modernization of the Solomon Islands society.En juillet 2012, aux îles Salomon, 27 nations océaniennes se sont rassemblées durant deux semaines à l'occasion du onzième Festival des Arts du Pacifique, pour exprimer et mettre en avant – aux yeux d'autres insulaires du Pacifique (peu de non-îliens assistaient à l'événement) – leurs traditions dans leur forme actuelle. Il s'agissait avant tout de (re)produire et transformer les identités du Pacifique, tout particulièrement à travers des formes visuelles. Les appareils photos étaient omniprésents et la prise d’images permanente, par les membres du publique, les performeurs et les organisateurs. Les images étaient rapidement diffusées via YouTube, Facebook, des albums photos Flickr ainsi que de très nombreux autres formats, échangés à l'intérieur de et entre les différentes communautés. Cet article analyse la production visuelle des groupes culturels de Rennell et Bellona, avec lesquels l'auteur a travaillé. Les questions de la construction des identités culturelles et de l'agentivité culturelle liée à cette production visuelle seront particulièrement mises en avant, dans le contexte plus large de la modernisation de la société des îles Salomon

Perinteen presentaatioita ja representaatioita: visuaalisen tutkimuksen antia Salomonsaarilta

Kirjoitus on muokattu Joensuussa 18.3.2008 pidetystä Suomen Kansantietouden Tutkijain Seuran vuosikokousesitelmästä, jonka osana esitettiin tekijän Salomonsaarilla vuonna 2007 kuvaama lyhytelokuva Presenting Kato Bowls of Biche (5 min., Jape Films, 2008)

Tracking the Occluded Indoor Target with Scattered Millimeter Wave Signal

The popularity of mobile robots in factories, warehouses, and hospitals has raised safety concerns about human-machine collisions, particularly in non-line-of-sight (NLoS) scenarios such as corners. Developing a robot capable of locating and tracking humans behind the corners will greatly mitigate risk. However, most of them cannot work in complex environments or require a costly infrastructure. This paper introduces a solution that uses the reflected and diffracted Millimeter Wave (mmWave) radio signals to detect and locate targets behind the corner. Central to this solution is a localization convolutional neural network (L-CNN), which takes the angle-delay heatmap of the mmWave sensor as input and infers the potential target position. Furthermore, a Kalman filter is applied after L-CNN to improve the accuracy and robustness of estimated locations. A red-green-blue-depth (RGB-D) camera is attached to themmWave sensor as the annotation system to provide accurate position labels. The results of the experimental evaluation demonstrate that our data-driven approach can achieve remarkable positioning accuracy at the 10-centimeter level without extensive infrastructure. In particular, the approach effectively mitigates the adverse effects of diffraction and multi-bounce phenomena, making the system more resilient.Peer reviewe

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