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The Los Angeles Dodgers added four players to their roster over the weekend, but the one who could provide the most impact is the oldest of the bunch, 38-year-old Bobby Abreu. The outfielder was designated for assignment by the Dodgers on July 31 to make room on the roster for Shane Victorino, who had just been acquired from the Phillies. The Dodgers convinced Abreu to stay with the organization, and he accepted a minor league assignment with Triple-A Albuquerque. The Dodgers also called up catcher Tim Federowicz and relievers Javy Guerra and John Ely. Abreu was called up ahead of Tony Gwynn Jr., who in August suffered the same fate -- a designated player who accepted a minor league assignment. There might be room for only one of them in Los Angeles, given the limited space on the 40-man roster and the rare time off given to the lineup regulars. The role Abreu will play in September will be that of pinch hitter, which gave him the edge over the defense-minded Gwynn. "I'm g...
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Looking gorgeous in the California sunshine, Sofia Vergara left the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood on Friday (September 14).
The "Modern Family" star wore a blue T-shirt, cuffed jeans, and nude platform heels as she made her way back to her vehicle.
Building hype for the October release of their star-studded new film, "Machete Kills," producers have released a dramatic new poster touting the movie. It's the sequel to "Grindhouse."
"Machete Kills" arrives in theaters October 11 and stars Danny Trejo, Jessica Alba and Michelle Rodriguez as returning cast members. New additions for the sequel include Amber Heard, Charlie Sheen, Mel Gibson, Lady Gaga and Damian Belchir.
Shopping at Bvlgari in Beverly Hills Thursday (September 5), Sofia Vergara was all smiles. She ought to be--seeing that she just topped Forbes' list of highest-paid prime-time TV actresses for the second year in a row.
The 41-year-old raked in $30 million between June 2012 and June 2013, according to the magazine. Aside from her salary on the hit comedy "Modern Family," her income includes endorsement deals from Diet Pepsi, CoverGirl, Rooms to Go, Comcast, State Farm Insurance, and the thyroid medicine Synthroid. Talk about an eclectic mix!
She's one of the hottest ladies on the small screen, and now it seems Sofia Vergara is also one of the wealthiest!
The "Modern Family" star topped the Forbes Top-Earning Television Actress poll thanks to her whopping $30 million salary last year.
Making the long flight from the East Coast, Sofia Vergara showed up at LAX International Airport on Tuesday evening (September 3).
Sporting an "Onion Crunch" ball cap (her fiancé Nick Loeb owns the condiment company), the "Modern Family" starlet smiled from ear to ear as she scurried through the gate and headed home.
Enjoying their holiday weekend, Sofia Vergara and Nick Loeb were in attendance at the 38th Annual Hampton Classic Horse Show in Bridgehampton, New York on Sunday (September 1).
Lovely in a sleeveless black frock, the "Modern Family" star chatted under the tent with fellow attendees with her man close by her side.
We're still a couple months away from the theatrical release of "Machete Kills," and there's a brand new promotional shot to hold us over in the meantime.
The new shot features Sofia Vergara, Alexa Vega, and Elle LaMont all looking super-hot and definitely deadly in their respective getups, adding plenty of eye candy to the already-impressive lineup.
Though the awards are still a month away, stars of all kinds gathered for the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' Performers Peer Group Cocktail Reception to celebrate the Primtetime Emmy Awards on Monday (August 19) in Universal City, CA.
Among those on hand for the festive evening were "Modern Family's" Sofia Vergara and Julie Bowen, along with "Mad Men's" Christina Hendricks, who donned a lovely Badgley Mischka dress, and Breaking Bad's Aaron Paul.
No pain, no gain - at least that's what the motto in Sofia Vergara's gym seems to be as she posted a couple of before-and-after workout photos on Saturday (August 17).
Shared on her WhoSay account, the first pic shows the smiling "Modern Family" star stretching her legs on some exercise equipment in a white top and gray leggings.
Enjoying a weekend with family, Sofia Vergara smiled at photographers after grabbing lunch in Beverly Hills on Saturday (August 17).
The "Modern Family" star looked cute in a black T-shirt, flared jeans, and a Birkin bag as she strolled along with her adult son Manolo.

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Board members...I think that the management of PSEC ask Yahoo to shut down the PSEC message board because of all of the on-going 'derogatory comments' about the company and its management...! They probably got tired of being called a bunch of crooks all the time...! Stagg...!
DH...I think it is just 'sector investment rotation'...i.e. a lot of the BDC's are up today for 'no apparent reason', such as KCAP, PSEC, BDCL and etc.,...! Stagg...!
mark and board members...KCAP (yield about 17.4%) is in a strong rally again today, the RSI on KCAP has gone from 19 to 38 in less than two days, its may not be over yet (???)...! Stagg...!
mark...everybody has their favorites and I like KCAP (yield about 17.3%), the RSI is 23.32 and they just turned in higher earnings (and I am still adding more shares)...I am also holding BDCL (yield about 19.6%) and PSEC (yield about 13.6%)...that said, a lot of the BDC's are showing new strength and HTGC (yield about 10.2%) 'is one of the current leaders'...! Stagg...!
DH...you are correct on the date, it should be 06/17/04.. and you are probably correct as I got my information on 'buyupside' and they took the cost basis as $4.59 a share...however, the spin-off was free (of course we had to own shares of FRO stock to get it or buy at the share price at that time)...
That said, 'buyupside' has the Total Returns at 256.4% based on a share price of $4.59 on 06/17/04 until 08/13/15...if an investor bought SFL on 06/17/04 until 08/13/15 their Total Returns would be 256.4% (based on the Total Return information on the 'buyupside' stock return calculator, website (check it out)..
More, I got the dividend information on the SFL website (a total of $19.18 a share since 06/17/04)...to get the profit of $30.95 a share, I took the current share price, added the total dividends and minus $4.59 a share = $30.18 profit per share...! Stagg...!
Board members..SFL is up 256.4% since 01/01/04 in Total Returns and has paid out a total of $19.18 in dividends..i.e. a starting share price of $4.59 a plus $19.18 in dividends would now total $35.54 from 01/01/04 (or a cash profit of $30.95 per share)...and we also may get a special dividend in the future in addition to the current yield (and all of these numbers do not include compound returns on any reinvested yields)...! Stagg...!
palestone...I get your point...however, 'something means something', because my portfolios are dripping a lot of blood and it is not even Bloody October yet...! Stagg...!
Board members...some say the 'Death Cross' (which happened yesterday) signifies the beginning of a major correction in the markets, the Death Cross is when the 50 day moving average crosses down below the 200 moving day average in the DOW...! China just devalued the yuan against dollar 'again' and now we also have the Death Cross (this is not good, as we have not even got to Bloody October yet)...! Stagg...!
mark...what is your opinion on the 'Death Cross'...? Is this the beginning of a major correction (some say that the Death Cross signify that it is)...? Stagg...!
sarge...I don't hold any APPL, but I don't think that APPL is a broken stock...APPL has to much 'Free Cash' and 'Outstanding Talent' to go down the tube very long...I believe that APPL will continue to do well in the future (they are just having some short term growing pains)...! Always place your bets on Talent, as Outstanding Talent will always win...! Stagg...!
mark...everything you say is true and I agree to a point...however, earnings are the driver of the Technical Indicators (of which there are over 80 different)...the Technical Indicators 'are always based' on the earnings, forward guidance and investor response...i.e. earnings moved the share price of HTGC up the other day, not the Technicals...! Earnings are the "Mother's Milk' of stock prices and not the Technicals...! Stagg...!
Board members...for some reason Yahoo has shut down the PSEC message board (it may have been requested by PSEC)...PSEC (yield about 14% and pays monthly) stock prices has been slowly moving up, maybe because of stock buy backs or maybe it is just over-sold...that said, PSEC reported some good news today on some realized gains 'on Ryan and Taco Bueno'...! If anybody has any news or opinions on PSEC please share...! Stagg...!
mark and sarge...this is a very strange market as everything keeps changing all the time...the markets are always looking for reasons to move up or down and they seem to find plenty...my principal has just hit 'a new low for the year' even as my revenue stream from my yields keeps increasing (very strange indeed)...
More, it appears that the PSEC (yield about 14% and pays monthly) message board 'has been shut down' by Yahoo, maybe it was requested by PSEC because posters kept calling management a bunch of crooks...the fact is, that PSEC released some good news today about current profits on realized gains with Ryan and Taco Bueno...
That said, it appears that the Fed. does not know what to do at this time and neither do it, lol...! Stagg...!
palestone...some of us feel that the share price pull-back 'is overdone'...NYMT (yield now about 16.4%) has a lot of free cash on hand and 'has a stronger looking forward outlook'...on these type of stocks the 'yield is usually the key', if the yield stays the same the stock is fine and if the yield is reduced, then it is time to sell (it that simple) and a 16.4% yield is 'a lot of slack' to play with...! Stagg...!
bayman...NYMT is one of my core holdings and has done very good in the past, I find it hard to believe that it has fallen apart this bad 'all at once'...FRO will probably double (or more) in the next 12 months and I have started a new position in it...my opinion is, that both NYMT and FRO are strong buys, when the share prices stops falling and levels off some...! I also feel that most shipping is on the rebound (I like NMM for yield and growth)...has anybody notice that a lot of the BDC's are on the rebound lately (including HTCG, BDCL and PSEC)...? Don't forget, the share price of UVE looks like a run away train, lol...! Stagg...!
Board members...its looks to me like NRZ (yield about 12.4%) has strong color and its color seems to be getting better all the time...this is a good day in the neighborhood as most of my holdings are doing fine...i.e. UVE is doing the dead cat bounce after some profit taking Friday and NMM (yield about 17.7%) is not doing to bad for a high yield stock...! Stagg...!
Board members...UVE is doing the dead cat bonce...it looks like there was some profit taking Friday and now it is making another run upward...! Stagg...!
gambler...ARI (yield about 10.6%) has pretty good color as the gross margin is 72.8%, operating margin is 59.3%, profit margin is 62.2%, the ROA is 5.5%, the ROI is 4.6% and the ROE is 10.9%...the EPS this year are 37.9% and the forward EPS next year are est. to be up 5.5%...the short, medium and long term technical indicators that I use rated ARI an over-all average of 24% sell with a forward price target of $17.92 a share...! My opinion is, that ARI is probably an OK buy for the long term...! Stagg...!
mark..I show HTGC up about 9% today on stronger earnings (???)...also my other BDC's are showing more strength...i.e. BDCL (yield about 20.6%) is doing a lot better...! Stagg...!
update...KCAP and UVE in my opinion turned in good earnings and they both crashed today (???)...! And now NRZ seems to be in a free fall (this is a very strange market)...! Stagg...!


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Recognizing Human Actions from Still Images with Latent Poses
Weilong Yang, Yang Wang, and Greg Mori
School of Computing Science
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, BC, Canada
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We consider the problem of recognizing human actions
from still images. We propose a novel approach that treats
the pose of the person in the image as latent variables
that will help with recognition. Different from other work
that learns separate systems for pose estimation and action
recognition, then combines them in an ad-hoc fashion, our
system is trained in an integrated fashion that jointly con-
sidersposesandactions. Ourlearningobjectiveisdesigned
to directly exploit the pose information for action recogni-
tion. Ourexperimentalresultsdemonstratethatbyinferring
the latent poses, we can improve the final action recognition
1. Introduction
Consider the two images shown in Fig. 1(left). Even
though only still images are given, we as humans can still
perceive the actions (walking, playing golf) conveyed by
those images. The primary goal of this work is to recognize
actions from still images. In still images, the information
about the action label of an image mainly comes from the
pose, i.e. the configuration of body parts, of the person in
the image. However, not all body parts are equally impor-
tant for differentiating various actions. Consider the poses
shown in Fig. 1(middle). The configurations of torso, head
and legs are quite similar for both walking and playing golf.
The main difference for these two actions in terms of the
pose is the configuration of the arms. For example, "playing
golf" seems to have very distinctive V-shaped arms, while
"walking" seems to have two arms hanging on the side. A
standard pose estimator tries to find the correct locations of
all the body parts. The novelty of our work is that we do
not need to correctly infer complete pose configuration in
order to do action recognition. In the example of "walking"
versus "playing golf", as long as we get correct locations of
the arms, we can correctly recognize the action, even if the
locations of other body parts are incorrect. The challenge is
Figure1.Illustrationofourproposedapproach. Ourgoalistoinfer
the action label of a still image. We treat the pose of the person
in the image as "latent variables" in our system. The "pose" is
learned in a way that is directly tied to action classification.
how to learn a system that is aware of the importance of dif-
ferent body parts, so it can focus on the arms when trying to
differentiate between "walking" and "playing golf". We in-
troduce a novel model that jointly learns poses and actions
in a principled framework.
Human action recognition is an extremely important
and active research area in computer vision, due to its
wide range of applications, e.g. surveillance, entertainment,
human-computer interaction, image and video search, etc.
Space constraints do not allow an extensive review of the
field, but a comprehensive survey is available in [9]. Most
of the work in this field focuses on recognizing actions from
videos [13, 15, 18] using motion cues, and a significant
amount of progress has been made in the past few years.
Action recognition from still images, on the other hand, has
not been widely studied. We believe analyzing actions from
stillimagesisimportant. Progressmadeherecanbedirectly
applied to videos. There are also applications that directly
require understanding still images of human actions, e.g.
news/sports image retrieval and analysis.
Not surprisingly, recognizing human actions from still
images is considerably more challenging than video se-
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quences. In videos, the motion cue provides a rich source of
information for differentiating various actions. But in still
images, the only information we can rely on is the shape (or
the pose) of the person in an image. Previous work mainly
focuses on building good representations for shapes and
poses of people in images. Wang et al. [20] cluster different
human poses using distances calculated from deformable
shape matching. Thurau and Hlav´ aˇ c [19] represent ac-
tions using histograms of pose primitives computed by non-
negative matrix factorization. Ikizler et al. [10] recognize
actions using a descriptor based on histograms of oriented
rectangles. Ikizler-Cinbis et al. [11] learn actions from web
images using HOG descriptors [3]. A limitation of these
approaches is that they all assume an image representation
based on global templates, i.e. an image is represented by
a feature descriptor extracted from the whole image. This
representation has been made popular due to its success in
pedestrian detection, in particular the work on histogram of
oriented gradient (HOG) by Dalal and Triggs [3]. This rep-
resentation might be appropriate for pedestrian detection,
since most pedestrians are upright. So it might be helpful
to represent all the pedestrians using a global template. But
when it comes to action recognition, global templates are
not flexible enough to represent the huge amount of varia-
tions for an action. For example, consider the images of the
"playing golf" action in Fig. 4. It is hard to imagine that a
single global template can capture all the pose variations of
this action. Recently, Felzenszwalb et al. [6] show that part-
based representations can better capture the pose variations
of an object, hence outperform global template representa-
tions. In this paper, we operationalize on the same intuition
and demonstrate that part-based representations are useful
for action recognition in still images as well. A major dif-
ference of our work from [6] is that we have ground-truth
labeling of the pose on the training data, i.e. our "parts" are
semantically meaningful.
Another important goal of this paper is to bridge the gap
between human action recognition and human pose esti-
mation. Those are two closely related research problems.
If we can reliably estimate the pose of a person, we can
use this information to recognize the action. However, in
the literature, they are typically touted as two separate re-
search problems and there has been only very little work
on combining them together. There is some work on trying
to combine these two problems in a cascade way, e.g. by
building an action recognition system on top of the output
of a pose estimation system. For example, Ramanan and
Forsyth [17] annotate and synthesize human actions in 3D
by track people in 2D and match the track to an annotated
motion capture dataset. Their work uses videos rather than
still images, but the general idea is similar. Ferrari et al. [8]
retrieve TV shots containing a particular 2D human pose by
first estimating the human pose, then searching shots based
Figure 2. Difference between previous work and ours. (Top) Pre-
vious work typically approaches pose estimation and action recog-
nition as two separate problems, and uses the output of the former
as the input to the latter. (Bottom) We treat pose estimation and
action recognition as an single problem, and learn everything in
an integrated framework.
on a feature vector extracted from the pose. But it has been
difficult to establish the value of pose estimation for action
recognition in this cascade manner, mainly because pose es-
timation is still a largely unsolved problem. It is question-
able whether the output of any pose estimation algorithm is
reliable enough to be directly used for action recognition.
In this paper, we propose a novel way of combining ac-
tion recognition and pose estimation together to achieve
the end goal of action recognition. Our work is different
from previous work in two perspectives. First, instead of
representing the human pose as the configuration of kine-
matic body parts [16], e.g. upper-limb, lower-limb, head,
etc., we choose to use an exemplar-based pose representa-
tion, "poselet". This notation of "poselet" is first proposed
in [2] and used to denote a set of patches with similar 3D
pose configuration. In this paper, for the purpose of ac-
tion recognition, we further restrict those patches not only
to have similar configuration, but also from the same action
class. Second, as illustrated by the diagram in Fig. 2 (top),
previous work typically treats pose estimation and action
recognition as two separate learning problems, and uses the
output of a pose estimation algorithm as the input of an ac-
tion recognition system [8, 10]. As pointed out earlier, the
problem with this approach is that the output of the pose es-
timation is typically not reliable. Instead, as illustrated by
the diagram in Fig. 2 (bottom), we treat pose estimation and
action recognition as two components of a single learning
problem, and jointly learn the whole system in an integrated
manner. But our learning objective is designed in a way that
allows pose information to help action classification.
The high-level idea of our proposed approach can be
seen from Fig. 1. Our goal is to infer the action label of a
still image. We treat the pose of the person as intermediate
information useful for recognizing the action. But instead
of trying to infer the pose correctly using a pose estimation
algorithm, we treat the pose as latent variables in the whole
system. Compared with previous work on exploiting pose
for recognition [17, 8], the "pose" in our system is learned
in a way that is directly tied to our end goal of action clas-
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2. Pose Representation
In this paper, we treat human pose as latent information
and use it to assist the task of action recognition. Since
we do not aim to obtain good pose estimation results in the
end, the latent pose in our approach is not restricted to any
specific type of pose representation. Because our focus is
action recognition, we decide to choose a coarse exemplar-
based pose representation. It is an action-specific variant of
the "poselet" proposed in [2]. In this paper, we use the no-
tation of "poselet" to refer to a set of patches not only with
similar pose configuration, but also from the same action
class. Fig. 3 illustrates the four poselets of a walking image.
As we can see, the poselet normally covers more than one
semantically meaningful part in terms of limbs and thus it is
distinct from the background. So, the detection of poselets
is more reliable than limb detection, especially with clut-
tered backgrounds.
In [2], a dataset is built where the joint positions of each
human image are labeled in 3D space via a 2D-3D lifting
procedure. We simply annotate the joint positions of hu-
man body in the 2D image space, as shown in Fig. 4. From
the pose annotation, we can easily collect a set of patches
with similar pose configuration. Based on the intuition that
action-specific parts contain more discriminative informa-
tion, we decide to select the poselets per action. For ex-
ample, we would like to select a number of poselets from
running-legs, or walking arms. The procedure of poselet
selection for a particular action (e.g. running) is as follows:
1. We first divide the human pose annotation of the run-
ning images into four parts, legs, left-arm, right-arm, and
upper-body; 2. We cluster the joints on each part into sev-
eral clusters based their normalized x and y coordinates; 3.
We remove clusters with very few examples; 4. Based on
the pose clusters, we crop the corresponding patches from
the images and form a set of poselets for the running ac-
tion. Representative poselets from the running action are
shown in Fig. 5. As we can see, among each poselet the ap-
pearance of each patch looks different, but they have very
similar semantic meaning. As pointed in [2], this is also
one advantage of using poselets. We repeat this process for
other actions and obtain 90 poselets in total in the end.
In order to detect the presence of each poselet, we train a
classifier for each poselet. We use the standard linear SVM
and the histograms of Oriented Gradients feature proposed
by Dalal and Triggs [3]. The positive examples are the
patches from each poselet cluster. The negative examples
are randomly selected from images which have the different
actionlabeltothepositiveexamples. Forexample, whenwe
train the classifier for one of "running-legs" poselets, we se-
lect the negative examples from all other action categories
except for the running action. The learned running poselet
templates are visualized in the last column in Fig. 5.
Figure 3. Visualization of the poselets for a walking image.
Ground-truth skeleton is overlayed on image. Examples of pose-
lets for each part are shown.
Figure 4. Sample images of the still image action dataset [11], and
the ground truth pose annotation. The locations of 14 joints have
been annotated on each action image. (a) Running; (b) Walking;
(c) Playing Golf; (d) Sitting; (e) Dancing.
3. Model Formulation
Let I be an image containing a person. In this paper,
we consider a figure-centric representation where I only
contains one person centered in the middle of the image.
This representation can be obtained from a standard pedes-
trian detection system. Let Y be the action label of the
person, and L be the pose of the person. We denote L as
L = (l0,l1,...,lK−1), where K is the number of parts. In
this paper, we choose K = 4 corresponding to upper-body,
legs, left-arm, and right-arm. The configuration of the k-th
part lkis represented as lk = (xk,yk,zk), where (xk,yk)
indicates the (x,y) locations of the k-th part in the image,
and zk∈ Zkis the index of the chosen poselet for the k-th
part. We have used Zkto denote the poselet set correspond-
ing to the part k. In this paper, we use |Zk| as 26, 20, 20, 24
for the four parts: legs, left-arm, right-arm, and upper-body,
based on our clustering results.
Similar to the standard pictorial structure models [7, 16]
in human pose estimation, we use an undirected graph
G = (V,E) to constrain the configuration of the pose L.
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Figure 5. Examples of poselets for each part from the running ac-
tion. Each row corresponds to one poselet. The last column is the
visualization of the filters for each poselet learned from SVM +
Figure 6. The four part star structured model. We divide the pose
into four parts: legs, left-arm, right-arm, and upper-body.
Usually the kinematic tree of the human body is used. A
vertex j ∈ V corresponds to the configuration ljof the j-th
part, and an edge (j,k) ∈ E indicates the dependency be-
tween two connected parts ljand lk. In this paper, we use
a simple four part star structured model, as shown in Fig. 6.
The upper-body part is the root node of G and other parts
are connected to the root node. We emphasize that our al-
gorithm is not limited to the four part star structure and can
be easily generalized to other types of tree structures.
Our training data consists of images with ground-truth
labels of their action classes and poses (i.e. (x,y) location
of each part and its chosen poselet). The ground-truth pose-
let of a part is obtained by tracing back the poselet cluster
membership of this part. Given a set of N training exam-
ples {(I(n),L(n),Y(n))}N
that can be used to assign the class label Y to an unseen
test image I. Note that during testing, we do not know the
ground-truth pose L of the test image I.
We are interested in learning a discriminative function
H : I × Y → R over an image I and its class label Y ,
n=1, our goal is to learn a model
where H is parameterized by Θ. During testing, we can
predict the class label Y∗of an input image I as:
Y∗= argmax
We assume H(I,Y ;Θ) takes the following form:
H(I,Y ;Θ) = max
where Ψ(I,L,Y ) is a feature vector depending on the im-
age I, its pose configuration L and its class label Y . We
define ΘTΨ(I,L,Y ) as follows:
jφ(I,lj,Y )
jkψ(lj,lk,Y ) + ηTω(l0,Y ) + γTϕ(I,Y ) (3)
The model parameters Θ are simply the concatenation
of the parameters in all the factors, i.e. Θ = {αj : j ∈
V} ∪ {βj,k: (j,k) ∈ E} ∪ {γ}. The details of the potential
functions in Eqn. (3) are described below.
Part appearance potential αT
tial function models the compatibility between the action
class label Y , the configuration lj= (xj,yj,zj) of the j-th
part, and the appearance of the image patch extracted from
the location (xj,yj). It is parameterized as:
jφ(I,lj,Y ): This poten-
jφ(I,lj,Y ) =
jab· 1a(Y ) · 1b(zj) · f(I(lj)) (4)
where 1a(X) is an indicator that takes the value 1 if X =
a, and 0 otherwise. We use f(I(lj)) to denote the feature
vector extracted from the patch defined by lj= (xj,yj,zj)
in the image I. The poselet set for the j-th part is denoted as
Zj. The parameter αjabrepresents a template for the j-th
part if the action label is a and the chosen poselet for the
j-th part is b.
Instead of keeping f(I(lj)) as a high dimensional vec-
tor, we simply use the output of a SVM classifier trained
on a particular poselet as the single feature. We append a
constant 1 to f(I(lj)) to learn a model with a bias term. In
other words, let fab(I(lj)) be the score of the SVM trained
with action a and poselet b. Then the parameterization can
be re-written as:
jφ(I,lj,Y ) =
This trick greatly speeds up our learning algorithm. Similar
tricks are used in [4].
jab· 1a(Y ) · 1b(zj) · [fab(I(lj));1]
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Pairwise potential βT
tion represents the dependency between the j-th and the k-
th part, for a given class label Y . Similar to [16], we use dis-
crete binning to model the spatial relations between parts.
We define this potential function as
jkψ(lj,lk,Y ): This potential func-
jkψ(lj,lk,Y ) =
jka· bin(lj− lk) · 1a(Y )
where bin(lj− lk) is a feature vector that bins the relative
location of the j-th part with respect to the k-th part accord-
ing to the (x,y) component of ljand lk. Hence bin(lj−lk)
is a sparse vector of all zeros with a single one for the occu-
pied bin. Here βjkais a model parameter that favors certain
relative bins for the j-th part with respect to the k-th part for
the action class label a.
Root location potential ηTω(l0,Y ):
function models the compatibility between the action class
label Y and the root location. Here l0denotes the config-
uration of the "root" part, i.e. upper-body in our case. It is
parameterized as:
This potential
ηTω(l0,Y ) =
a· bin(l0) · 1a(Y )
We discretize the image grid into h × w spatial bins, and
ω(l0) is a length h × w sparse vector of all zeros with a
single one for the spatial bin occupied by the root part. The
parameter ηafavors certain bins (possibly those in the mid-
dle of the image) for the location of the root part for the
action label a. For example, for the running and walking
actions, the root part may appear in the upper-middle part
of the image with high probability, while for the sitting or
playing golf action, the root part may appear in the center-
middle or lower-middle part of the image. This potential
function deals with different root locations for different ac-
tions. It also allows us to handle the unreliability caused by
the human detection system.
Global action potential γTϕ(I,Y ):
function represents a global template model for action
recognition from still images without considering the pose
configuration. It is parameterized as follows:
This potential
γTϕ(I,Y ) =
a· 1a(Y ) · f(I)
where f(I) is a feature vector extracted from the whole im-
age I. The parameter γais a template for the action class
a. This potential function measures the compatibility be-
tween the model parameter γ and the combination of image
observation f(I) and its class label Y . Similar to the part
appearance model, we represent f(I) as a vector of outputs
of a multi-class SVM classifier.
4. Learning and Inference
We now describe how to infer the action label Y given
the model parameters Θ (Sec. 4.1), and how to learn the
model parameters from a set of training data (Sec. 4.2)
4.1. Inference
Given the model parameters and a test image I, we can
enumerate all the possible action labels Y ∈ Y and predict
the action label Y∗of I according to Eqn. (1). For a fixed
Y , we need to solve an inference problem of finding the best
pose Lbestas follows:
Lbest= argmax
+ηTω(l0,Y )
= argmax
jφ(I,lj,Y ) +
jkψ(lj,lk,Y )
Note for a fixed Y , the global action potential function is a
constant and has nothing to do with the pose L, so we omit
it from above equation. Since we assume a star model on L,
the inference problem in Eqn. (9) can be efficiently solved
via dynamic programming.
In this paper, we choose the size of relative location bin-
ning bin(lj− lk) as 32 × 15. With such a discrete binning
scheme, the inference can be directly solved by dynamic
programming efficiently even without using the generalized
distance transform [7]. The inference for a fixed Y on an
image only takes 0.015s with our MATLAB/MEX imple-
4.2. Learning
Now we describe how to train the model parameters Θ
from N training examples {In,Ln,Yn}n=1,2,...,N. If we
assume the pose L is unobserved on the training data, we
can learn Θ using the latent SVM formulation [6, 21] as
≥ ∆(Y,Yn) − ξn, ∀n, ∀Y ∈ Y
where ∆(Y,Yn) is a function measuring the loss incurred
by classifying the example Into be Y , while the true class
label is Yn. We use the 0-1 loss defined as follows:
The constraint in Eqn. (10) specifies the following in-
tuition. For the n-th training example, we want the score
Θ?Ψ(In,L,Y )
H(In,Y ;Θ)
∆(Y,Yn) =
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You breathed heavily as you quickly resumed your fighting stance. You could feel a drop of sweat trickling down the side of your face as you looked at Reiner, who was assuming a more relaxed stance, watching you struggle to your feet. You and Reiner were partners for that day's training session, and honestly, you were getting your ass whooped by him. Not once had you managed to disarm him, and to make it worse, Reiner was making fun of you till no end.
"You okay, [Name]? How about we take a break" Reiner teased, as you swayed on your feet slightly.
"No! I want that knife.." You whined.
Reiner chuckled at your child-like antics and shook his head slightly, before offerring you the wooden knife. Your eyes lit up with glee, and as you reached out to it, he quickly held the knife over his head, which was way out of your reach.
"REINER!" You shouted in annoyance as he merely laughed boisterously.
Despite his constant teasing, Reiner was like a big brother to you, and was also one of your be
RqAoT:Is that a rash? [posessive!LevixReaderxEren]Levi was known to be a cruel, somewhat sadistic person with almost no humane feelings.
But that was not the case.
He was jealous.
Jealous of seeing you and Eren together.
Only recently he started to notice how much he wanted you.
Well naturally, since you and Eren were both childhood friends, you two would talk to each other, hang out and help comfort each other when they are in stress. Though you were unaware of it, Eren has a very big crush on you.
But, you admired Levi Heichou since he was humanity's strongest soldier, a hope for everyone in the survey corps. He was handsome and you just loved everything about him.
~A certain night~
Eren had been dismissed from Hanji's experiments and he felt awful. You were there to accompany him back to his room but he couldn't stand or walk straight.
Leaning against your shoulder, he collapsed to the ground.
"Eren! Are you okay?!" You moved his body so it was leaning against the wall.
"[f/n]... I d-don't think I can do this anymore.
Levi x reader x Armin| Two Boys, One Heart|pt.10Levi leaned against the doorframe with arms crossed and looked at the two boys yelling furiously at each other and the growing crowd around them with unamused eyes.
You on the other hand stood there mouth open slightly, trying to figure out what to say, blubbering like an idiot.
"Corporal I-"
"Corporal?, I didn't know we were being formal cadet" Levi said, a certain tone in his voice, still looking at the argument that stood in front of you.
"Levi, I-I meant Levi" Still searching for words you stood there twiddling your fingers and looking at your-now so interesting-shoes.
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"Why is everyone so concerned about me?" You mumbled, slightly rolling your eyes.
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"It was nothing Levi...how about you just take care of 'those idiots'" Y
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"(f/n), why don't you just tell Bertholdt you like him?" Sasha asked you, her words slightly muffled by the two pieces of bread she was trying to shove down her throat at the same time. Your (e/c) eyes widened in her random thought, and rapidly blinked your eyes.
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Little School offers an 8:30am - 3:30pm programme. All schools also have extended hours from 8am until 5:30pm. We operate within the same dates as a public school term, meaning we have four terms a year.
We will, however, operate for one week of the school holidays so our terms will be one week longer than schools'. This allows opportunities for families with older children to do various holiday activities that are sometimes difficult to do with pre-schoolers.
The Little School programme incorporates the philosphies of many theorists and educationalists from all over the world. The best from each of these ideas and theories, along with the New Zealand early childhood and primary based curriculums, are what creates our unique programme.
Brain Gym - Brain Gym is a programme of physical movements that enhance learning and performance in all areas. It is a programme dedicated to enhance living and learning.
Sensory Motor Development and Integration - Sensory Integration is a process that occurs in the brain. It allows us as individuals to take information though our senses, organise it and act and respond according to any situation. It is also the process which allows us to filter out any unnecessary sensory information. Sensory Integration forms the underlying foundation for academic learning and social behaviour.
Music - Music is a vital part of our programme at Little School. Music provides opportunities for children to learn, both socially and educationally. By children participating in singing, movement and dance, children's confidence and oral language is also extended.
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For much of the 1800s, local time was determined by longitude. The 1860s diagram at left calculates the time in various cities, with Washington, D.C., at its center. This was fine in the stagecoach era, but faster-moving trains required more precision (confusion over time resulted in a series of accidents). And so in the U.S., Greenwich Mean Time was adopted on Nov. 18, 1883.
In this 1896 illustration, the trajectory of the railway line is distorted to fit into the dog's backbone. It was not uncommon for mapmakers to use frivolous animal forms, in a bid to stand out from the competition.
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Every issue is written by a different author?
Wikipedia has 5 writers attached the project.
What's the split?
Liking this weeks means nothing.
Each writer was given a brief of which plot points that they had to touch and then they consulted their editors about how much latitude they wanted to infuse the story with 'original' material.
This is how they make TV.
It's why when a two parter comes out, one half sucks a lot more than the other.
but buying next weeks issue that isn't Hickman is hardly a reason just because Hickman rules, especially since in 6 weeks when the next Hickman issue comes out, unless he was collaborating with the other writers ex parte to interlock this stuff popper, he had minimum confirmation on what the final products looked like between his issues.
Which in a post Skype world is pisseasy.
I'm surprised their isn't a dedicated channel just for writers to weave 616 with a little more cohesion... But then Rich Johnston would be out of a job.
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Obviously, all IFBB professionals use banned substances in order to achieve the physiques they bring on Mr. Olympia stage. However, bodybuilding's capital country is the USA where using steroids is strongly prohibited by the law and anybody who possess such drugs, without having a medical reasons to do so, fears prison sentence. That's why going on TV and admitting steroid use is like publicly stating that you have robbed a store or a bank – not a very wise move. Many IFBB pro bodybuilders don't make as much money as you may think and have to work regular jobs in order to have the needed income to support their families and buy the large amounts of food and drugs they need. Former Mr. Olympia Ronnie Coleman was also a full time police officers during a larger portion of his career and therefore he had even more reasons to hide his affection for muscle elixirs despite the fact that steroids are used by many police officers and military organizations – saying it in public, however, would be considered as an act of sending the wrong message to the general population.
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There is no muscle industry without drugs (steroids).
There is no such thing as getting into phenomenal shape with over-the-counter supplements like creatine and whey protein or with diet and training alone. The naturally lean and muscular body is a skinny one. The human body CANNOT produce excessive muscular size while maintaining low body-fat. A natural trainer has two options: be lean and muscular but look skinny in clothing or be big and look somewhat muscular in clothing but also be relatively fat.
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They don't want anyone to look like them, they want to be special and they don't want competition.
If they told the truth about their drug use they would be thought of as "cheaters" and their livelihood would be instantly gone.
Every person who has attained great shape has used a cocktail of anabolic steroids, human growth hormone, insulin, diuretics, and narcotics. Every muscular person knows this and most of them will not tell you the truth. Steroids are not just used by a small number of meat-head bodybuilders. Steroids are used by a huge amount of people where strength, size, endurance, or appearance are of importance. Steroids are used for this reason:
On Steroids you go from Zero to Hero in a matter of weeks.
The list of people who ALWAYS use steroids are as follows: Bodybuilders, athletes (even skinny athletes who do not look like the average roid-head), fitness models, and weightlifters. There is no exception to this list. These people take drugs because they MUST take drugs to earn money or to win.
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Doobie Brothers File Lawsuit Against Similarly Named Cover Band
The Doobie Brothers have filed a trademark lawsuit against a '70s cover band called the Doobie Decimal System, claiming the other group's name is "confusingly similar."
The Doobie Brothers have filed a trademark lawsuit against a '70s cover band called the Doobie Decimal System, claiming the other group's name is "confusingly similar."
The Doobie Brothers have played to countless crowds over the years, but one of their most memorable gigs got its start on Jan. 28, 1978, when the band tried to do a nice thing for some high school students and ended up being bootlegged by a kid wearing a trench coat and a beret.
'What a Fool Believes,' in its original 1979 hitmaking form for the Michael McDonald-led Doobie Brothers, told the sad tale of someone who thinks he can rekindle a long-lost love.
As the November release date looms for 'Southbound,' an album pairing the Doobie Brothers with some of today's biggest country stars, the question of how their music continues to resonate across generations was bound to come up.
The Doobie Brothers have revealed the artists that will be appearing on 'Southbound,' a country-music tribute album.
Patrick Simmons revealed the names of the country stars who will appear on 'Southbound,' a country salute to the Doobie Brothers.
The veteran '70s hitmakers will team up for a handful of shows during their summer tours.
Rumor has it that Michael Jackson secretly recorded background vocals for the Doobie Brothers' hit 'Minute by Minute' record. Rumors aren't always true.
The Doobie Brothers, with five-time Grammy winner Michael McDonald returning to the fold, will team up with some of country music's biggest stars to re-record some of their biggest hits. The album will be released on an as-yet undetermined date in 2014.
The Rock Legends cruise series has announced the lineup for its third voyage, and it looks like they're going to need a bigger boat.
"Live", 'Live', 'Live' , it appears a major portion of June is 'live album' month with the new goods being released whether it's by design or by accident, I'm not really sure.
Deep Purple, Frank Zappa, The Doobie Brothers and Iggy and the Stooges are in our first group of new or reissued music, DVD for June.


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So I had a cervical check on Thursday morning and bled as soon as I got up. It freaked me out, I called in a nurse and she said it happened and was OK and just go home and rest. I knew they could cause spotting but had no idea I could have blood running down my legs.
Friday still spotting. Saturday still spotting. It's dark brown spots and mucusy now but still enough that I need a pad.
Has this happened to you? Should I be concerned?


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