Many Days Many Nights is a body of work that examines the notion of place, highlighting the complex relationship between a psychological state of mind and the experience of geographical location. The work incorporates a hybrid documentary photography practice combined with experimental video to construct narrative and is underpinned by a phenomenological inquiry into the relationship between memory, time, and the experience of place, and collectively, how these concepts pervade the subjective photographic frame. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.F.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2019. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

Esta dissertação apresenta o estudo, a melhoria e a implementação de um algoritmo para avaliar a qualidade de vídeo baseado na relevância dos objetos nos quadros. A métrica usada para estimar a relevância tem como pré-requisito a segmentação do vídeo. O trabalho foi dividido em etapas distintas: (1) segmentação, (2) avaliação da segmentação e estimação da relevância, (3) geração de artefatos nos vídeo originais e (4) avaliação de qualidade de vídeo. Experimentos com diferentes artefatos comprovam a eficiência da métrica proposta em termos de correlação com a métrica subjetiva. / This work presents the study, improvement and implementation of an algorithm to evaluate the video quality based on the relevance of objects in the frames. The measurements used to estimate the relevance requires a segmentation of objects. The work was divided into the following sections: (1) segmentation, (2) evaluation of segmentation and estimation of relevance, (3) generation of artifacts in video original and (4) evaluation of video quality. Experiments with different artifacts prove the efficiency of the proposed metric in terms of correlation with subjective measures

Esta dissertação apresenta o estudo, a melhoria e a implementação de um algoritmo para avaliar a qualidade de vídeo baseado na relevância dos objetos nos quadros. A métrica usada para estimar a relevância tem como pré-requisito a segmentação do vídeo. O trabalho foi dividido em etapas distintas: (1) segmentação, (2) avaliação da segmentação e estimação da relevância, (3) geração de artefatos nos vídeo originais e (4) avaliação de qualidade de vídeo. Experimentos com diferentes artefatos comprovam a eficiência da métrica proposta em termos de correlação com a métrica subjetiva. / This work presents the study, improvement and implementation of an algorithm to evaluate the video quality based on the relevance of objects in the frames. The measurements used to estimate the relevance requires a segmentation of objects. The work was divided into the following sections: (1) segmentation, (2) evaluation of segmentation and estimation of relevance, (3) generation of artifacts in video original and (4) evaluation of video quality. Experiments with different artifacts prove the efficiency of the proposed metric in terms of correlation with subjective measures

My research investigates the habitual, the non-monumental, the mundane, the ordinary and the everyday. I conceive of this as those moments in life that are not socially or culturally recognised as important. Traditionally, such moments have not been considered worthy of documentation and have been omitted or overlooked by mainstream media. This exegesis examines the importance of the everyday and considers how to make it conspicuous. Historically, these moments have been identified with the feminine, in that much theoretical and artistic work has emerged exploring women's experience of the everyday and testifying to its importance. Three spheres in particular have attracted critical interest: namely the body, the domestic and personal identity. For example, in 1966 Yoko Ono's 'No 4 (Bottoms)' brought the issue of the body and its banality onto centre stage by showing an endless parade of bottoms. In 1975, Chantal Akerman's film 'Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles', showed the everyday routines of a self-contained housewife. More recently, numerous artists have explored the politics of identity. Sadie Benning has made numerous videos that show the mundane and also reveal her personal identity, by exploring large and especially small scale details. / While conventionally newsreels and big budget documentaries have focused on 'big' events, one of the arenas that have investigated the everyday is experimental film and video. My exegesis gives a brief historical overview of this genre. Testimony in this media is often used as a voice to express the everyday. My journal entries (testimonies) deal with everyday experiences, and are interspersed throughout my exegesis. They are also the main threads in my videos. In my studio work, I use movement and dance to express in an abstract manner issues about the everyday, which include personal identity, more specifically issues of illness and sexuality / My research draws on a variety of sources including: 1970's feminist artists and filmmakers (Chantal Akerman and Martha Rosler). Many artists who were involved in the women's movement used their bodies in various art forms including performance art to make radical statements about domesticity and feminism. Contemporary artists' depiction of personal identity that mostly informed my work (in particular, queer identity) are: experimental queer film and media makers Sadie Benning, Marlon Riggs, Isaac Julien and William Yang. / Thesis (MVisualArts)--University of South Australia, 2006.