Communication Through Artifact Creation was an opportunity to design an installation of artifacts in a new and provocative way. Using the inherent properties of the objects contained within the context of the installation as the performative event, the audience was able to shape their own narrative around these objects. Usually, as a scenic designer, I am shaping a space that performers are allowed into but the audience is not. There is a predefined narrative text that is the key element informing the designed artifacts that I make as a representation of the sculpted theatrical space in which a performance will take place. For this exhibit the artifacts designed by me and eleven other artists informed the structure that would house them, and the performative journey was open to the interpretation of the audience’s imagination. / text

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Cette recherche vise à investiguer le statut du corps dans la psychanalyse de Lacan à partir des trois termes directifs qui constituent la réalité dans sa théorie, à savoir, l'imaginaire, le symbolique et le réel. La conférence sur Le stade du miroir (1936) et la publication du texte La famille (1938) marquent le début de la construction du registre de l'imaginaire dans la théorie de Lacan. Ce mouvement se poursuit jusqu'à la fin de 1940. Au cours de cette période, Lacan cherche à établir les fondements de sa théorie vers une critique de l'organicisme psychiatrique de son temps, au même temps qu'il s'empare d'une psychologie concrète pour penser la constitution du moi. Le concept de imago émerge donc comme un élément clé en ce moment. On peut aussi voir une dichotomie entre la nature et la culture, qui a comme principale conséquence une conception dans laquelle le corps apparaît comme fragile, précaire. À partir de la conférence intitulée Le mythe individuel du névrosé (1953), on observe un changement dans la pensée de Lacan – moment connu comme la constitution du registre du symbolique. De nouveaux éléments découlant de l'anthropologie de Lévi-Strauss et de la linguistique de Saussure, font partie désormais de la psychanalyse qu'il a engendré. L'inconscient, relu des nouvelles influences, est mis en évidence dans la fameuse invitation à “retour à Freud”. L'élément fondamental devient le signifiant et les conséquences de cela, à réfléchir sur le corps, il semble ne pas être si loin de la compréhension précédente. Le corps est encore vu dans une polarisation entre la nature et la culture, cependant, sa précarité n'est plus en jeu, mais sa possibilité d'être un soutien pour la lettre. Dans le point central de cette recherche, moment de production qui va des années 1959 à 1964, à savoir les seminaires L'éthique de la psychanalyse (1959-1960), Le transfert (1960-1961), L'identification (1961-1962 ), L'Angoisse (1962-1963) et Les quatre concepts fondamentaux de la psychanalyse (1964), on identifie un autre changement dans sa pensée. Lacan cherche à présenter le registre du réel d'une manière plus profonde. Et pas seulement cela, mais aussi de l'articuler aux deux autres registres. Cela devient évident dans le processus de formalisation du concept de l'objet a - qui commence dans le séminaire VII avec la notion de das Ding et va jusqu'au séminaire XI avec la notion d'objet cause du désir, objet de la pulsion. Ce concept nous permet une compréhension du statut du corps distincte de celle observée précédemment. Le corps, maintenant, n'est pas seulement de soutien de la lettre, mais aussi la possibilité de la lettre, c'est-à-dire, le signifiant est fait du même matériau au fur et à mesure que le concept de réel se rapproche de la notion de corps. L'articulation entre les trois registres est la principale clé que nous possédons pour comprendre le statut du corps dans la première moitié des années 1960. / This thesis has the objective of investigating the status of the body in Lacanian psychoanalysis, based on the three registers that constitute reality in his theory, namely, the imaginary, the symbolic and the real. Lacan’s conference entitled The Mirror Stage (1936) and the text La Famille (1938) contain the first elements in the construction of the register of the imaginary in Lacan’s theory and this evolution continues into the late 1940s. During this period Lacan sought to set down the bases of his theory which led to his criticism of the organicism he saw in the psychiatry of his time. Concurrently, he was basing himself on a concrete psychology to theorize on the constitution of the ego. The concept of imago thus comes up at this point as a fundamental element. One can also note the emergence of a dichotomy between nature and culture, the main consequence of which was the conception whereby the body was seen as fragile, or unstable. Beginning with Lacan’s conference entitled Le mythe individuel du névrosé (1953) one can note a shift in his thinking, when he constitutes the symbolic register. New elements, derived from Lévi-Strauss’s anthropology and Saussure’s linguistics, were then introduced into psychoanalysis as conceived by Lacan. The unconscious, re-examined on the basis of more recent influences, comes to the fore in his famous “return to Freud”. The main element becomes the signifier although the consequences for conceiving the body do not seem very different from his earlier model. The body is still seen in a polarization between nature and culture, but what is at stake is no longer the body’s fragility but rather the possibility of its being a support for the letter. A further change in his thought can be seen at the central point of this research, specifically, the period between 1959 and 1964, through the seminars L’éthique de la psychanalyse (1959-60), Le transfert (1960-61), L’identification (1961-62), L’angoisse (1962-63) and Les quatre concepts fondamentaux de la psychanalyse (1964). During this period, Lacan endeavors to present the register of the real in a broader way while, at the same time, articulating it to the other two registers. This becomes evident in the process of formalizing the concept of object a – which began in Seminar VII with the notion of das Ding and continued on until Seminar XI with the notion of object cause of desire, or object of the drive. This concept allows for an understanding of the status of the body as distinct from that seen earlier. At this point the body is not solely support for the letter, but is also the possibility for the letter. In other words, the signifier is made of the same material, to the extent that the concept of real comes closer to the notion of body. The articulation among these three registers is the main key we have for understanding the status of the body during the first half of the 1960s

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 2007. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 248-261).

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A persistent issue of debate in the area of 3D object recognition concerns the nature of the experientially acquired object models in the primate visual system. One prominent proposal in this regard has expounded the use of object centered models, such as representations of the objects' 3D structures in a coordinate frame independent of the viewing parameters [Marr and Nishihara, 1978]. In contrast to this is another proposal which suggests that the viewing parameters encountered during the learning phase might be inextricably linked to subsequent performance on a recognition task [Tarr and Pinker, 1989; Poggio and Edelman, 1990]. The 'object model', according to this idea, is simply a collection of the sample views encountered during training. Given that object centered recognition strategies have the attractive feature of leading to viewpoint independence, they have garnered much of the research effort in the field of computational vision. Furthermore, since human recognition performance seems remarkably robust in the face of imaging variations [Ellis et al., 1989], it has often been implicitly assumed that the visual system employs an object centered strategy. In the present study we examine this assumption more closely. Our experimental results with a class of novel 3D structures strongly suggest the use of a view-based strategy by the human visual system even when it has the opportunity of constructing and using object-centered models. In fact, for our chosen class of objects, the results seem to support a stronger claim: 3D object recognition is 2D view-based.

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 26-29, 1998 / Town & Country Resort Hotel and Convention Center, San Diego, California / Satellite tracking ground stations are under continuous pressure to automate. Autonomy is generally the desired goal, but if the ground stations are in a Commercial Ground Network(CGN) setup to support many missions simultaneously, remote control of such stations is of much more importance. The proliferation of Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) science, earth resources and eventually global communications satellites either in orbit or planned, requires a much lower cost methodology for ground support. A CGN of TCP/IP remotely controlled ground stations lowers much of the manpower that was historically required to operate such stations. This paper will cover the remote control aspects needed for a satellite ground tracking station and offer a unique remote control topology utilizing TCP/IP.

Current uses of tagged images typically exploit only the most explicit information: the link between the nouns named and the objects present somewhere in the image. We propose to leverage “unspoken” cues that rest within an ordered list of image tags so as to improve object localization. We define three novel implicit features from an image’s tags—the relative prominence of each object as signified by its order of mention, the scale constraints implied by unnamed objects, and the loose spatial links hinted by the proximity of names on the list. By learning a conditional density over the localization parameters (position and scale) given these cues, we show how to improve both accuracy and efficiency when detecting the tagged objects. We validate our approach with 25 object categories from the PASCAL VOC and LabelMe datasets, and demonstrate its effectiveness relative to both traditional sliding windows as well as a visual context baseline. / text

This thesis explores an applicative approach to two constructions in Chinese: the “oblique object” construction and the double object construction (DOC). The DP following the verb in an “oblique object” construction has generally been viewed as an object of the verb; however, its properties, especially object-associated properties, have not been tested systematically. This study tests the properties of the oblique object, and finds that the oblique object in the “oblique object” construction differs from a typical theme object in a range of syntactic properties. Pylkkänen (2002) hypothesizes that applicatives fall into two categories, high applicatives and low applicatives. Syntactically, the high applicative head is merged above the VP, with the VP as complement and the applied argument as specifier; semantically, high applicatives denote a relation between the applied argument and the event described by the VP. Low applicatives are base-generated within the VP, merging with the direct object as complement and the applied argument as specifier; semantically, a low applied argument bears a transfer-of-possession relation to the direct object. According to Huang (2007), Chinese has two types of DOCs, giving DOCs and stealing DOCs. Giving DOCs indicate situations in which the indirect object is given something or some advantage; stealing DOCs express situations in which the indirect object suffers some loss, or is adversely affected. In analyzing Chinese DOCs from an applicative approach on the basis of Pylkkänen’s high/low applicative hypothesis, Cheng and Wen (2008) suggest that Chinese DOCs are high applicatives, while Sun and Li (2010) suggest that they are low applicatives. This thesis suggests a finer classification of Chinese DOCs, and shows that Chinese DOCs include both high and low applicatives. Specifically, giving DOCs can be analyzed as low recipient applicatives. Stealing DOCs in which the indirect object bears a possessive relation to the theme can be analyzed as low source applicatives, and stealing DOCs in which the indirect object bears no direct semantic relation to the theme correspond to high malefactive applicatives. / Graduate