This creative project has studied the nature of reality as visualized through abstract images. The work of various artists was discussed to determine their relationship to this aspect of reality. The painters included were the Metaphysical School, Barnett Newman, Adolph Gottlieb, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, and the Zen artists. The focus on their paintings was concerned with how they developed the concepts of the void, reduction, and contemplation.From this historical advantage, the author determined his own position. Through the work for the creative project, the ideas discussed were given visual form as they described the abstract reality.

NEPTUNE Canada possesses a large collection of video data for monitoring marine life. Such data is important for marine biologists who can observe species in their natural habitat on a 24/7 basis. It is counterproductive for researchers to manually search for the events of interest (EOI) in a large database. Our study aims to perform the automatic detection of the EOI de ned as animal motion. The output of this approach is in a summary video clip of the original video fi le that contains all salient events with their associated start and end frames. Our work is based on Laptev [1] spatio-temporal interest points detection method. Interest points in the 3D spatio-temporal domain (x,y,t) require frame values in local spatio-temporal volumes to have large variations along all three dimensions. These local intensity variations are captured in the magnitude of the spatio-temporal derivatives. We report experimental results on video summarization using a database of videos from Neptune Canada. The eff ect of several parameters on the performance of the proposed approach is studied in detail. / Graduate

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2007. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Lic. , Uppsala, Univ : 2004. / Härtill 2 uppsatser.

Exegesis (MA--Art and Design) -- Auckland University of Technology, 2005. / Also held in print (68 leaves : col. ill. ; 30 cm.) in Wellesley Theses Collection. (T 700.458 MAT)

Thesis (MFA)--Montana State University--Bozeman, 2008. / Typescript. Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Rollin Beamish.

Thesis--University of London. / Bibliography: p. [192]-195.

Thesis (M.S.)--Rochester Institute of Technology, 2008. / Typescript. Accompanying CD-ROM contains JPG images of the exhibition photographs. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 27-28).

Thesis (M.F.A.)--Rochester Institute of Technology, 1984. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 83-86).

Thesis (M.F.A.)--Rochester Institute of Technology, 1983. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 11-12).