Master's thesis Photographs of Presidential Candidates in Czech Newspapers ahead of Elections of 2013 compares the visual coverage of nine presidential candidates in the photographs published in three national broadsheet newspapers Lidové noviny, Právo and Hospodářské noviny during the period of four weeks before the first Czech direct presidential elections in January 2013. The theoretical part of the thesis summarizes literature probing the visual framing of politics and the influence of photographic images in media on audiences and their decisions in elections. The quantitative content analysis compares the number of each candidate's pictures in the Czech press in order to determine whether the visual coverage was balanced or not and whether this could have affected the election results. It also verifies the hypothesis that newspapers tend to publish more pictures of the candidates with similar political orientation. Besides that, the thesis also compares how each of the journals uses photography illustration by examining the size, placement, type, caption length and authorship of the pictures.

The thesis "A content analysis of photographs in Pestry tyden and LIFE magazine" analyses two successful magazines of the first half of the 20th century. Intentionally, two periodicals of different origin (Czechoslovakia and the United States) are compared to investigate the assumption that the different origin has major influence on the overall concept and focus of the periodicals. The subject of this study is the selection of volumes of 1937-1945, the period of the greatest success of both magazines. The study aims not only at describing the contents of the periodicals but also at situating them into social, political and art-historical context. The study is based on a theoretical part which gives a general overview of photojournalism and tracks the slow beginning of journalistic photography and the birth of the first illustrated magazines. This part also deals with technological development which made possible quality image journalism. The study does not leave out numerous restrictions, e. g. censorship, which were a frequent point of struggle for the magazines' authors. Key words: illustrated magazines, magazine photography, photojournalism, documentary photography, war photography, censorship, propaganda

TITLE: Sound and Audiovisual Records as an Evidence in Civil Proceedings AUTHOR: Ivo Petržílek DEPARTMENT: Department of Civil law SUPERVISOR: doc. JUDr. Alena Macková, Ph.D. ABSTRACT: The thesis deals with the problems of inadmissibility of evidence by the audio and video recordings in civil proceedings. Attention is focused mainly on problems of using illegally obtained records as proofs. Diploma searches for the solution to the contemporary course which seems to be ineffectual. The thesis is divided into six chapters. The first and second chapters introduce the theoretical basis of proving in civil proceedings. The third chapter refers to the evidence by the sound and audiovisual records in the area of civil proceedings and deals with the main factors of its potential proving use. In the fourth chapter author deals with the collision of basic rights and interests, especially with the general personality right and the interest of effective Justice and proposes a Proportionality test as the solution. The fifth chapter contains a comparison of the Czech and German case law. Finally, the last, sixth chapter summarizes the most important findings and concludes the thesis. KEYWORDS: audio and video recordings, general personality right, proportionality test, inadmissible evidence, proving

The diploma thesis focuses on how it is suitable for pupils with different mother tongue to learn selected orthographic phenomena. The aim of the thesis is to find out which activities or methods the teacher can use to achieve the highest memorability of orthographic phenomena by pupils with a different mother tongue with respect to their teaching types and styles. High attention is paid to the method of working with visual aids. This diploma thesis focuses on problematic orthographic phenomena taught from the third to the fifth year of elementary school, which are difficult to justify for pupils with a different mother tongue. To achieve the highest quality of research several qualitative methods were used, namely observation, testing and semi-structured interviews with pupils and class teachers. The knowledge presented in the theoretical part of the thesis is an important basis for the processing of the empirical part itself. Within the empirical part, I elaborated a case study of nine pupils with a different mother tongue. The results of the survey show that the ready-made visual aids helped most pupils. During preparation of three lessons, I took into account all the learning types and styles, which proved to be effective. On the other hand, the dominance of type or style has not always been...

This work deals with the technical possibilities for automated optical inspection and the arrangements for monitoring the implementation of established elements. There are used methods of detection elements, including advanced algorithm processing. With the described methods was created program and each method was tested. The aim was on the clear description of the problem, the optimal design and processing program with objective results with the lowest number of false detection.

This master's thesis deals with the ways of cell viability determination and its measuring. The first part of this thesis has a brief introduction into the theory of cell viability, also the methods of cell viability measurement and different types of fluorescent probes are described. The thesis further includes a brief description of the image processing methods, as well as the fluorescent microscope and applied filters are described. In the practical part the system implemented at a graphical programming environment LabVIEW used for the cell viability evaluation is described, functions of applied units are explained. The program is checked on model data.

This thesis deals with employing coevolutionary principles to the image filter design. Evolutionary algorithms are very advisable method for image filter design. Using coevolution, we can add the processes, which can accelerate the convergence by interactions of candidate filters population with population of fitness predictors. Fitness predictor is a small subset of the training set and it is used to approximate the fitness of the candidate solutions. In this thesis, indirect encoding is used for predictors evolution. This encoding represents a mathematical expression, which selects training vectors for candidate filters fitness prediction. This approach was experimentally evaluated in the task of image filters for various intensity of random impulse and salt and pepper noise design and the design of the edge detectors. It was shown, that this approach leads to adapting the number of target objective vectors for a particular task, which leads to computational complexity reduction.

Multidimenzionální indexování je účinným nástrojem pro zachycení podobností mezi objekty bez nutnosti jejich explicitní kategorizace. V posledních letech byla tato metoda hojně využívána pro anotaci objektů a tvořila významnou část publikací spojených s projektem Visipedia. Tato práce analyzuje možnosti strojového učení z multidimenzionálně indexovaných obrázků na základě jejich obrazových příznaků a přestavuje metody predikce multidimenzionálních souřadnic pro předem neznámé obrázky. Práce studuje příslušené algoritmy pro extrakci příznaků, analyzuje relevantní metody strojového účení a popisuje celý proces vývoje takového systému. Výsledný systém je pak otestován na dvou různých datasetech a provedené experimenty prezentují první výsledky pro úlohu svého druhu.

This thesis describes the design and implementation of hardware unit to detect objects in the image. Design of unit is optimized for fast streaming processing. Object detection is performed by the trained classifiers using local image features. It describes a new technique for multi-scale detection. Detector used accelerating algorithm based on neighboring positions. The correct functionality of the detector is verified by simulation and part of a whole is implemented on development kit.

Práce představuje novou adaptabilní metodu pro on-line vyhledávání videa v reálném čase pomocí vizuálních slovníků. Nová metoda se zaměřuje na nízkou výpočetní náročnost a přesnost vyhledání při on-line použití. Metoda vychází z technik využitých u statických vizuálních slovníků. Tyto běžné techniky jsou upraveny tak, aby byly schopné se adaptovat na proměnlivá data. Postupy, které toto u nové metody řeší, jsou - dynamická inverzní frekvence dokumentů, adaptabilní vizuální slovník a proměnlivý invertovaný index. Navržený postup byl vyhodnocen na úloze vyhledávání videa a prezentované výsledky ukazují, jaké vlastnosti má adaptabilní metoda ve srovnání se statickým přístupem. Nová adaptabilní metoda je založena na konceptu plovoucího okna, který definuje, jakým způsobem se vybírají data pro adaptaci a ke zpracování. Společně s konceptem je definován i matematický aparát, který umožňuje vyhodnotit, jak koncept nejlépe využít pro různé metody zpracování videa. Praktické využití adaptabilní metody je konkrétně u systémů pro zpracování videa, kde se očekává změna v charakteru vizuálních dat nebo tam, kde není předem známo, jakého charakteru vizuální data budou.