Endings and beginnings : reflections on crafting and mothering
- Authors: McDonough, Sharon
- Date: 2021
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture Vol. 19, no. 2 (APR 3 2021), p. 183-186
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Bunyip, Bunjil and mother-in-law avoidance : New insights into the interpretation of Bunjils Shelter, Victoria, Australia
- Authors: Clark, Ian
- Date: 2017
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Rock Art Research Vol. 34, no. 2 (2017), p. 189-192
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- Description: Bunjils Shelter in the Black Range near Stawell, Victoria, Australia, is generally regarded as one of the most significant rock art sites in Victoria. However, its provenance has been marked by nagging doubts about its authenticity, and for a short period of time it was delisted from the site register of the Victoria Archaeological Survey. A 1925 newspaper article by Rev. John Mathew based on information he obtained from a Wimmera Aboriginal woman at Lake Tyers Aboriginal station in 1924 has the potential to augment the interpretive significance of the site. We now know that the site is commemorative of a major clash between Bunjil and Bunyip and is interwoven with the principle of mother-in-law avoidance. This paper briefly revisits the history of the provenance of the site before discussing the 'new' interpretation.
Structural image retrieval using automatic image annotation and region based inverted file
- Authors: Zhang, Dengsheng , Islam, Md , Lu, Guojun
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation Vol. 24, no. 7 (2013), p. 1087-1098
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- Description: Image retrieval has lagged far behind text retrieval despite more than two decades of intensive research effort. Most of the research on image retrieval in the last two decades are on content based image retrieval or image retrieval based on low level features. Recent research in this area focuses on semantic image retrieval using automatic image annotation. Most semantic image retrieval techniques in literature, however, treat an image as a bag of features/words while ignore the structural or spatial information in the image. In this paper, we propose a structural image retrieval method based on automatic image annotation and region based inverted file. In the proposed system, regions in an image are treated the same way as keywords in a structural text document, semantic concepts are learnt from image data to label image regions as keywords and weight is assigned to each keyword according to spatial position and relationship. As the result, images are indexed and retrieved in the same way as structural document retrieval. Specifically, images are broken down to regions which are represented using colour, texture and shape features. Region features are then quantized to create visual dictionaries which are similar to monolingual dictionaries like English or Chinese dictionaries. In the next step, a semantic dictionary similar to a bilingual dictionary like the English–Chinese dictionary is learnt to mapping image regions to semantic concepts. Finally, images are then indexed and retrieved using a novel region based inverted file data structure. Results show the proposed method has significant advantage over the widely used Bayesian annotation models.
Irene Ridgeway : Just for the Record
- Authors: Forbes, Rodney
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Imprint: the journal of the print council of Australia inc Vol. 45, no. 3 (2010), p. 31
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Semantic image retrieval using region based inverted file
- Authors: Zhang, Dengsheng , Islam, Md , Lu, Guojun , Hou, Jin
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation Vol. 24, no. 7 (2009), p.242-249
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- Description: Image retrieval has lagged far behind text retrieval despite more than two decades of intensive research effort. Most of the research on image retrieval in the last two decades are on content based image retrieval or image retrieval based on low level features. Recent research in this area focuses on semantic image retrieval using automatic image annotation. Most semantic image retrieval techniques in literature, however, treat an image as a bag of features/words while ignore the structural or spatial information in the image. In this paper, we propose a structural image retrieval method based on automatic image annotation and region based inverted file. In the proposed system, regions in an image are treated the same way as keywords in a structural text document, semantic concepts are learnt from image data to label image regions as keywords and weight is assigned to each keyword according to spatial position and relationship. As the result, images are indexed and retrieved in the same way as structural document retrieval. Specifically, images are broken down to regions which are represented using colour, texture and shape features. Region features are then quantized to create visual dictionaries which are similar to monolingual dictionaries like English or Chinese dictionaries. In the next step, a semantic dictionary similar to a bilingual dictionary like the English–Chinese dictionary is learnt to mapping image regions to semantic concepts. Finally, images are then indexed and retrieved using a novel region based inverted file data structure. Results show the proposed method has significant advantage over the widely used Bayesian annotation models.
Encrusted
- Authors: Pilven, Peter
- Date: 2007
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Ceramics-Technical Vol. , no. 24 (May-Oct 2007), p. 56-59
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- Description: The 3D coordinator from the University of Ballarat, Australia, presents a review on a woodfire exhibition 'Encrusted', conducted at Skepsi Gallery. The exhibition not only presented the arts but also organised an associated forum and lecture on ceramics.
- Description: C3
The journey of Janet Korakas
- Authors: Pilven, Peter
- Date: 2007
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Ceramics-Art and Perception Vol. , no. 68 (Jun-Aug 2007), p. 11-15
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- Description: A brief note on the birth, life and art works of Janet Korakas is presented. She suffers interminably for her art, harbours a positivity towards art, life and the universe which is infectious and reaffirming and as a person, she exudes a bohemian eccentricity that is sustained by an unrelenting passion for her chosen expressive medium of clay.
- Description: C3
No matter how far you run; Looking for Alibrandi and coming of age in Italo-Australian Cinema and girlhood
- Authors: Speed, Lesley
- Date: 2006
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Screening the Past Vol. 19, no. (2006), p. 1-15
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- Description: Looking for Alibrandi (Australia, 2000) is significant not only because it is the financially most successful Australian teen film and winner of five AFI awards. This film has also played an important role in increasing the cinematic profile of Italo-Australians. It has attracted audiences that exceed the hitherto limited markets for most Italo-Australians films and expanded the source novel's predominantly teenage readership. Looking for Alibrandi can be linked to Italo-Australian cinema's shift away from social realism and towards market-driven entertainment. The film presents a utopian and revisionist view of Australian society, challenging monolithic characterisations of Australian society in terms of a patriarchal, Anglo-Celtic, middle-class mainstream. The dissolution of this monolithic mythology is implicit in Josie Alibrandi's dawning recognition that Australian society involves complex intersections of class, generation, gender, ethnicity and locality. The film thus alludes to a coming of age that is both social and subjective, encompassing the increased cinematic profile of Italo-Australians in general and Italo-Australian femininity in particular. Josie's social and subjective coming-of-age culminates in the question of reconciliation with Anglo-Australian masculinity.
- Description: C1
- Description: 2003001874
Retro Future: Adapting a Medieval process as means to redefine contemporary (Australian) society
- Authors: Mann, Allan
- Date: 2006
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: The First International Conference on the Arts in Society Vol. 1, no. 2 (15-18 August 2006 2006), p. 121-128
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- Description: 2003007056