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This work is focused on the image processing using the OpenCV library and detectingmoving objects in video using convolutional neural networks. The created application can detectmoving objects in the video and contains additional functionality. The application includes theYOLO convolutional model, which helps to detect moving objects.

In this paper, we present two pipelines in order to reduce the feature space for anomalydetection using the One Class SVM. As a first stage of both pipelines, we compare the performanceof three convolutional autoencoders. We use the PCA method together with t-SNE as the first pipelineand the reconstruction errors based method as the second. Both methods have potential for theanomaly detection, but the reconstruction error metrics prove to be more robust for this task. Weshow that the convolutional autoencoder architecture doesn’t have a significant effect for this task andwe prove the potential of our approach on the real world dataset.

Phoebe Apperson Hearst měla velmi úspěšného vlastního syna Williama, který byl ale více jako jeho otec: tvrdý obchodník. Našla však jemnou, uměleckou duši v malíři Orrinu Peckovi (1860–1921), který byl údajně gay a který ji, ještě za života své vlastní matky, začal oslovovat „má druhá mámo.“ Na základě podrobného výzkumu jejich vzájemné korespondence v Peckově pozůstalosti se můžeme ptát, jak moc si byla progresivní, bohatá žena 19. století, jakou byla Phoebe Hearst, vědoma Peckovy sexuality a pokud ano, jestli s tím neměla problém, nebo šlo o nevyřčené tajemství mezi nimi? Jejich příběh představí historik umění Ladislav Zikmund-Lender. Phoebe Apperson Hearst had a very successful son of William, but he was more like his father: a tough businessman. However, she found a delicate, artistic soul in the painter Orrin Peck (1860–1921), who was allegedly gay and who, while still his own mother's life, began to address her as “my second mother.” Based on a detailed study of their correspondence in Peck's estate, we may ask how much a progressive, rich 19th-century woman like Phoebe Hearst was aware of Peck's sexuality, and if so, if she had no problem with it, or was it an unspoken secret between them? Their story will be presented by art historian Ladislav Zikmund-Lender.

AbstractWe provide a theory to identify a new benefit for conglomerate mergers. In this paper, projects are subject to manager‐specific shocks. Bringing projects under the same top management in a conglomerate increases the correlation of shocks. We show that this positive correlation, in contrast to traditional wisdom, enhances a firm's ability to relax financial constraints. This is because common managerial shocks help conglomerates better take advantage of cross‐pledging possibilities. This paper also contributes to the literature by providing one of the first studies to emphasize the role of manager‐specific shocks in shaping a firm's choice to be a conglomerate or standalone.

AbstractJim Grimsley (b. 1955) is a southern author of literary fiction, literature of the fantastic as well as numerous plays whose road to publishing success in the United States has been a thorny one. Grimsley had published two novels in Germany with translations to French and Dutch under way before his first novel, Winter Birds, was put out in 1994 by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill following 10 years of futile attempts to get the book to press in his home country. Since the publication of Winter Birds in the United States, he has published six literary novels, three science fiction or fantasy novels, a collection of short stories, a book of plays, and a memoir in English. Although Grimsley explores topical themes in his fiction such as child abuse, class issues in the United States, same‐sex relationships in the American South, as well as the relationship between technology and society, he surprisingly remains one of the most under‐researched contemporary American writers. Nevertheless, the amount of research on the author has been growing in the last 20 years, so there can be no doubt about his inclusion in the canon of contemporary southern literature. The present article provides an overview of scholarship on Grimsley both in the United States and Europe, identifying several main research areas: (southern/queer) Gothic elements, abuse in all its forms, southern culture and its elements (region, space, class), gay identity, literature of the fantastic, and theatrical plays. As this overview and bibliography of research into Grimsley up to the present is meant to further current research and stimulate interest in the author and his works, the article also identifies new areas that deserve scholarly attention.

We propose the model combining convolutional neural network with multiple instancelearning in order to localize the premature atrial contraction and premature ventricular contraction.The model is based on ResNet architecture modified for 1D signal processing. Model was trainedon China Physiological Signal Challenge 2018 database extended by manually labeled ground truthpositions of premature complexes. The presented method did not reach satisfying results in PAClocalization (with dice = 0.127 for avg-pooling implementation). On the other hand, results of localizationof PVCs were comparable with other published studies (with dice = 0.952 for avg-poolingimplementation).

SILON s.r.o is manufacturer of polyester fibres which get used in wide range of applications, many of them requiring highest quality material. Due to manufacturing processes, some fibres are not drawn properly and stay in the fiber as bundles, or brittle, thick threads. Proposed lab station should automate process of quality check of each batch. It consists of linescan camera scanner and computer with software for detection and analysis of defects.

This paper presents an evaluation of deep learning architectures designed for modulationrecognition. The evaluation inspects, whether the architectures behave in the same way as they didon the dataset they were designed on. The architectures are trained and tested on two different radiomodulation datasets. This results in proposing additional binary classification as a method to reducemisclassification of QAM modulation types in one of the datasets.

In 1939, due to WWII and the Nuremberg Laws, the revolutionary Czech structural engineer Jaroslav J. Polívka arrived in the United States. After his arrival, he started a research job at UC Berkeley, renewed his engineering practice, and offered his services to the US military as many businesspersons did during this era. Polívka worked for Henry Kaiser who turned Richmond, CA, into a vibrant, fast developing workers city. New residential districts, hospitals, hangars, docks, and warehouses were built there. Henry Kaiser approached the structural development of the city in the same way he revolutionized the construction of battleships: from prefabricated, standardized parts. He supported research and development of new technologies. Mobile, round-shaped hospitals from prefabricated aluminum frames were one of the results of that research. In 1946, Jaroslav J. Polívka introduced himself to the “starchitect” Frank Lloyd Wright. A productive mutual co-operation that lasted 13 years and resulted in eight spectacular projects had started and Polívka, who had been working on extensive research both at UC Berkeley and Stanford University, came up with many technological, structural, and material innovations over the period. In 1957, Henry Kaiser funded the construction of one of the two geodesic domes designed by Richard Buckminster Fuller in Hawaii and in the process he invited Frank Lloyd Wright to consult the project. Jaroslav J. Polívka was probably in direct contact with Fuller, since he wanted to include him in his unfinished project of an encyclopedia of the world-famous structural engineers. On this particular story and a social matrix evolving around Henry Kaiser and Frank Lloyd Wright, the lecture seeks to rethink architectural global modernism as a cooperative project rather than a series of individual innovations manifested by isolated genius figures.