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  • The Call to a Free, Glorious Iraq: Iraqi Shia Political Theology, 1958-1979

    Creator:
    Shaker, Mohamed Amer
    Abstract:
    This paper is an analysis of the political theology articulated by Shia clerics and the political parties they were affiliated with between 1958-1979 with specific attention paid to Ayatollah Muhammad Baqir Al-Sadr and the Islamic Da’wa Party. It begins by tracing the development of Shia clerical political activism under the...
    Resource Type:
    Honors College Thesis
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    The Call to a Free, Glorious Iraq: Iraqi Shia Political Theology, 1958-1979 by Mohamed Amer Shaker

  • Hierarchical graphical models for activity recognition in videos

    Creator:
    Amer, Mohamed R.
    Abstract:
    This dissertation addresses the problem of recognizing human activities in videos. Our focus is on activities with stochastic structure, where the activities are characterized by variable space-time arrangements of actions, and conducted by a variable number of actors. These activities occur frequently in sports and surveillance videos. They may appear...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Mohamed R. Amer for

  • Recognizing human group activities in video through mining optimal features

    Creator:
    Amer, Mohamed R.
    Abstract:
    Given a video, we would like to recognize group activities, localize video parts where these activities occur, and detect actors involved in them. To this and, we propose a novel, mid-level feature, called control point, for representing group activities. The control points are aimed at summarizing visual cues, lifting from...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Mohamed R. Amer for the degree