虚拟演播室系统中的无限蓝箱技术

虚拟演播室是虚拟现实技术在电视制作领域中的一项崭新应用。无限蓝箱技术通过外部生成的键信号,将前景视频图像中非蓝箱内的景物滤除,使摄像机的运动可以不受实际蓝箱尺寸的限制。针对任意形状的蓝箱结构和摄像机的任意自由度运动,提出了虚拟演播室系统中通用的无限蓝箱算法,该算法根据蓝箱实际的透视投影变换过程,精确提取蓝箱区域,生成色键信号。实验结果证明,该算法生成的色键区域精确、计算简单、通用性强,很好地满足了虚拟演播室系统的要求。     

消防宣传的人文视角

以沃尔夫的“空汽油桶”理论为例,将消防宣传与语言思维这两个似乎无关的领域结合起来,指出习惯性思维、行为与语言的关系,提醒人们对误导行为的情景命名要予以重新认识。将语言的力量、人类习惯性思维、预防火灾之间的关系做一个尝试性的探讨,旨在提醒宣传人员更好地运用语言这一介质进行消防宣传。     

中国非传统安全面临的挑战及思考

在对我国21世纪初期安全环境进行综合分析判断的基础上,重点从金融、环境、信息安全、流行疾病、人口安全等方面对中国非传统安全领域面临的挑战进行了深入的分析,探究了非传统安全因素对国家安全形势的影响,提出了有利于安全环境的几点预防性对策。     

Strategy,theory, and history: Operation Husky 1943

In his 1987 work Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1987), Edward Luttwak described strategy as a field of activity characterised not only by an innately complex relationship between designs, actions and outcomes, but so too by the frequent disparity between its theory and praxis. Similar observations on this subject have since been made by Richard K. Betts, Lawrence Freedman and Antulio Echevarria II. This article will use the Allied invasion of Sicily in July–August 1943 as a vehicle through which to test these theories against a signal event in the European theatre of the Second World War. It will illustrate how Operation Husky and its aftermath are a paradigm of the confusing and often illogical course of events associated with the process of formulating strategy and waging war. In so doing it demonstrates the benefits of using strategic theory to illuminate events and so move beyond the often insular focus of campaign histories, and simultaneously reinforces the importance of military history in informing a theoretical understanding of strategy.     

The correlates of transatlantic burden sharing: revising the agenda for theoretical and policy analysis

While recent work has attempted to update the research agenda for transatiantic defense burden-sharing, there remain significant gaps between the public choice defense economics literature and the security studies literature. The presence of such a gap is unfortunate, because defense spending choices are likely shaped by factors identified by the public choice literature, as well as the strategic and cultural variables that the security studies literature tends to focus on, as well as domestic macroeconomic factors. The independent variables identified in recent qualitative literature are extremely useful analytically, and, fortunately, they have reasonable proxies in available quantitative data, which enables scholars to study them across large groups of countries and many years. This article builds upon such work to synthesize the most notable of the factors identified in the current literature, and offers some common analytical ground that will benefit both scholars and practitioners..     

美国联合非致命武器项目及其十年科技战略规划

美国联合非致命武器理事会在成立20周年之际发布了《联合非致命武器项目科技战略规划2016-2025》,对未来十年相关领域的科技发展做出了部署安排。本文介绍美国联合非致命武器项目的使命职能、组织机构、运行模型、代表性成果以及十年科技战略规划,旨在为技术创新和管理创新提供参考和借鉴。     

院校调整后工程大学图书馆的定位思考

从资源的建设、整合、布局、共享和服务等方面,多角度分析了武警工程大学在体制编制调整后,图书馆存在的问题及其发展方向,并对大学图书馆的发展定位提出了参考性的建议。     

Supply licensing when the manufacturer strategically commits to invest in R&D

This article proposes a strategic reason for a proprietary component supplier to license her technology to a competitor or a manufacturer: her anticipation of the manufacturer's strategic commitment to invest in research and development (R&D). We address this phenomenon with a game theoretic model. Our results show that the manufacturer's full commitment to invest in R&D enables the supplier to license, sell a larger quantity through the supply chain, and charge lower prices. These results are robust to the type of demand uncertainty faced by the manufacturer within the class of increasing generalized failure rate distributions. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 61: 341–350, 2014     

The “motivated bias” dilemma in warfare and intelligence

The goal of this article is to challenge the assumption of rationality in the behavior of decision-making units involved in security, defense, intelligence and warfare and to consider the influence of “motivated bias” in such instances. A review of motivational literature within international politics and a discussion of literature applying “motivated biases” to warfare and strategic surprise will offer an alternative view of the primacy of rationality in such decisions.     

The war after next is here – what does the elephant look like?

A comprehensive paradigm of future wars can be defined, and is called in this article “Extended conflicts.” These can be characterized by strategic attrition, to which all national resources and all possible international legitimacy are mobilized, in order to achieve a resolution by transformation of the opponent. The use of military force in this kind of conflict is limited. The understanding that we are facing an era of extended conflicts will improve the way it is utilized.