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  • Hannah's Dress

    Berlin 1904 - 2014

    Translated by Nick Somers, C. Jon Delogu ...
    Hannah's Dress tells the dizzying story of Berlin's modern history. Curious to learn more about the city she has lived in for over twenty years, journalist Pascale Hugues investigates the lives of the men, women and children who have occupied her ordinary street during the course of the last century. We see the street being built in 1904 and the arrival of the first families of businessmen, ... Read more

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  • Reproducible Research in Pattern Recognition

    Second International Workshop, RRPR 2018, Beijing, China, August 20, 2018, Revised Selected Papers

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Reproducible Research in Pattern Recognition, RRPR 2018, in Beijing, China in August 2018.The 8 revised full papers, presented together 6 short papers, were carefully reviewed and selected from 14 submissions. This year the workshop did focus on Digital Geometry and Mathematical ... Read more

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  • Reproducible Research in Pattern Recognition

    Third International Workshop, RRPR 2021, Virtual Event, January 11, 2021, Revised Selected Papers

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Reproducible Research in Pattern Recognition, RRPR 2021, held as a virtual event, in January 2021.The 8 revised full papers, presented together with 6 short papers, were carefully reviewed and selected from 18 submissions.The papers were organized into three main categories. The first ... Read more

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