OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
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(2026)Multi-person tracking has many applications such as surveillance or automated driving. Existing approaches exploit available motion and appearance cues insufficiently. In contrast, this work introduces several methods to ...
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(2026)Attribute-based person retrieval searches for persons using textual descriptions of their visual appearance. This thesis presents a deep learning approach for such retrieval in video surveillance and smart city scenarios. ...
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Continuous Verification and Safe Localization in Semantic High Definition Maps for Automated Driving(2026)This work proposes a system for direct localization in HD planning maps and their continuous verification far ahead of the vehicle using only on-board sensors and processing, offering a new level of reliability for semantic ...
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(2026)Red Lives: Our Years in the US Communist Party (1950–2000) is the first collection of historical analyses and reminiscences by members of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and the Communist youth movement in the US from the ...
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(2026)The 1950s was a decade of considerable legal development in England and Wales, despite often being regarded as very conservative in contrast to the more radical 1960s and 1970s. This collection illustrates the breadth of ...
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(2026)This book examines how Europe and the European Union are debated, politicised, and contested in a group of key (future) actors of European integration. Based on detailed focus group discussions with students in EU studies ...
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(2026)This innovative title is the first interdisciplinary volume to examine private equity investment in hospitality businesses through the lens of the socio-cultural concepts of affect and emotion. In particular, this book ...
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(2026)This book considers the challenges faced within criminal justice systems across a range of African jurisdictions, identifying recent efforts at reform, and highlighting instances of best practice. Most African countries ...
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(2026)In this book, published for the first time with Routledge in 2025 and including some previously unpublished papers, the renowned professor of public administration Ladipo Adamolekun argues powerfully that only a devolved ...
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(2024)What if the pollution of the world did not only concern the environment in which we live, but also the flow of our thoughts in every moment of everyday life? What if those thoughts, invasive like locusts, could transform ...
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(2026)Gender and Digital Media: A Critical Companion offers an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the evolving relationship between gender and digital media. Covering topics such as queer and trans communities online, ...
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(2026)From Samurai to Engineer-Manager reconstructs the life and work of the Japanese mining engineer Ōhara Junnosuke in the early decades of Japan’s industrialization. While Japan's political and socio-economic development ...
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(2026)Presenting contemporary case studies of everyday food practices, this book examines food habits and the ways they are evolving or resisting change. The book draws on primary research with families, examining consumer ...
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(2026)This experimental volume explores how intersections between different knowledge systems affect identity formation through names and naming, bringing together anthropologists, community scholars, artists, linguists, scientists, ...
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(2024)Explorando las relaciones intradiscursivas: Un enfoque multidimensional takes a multifaceted approach to provide a complete and integrative analysis of intra-discursive relationships. This edited collection approaches ...
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(2026)This collection critically examines the translation of international queer media and popular culture in China, offering insights into how queer media travels across international borders and interacts with mainstream media ...
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(2017)A Mathematical Introduction to Robotic Manipulation presents a mathematical formulation of the kinematics, dynamics, and control of robot manipulators. It uses an elegant set of mathematical tools that emphasizes the ...
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(2026)Die Dissertation untersucht das Recht auf angemessene Wohnung des UNO-Pakts I und geht der Frage nach, welche staatlichen Kernverpflichtungen sich gegenüber obdachlosen Menschen ergeben. Die Arbeit setzt sich mit den ...
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(2026)Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Published as part of the Creating Safer Space Network that seeks to strengthen civilian capacities for nonviolent protection in conflict-affected areas. This book ...
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(2021)This book approaches metaphor in specialised discourses, covering various fields. The studies presented in the book adopt different research frameworks, ranging from pragmatics to conceptual metaphor theory, among others. ...
