silhouette
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- noun
- /ˌsɪl.əˈwɛt/
- Specialized
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silueta
- The silhouettes build a 3-D object, and the object's activity is analyzed by system software.
- choose a silhouette
- depict silhouettes
- female silhouettes
Examples
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Similarly, the percentage who chose one of these silhouettes as best depicting the healthy male/female body was approximately 85%.
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Table 1 shows, for each city and gender, the distribution of choices among these 3 silhouettes and all others.
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And we have so-called generic silhouette set that goes with the system.
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Approximately 50% of the male and female adolescents chose silhouette #3 as best depicting the attractive male body.
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The system preserves privacy by extracting silhouettes acquired from multiple cameras viewing the same scene.
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The software analyzes the silhouette of the object to improve its recognition accuracy.
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Using silhouettes from various angles, the program successfully identifies the pose of the dancer.
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The algorithm relies on the silhouette to distinguish between different shapes in the image.
Synonyms
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The visible form of a thing or person
How Precise
Surface Forms
Etymology
Silhouette comes from the French name Étienne de Silhouette, whose cheap outline portraits looked like simple cut-outs, and the word kept that idea of a clear shape. In image work a silhouette is like a 'mask' or 'outline' that shows only the object's 'shape', which makes it easy for a computer to see the form.