Night Raindrops (Original Mix)
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Unlike most of Fagen's previous work, The Nightfly is almost blatantly autobiographical. Many of the songs relate to the cautiously optimistic mood of his suburban childhood in the late 1950s and early 1960s and incorporate such topics as late-night jazz disc jockeys, fallout shelters, and tropical vacations. Recorded over eight months at various studios between New York City and Los Angeles, the album is an early example of a fully digital recording in popular music. The nascent technology, as well as the perfectionist nature of its engineers and musicians, made the album difficult to record.
Donald Fagen, born in Passaic, New Jersey, in 1948, grew up with an affinity for music. As a kid, he enjoyed listening to rock and roll pioneers Chuck Berry and Fats Domino, but personally felt that, as rock music gained popularity, it lost an edge. Fagen, a \"lonely\" kid, then turned to late-night jazz radio shows for the vitality he felt the new music lacked.[3] As he got older, he intended to go to graduate school and pursue literature. Instead, he was \"swept up\" into the counterculture at Bard College,[4] where he met Walter Becker. They later moved to Los Angeles at the suggestion of their friend Gary Katz and took jobs as staff writers for ABC Records.[5] Together, they formed Steely Dan, releasing their first album, Can't Buy a Thrill, in 1972. Over the course of the decade, the group became enormously successful on the strength of the albums Countdown to Ecstasy (1973), Pretzel Logic (1974), Katy Lied (1975), The Royal Scam (1976), and Aja (1977), the band's best-selling effort and a critical favorite. They gradually shifted from performing live to working solely in the studio, making the project a revolving selection of session musicians at the behest of Fagen and Becker.[6]
Larry Carlton performs lead guitar on much of the album and recorded his pieces in four days. During his time with the group, he discovered a humming sound coming from his amplifier. The engineers discovered the source on the outside of the building: a large magnet \"that formed part of the New York subway system.\"[22] In one instance, a strange smell permeated the studio space at Soundworks. The studio staff \"gutted\" the studio, removing its air conditioning, carpeting, and recording console until they discovered the cause of the smell: a deceased rat in a drainpipe.[23] Sessions regularly stretched long into the evening; Fagen would often refer to this as \"being on the night train.\"[24] In the end, the album took eight months to record and was mixed in 10 days.[17]
\"New Frontier\" follows a \"gawky teenager\" inviting a girl back to his family's backyard fallout shelter for a private gathering.[4][29] \"The Nightfly\", the title song, was once described by American novelist Arthur Phillips as a \"portrait of a late-night D.J. in Baton Rouge, taking lunatic phone calls from listeners while silently battling his own loneliness and regret.\"[30] According to Fagen, the song \"uses a lot of images from the blues: that hair formula gets its name from Charley Patton, the old delta blues guitarist, and Mount Belzoni gets its name from another old blues lyric: 'When the trial's in Belzoni/No need to scream and cry.'\"[19] \"The Goodbye Look\" alludes to the popularity of bossa nova in the 1960s.[9] The song is a \"tale of military upheaval on a Caribbean island.\"[31] The last song, \"Walk Between Raindrops\", has origins in a Jewish folk tale. It was the last song to be recorded, and took form \"almost as an afterthought,\" according to writer Sweet.[19]
This survey paper describes another form of rain, adherent raindrops on the windshield. Due to their irregular shapes, closeness to image sensors, and long temporal presence in captured image frames, adherent raindrop detection and removal problem is relatively harder than that of rain streaks detection and removal [11,12]. Raindrops in these two forms share some common characteristics, such as refraction properties of a raindrop, higher intensity of the drop compared to the background, and average raindrop size. Other characteristics such as raindrop shape and persistence in an image sequence are quite different, which makes models developed for falling raindrops detection and replacement not applicable for adherent raindrops on windshields.
Experimental results showed that it was possible to estimate Bézier curve parameters and model raindrops accurately, just by knowing the raindrop diameter (could be estimated from the SURF algorithm) and the inclination angle of the plate (windshield). The accuracy of the proposed raindrop model was compared to the state of the art, represented in a two-dimensional cut of sphere section, and reductions of up to three orders of magnitude were observed in the Bézier curve-based algorithm as compared to the spherical model.
where N is the number of all estimates, I, σI are the average and standard deviation of pixel intensities of observed values, I^, σI^ are average and standard deviation of pixel intensities of estimated values. MaxCorr value was defined as the maximum CC in a small ROI around the estimated raindrop. Results of artificial pattern and drive scene showed good visual similarity between real and modeled raindrop. Maxcorr results were also good but CC results were low. Halimeh and Roser attributed this to the raindrop lens effect and blurriness of raindrop appearance, due to camera focus near infinity. In terms of raindrop detection, the lower performance was attributed to inaccuracies in the initial localization of candidate raindrops, using the SURF algorithm. Further experiments showed that matching the constructed environment within a small ROI, raindrop positions converge to the optimum, and CC values converge to MaxCorr values as well.
As shown in Figure 23a, the Detection network consists of 5 convolution layers and 6 residual blocks. All convolutional layers are followed by batch normalization (BN) and ReLU. This setup was inspired by the I-CNN structure that was proposed by Fan et al. [57], for general reflection removal and smoothing of images. The output of this network is a binary mask of the raindrops in the image, which is then dilated to reduce the number of raindrops in the mask and improve recall in later steps. Cross-entropy is used as the loss function which could be given by:
The ability to detect the \"shift in the phase\" of the pulse of energy makes NEXRAD a Doppler radar. The phase of the returning signal typically changes based upon the motion of the raindrops (or bugs, dust, etc.). This Doppler effect was named after the Austrian physicist, Christian Doppler, who discovered it. You have most likely experienced the \"Doppler effect\" around trains.
Bird Roost Rings. These are most common in the fall around bodies of water that typically have temperatures warmer than the surrounding land at night. It is also the time birds are gathering for the seasonal migration. At night, birds rest/nest in and around the lakes. Just before sunrise, there is often a coordinated lift off and dispersion of the birds out into the surrounding fields for feeding during the day. Click on the image to the left for a quick animation of the bird rings.
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