Haar
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There are several meanings of Haar:
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- Haar (fog)Haar (fog)In meteorology, haar is a coastal fog along certain lands bordering the North Sea; the term is primarily but not only, applied in eastern Scotland. Research has shown that haar is typically formed over the sea and is brought to land by wind advection....
, a Scottish word for the fog or sea mist - HairHairHair is a filamentous biomaterial, that grows from follicles found in the dermis. Found exclusively in mammals, hair is one of the defining characteristics of the mammalian class....
in the German and Dutch languages
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- Haar, BavariaHaar, BavariaHaar is a municipality in the district of Munich, in Bavaria, Germany. It is 12 km east of Munich . As of 2005 it has a population of some 20'000.It is home to the Haar Disciples, a team in the first division of German's Baseball Bundesliga....
, a municipality near Munich, Germany - Haar (Westphalia)Haar (Westphalia)The Haar or Haarstrang is a ridge of hills on the southern edge of the Westphalian Basin in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. From a natural region perspective it is the southern, submontane part of the Hellweg Börde, which stands opposite the northern area of the Süderbergland , north...
, a hill range in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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- Alfréd HaarAlfréd HaarAlfréd Haar was a Jewish Hungarian mathematician. In 1904 he began to study at the University of Göttingen. His doctorate was supervised by David Hilbert. The Haar measure, Haar wavelet, and Haar transform are named in his honor....
(1885 – 1933), a Hungarian mathematician- Haar waveletHaar waveletIn mathematics, the Haar wavelet is a certain sequence of rescaled "square-shaped" functions which together form a wavelet family or basis. Wavelet analysis is similar to Fourier analysis in that it allows a target function over an interval to be represented in terms of an orthonormal function basis...
, the first wavelet - Haar measureHaar measureIn mathematical analysis, the Haar measure is a way to assign an "invariant volume" to subsets of locally compact topological groups and subsequently define an integral for functions on those groups....
, a set-theoretic measure - Haar-like featuresHaar-like featuresHaar-like features are digital image features used in object recognition. They owe their name to their intuitive similarity with Haar wavelets and were used in the first real-time face detector....
, a technique in computer vision
- Haar wavelet