Bluestockings Displayed: Portraiture, Performance and Patronage, 1730–1830 ed. by Elizabeth Eger

Data Portraiture and Topic Models

The art world uses the tradition of portraiture to semantically compress relevant information about their subjects into a single art work. We believe this tradition can be extended into the digital realm by the use of topic modeling to compress individuals’ information into generative data portraits. Data portraiture has strong implications for navigating large social spaces, collaborative syst...

Example-based Automatic Portraiture

In this paper, we present an example-based approach for automatically generating a life-like portrait from a frontal face image. Based on an inhomogeneous Markov Random Field Model, an inhomogeneous non-parametric sampling scheme is used to capture the complex statistical characteristics of face image and corresponding portrait. In our approach, only those pixels corresponding to a portrait poi...

Crossroads : Performance Studies and Irish Culture ed . by Sara

Roman Portraiture and biometric identification

Damian Schofield Human Computer Interaction Dept. of Computer Science State University of New York [email protected] Katharina Lorenz Digital Humanities Centre Dept. of Classics University of Nottingham [email protected] Stephanie Davy-Jow Morsani College of Medicine Dept. of Radiology University of South Florida Matthew Anderson Human Computer Interaction Dept. of Compute...

Optimal Patronage∗

We study the design of promotions in an organization where agents belong to groups that advance their cause. Examples and applications include political groups, ethnicities, agents motivated by the work in the public sector and corruption. In an overlapping generations model, juniors compete for promotions. Seniors have two kinds of discretion: direct discretion which allows an immediate advanc...