Eliza Orzeszkowa – Enthusiast of Physiognomic Portraits (Part I)

Eliza Googles For Knowledge

The Eliza [1] program relies on having a rich backing script to generate responses based on matches with words the user types. If it were to have a script the size and complexity of Google, it might be able to pass as a live human. If the user’s entry contains no matching words in the script, the program could use the resources of Google to generate something new and appropriate. The introducti...

Portraits of Buddhist Women

Part] I I

Adiabatic quantum computation: Enthusiast and Sceptic's perspectives

Enthusiast’s perspective: We analyze the effectiveness of AQC for a small rank problem Hamiltonian HF with the arbitrary initial Hamiltonian HI . We prove that for the generic HI the running time cannot be smaller than O( √ N), where N is a dimension of the Hilbert space. We also construct an explicit HI for which the running time is indeed O( √ N). Our algorithm can be used to solve the unstru...

Artistic Rendering of Portraits

This chapter presents an overview of the latest artistic portrait rendering techniques. Artistic rendering or portraits can be viewed as an image generating process controlled by two factors. The first one is the face fidelity, namely, a rendered portrait image should preserve a certain amount of the original face’s information. The second factor is the artistic style, for example, sketch, pain...