Portrait : Asyeh Ghafourian

Portrait

Born in 1944, I grew up in a world in which polio was both a gripping fear and real threat. Then in a matter of a few years-polio was eradicated by a vaccine developed by Jonas Salk. Later I learned that Salk's efforts were built on pioneering work of many others, including John Enders, Thomas Weller and Frederick Robbins (Nobelists, 1954), and David Bodian, who pioneered studies of polio patho...

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Exemplar-Based Portrait Photograph Enhancement as Informed by Portrait Paintings

This paper proposes an approach to enhance the regional contrasts in snap-shot style portrait photographs by using pre-modern portrait paintings as aesthetic exemplars. The example portrait painting is selected based on a comparison of the existing contrast properties of the painting and the photograph. The contrast organization in the selected example painting is transferred to the photograph ...

Self Portrait of Youth

Qualitative Portrait Classification

Due to recent advances in high-quality digital photography, taking a large series of images is very inexpensive. Especially in portrait situations, this results in a possible advantage because subjects often feel uncomfortable during acquisition. Selecting from a larger set of images increases the chance of a more satisfying outcome. However, the selection process is not easy and time consuming...