Self-Portrait as Critic with Body

Self Portrait of Youth

The mind's self-portrait.

Scientific psychology and neuroscience are taking increasingly precise and comprehensive pictures of the human mind, both in its physical architecture and its functional processes. Meanwhile, each human mind has an abbreviated view of itself, a self-portrait that captures how it thinks it operates, and that therefore has been remarkably influential. The mind's self-portrait has as a central fea...

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 ...

Critic-based Learning of Actions with Self-Organising Feature Maps

In this paper we develop a mechanism for critic-based learning in continuous state and action spaces. Our approach is based on the Motoric Map model [RMS90], by which we wish to overcome the restrictions of traditional Reinforcement Learning methods concerning continuous spaces. Covariance Learning is introduced as algorithm to determine the best possible action for a given state using the crit...

Frida Kahlo (1910–1954). Self-Portrait with Monkey (1938)

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