Guest editors' introduction: Perception, Aesthetics, and Emotion in Multimedia Quality Modeling

Guest Editorial: Challenges and Perspectives for Affective Analysis in Multimedia

THERE has been an increasing interest in the research on multimedia indexing and retrieval based on subjective concepts, such as emotion, preference and aesthetics. The research efforts in this direction are considered human-centered and beyond the conventional keywordor (semantic) object-based multimedia analysis paradigm [1]. In addition, the problems addressed by these efforts are considered...

Guest Editor\'s Note

Although Occupational Therapy in Iran is relatively a new profession, it has been well progressed, providing various services for people with all kinds of disabilities. As such, in the last decades, OT has been recognized as the major demand in all governmental, private and NGO sectors. Due to this demand, occupational therapy training programs have been increased from three into ten, expecting...

Multimedia Technology for E-Learning Guest Editors:

The Introduction of “Aesthetics” in Baumgarten’s Meditationes and Its Background

In his Meditationes philosophicae de nonnullis ad poema pertinentibus Baumgarten famously called for Aesthetics, which he considered a branch of knowledge of the clear but confused perceptions that could not be reduced to any other kind of more distinct knowledge. This took place in a context of both Leibnizian-Wolffian Rationalism and Pietism. Regarding the first, Baumgarten used Leibniz’s tax...

Computational and Experimental Approaches to Visual Aesthetics

Aesthetics has been the subject of long-standing debates by philosophers and psychologists alike. In psychology, it is generally agreed that aesthetic experience results from an interaction between perception, cognition, and emotion. By experimental means, this triad has been studied in the field of experimental aesthetics, which aims to gain a better understanding of how aesthetic experience r...