In the context of non-photorealistic imaging, such as digital cel animation, lighting is symbolic and stylized to depict the scene’s mood and the geometric or physical features of the objects in the scene. Stylized light and shade should therefore be intentionally animated rather than rigorously simulated. However, it is difficult to achieve smooth animation of light and shade that are stylized...

We examined developmental changes in talker recognition skills by assessing 3-, 4-, and 5-year-old children's recognition of 20 cartoon characters' voices. For each participant, the character set was subdivided into more and less familiar talkers based on the participant's ability to name each character. Four- and 5- year-old children recognized more of the voices (81% and 86%, respectively) th...

Separating an image into cartoon and texture components comes useful in image processing applications such as image compression, image segmentation, image inpainting. Yves Meyer’s influential cartoon texture decomposition model involves deriving an energy functional by choosing appropriate spaces and functionals. Minimizers of the derived energy functional are cartoon and texture components of ...

BACKGROUND Multiple studies have indicated that the Joe Camel advertising campaign has been successful in marketing tobacco to children and adolescents, whereas other studies have reported that current tobacco warning messages are ineffective. OBJECTIVE To determine the importance and believability of familiar and novel tobacco warning messages with and without cartoons that were modeled afte...

BACKGROUND With more than two billion people infected worldwide, soil-transmitted helminths (STH) are the most widespread infections. To date, STH control efforts rely predominantly on recurrent mass drug administration (MDA), which does not prevent reinfection. Additional public health measures including novel health educational tools are required for more sustained integrated control of STH. ...

This study aims to analyze the effectiveness of watching cartoon videos on pain levels in school children during invasive procedures. The method used is a systematic review by searching for articles Scopus, ProQuest, EBSCOhost, ScienceDirect, Embase, ClinicalKey, Wiley Online and Google Scholar databases. results showed that there were several themes obtained from literature study, including: 1...

We examined if external cues such as other agents' actions can influence the choice of language during voluntary and cued object naming in bilinguals in three experiments. Hindi-English bilinguals first saw a cartoon waving at a color patch. They were then asked to either name a picture in the language of their choice (voluntary block) or to name in the instructed language (cued block). The col...

Using a sample of 43 7-8-year-olds and their parents, we examined the extent to which children’s judgments about food products are influenced by the same factors as their parents. The factors manipulated were brand name familiarity, healthiness of product, and use of licensed cartoon characters (children) or celebrity endorsers (parents). Brand name familiarity was a more important factor than ...

We present a new approach for classifying mpeg-2 video sequences as ‘cartoon’ or ‘non-cartoon’ by analyzing specific video and audio features of consecutive frames in real-time. This is part of the well-known video-genreclassification problem, where popular TV-broadcast genres like cartoon, commercial, music, news and sports are studied. Such applications have also been discussed in the context...

We propose a new model for image decomposition which separates an image into a cartoon, consisting only of geometric objects, and an oscillatory component, consisting of textures and noise. The model is given in a variational formulation with adaptive regularization norms for both the cartoon and texture part. The energy for the cartoon interpolates between total variation regularization and is...