This paper presents a method for automatic annotation of portraits in art image databases and discusses the extraction of semantic information from portraits. The proposed method segments images into candidate regions and fits an ellipse and a bounding box to them. Their extracted features serve as input to a neural network, which is trained to distinguish between face and non-face regions. Pai...

university course timetabling is a complex optimizationproblem. there are many components like departments, faculties, rooms,and students making the problem huge and difficult to solve. eachcomponent enforces a set of normally conflicting constraints on thesolution space. the problem will be solved if courses are scheduled indifferent rooms and within some specific time slots such that a set of...

A social networking service is an online service, platform, or site that focuses on facilitating the building of social networks or social relations among people who, for example, share interests, activities, backgrounds, or reallife connections. A social network service consists of a representation of each user, his/her social links, and a variety of additional services. Most social network se...

The relationship between the activity of painting and performance of stereotyped and other stress-related behaviour was investigated in four captive Asian elephants at Melbourne Zoo, Australia. The activity involved the elephant being instructed to paint on a canvas by its keeper in front of an audience. Painting by elephants in zoos is commonly believed to be a form of enrichment, but this ass...

Alzheimer's disease (AD) causes severe impairments in cognitive function but there is evidence that aspects of esthetic perception are somewhat spared, at least in early stages of the disease. People with early Alzheimer's-related dementia have been found to show similar degrees of stability over time in esthetic judgment of paintings compared to controls, despite poor explicit memory for the i...