The objective of the present paper is to obtain an accurate classification of the textures, which did not introduce undesired merging and to develop a quick, effective and novel algorithm that should be easy to understand and implement. For this the present study advocates a new statistical method based on edge direction movement for classification of textures on the opening of the image. An ed...

in safavid era, ottoman rulers were interested in science and culture, and there were always iranian physicians, astronomers, scholars, artists and poets in their courts. although there were always wars between most ottoman sultans and the safavid kings, they could not prevent iranian culture from influencing that land. at the same time, artists and scholars went to other countries, including t...

In this paper we present MusicRainbow which is a simple interface for discovering artists where colors encode different types of music. MusicRainbow is based on a new audiobased approach to compute artist similarity. This approach scores 15 percentage points higher in a genre classification task than the similarity computed on track level. Using a traveling salesman algorithm, similar artists a...

Introduction How do creative minds get together and create something new which may not be achieved by a single mind? Creativity often needs collaboration, because people generally have limits on certain type of skills to implement their creative ideas. In the context of the digital art world this type of collaboration might be between artists and artists or artists and technologists. In the wor...

We investigate relations between best selling artists in last decade on phonographic market and from perspective of listeners by using the Social Network Analyzes. Starting network is obtained from the matrix of correlations between the world's best selling artists by considering the synchronous time evolution of weekly record sales. This method reveals the structure of phonographic market, but...