We present an in-the-wild project to design and study a mobile musical soundtrack that enhances the experience of visiting a sculpture park. As with soundtracks for films and games, the goal was to enhance the emotional and narrative aspects of the experience while remaining in the background. We describe a compositional approach in which we first established a broad musical landscape before tr...

Lip contour detection and tracking is the most important pre-requisite for computerized speech reading. Several approaches have been proposed for lip tracking after lip contour is accurately initialized on first frame. Detection and tracking of the lip contour is an issue in speech reading. A relatively large class of lip reading algorithms are available based on lip contour analysis. In these ...

A book on the arts and computational culture, edited by two authors of this paper, is planned for publication in 2024, as a follow-up to previous 2019 museums digital culture. The be structured series parts, each with several contributed chapters. This paper surveys these areas provide landscape view overall ...

In 3D virtual environments and social scenes, virtual characters are not always visible from a front view. Nonverbal expressions of emotions should be designed so as to be properly perceived when viewed from multiple angles. Our platform enables the design of facial expressions including 3D expressive wrinkles and 3D postures. It was used to generate stimuli for studying the impact of front ver...

Understanding viewing patterns of images is important for inferring how bottom-up and top-down information drive vision. However, it is unknown to what extent viewing patterns depend on specific features. Here, we examined subjects’ eye movements during encoding and recognition and asked whether they are feature, view or task specific. During encoding, subjects viewed faces, cars and corridors ...

Primate behavioural and cognitive research is increasingly conducted on direct public view in zoo settings. The potential of such facilities for public engagement with science is often heralded, but evidence of tangible, positive effects on public understanding is rare. Here, the effect of a new zoo-based primate research centre on visitor behaviour, learning and attitudes was assessed using a ...

Protected areas have a primary role in preserving the biodiversity of region and are often valorized as resource tourism. The paper is based on results an empirical study conducted sample 160 respondents. main research goal was to determine opinions attitudes respondents about development rural tourism its impact conservation Lonjsko polje Nature Park (Park). show that 56.9% consider pollution ...

introduction this study is dealt with the environmental planning from a bio-cybernetic and hierarchical systems viewpoint within the context of landscape ecology. this viewpoint requires not only knowledge of the science of ecology but also ecological wisdom in order to recognize the place of humankind in nature. the conceptual and practical approach which is provided will help landscape planne...