Scientific psychology and neuroscience are taking increasingly precise and comprehensive pictures of the human mind, both in its physical architecture and its functional processes. Meanwhile, each human mind has an abbreviated view of itself, a self-portrait that captures how it thinks it operates, and that therefore has been remarkably influential. The mind's self-portrait has as a central fea...

This paper proposes an approach to enhance the regional contrasts in snap-shot style portrait photographs by using pre-modern portrait paintings as aesthetic exemplars. The example portrait painting is selected based on a comparison of the existing contrast properties of the painting and the photograph. The contrast organization in the selected example painting is transferred to the photograph ...

This chapter presents an overview of the latest artistic portrait rendering techniques. Artistic rendering or portraits can be viewed as an image generating process controlled by two factors. The first one is the face fidelity, namely, a rendered portrait image should preserve a certain amount of the original face’s information. The second factor is the artistic style, for example, sketch, pain...

adaption of metaphor and allusion has been always considered as the most valuable literary representations and seved as an appropriate device for benchmarking versification potential in poets. as one of shiite poets, seyed hemyari who has devoted his verse for defense from al-ul-bayt (pbut) has benefitted successfully from rhetoric images in this field. despite of its simplicity and plainness i...

Polygonal hybrid systems (SPDI) are a subclass of planar hybrid automata which can be represented by piecewise constant differential inclusions. The reachability problem as well as the computation of certain objects of the phase portrait, namely the viability, controllability and invariance kernels, for such systems is decidable. In this paper we show how to compute another object of an SPDI ph...

Taking a portrait picture is frequently an uncomfortable task for the photographed person, and the resulting shots are in many cases unnatural and unsatisfactory. A common solution is to take a large number of pictures and then select the favorite ones. Instead of a manual selection, an automatic selection of good portraits from a captured video sequence can increase the chances to obtain a ple...

Biometric person recognition for secure access to restricted data/services using PC with internet connection. To study, an application PC to be used as a biometric capturing device that captures the video and recognition can be performed during a standard web session. The main contribution of this novel proposal is, making comparison of portrait. Centroid context algorithm is used for selecting...

Despite his fame as a physician and social reformer, relatively few portraits of Thomas Hodgkin, MD (1798-1866), have been published. Two oil paintings, identified by the Hodgkin family as their forebear, have been a puzzle.' The faces are remarkably dissimilar. One portrait hangs in the Gordon Museum at Guy's Hospital Medical School, its artist heretofore unknown (plate 1). It shows Dr Hodgkin...