G Doré, born in Strasbourg, France, in 1832, was one of the most prodigious artists of the 19th century. According to Dan Malan, one of his biographers, his nearly 10,000 engravings and 3,000 book editions made him the most prolific and popular illustrator of all time. Doré also produced around 400 oil paintings as well as watercolor landscapes, mixed media sketches, and sculptures. According t...

Natural stone is an important component of historical heritage (buildings and art objects such as sculptures or rock engravings), it still widely used in contemporary works. Soluble salts are the main erosive agent built environment, we review here comparative studies that subject same type to testing with different salt solutions. The results mostly support accepted notion major impact sodium ...

This paper deals with reflections that arose after observing prehistoric rock engravings at different locations in Namibia. These observations stimulated comparative considerations focus on southern Africa and central Europe. Similar to the Aurignacian art of European origin, most common motifs Namibian are large animals. While Europe, species served as a blueprint for illustration have mostly ...

This article presents a novel system called MARINA for reconstructing 3D architectural models from 2D images. MARINA relies on Projective Geometry and Grassman-Cayley Algebra to perform the 3D reconstruction in a formal way through geometrical reasoning. MARINA follows a user-centered process, allowing users to draw points and lines over images (photographs, hand sketches or engravings) and spe...

The Intermediate Bronze Age (IB) in the Southern Levant (ca. 2350-2000 BCE) is known as the "Dark Ages," following the collapse of Early Bronze urban society and predating the establishment of the Middle Bronze cities. The absence of significant settlements and monumental building has led to the reconstruction of IB social organization as that of nomadic, tribal society inhabiting rural village...

A hierarchical framework is proposed to address the issues of modeling different type of words in keyword spotting (KWS). Keyword models are built at various levels according to the availability of training set resources for each individual word. The proposed approach improves the performance of KWS even when no training speech is available for the keywords. It also suggests an easier way to co...

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