We present a theory of how individuals compose their reflected best-self portrait, which we define as a changing self-knowledge structure about who one is at one’s best. We posit that people compose their reflected best-self portrait through social experiences that draw on intrapsychic and interpersonal resources. By weaving together microlevel theories of personal change and macrolevel theorie...

Sketch portrait generation is of wide applications including digital entertainment and law enforcement. Despite the great progress achieved by existing face sketch generation methods, they mostly yield blurred effects and great deformation over various facial parts. In order to tackle this challenge, we propose a novel composition-aided generative adversarial network (CA-GAN) for sketch portrai...

We in this paper solve the problem of high-quality automatic real-time background cut for 720p portrait videos. We first handle the background ambiguity issue in semantic segmentation by proposing a global background attenuation model. A spatial-temporal refinement network is developed to further refine the segmentation errors in each frame and ensure temporal coherence in the segmentation map....

INTODUCTION IN JANUARY 1967 there started the campaign organized by W.H.O. to eradicate smallpox totally. This campaign could not have hoped to succeed without a safe, effective vaccine. Although Edward Jenner probably did not "discover" vaccination, he is usually (and properly) given credit for testing the method and bringing it before the public. Inevitably many engraved portraits of Jenner w...

â â â â â  graphic description: â  the mystery of ibn khafaja's success in description â  â ali bagher taheriniya * â javad ranjbar ** â  â  â abstractâ ibn khafaja is one of the poets and men of letters in spain. he is titled to sanobari of spain. he is one of the masters of description. hence, the analysis of successful techniques he has used in the descriptive art could illuminate the w...