Due to recent advances in high-quality digital photography, taking a large series of images is very inexpensive. Especially in portrait situations, this results in a possible advantage because subjects often feel uncomfortable during acquisition. Selecting from a larger set of images increases the chance of a more satisfying outcome. However, the selection process is not easy and time consuming...

Abstratct. People with dementia who live in care homes can have very little social interaction. Care staff have limited time to spend with each person and communication difficulties can make it difficult to get to know the person with dementia as a person. This paper presents Portrait a software tool to enable care staff to get to know a person with dementia quickly. An initial usability study ...

In early-nineteenth-century Prussia, quality control of pharmaceuticals was entrusted to government-appointed physicians. In 1817, one such physician, Johann Roloff, became suspicious of a batch of zinc oxide that could be traced back to the factory of Karl Hermann. Roloff’s preliminary tests suggested that the samples contained arsenic, and so Hermann — worried about the reputation of his busi...

We propose a modification of the generalized gradient vector flow field techniques based on multiresolution analysis and phase portrait techniques. The original image is subjected to mutliresolutional analysis to create a sequence of approximation and detail images. The approximations are converted into an edge map and subsequently into a gradient field subjected to the generalized gradient vec...

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Noise has great influence on the signal analysis for centrifugal compressor. In order to eliminate the noise, the iterative singular value decomposition (ISVD) de-noising is applied in this paper. Firstly, the algorithm of this method is introduced. It is based on singular value decomposition about the trajectory matrix of attractor which is reconstructed according to time delay embedding theor...

We propose an automatic image matting method for portrait images. This method does not need user interaction, which was however essential in most previous approaches. In order to accomplish this goal, a new end-to-end convolutional neural network (CNN) based framework is proposed taking the input of a portrait image. It outputs the matte result. Our method considers not only image semantic pred...

Leonardo da Vinci's self-portrait is affected by foxing spots. The portrait has no fungal or bacterial infections in place, but is contaminated with airborne spores and fungal material that could play a role in its disfigurement. The knowledge of the nature of the stains is of great concern because future conservation treatments should be derived from scientific investigations. The lack of reli...

Professional training of translators: modern requirements and trends - candidate's interview
 Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor T.I. Korobeynikova with Doctor Professor,
 Head the Department European Oriental Languages ​​and Translation Higher Educational Institution
 "Alfred Nobel University" by Natalia Viktorivna Zinukova.