In this paper,we investigate the problemof scheduling a 6DOF robotic arm to carry out a sequence of spray painting tasks. The duration of any given painting task is process dependent and fixed, but the duration of an ‘‘intertask’’, corresponding to the process of relocating and reorienting the robot arm from one painting task to the next one, is influenced by the order of tasks andmust be minim...

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 ...

Emotional responses to art have long been subject of debate, but only recently have they started to be investigated in affective science. The aim of this study was to compare perceptions regarding frequency of aesthetic emotions, contributing factors, and motivation which characterize the experiences of looking at painting and listening to music. Parallel surveys were filled in online by partic...

Due to increased government regulations on environment, health, and safety, the cost of on-site bridge painting has quadrupled over the past several years. The construction industry faces a great challenge in how to control the increased costs of bridge painting and meet the regulations at the same time. A possible solution to address this challenge is to develop a robotic bridge painting syste...

Objectives: In present study, we studied the effect of teaching three painting methods (free method, subject selection method and complementary method) on creativity of children with learning disabilities. First, among all disabled students, who refer to Bizhani center for learning disabilities in Arak city, 60 subjects were randomly selected as statistical sample. Thus, the 45 children, divide...

In this paper, we will show how non-photorealistic rendering (NPR) can take a new role in content-based image retrieval (CBIR). We propose a content-based image retrieval method. The novelty is that it is based on the painting representation of images, obtained by Stochastic Paintbrush Transformation (SPT), which automatically simulates a painting process. The painting representation is a strok...

In this paper we develop a method for the restoration of cracks on a painting. First, we detect the local minima (they can be either cracks or painting brush strokes), by using a morphological highpass operator, called top-hat transformation. The crack filling procedure must be applied only on the cracks and not on these dark brush strokes, which are also detected. In order to separate these br...

In this paper we present and evaluate painterly rendering techniques that work within a visual feedback loop of eDavid, our painting robot. The machine aims at simulating the human painting process. Two such methods and their semantics driven combination are compared for different objects. One uses a predefined set of stroke candidates, the other creates strokes directly using line integral con...