Attributes, or semantic features, have gained popularity in the past few years in domains ranging from activity recognition in video to face verification. Improving the accuracy of attribute classifiers is an important first step in any application which uses these attributes. In most works to date, attributes have been considered to be independent. However, we know this not to be the case. Man...

Cosmeceuticals are the advances made within the world of dermatological products and the new beckon in skincare. Cosmeceuticals are topical cosmetic– pharmaceutical hybrids intended to enhance the health and beauty of skin. The concept propounded by Dr. Albert Kligman states that “The Cosmeceuticals are topical agents that are distributed across a broad spectrum of materials lying somewhere bet...

A methodology for achieving brighter, more colorful colors and deeper, darker colors based on Evans’ zero gray ( G0) 1 and his concept of brilliance as a percept in color vision was demonstrated in media produced under current digital video and digital cinema standards – basically the sRGB set of primaries. Objects or surfaces in a scene represented in sRGB as having gray content in the Evans s...

This article examines the work of the Situationists and their leading member, Guy Debord, as it relates to theatre history and the history of the manifesto. The Situationists privileged the writing of manifestos over the production of art works in order to avoid the fate of the historical avant-garde, whose provocative art had been co-opted by the cultural establishment. Despite this pro-manife...