{"results":[{"id":"doaj_10.7717/peerj-cs.3621","title":"Understanding older adults’ continuance intention toward smart locks: a socio-technical study based on the Expectation-Confirmation Model of Information Systems and Task-Technology Fit Model","authors":[{"name":"Yuan Wang"},{"name":"Norazmawati Md Sani"},{"name":"Jing Cai"},{"name":"Pei Lu"},{"name":"Lixin Wang"},{"name":"Yinhong Hua"}],"abstract":"Background As aging populations continue to grow, smart home technologies—such as smart locks—have become increasingly essential to support older adults’ independent living. Long-term use remains a challenge, however, with most studies focusing on initial adoption rather than sustained engagement. Methods In this study, we examined the key factors related to older adults’ continuance intention toward smart locks, applying a socio-technical framework that integrated the Expectation-Confirmation Model of Information Systems (ECM-IS), the Task-Technology Fit (TTF) model, and external variables, including privacy and security, trust, and habit. We analyzed survey data from 422 Chinese participants aged 55 and older using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) and Importance-Performance Matrix Analysis (IPMA). Results The model explained 71.6% of the variance in continuance intention (R2 = 0.716) and showed strong predictive relevance (Q2 = 0.623). Trust and perceived usefulness were positively related to continuance intention, followed by satisfaction. Task-technology fit and confirmation were significantly associated with perceived usefulness and satisfaction. Habit and privacy and security were not significant with respect to continuance intention. Conclusions These findings provide theoretical and practical insight for designing age-inclusive, trust-enhancing smart locks that better support older adults’ needs in post-adoption contexts.","source":"DOAJ","year":2026,"language":"","subjects":["Electronic computers. Computer science"],"doi":"10.7717/peerj-cs.3621","url":"https://peerj.com/articles/cs-3621/","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"","score":70},{"id":"arxiv_2603.05834","title":"Architectural Unification for Polarimetric Imaging Across Multiple Degradations","authors":[{"name":"Chu Zhou"},{"name":"Yufei Han"},{"name":"Junda Liao"},{"name":"Linrui Dai"},{"name":"Wangze Xu"},{"name":"Art Subpa-Asa"},{"name":"Heng Guo"},{"name":"Boxin Shi"},{"name":"Imari Sato"}],"abstract":"Polarimetric imaging aims to recover polarimetric parameters, including Total Intensity (TI), Degree of Polarization (DoP), and Angle of Polarization (AoP), from captured polarized measurements. In real-world scenarios, these measurements are frequently affected by diverse degradations such as low-light noise, motion blur, and mosaicing artifacts. Due to the nonlinear dependency of DoP and AoP on the measured intensities, accurately retrieving physically consistent polarimetric parameters from degraded observations remains highly challenging. Existing approaches typically adopt task-specific network architectures tailored to individual degradation types, limiting their adaptability across different restoration scenarios. Moreover, many methods rely on multi-stage processing pipelines that suffer from error accumulation, or operate solely in a single domain (either image or Stokes domain), failing to fully exploit the intrinsic physical relationships between them. In this work, we propose a unified architectural framework for polarimetric imaging that is structurally shared across multiple degradation scenarios. Rather than redesigning network structures for each task, our framework maintains a consistent architectural design while being trained separately for different degradations. The model performs single-stage joint image-Stokes processing, avoiding error accumulation and explicitly preserving physical consistency. Extensive experiments show that this unified architectural design, when trained for specific degradation types, consistently achieves state-of-the-art performance across low-light denoising, motion deblurring, and demosaicing tasks, establishing a versatile and physically grounded solution for degraded polarimetric imaging.","source":"arXiv","year":2026,"language":"en","subjects":["eess.IV","cs.CV"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.05834","pdf_url":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.05834","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"2026-03-06T02:38:57Z","score":70},{"id":"arxiv_2602.19769","title":"Incidental Reverberations: Poetic Similarities in AI Art","authors":[{"name":"Dejan Grba"}],"abstract":"Contemporary AI art's diverse and widely recognized repertoire features numerous artworks that share conceptual, thematic, narrative, procedural, or presentational properties with other artworks across disciplinary and historical spectrums. AI artists occasionally leverage well-sanctioned poetic referencing as an asset but when obvious or easily discoverable similarities remain unacknowledged, they may become liabilities. Lurking behind the hype waves in the media, art world, and academia, these liabilities shape contemporary AI art's cultural identity and affect its social impact. As part of a broader study of poetic contingencies, in this paper I discuss selected AI art exemplars whose multifaceted expressive parallels are symptomatic of the field and beyond. I argue that expressive similarities in AI art are as detrimental to its cultural value as they are avoidable in its variety of important topics addressable with a wide range of creative affordances. My critique takes the well-informed autonomy of expression and the socially responsible freedom of creative thinking as the tenets of artmaking to indicate some of AI art's related issues and challenges induced by its entanglements with AI science, technology, and industry. In conclusion, I suggest that poetic similarities open a valuable perspective for studying AI art's strengths and deficiencies and for articulating a broader critical discussion of art and creativity.","source":"arXiv","year":2026,"language":"en","subjects":["cs.CY"],"doi":"10.48431/hsah.0305","url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.19769","pdf_url":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.19769","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"2026-02-23T12:19:37Z","score":70},{"id":"doaj_10.1016/j.eng.2024.10.021","title":"LearningEMS: A Unified Framework and Open-Source Benchmark for Learning-Based Energy Management of Electric Vehicles","authors":[{"name":"Yong Wang"},{"name":"Hongwen He"},{"name":"Yuankai Wu"},{"name":"Pei Wang"},{"name":"Haoyu Wang"},{"name":"Renzong Lian"},{"name":"Jingda Wu"},{"name":"Qin Li"},{"name":"Xiangfei Meng"},{"name":"Yingjuan Tang"},{"name":"Fengchun Sun"},{"name":"Amir Khajepour"}],"abstract":"An effective energy management strategy (EMS) is essential to optimize the energy efficiency of electric vehicles (EVs). With the advent of advanced machine learning techniques, the focus on developing sophisticated EMS for EVs is increasing. Here, we introduce LearningEMS: a unified framework and open-source benchmark designed to facilitate rapid development and assessment of EMS. LearningEMS is distinguished by its ability to support a variety of EV configurations, including hybrid EVs, fuel cell EVs, and plug-in EVs, offering a general platform for the development of EMS. The framework enables detailed comparisons of several EMS algorithms, encompassing imitation learning, deep reinforcement learning (RL), offline RL, model predictive control, and dynamic programming. We rigorously evaluated these algorithms across multiple perspectives: energy efficiency, consistency, adaptability, and practicability. Furthermore, we discuss state, reward, and action settings for RL in EV energy management, introduce a policy extraction and reconstruction method for learning-based EMS deployment, and conduct hardware-in-the-loop experiments. In summary, we offer a unified and comprehensive framework that comes with three distinct EV platforms, over 10  000 km of EMS policy data set, ten state-of-the-art algorithms, and over 160 benchmark tasks, along with three learning libraries. Its flexible design allows easy expansion for additional tasks and applications. The open-source algorithms, models, data sets, and deployment processes foster additional research and innovation in EV and broader engineering domains.","source":"DOAJ","year":2025,"language":"","subjects":["Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)"],"doi":"10.1016/j.eng.2024.10.021","url":"http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095809924007136","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"","score":69},{"id":"doaj_10.3390/rel16101260","title":"Turks in the \u003ci\u003eTeleri\u003c/i\u003e? Interpreting Earrings, Stripes, and Veils in Carpaccio’s Narrative Cycles","authors":[{"name":"Clare Wilde"}],"abstract":"The first monographic exhibition dedicated to Vittore Carpaccio (ca. 1460–1525) in the US, and the first outside of Italy, was hosted at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, from 20 Nov 2022 to 23 February 2023 (from where it went to Venice). Building on the research of art historians and experts on Venice and the larger Mediterranean region in the early modern period, this paper examines Carpaccio’s depiction of various “Turks” in some of the large narrative painting cycles (\u003ci\u003eteleri\u003c/i\u003e) commissioned by the devotional confraternities (\u003ci\u003escuole\u003c/i\u003e) in Renaissance Venice. While Carpaccio’s and the larger Venetian familiarity with Islam, including Turks, has been studied, this paper compares various female figures in the St. Stephen cycle with those in his St. George cycle, situating them in the larger historical context of the commissioning \u003ci\u003escuole\u003c/i\u003e (Scuola di Santo Stefano and Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni, respectively). While attempting to uncover the significance, if not the identities, of a few individuals who stand out from the crowd, this paper urges caution when attempting to discern social history from a painting, much as we take literary texts (particularly those written well before our own times) with a grain of salt.","source":"DOAJ","year":2025,"language":"","subjects":["Religions. Mythology. Rationalism"],"doi":"10.3390/rel16101260","url":"https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/16/10/1260","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"","score":69},{"id":"doaj_10.35560/jcofarts1693","title":"The Directorial Practices of Participation in Contemporary Theatrical Performance","authors":[{"name":"Saif Qusay Yass"},{"name":"Farhan Omran Musa "}],"abstract":"\nThe twentieth century has produced most of the concepts in constructive criticism of scientific, philosophical and artistic experiences that came under the name of post-modernism, and the term (participation in the theatrical presentation) is one of the modern terms that came from the experiences of directors who rebelled against the realistic trend in art, including (Brecht, Artaud and many others), and through the research, the researcher concluded that participation, although it is a modern term, has deep roots in theatrical experiences throughout the historical ages since the time of the Greeks until now, and that post-modern directors tried to reach through making approaches with some historical experiences and theatrical philosophy for their directing style for the participatory theatrical presentation, and as a result, the researcher took in the theoretical framework the first topic (the space of the participatory presentation of the theater throughout the ages) and the second topic (the directorial works of the participation of the most prominent theatrical directors), and in the third procedural chapter he took the work of a multinational group (Belgian - Turkish ) With a presentation entitled (Gilgamesh) in which the director employed the participatory method and communicative interaction in terms of the spatial environment and the role of the recipient in the theatrical performance, and after that I reached the most prominent results and conclusions that had a positive effect in the participatory work of the theatrical performance .                               \n","source":"DOAJ","year":2025,"language":"","subjects":["Fine Arts"],"doi":"10.35560/jcofarts1693","url":"https://jcofarts.uobaghdad.edu.iq/index.php/jcofarts/article/view/1693","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"","score":69},{"id":"doaj_10.1016/j.sheji.2025.04.001","title":"The Design Sensibility Approach: A Case Study in Making, Sensing, and Sense-Making of Speculative Household Energy Designs","authors":[{"name":"Martin Åhlén"},{"name":"Suzanna Törnroth"},{"name":"Åsa Wikberg-Nilsson"}],"abstract":"This article introduces the Design Sensibility Approach—a sensorial and embodied process for making sense of possible futures. The approach is applied through a case study on speculative energy design in the home, conducted and adapted within a participatory workshop held at a regional art hall in Northern Sweden. It unfolds in four phases—Imagine, Make, Explore, and Reflect—across a broader timeline comprising pre-workshop, active workshop, and post-workshop stages. During the workshop, participants were invited to engage with their senses through a series of activities designed to prompt reflection on their own future energy imaginaries, which they materialized using a MakeTools kit. The results reveal three themes: emotional responses elicited from embodied experiences with energy; energy as a lifestyle; and critique of the political landscape surrounding resource extractivism in Northern Sweden. These findings inform the research question: How might the human senses be leveraged to create stronger emotional connections with future domestic energy products and systems? The article concludes by proposing concrete applications of the Design Sensibility Approach at individual, community, and governance levels, highlighting its ethical and inclusive dimensions as areas for future development.","source":"DOAJ","year":2025,"language":"","subjects":["Technology (General)","Economics as a science"],"doi":"10.1016/j.sheji.2025.04.001","url":"http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240587262500022X","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"","score":69},{"id":"arxiv_2512.14671","title":"ART: Articulated Reconstruction Transformer","authors":[{"name":"Zizhang Li"},{"name":"Cheng Zhang"},{"name":"Zhengqin Li"},{"name":"Henry Howard-Jenkins"},{"name":"Zhaoyang Lv"},{"name":"Chen Geng"},{"name":"Jiajun Wu"},{"name":"Richard Newcombe"},{"name":"Jakob Engel"},{"name":"Zhao Dong"}],"abstract":"We introduce ART, Articulated Reconstruction Transformer -- a category-agnostic, feed-forward model that reconstructs complete 3D articulated objects from only sparse, multi-state RGB images. Previous methods for articulated object reconstruction either rely on slow optimization with fragile cross-state correspondences or use feed-forward models limited to specific object categories. In contrast, ART treats articulated objects as assemblies of rigid parts, formulating reconstruction as part-based prediction. Our newly designed transformer architecture maps sparse image inputs to a set of learnable part slots, from which ART jointly decodes unified representations for individual parts, including their 3D geometry, texture, and explicit articulation parameters. The resulting reconstructions are physically interpretable and readily exportable for simulation. Trained on a large-scale, diverse dataset with per-part supervision, and evaluated across diverse benchmarks, ART achieves significant improvements over existing baselines and establishes a new state of the art for articulated object reconstruction from image inputs.","source":"arXiv","year":2025,"language":"en","subjects":["cs.CV"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.14671","pdf_url":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.14671","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"2025-12-16T18:35:23Z","score":69},{"id":"arxiv_2503.16442","title":"Situational Agency: The Framework for Designing Behavior in Agent-based art","authors":[{"name":"Ary-Yue Huang"},{"name":"Varvara Guljajeva"}],"abstract":"In the context of artificial life art and agent-based art, this paper draws on Simon Penny's {\\itshape Aesthetic of Behavior} theory and Sofian Audry's discussions on behavior computation to examine how artists design agent behaviors and the ensuing aesthetic experiences. We advocate for integrating the environment in which agents operate as the context for behavioral design, positing that the environment emerges through continuous interactions among agents, audiences, and other entities, forming an evolving network of meanings generated by these interactions. Artists create contexts by deploying and guiding these computational systems, audience participation, and agent behaviors through artist strategies. This framework is developed by analysing two categories of agent-based artworks, exploring the intersection of computational systems, audience participation, and artistic strategies in creating aesthetic experiences. This paper seeks to provide a contextual foundation and framework for designing agents' behaviors by conducting a comparative study focused on behavioural design strategies by the artists.","source":"arXiv","year":2025,"language":"en","subjects":["cs.HC","cs.AI","cs.CY"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.16442","pdf_url":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.16442","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"2025-02-14T10:14:09Z","score":69},{"id":"arxiv_2502.18364","title":"ART: Anonymous Region Transformer for Variable Multi-Layer Transparent Image Generation","authors":[{"name":"Yifan Pu"},{"name":"Yiming Zhao"},{"name":"Zhicong Tang"},{"name":"Ruihong Yin"},{"name":"Haoxing Ye"},{"name":"Yuhui Yuan"},{"name":"Dong Chen"},{"name":"Jianmin Bao"},{"name":"Sirui Zhang"},{"name":"Yanbin Wang"},{"name":"Lin Liang"},{"name":"Lijuan Wang"},{"name":"Ji Li"},{"name":"Xiu Li"},{"name":"Zhouhui Lian"},{"name":"Gao Huang"},{"name":"Baining Guo"}],"abstract":"Multi-layer image generation is a fundamental task that enables users to isolate, select, and edit specific image layers, thereby revolutionizing interactions with generative models. In this paper, we introduce the Anonymous Region Transformer (ART), which facilitates the direct generation of variable multi-layer transparent images based on a global text prompt and an anonymous region layout. Inspired by Schema theory suggests that knowledge is organized in frameworks (schemas) that enable people to interpret and learn from new information by linking it to prior knowledge.}, this anonymous region layout allows the generative model to autonomously determine which set of visual tokens should align with which text tokens, which is in contrast to the previously dominant semantic layout for the image generation task. In addition, the layer-wise region crop mechanism, which only selects the visual tokens belonging to each anonymous region, significantly reduces attention computation costs and enables the efficient generation of images with numerous distinct layers (e.g., 50+). When compared to the full attention approach, our method is over 12 times faster and exhibits fewer layer conflicts. Furthermore, we propose a high-quality multi-layer transparent image autoencoder that supports the direct encoding and decoding of the transparency of variable multi-layer images in a joint manner. By enabling precise control and scalable layer generation, ART establishes a new paradigm for interactive content creation.","source":"arXiv","year":2025,"language":"en","subjects":["cs.CV"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.18364","pdf_url":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.18364","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"2025-02-25T16:57:04Z","score":69},{"id":"doaj_10.51461/issn.2309-3072/77.2294","title":"On undying classicism and subverters of  foundations","authors":[{"name":"Елена Багина"}],"abstract":"\nDirections (styles) in culture have different reserves of strength and different inertia. Among them there is a unique one capable of revival. It is classicism, which is characterized by a timeless understanding of the laws of harmony and beauty based on the forms and images of ancient art of Greece and Rome. Classicist thinking and classicism did not leave European culture in the 20th and 21st centuries, but its forms changed. The grafting of art nouveau, avant-garde and postmodernism into classical art and architecture did not pass without a trace. Antagonists shook the established norms and left, while classical art and architecture expanded the range of creative possibilities and revived, preserving the basic principles.\n","source":"DOAJ","year":2024,"language":"","subjects":["Architecture"],"doi":"10.51461/issn.2309-3072/77.2294","url":"https://projectbaikal.com/index.php/pb/article/view/2294","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"","score":68},{"id":"doaj_10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3406249","title":"LatentColorization: Latent Diffusion-Based Speaker Video Colorization","authors":[{"name":"Rory Ward"},{"name":"Dan Bigioi"},{"name":"Shubhajit Basak"},{"name":"John G. Breslin"},{"name":"Peter Corcoran"}],"abstract":"While current research predominantly focuses on image-based colorization, the domain of video-based colorization remains relatively unexplored. Many existing video colorization techniques operate frame-by-frame, often overlooking the critical aspect of temporal coherence between successive frames. This approach can result in inconsistencies across frames, leading to undesirable effects like flickering or abrupt color transitions between frames. To address these challenges, we combine the generative capabilities of a fine-tuned latent diffusion model with an autoregressive conditioning mechanism to ensure temporal consistency in automatic speaker video colorization. We demonstrate strong improvements on established quality metrics compared to existing methods, namely, PSNR, SSIM, FID, FVD, NIQE and BRISQUE. Specifically, we achieve an 18% improvement in performance when FVD is employed as the evaluation metric. Furthermore, we performed a subjective study, where users preferred LatentColorization to the existing state-of-the-art DeOldify 80% of the time. Our dataset combines conventional datasets and videos from television/movies. A short demonstration of our results can be seen in some example videos available at \u003curi\u003ehttps://youtu.be/vDbzsZdFuxM\u003c/uri\u003e.","source":"DOAJ","year":2024,"language":"","subjects":["Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering"],"doi":"10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3406249","url":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10539953/","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"","score":68},{"id":"arxiv_2412.04850","title":"The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Art Research: An Analysis of Academic Productivity and Multidisciplinary Integration","authors":[{"name":"Yang Ding"}],"abstract":"This study investigates the transformative impact of artificial intelligence on art research by analysing data from 749 art research projects and 555,982 non art research projects, as well as 23,999 journal articles. We utilized the SciBERT model for text analysis on research funding proposals and the econometric model to evaluate AI impact on the academic productivity and impact. Our findings reveal that AI has significantly reshaped the role of art across various disciplines. The integration of AI has led to a notable expansion in keyword networks, highlighting advancements in visual art creation, data driven methodologies, and interactive educational tools. AI has also facilitated the integration of art knowledge into nearly all research disciplines, contrasting with the traditionally confined distribution of art knowledge. Despite the substantial increase in publication impact and citation counts facilitated by AI, it has not markedly improved the likelihood of publishing in high-prestige journals. These insights illustrate the complex nature of AI's impact enhancing research impact while presenting challenges in publication efficiency and multidisciplinary integration. The study offers a nuanced understanding of AI's role in art research and suggests directions for addressing the ongoing challenges of integrating art and AI across disciplines.","source":"arXiv","year":2024,"language":"en","subjects":["cs.DL"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.04850","pdf_url":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.04850","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"2024-12-06T08:37:52Z","score":68},{"id":"arxiv_2403.19620","title":"Collaborative Interactive Evolution of Art in the Latent Space of Deep Generative Models","authors":[{"name":"Ole Hall"},{"name":"Anil Yaman"}],"abstract":"Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown great success in generating high quality images and are thus used as one of the main approaches to generate art images. However, usually the image generation process involves sampling from the latent space of the learned art representations, allowing little control over the output. In this work, we first employ GANs that are trained to produce creative images using an architecture known as Creative Adversarial Networks (CANs), then, we employ an evolutionary approach to navigate within the latent space of the models to discover images. We use automatic aesthetic and collaborative interactive human evaluation metrics to assess the generated images. In the human interactive evaluation case, we propose a collaborative evaluation based on the assessments of several participants. Furthermore, we also experiment with an intelligent mutation operator that aims to improve the quality of the images through local search based on an aesthetic measure. We evaluate the effectiveness of this approach by comparing the results produced by the automatic and collaborative interactive evolution. The results show that the proposed approach can generate highly attractive art images when the evolution is guided by collaborative human feedback.","source":"arXiv","year":2024,"language":"en","subjects":["cs.NE","cs.AI","cs.CV","cs.HC","cs.LG"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19620","pdf_url":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.19620","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"2024-03-28T17:40:15Z","score":68},{"id":"arxiv_2309.06552","title":"The Art of Planetary Science: Art as a Tool for Scientific Inquiry and Public Discourse around Space Exploration","authors":[{"name":"Jamie L. Molaro"}],"abstract":"Art can be a powerful tool in science engagement efforts to help facilitate learning and public discourse around space and space exploration. The Art of Planetary Science is an annual exhibition combining science and art which aims to help people to connect more meaningfully to science outside of traditional education models. Works solicited from scientists and from the public explore the beauty of the universe, as well as communicate and abstract scientific concepts from an artistic framework. These events offer the public a unique perspective on science and an opportunity to participate in dialogue around how and why we explore space. As an extension of the exhibition, a series of workshops for artists and educators focuses on techniques in creating science-driven art and how it can be used as a tool for scientific inquiry. We will discuss our success with these efforts and the important role that art can play in shaping the evolving narrative of humanity's relationship to space.","source":"arXiv","year":2023,"language":"en","subjects":["physics.pop-ph","physics.soc-ph"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.06552","pdf_url":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.06552","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"2023-08-15T07:15:11Z","score":67},{"id":"arxiv_2307.05760","title":"Line Art Colorization of Fakemon using Generative Adversarial Neural Networks","authors":[{"name":"Erick Oliveira Rodrigues"},{"name":"Esteban Clua"},{"name":"Giovani Bernardes Vitor"}],"abstract":"This work proposes a complete methodology to colorize images of Fakemon, anime-style monster-like creatures. In addition, we propose algorithms to extract the line art from colorized images as well as to extract color hints. Our work is the first in the literature to use automatic color hint extraction, to train the networks specifically with anime-styled creatures and to combine the Pix2Pix and CycleGAN approaches, two different generative adversarial networks that create a single final result. Visual results of the colorizations are feasible but there is still room for improvement.","source":"arXiv","year":2023,"language":"en","subjects":["cs.CV"],"doi":"10.1109/sbgames56371.2022.9961078","url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.05760","pdf_url":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.05760","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"2023-07-11T19:30:09Z","score":67},{"id":"doaj_10.21608/mjaf.2020.27853.1578","title":"Arts in NEOM project Civilized progress in the northern region in Saudi Arabia kingdom","authors":[{"name":"Wadiah Boker"}],"abstract":"Here in Saudi Arabia kingdom we are facing a scientific revolution that accompany the economic project NEOM that has been launched by the country in the northern lands of the kingdom where a certain set of goals have been assigned for it, to care for the economy and bring prosperity for each Saudi citizen. One of the most significant points that will be supported by the project is caring about visual arts which can create a civilizational revolution at Al Ula region in Saudi Arabia kingdom.The research title: Arts in NEOM project, civilized progress in the northern region in Saudi Arabia kingdom.The study assumes: the existence of a major and effective role of the economic project NEOM in the northern region to upgrade arts in Saudi Arabia kingdom. The word NEOM is an abbreviation for the 1st 3 letters of the Latin word NEO which means “new” while the letter M is an abbreviation for the Arabic word “mostakbal” which means future. The project location is at the western north of the kingdom.The goal of the study: is to confirm the presence of a progress in visual arts in conjunction with the economic project NEOM, and the presence of a clear civilized effect on the northern region of the kingdom. The study significance: is that NEOM has many projects as the kingdom vision has been determined in 2030: Saudi Arabia is; the Islamic, Arabic depth, extra investment power, linking axis for the 3 continents. A benefit is going to be achieved for both individuals and society equally. Including the presence of arts’ effects as a civilized basis and a clear influence on the northern region of the Saudi Arabia kingdom. The research problem resides in the coming question: is there a civilizational and effective role for arts under the shadow of the economic project NEOM in the northern region of Saudi Arabia kingdom and how far can we benefit artistically from that civilizational progress? The research methodology: the research follows the descriptive approach as data, details and information will be collected around the northern region of Saudi Arabia kingdom and project NEOM with a complete study about the current status of arts in Saudi Arabia kingdom.","source":"DOAJ","year":2021,"language":"","subjects":["Fine Arts","Architecture"],"doi":"10.21608/mjaf.2020.27853.1578","url":"https://mjaf.journals.ekb.eg/article_127488.html","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"","score":65},{"id":"doaj_10.1049/ipr2.12269","title":"Face hallucination based on cluster consistent dictionary learning","authors":[{"name":"Minqi Li"},{"name":"Xiangjian He"},{"name":"Kin‐Man Lam"},{"name":"Kaibing Zhang"},{"name":"Junfeng Jing"}],"abstract":"Abstract Face hallucination is a super‐resolution technique specially designed to reconstruct high‐resolution faces from low‐resolution faces. Most state‐of‐the‐art algorithms leverage position‐patch prior knowledge of human faces to better super‐resolve face images. However, most of them assume the training face dataset is sufficiently large, well cropped or aligned. This paper, proposes a novel example‐based face hallucination method, based on cluster consistent dictionary learning with the assumption that human faces have similar facial structures. In this method, the paired face image patches are firstly labelled as face areas including eyes, nose, mouth and other parts, as well as non‐face areas without requiring the training face images cropped and aligned. Then, the training patches are clustered according their labels and textures. The cluster consistent dictionary is learned to represent the low‐resolution patches and the high‐resolution patches. Finally, the high‐resolution patches of the input low‐resolution face image can be efficiently generated by using the adjusted anchored neighbourhood regression. As utilizing the labelled facial parts prior knowledge, the proposed method represents more details in the reconstruction. Experimental results demonstrate that the authors' algorithm outperforms many state‐of‐the‐art techniques for face hallucination under different datasets.","source":"DOAJ","year":2021,"language":"","subjects":["Photography","Computer software"],"doi":"10.1049/ipr2.12269","url":"https://doi.org/10.1049/ipr2.12269","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"","score":65},{"id":"doaj_https://doi.org/10.21497/sefad.944022","title":"A Text in the Communicative Dimension: The Relationship between the Open and Closed Text in the Context of Umberto Eco’s Ideas","authors":[{"name":"Olga Gilyazova"}],"abstract":"The article addresses the relationship between open and closed texts. The aim of the study is to analyze the specifics of relationship between the open and closed text in the general context of communication between the author and the reader. While supporting mainly U. Eco’s concept in our article, we furnish it with the analysis of four approaches of openness/closedness, which we have singled out. Openness/closedness is conceptualized, firstly: as an ontological perspective of the opposition between the communication parameters: The text-as-process and text-as-outcome; secondly, as interpretation procedures that are common for the articulation of all texts, regardless of their form and contents; thirdly, as the ontological and technological potential of works’ physical unfinishedness that invite the recipient to co-authorship (for example, ‘the work-in-movement’ and hypertext); fourthly, as the ability of a text to provoke multiple or unambiguous interpretations. We also demonstrate that the way of text’s functioning is determined not only by the addressee's attitude to it, but text itself, in return, stimulates this attitude, predisposing to it by its specificity (as informative or artistic, kitsch or art, hypertext or linear text, digital or analog). However, as we explain in the conclusion, the dialectic of openness/closedness can affect the distinctness of these dichotomies: The text can use its openness manipulatively, which turns it into a closed text.","source":"DOAJ","year":2021,"language":"","subjects":["Language and Literature"],"doi":"https://doi.org/10.21497/sefad.944022","url":"https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/1792335","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"","score":65},{"id":"arxiv_2107.06935","title":"Object Retrieval and Localization in Large Art Collections using Deep Multi-Style Feature Fusion and Iterative Voting","authors":[{"name":"Nikolai Ufer"},{"name":"Sabine Lang"},{"name":"Björn Ommer"}],"abstract":"The search for specific objects or motifs is essential to art history as both assist in decoding the meaning of artworks. Digitization has produced large art collections, but manual methods prove to be insufficient to analyze them. In the following, we introduce an algorithm that allows users to search for image regions containing specific motifs or objects and find similar regions in an extensive dataset, helping art historians to analyze large digitized art collections. Computer vision has presented efficient methods for visual instance retrieval across photographs. However, applied to art collections, they reveal severe deficiencies because of diverse motifs and massive domain shifts induced by differences in techniques, materials, and styles. In this paper, we present a multi-style feature fusion approach that successfully reduces the domain gap and improves retrieval results without labelled data or curated image collections. Our region-based voting with GPU-accelerated approximate nearest-neighbour search allows us to find and localize even small motifs within an extensive dataset in a few seconds. We obtain state-of-the-art results on the Brueghel dataset and demonstrate its generalization to inhomogeneous collections with a large number of distractors.","source":"arXiv","year":2021,"language":"en","subjects":["cs.CV"],"doi":"10.1007/978-3-030-66096-3_12","url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.06935","pdf_url":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.06935","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"2021-07-14T18:40:49Z","score":65}],"total":1002268,"page":1,"page_size":20,"sources":["CrossRef","DOAJ","arXiv"],"query":"Art"}