Inspired by human dancers who can evaluate the aesthetics of their own dance poses through mirror observation, this paper presents a corresponding mechanism for robots to improve their cognitive and ...autonomous abilities. Essentially, the proposed mechanism is a brain-like intelligent system that is symmetrical to the visual cognitive nervous system of the human brain. Specifically, a computable cognitive model of visual aesthetics is developed using the two important aesthetic cognitive neural models of the human brain, which is then applied in the automatic aesthetics evaluation of robotic dance poses. Three kinds of features (color, shape and orientation) are extracted in a manner similar to the visual feature elements extracted by human brains. After applying machine learning methods in different feature combinations, machine aesthetics models are built for automatic evaluation of robotic dance poses. The simulation results show that our approach can process visual information effectively by cognitive computation, and achieved a very good evaluation performance of automatic aesthetics.
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Inspired by the contrast between ‘classical’ and ‘expressive’ visual aesthetic design, this paper explores the ‘visual complexity’ of images. We wished to investigate whether the visual complexity of ...an image could be quantified so that it matched participants’ view of complexity. An empirical study was conducted to collect data on the human view of the complexity of a set of images. The results were then related to a set of computational metrics applied to these images, so as to identify which objective metrics best encapsulate the human subjective opinion. We conclude that the subjective notion of ‘complexity’ is consistent both to an individual and to a group, but that it does not easily relate to the most obvious computational metrics.
Perception, awareness and appreciation of the built environment are essential skills in urban representation and design. Among the different perceptual dimensions, the visual, or more precisely the ...visual-aesthetic dimension is the field that better expresses its potential in representation. The study, in an analytical-applicative perspective, addresses the reading of the relationship between forms and uses, symbols and meanings of an urban public space characterized by a recent transformation. The architectural stratifications and practices of use lead to the definition of space, in its tangible and intangible components. In this regard the analysis of the historical drifts, traced back through images and drawings, help us to make visible the mutations and the processes helpful to understand and describe its actual order. The aim of the research is to investigate the visual dimension of an urban space, both in its material and immaterial connotations, and its relationship with the stratified or new uses, explored by multiple and diversified tools of urban representation
In this research, the basis for social acceptability judgements of clearfell harvesting in people's values and beliefs was explored. During an initial qualitative field study the value orientations, ...valued objects and beliefs about consequences of 18 participants were identified. A hypothesis was then developed drawing on two cognitive hierarchy theories: the Theory of Reasoned Action and Value Belief Norm Theory. It was predicted, that in judging clearfelling people would draw on value orientations toward the natural environment. These would lead them to value objects in the forest and to develop beliefs about the consequences of harvesting for those objects, which would in turn lead to acceptability judgements. In a second study approximately 560 Tasmanians were shown images of a clearfell, burn and sow management system and asked to judge its acceptability. On average, industry-affiliated participants rated clearfelling much more acceptable than did non-affiliated and conservation-affiliated participants. Participants also responded to questions that measured the four levels on the cognitive hierarchy. Structural equation modelling was used to test whether these data were consistent with the cognitive hierarchy model. There was no basis to reject the model.
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Designers and artists often require reference images at authoring time. The emergence of computer technology has provided new conditions and possibilities for artistic creation and research. It has ...also expanded the forms of artistic expression and attracted many artists, designers and computer experts to explore different artistic directions and collaborate with one another. In this paper, we present an efficient k-means-based method to segment the colors of an original picture to analyze the composition ratio of the color information and calculate individual color areas that are associated with their sizes. This information is transformed into regular geometries to reconstruct the colors of the picture to generate abstract images. Furthermore, we designed an application system using the proposed method and generated many works; some artists and designers have used it as an auxiliary tool for art and design creation. The experimental results of datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our method and can give us inspiration for our work.
Among all the dazzling decorating materials, microlite decorating material stands out because of its attributes and visual aesthetic feeling. It’s an eco-friendly material belong to the latest ...designing field in the new century. And its splendid tincture, smooth surface, homogeneous reflection of light is all manifestation of its visual beauty and natural tenderness.
Recent evidence has shown that buildings designed to be high-ranking, according to the Western architectural decorum, have more impact on the minds of their beholders than low-ranking buildings. Here ...we investigated whether and how the aesthetic judgment for high- and low-ranking buildings was affected by differences in cultural expertise and by power spectrum differences. A group of Italian and Japanese participants performed aesthetic judgment tasks, with line drawings of high- and low-ranking buildings and with their random-phase versions (an image with the exact power spectrum of the original one but non-recognizable anymore). Irrespective of cultural expertise, high-ranking buildings and their relative random-phase versions received higher aesthetic judgments than low-ranking buildings and their random-phase versions. These findings indicate that high- and low-ranking buildings are differentiated for their aesthetic value and they show that low-level visual processes influence the aesthetic judgment based on differences in the stimuli power spectrum, irrespective of the influence of cultural expertise.
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The fractal pattern is a highly visual aesthetic image. This article describes the generation method of Mandelbrot set to generate fractal art patterns. Based on the escape time algorithm on complex ...plane, the visual aesthetic fractal patterns are generated from Mandelbrot sets. The generated program development, a pictorial information system, is integrated through the application of Visual Basic programming language and development integration environment. Application of the development program, this article analyzes the shape of the fractal patterns generated by the different power orders of the Mandelbrot sets. Finally, the escape time algorithm has been proposed as the generation tools of highly visual aesthetic fractal patterns.
In the late Soviet period, Russian documentary cinema rivaled feature film in popularity. It attracted attention for its ability to reveal the previously unspoken 'truth' about problems in the Soviet ...Union, both past and present. Domestic and international audiences learned not only what 'really' happened under Joseph Stalin, but also about contemporary problems facing Soviet citizens. Russian documentary auteur Sergei Loznitsa is making a name for himself not for following in the footsteps of the documentary film-makers who popularized the genre in the 1980s and early 1990s, such as Juris Podnieks, Marina Goldovskaia and Stanislav Govorukhin, but rather by taking a very different approach to film. Loznitsa's film-making style focuses on visual aesthetics and shifts the importance of the film to the image as the message. His documentaries, almost all of which are filmed on celluloid instead of digitally, are characterized by intense contrast, and a lack of narration and non-diegetic sound, allowing for fluid images, and are populated by simple, timeless characters who are not meant to convey a political message.
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Visual aesthetic quality assessment has played an important role in increasing number of computer vision applications. Particularly, estimating the quality score precisely is a main task of aesthetic ...quality assessment, but the training samples labeled with score are usually expensive to obtain. In this paper, we propose a transfer learning method which can improve the performance of aesthetic score prediction by using the coarse labeled samples, which are much easier to obtain. The proposed method incorporates the coarse information from source domain into the target domain by a novel multi-task framework, which can revise the model in target task. The effectiveness of our method is proven by experimental results that the error is reduced obviously with the help of source domain.
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