Proust and Benjamin: the Invisible Image

Reading fiction and the psychoanalytic experience: Proust on reading and on reading Proust.

Reading can at times engage one emotionally and entail inner psychological experiences in ways akin to those in clinical psychoanalysis. In that light, after a general introduction regarding the import of reading, attention is turned to Proust, Freud's literary complement, as an exemplary instance to illustrate those similarities. Ideas of Proust on reading are followed by thoughts on reading P...

Pioneering the Technique for Invisible Image Watermarking on Color Image

Accessibility and ease of internet, together with availability of relatively inexpensive digital recording and storage devices has created an environment where duplication, unauthenticated use and maldistribution of digital content has become very easy. This also facilitates unauthorized use, misappropriation, misrepresentation. Thus authentication of multimedia contents (such as image, video, ...

Kant, Proust, and the Appeal of Beauty

Proust: the body and literary form

Florence Nightingale, William Farr and John Simon. All of these have received a good measure of historical attention, but the engineer Joseph Bazalgette, architect of London's main drainage system, and arguably originator of the blueprint for modem city sanitation, has been neglected by historians. This is a pity, because the conception of Bazalgette's grand plan for London's drainage, the tech...

An Invisible Watermarking Technique for Image Verification

In this papel; we propose a new method for invisibly watermarking high-quality color and gray-scale images. This method is intendedfor use in image ver$cation applications, where one is interested in knowing whether the content of an image has been altered since some earlier time, perhaps because of the act of a malicious party. It consists of both a watermark stamping process which embeds a wa...