Still today it remains unclear whether Galileo ever climbed the leaning tower of Pisa in order to drop bodies from its top. Some believe that he established the principle of equal speeds for falling bodies by means of an ingenious thought experiment. However, the reconstruction of that thought experiment circulating in the philosophical literature is no more than a cartoon. In this paper I will...

We present CartoonX (Cartoon Explanation), a novel model-agnostic explanation method tailored towards image classifiers and based on the rate-distortion (RDE) framework. Natural images are roughly piece-wise smooth signals—also called cartoon-like images—and tend to be sparse in wavelet domain. is first exploit this by requiring its explanations domain, thus extracting relevant part of an inste...

Making electronic newspapers available to users is an attractive business for newspaper editors. The production of electronic newspapers may a priori be realized at low cost using the editor's news base, while enabling to attain a larger audience. However, the success of an electronic newspaper in a commercial setting depends upon the provided quality of service. The newspaper must guarantee to...

Character design is a key ingredient to the success of any comicbook, graphic novel, or animated feature. Artists typically use shape, size and proportion as the first design layer to express role, physicality and personality traits. In this paper, we propose a knowledge mining framework that extracts primitive shape features from finished art, and trains models with labeled metadata attributes...