We propose an automatic image matting method for portrait images. This method does not need user interaction, which was however essential in most previous approaches. In order to accomplish this goal, a new end-to-end convolutional neural network (CNN) based framework is proposed taking the input of a portrait image. It outputs the matte result. Our method considers not only image semantic pred...

Leonardo da Vinci's self-portrait is affected by foxing spots. The portrait has no fungal or bacterial infections in place, but is contaminated with airborne spores and fungal material that could play a role in its disfigurement. The knowledge of the nature of the stains is of great concern because future conservation treatments should be derived from scientific investigations. The lack of reli...

Professional training of translators: modern requirements and trends - candidate's interview
 Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor T.I. Korobeynikova with Doctor Professor,
 Head the Department European Oriental Languages ​​and Translation Higher Educational Institution
 "Alfred Nobel University" by Natalia Viktorivna Zinukova.

The rise of email and instant messaging as important tools in the professional workplace has created changes in how we communicate. One such change is that these media tend to reduce the presentation of an individual to a username, impacting the quality of communication. With current technology, including rich personal presentations in messages is still cumbersome. This problem is compounded by...

The return map for planar vector fields with nilpotent linear part (having a center or a focus and under an assumption generically satisfied) is found as a convergent power series whose terms can be calculated iteratively. The first nontrivial coefficient is the value of an Abelian integral, and the following ones are explicitly given as iterated integrals built with algebraic functions.

We construct periodic families of Poincaré spaces. This gives a partial solution to a question posed by Hodgson in the proceedings of the 1982 Northwestern homotopy theory conference. In producing these families, we formulate a recognition principle for Poincaré duality in the case of finite complexes having one top cell that splits of after a single suspension. We also explain how a Z-equivari...

Using a direct approach the return map near a focus of a planar vector field with nilpotent linear part is found as a convergent power series which is a perturbation of the identity and whose terms can be calculated iteratively. The first nontrivial coefficient is the value of an Abelian integral, and the following ones are explicitly given as iterated integrals.

the paper concerns the relations between the relative Manin-Mumford conjecture and Pink’s conjecture on unlikely intersections in mixed Shimura varieties. The variety under study is the 4-dimensional Poincaré biextension attached to a universal elliptic curve. A detailed list of its special subvarieties is drawn up, providing partial verifications of Pink’s conjecture in this case, and two open...

A number of studies have been published of Josephus' portraits of biblical heroes, wherein we see that Josephus systematically aggrandizes their qualities of good birth, handsomeness, and the cardinal virtues of wisdom, courage, temperance, justice, and piety? But how does he depict biblical rogues? Three Israelite kings whose wickedness is emphasized in the biblical record-namely, Jeroboam I, ...