Hindustani classical music is entirely based on the “Raga” structures. In Hindustani music, a “Gharana” or school refers to the adherence of a group of musicians to a particular musical style of performing a certain raga. The objective of this work was to find out if any characteristic acoustic cues exist which discriminates a particular gharana from the other. Another intriguing fact is if the...

Targeted user studies are often employed to measure how well artists can perform specific tasks. But these studies cannot properly describe editing workflows as wholes, since they guide the artists both by choosing the tasks and by using simplified interfaces. In this paper, we investigate digital sculpting workflows used to produce detailed models. In our experiment design, artists can choose ...

persian carpet weaving is one of iran’s most famous industries that has attracted the world’s attention to persian arts through the centuries. what above all, have given prominence to persian carpet as a beautiful work of art are the pattern and its composition in a two-dimensional space. the diversity of patterns, use of deep and beautiful colors, good composition, harmony of colors, delicate ...

The entertainment industry is undergoing significant transformation and growth. The goal of the entertainment agency is to establish and manage the careers of individual artists. This research develops an approach to evaluate the potential of entertainment artists and construct individualized career maps. Data mining techniques are used to correlate the entertainment news on the Internet with t...

Manifold approaches exist for organization of music by genre and/or style. In this paper we propose the use of text categorization techniques to classify artists present on the Internet. In particular, we retrieve and analyze webpages ranked by search engines to describe artists in terms of word occurrences on related pages. To classify artists we primarily use support vector machines. We prese...

Shape-from-Texture is the problem of estimating an object’s shape by examining the apparent distortions in the surface texture of the object due to image capture. A new method is described for estimating the tilt angle of local surface patches, based on an analysis of the spectral inertia. The effectiveness of the method is demonstrated on synthetic images generated using the Brodatz textures, ...

A multi-step method of partitioning the pixels of an image such that the partitions at one step are wholly nested inside the partitions of the next step is described, i.e. we describe an agglomerative, hierarchical segmentation technique that uses texture information to perform the segmentation. The image is requantized using K-Means clustering. Then, clusters are expanded using region growing ...

204 words) We have developed a novel method to derive scale information from quasi-stationary images, which relies on a rotation-guided multi-scale analysis of features derived from Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrices (GLCM). Unlike other methods for multi-scale texture characterization, our method does not require rotation-invariant textural features, but instead uses orientation information der...

Although executive functions have been widely studied in individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), there have been no direct empirical studies of executive abilities in savants with ASD. This study assessed three facets of executive ability – fluency, perseveration and monitoring – in savant artists with ASD, compared to nontalented adults with ASD or moderate learning difficulties (MLD...