Recently, product images have gained increasing attention in clothing recommendation since the visual appearance of clothing products has a significant impact on consumers’ decision. Most existing methods rely on conventional features to represent an image, such as the visual features extracted by convolutional neural networks (CNN features) and the scale-invariant feature transform algorithm (...

The diagnostic process in psychotherapy using the aesthetic evaluation is described in this article. Unlike the classical diagnostic process, which presents a result of comparing clinicians´ observations with a diagnostic system (DSM, ICD, etc.), the aesthetic evaluation is a pre-reflexive, embodied, and preverbal process. A Gestalt Therapy theoretical frame is used to introduce a concept of th...

Received: 30-10-2015; Accepted: 05-11-2015 Aesthetic surgery for the breast is one of the common procedure performed by an aesthetic plastic surgeon today. The surgery is frequently performed for aesthetic as well reconstructive reasons. Breast itself is a uniquely important part of the female body and as such embodies in itself anatomical, physiological and aesthetic role. A proportionately de...

This article takes up the ethical meaning of Herbert Marcuse’s aesthetics, especially as espoused in his last book, The Aesthetic Dimension (I 978). In it, Marcuse responds at both an ethical and aesthetic level to three versions of Marxist/Frankfurt school theory of art: realism, negation theory, and formalism. Thefirst part of m y article situates The Aesthetic Dimension in a tradition; the s...

UNLABELLED Planning the final aesthetic result of restorative treatment is a key skill needed by the clinician to ensure predictable success. This paper aims to review current techniques that may be used by clinicians for an aesthetic preview, whilst also highlighting a simple technique that may be readily utilized in practice. CLINICAL RELEVANCE It is considered good practice to give patient...

The relationship between contextual information and object perception has received considerable attention in neuroimaging studies. In the work reported here, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate the relationship between aesthetic judgment and images of objects in their normal contextual setting versus images of objects in abnormal contextual settings and the under...

UNLABELLED Aesthetic perception of the changes in teeth appearance is one of the factors that makes a person undertake a dental treatment. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to survey dentists' and non-specialists' aesthetic perception of dental fluorosis. PATIENTS AND METHODS We recruited 120 young people (age range 18-22 years with little knowledge of dental fluorosis and 120 randomly se...

This paper proposed a systematic approach for exploring the interactions of aesthetic properties and design variables, by integrating knowledge from other fields such as philosophy, psychology and arts. Commonly-accepted aesthetic properties and language terms used for evaluation and criticism are first discussed and a common set of nine principles for achieving aesthetic products in a number o...

Several studies have investigated neural correlates of aesthetic appreciation for paintings but to date the findings have been heterogeneous. This heterogeneity may be attributed to previous studies' measurement of aesthetic appreciation of not only the beauty of paintings but also the beauty of motifs of the paintings. In order to better elucidate the beauty of paintings, it seems necessary to...

We present empirical results from a new approach, Aesthetic Computing to customizing model structures for designing models for systems found in mathematics and computer simulation. At the University of Florida, we have taught the methodology of Aesthetic Computing as a separate class, and within the context of a Simulation class. Students in the simulation class were taught the method and then ...