Editorial introduction to the Special Issue by Juha Himanka, guest editor.

ANDASA is a knowledge management platform for the capitalization of knowledge and cultural assets for the artistic and cultural sectors. It was built based on the priorities expressed by the participating artists. Through mapping artistic activities and specificities, it enables to highlight various aspects of the artistic research and production. Such instrument will contribute to create netwo...

artistic and realistic representations and interactions with Big Data Antoni B. Moore School of Surveying, University of Otago Dunedin, New Zealand [email protected] ABSTRACT This white paper explores abstracted, realistic and artistic approaches to the challenge of representing and interactingThis white paper explores abstracted, realistic and artistic approaches to the challenge of repre...

Abstract Ample scientific literature recognises the role of visual thinking in constructive process ideas and mental images function intelligence communicative processes. Starting from sectoral studies, we have turned our attention to communication results research, relating it some characteristics artistic find a shared ground, that is, third space inhabited by common languages competencies. I...

With the effective image processing tools, the digital image processing technique can be applied to the virtual restoration of artistic paintings. For the restoration of artistic work, digital image processing technique serves many purposes. This paper presents approach for virtual digital restoration of artistic paintings which are suffering from the breaks or cracks. An approach includes dete...

Many non-photorealistic rendering techniques exist to produce artistic effects from given images. Inspired by various artists, interesting effects can be produced by using a minimal rendering, where the minimum refers to the number of tones as well as the number and complexity of the primitives used for rendering. Our method is based on various computer vision techniques, and uses a combination...

ABOUT THE COVER " A fter school, I would often go down on Chestnut Street to see the pictures in Earle's Galleries, " Henry Ossawa Tanner recalled about his early years (1). He was especially drawn to the marine subjects of T. Alexan-der Harrison (1853–1930). " After drinking my fi ll of these art wonders, I would hurry home and paint what I had seen, and what fun it was " (1). When at age 12 o...