Persian handwritten numerals recognition has been a frontier area of research for the last few decades under pattern recognition. Recognition of handwritten numerals is a difficult task owing to various writing styles of individuals. A robust and efficient method for Persian/Arabic handwritten numerals recognition based on K Nearest Neighbors (K-NN) classifier is presented in this paper. The sy...

The relationship between the activity of painting and performance of stereotyped and other stress-related behaviour was investigated in four captive Asian elephants at Melbourne Zoo, Australia. The activity involved the elephant being instructed to paint on a canvas by its keeper in front of an audience. Painting by elephants in zoos is commonly believed to be a form of enrichment, but this ass...

Objectives: In present study, we studied the effect of teaching three painting methods (free method, subject selection method and complementary method) on creativity of children with learning disabilities. First, among all disabled students, who refer to Bizhani center for learning disabilities in Arak city, 60 subjects were randomly selected as statistical sample. Thus, the 45 children, divide...

abstract the qajar dynasty was a time of civil wars as well as the wars against russia, meanwhile, qajarid shahs, understanding the power of sublime art both in internal and external political relations, tried to expand and renew the style of the mural decorations which is the issue of this article. increasing the relations with european countries like england and france, fath ali shah and his ...

This paper presents an algorithm that recognizes an input photo of a painting displayed at a museum exhibition out of 33 paintings in the set. The input photos were taken with a Nokia N93 cell phone, which has a 3 mega-pixel digital camera. The snapshots were taken under different light conditions and from different vantage points. This algorithm would be useful during a museum tour; the touris...

This paper describes the usage of Natural Language Processing tools, mostly probabilistic topic modeling, to study semantics (word correlations) in a collection of Persian poems consisting of roughly 18k poems from 30 different poets. For this study, we put a lot of effort in the preprocessing and the development of a large scope lexicon supporting both modern and ancient Persian. In the analys...

research is considered axis of each progressing and scientific development. scattered studies without any logical plan won’t lead to the desired results. research prioritization in traditional persian medicine (tpm) is more necessary because of limited resources and manpower. this study was conducted in four phases with delphi’s pattern of study. at the first stage, it was consulted from tim de...

Persian is a challenging language in the field of NLP. Rightto-left orthography, complex morphology, complicated grammatical rules, and different forms of letters make it an interesting language for NLP research. In this paper we measure the effectiveness of a simple and efficient stemming algorithm, Perstem, on Persian information retrieval. Our experiments on the Hamshahri corpus at CLEF2009 ...

from the nineteenth century onwards, exactly at the time when paintings no longer relied on literature for their images, and their topics were not taken from literary sources, literature became highlyinspired by painting. manette salomon, a novel about a failed painter, is allocated to describe such an artistic environment. manette salomon is a character who appeares only in the second half of ...