The paper introduces a new method for discrimination of documents given in different scripts. The document is mapped into a uniformly coded text of numerical values. It is derived from the position of the letters in the text line, based on their typographical characteristics. Each code is considered as a gray level. Accordingly, the coded text determines a 1-D image, on which texture analysis b...

Genomic technologies are best defined as technologies used to manipulate and analyze genomic information. The evolution of this collective power began in earnest with the invention of DNA cloning in the 1970's and most of the technology derives from the last quarter of the 20th century. The historical impact of these technologies is clearly immense. With the genome sequence becoming available f...

The restauration and preservation of ancient documents is becoming an interesting application in document image analysis. This paper introduces a top-down approach aimed at segmenting the graphical part in historical heritage called lettrine. The research principle was established on the concept of human visual perception and invariant texture analysis (co-occurrence and run-length matrices, au...

The Virtual Sardinia project aims at collecting a large amount of heterogeneous data concerning the island of Sardinia and representing them in such a way that a casual user can easily navigate through them in a virtual trip. All these data are interconnected in an hypermedia way, browsable in the World-wide Web, ranging from geographic to archaeological data, from historical to touristical inf...

the eleventh-century royal portrait miniature painting of King Gagik-Abas of Kars, Queen Goranduxt, and Princess Marem is an important image within the realm of Armenian art history. However, conflicting statements about art historical context have been drawn by human visual analysis. In this paper, we investigate a pattern classification algorithm to discover the historic context using the tex...

Because music is not objectively descriptive or representational, the subjective qualities of music seem to be most important. Style is one of the most salient qualities of music, and in fact most descriptions of music refer to some aspect of musical style. Style in music can refer to historical periods, composers, performers, sonic texture, emotion, and genre. In recent years, many aspects of ...

We investigated tree textures starting from art historical sources describing the complicated appearance of trees, proceeding with an empirical survey using computer vision techniques, concluding with an overview of physical factors. Our main question was: Which perceptual, image statistical and optical phenomena primarily determine the appearance of trees and how are these phenomena related? T...

The paper reviews some recent numerical applications for the interpretation and exploitation of acoustic emission (AE) monitoring results obtained from historical masonry structures and materials. Among possible numerical techniques, the finite element method and the distinct method are considered. The analyzed numerical models cover the entire scale range, from microstructure and meso-structur...