For this project we had access to Walmart's sales data from the Northern Illinois region for October 7, 2011 November 7, 2011 as well as 3 billion tweets from a similar time frame. We began this project with an aim to predict the sales of Halloween costumes for Walmart using Twitter as a signal. The analysis we conducted showed that one could indeed correlate the sales of Halloween costumes wit...

African arts stem from their themes of symbolism, functionalism and utilitarianism, which describe African art as quite multi-functional. This however does not say that some African art does not have its underlying aesthetic import. In Africa, by virtue of their belief system, their spiritual practices have led to the creation of new artistic imageries. This is in the sense that their various a...

Folk clothing plays an important role as it indicates the natural progression of society from period to period, does not change suddenly with end each era, era introduces some modifications types traditional costumes, without losing its character, and Kingdom Saudi Arabia is characterized by multiple different styles customs in Its shapes, methods implementation, colors, style decoration embroi...

This paper deals with the introduction of costume as a new feature for automatic video content indexing. We present in this paper an application of person recognition using costumes, in order to show the relevance of costume for indexation. The recognition is carried out by extracting the costume of all the persons who appear in the video. Then, their reappearance in subsequent frames is perfor...

There are ideas about Bhuta found in Ancient Tamil Literatures. They Fall into Three categories. Among them, natural objects (five elements) associated with Religion, the worship god Sathukka is Sramana Religions like Jainism, Bhddhism, and protective Ganam or collective Bhutas Saivism. This Article examines these three types of detail.

This paper deals with the introduction of costume as a new feature for video content indexing. We present in this paper an application of person recognition using costumes, in order to show the relevance of costume for indexation. The recognition is carried out by extracting the costume of all the persons who appear in the video. Then, their reappearance in subsequent frames is performed by sea...