This essay explores how a particular medium—the comic—exposes the limitations of conventional narratives about sīyāh bāzī (Persian blackface) and hājī fīrūz (a famous blackface figure). Many commentators disavow racial connotations fīrūz, concocting pseudo-historical genealogies that link improvisatory tradition figure to pre-Islamic practices; thus repress tradition’s obvious resonances with h...

and contributions In this thesis a novel approach to analysis and processing of classical cartoon animations is presented. It focuses on a popular animation technique where each frame is created as a planar composition of two visually distinct layers: static textural background and dynamic homogenous foreground. The aim of the proposed framework is (1) to precisely detach these two layers to re...

The algorithm first proposed in [3] stems from a theory proposed by Yves Meyer in [1]. The cartoon+texture algorithm decomposes any image f into the sum of a cartoon part, u , where only the image contrasted shapes appear, and a textural v part with the oscillating patterns. Such a decomposition f=u+v is analogous to the classical signal processing low pass-high pass filter decomposition. Howev...