Throughout the world new hospitals have been designed and built for high quality medical care. Few have been designed to be beautiful. We believe each hospital should enhance the lives of patients, visitors, and staff by including works of art. Works of art cost money, yet money spent on contemporary works provides employment for painters, sculptors, and craftsmen and also for the manufacturers...

This paper presents a novel double knowledge transferring method to solve the multi-culture facial attractiveness enhancement problem. The existing enhancement of facial attractiveness methods just focus on one particular culture and assume the beautification model learned in one culture could be used in other cultures without adaptation. However, for the people in different cultures who do not...

This paper outlines research towards strengthening our understanding of the representation of cultural artifacts in video games. The approach described outlines steps towards utilising a framework using dimensions of cultural heritage as reference points for games analysis. This framework is then used as a mechanism to analyse two games: Assassin’s Creed I and Unearthed: Trail of Ibn Battuta. T...

This work explains the development of a novel approach to beautify a face, merging an evolutionary approach and aesthetics graph drawing. The objective of this work is to build a beautify face seen against the input face. The aesthetics graph drawing algorithm works as the mutation operator. The approach of force-directed graph drawing which in turn is the solution to aesthetical graph drawing ...

The authors are investigating reverse engineering for reconstructing the shape of simple mechanical parts. Currently, preliminary B-rep models can be created by fitting surfaces to point clouds obtained by scanning an actual part using a 3D laser scanner. The resulting model, although valid, is often not suitable for purposes such as redesign. This is because expected regularities and constrain...

A popular cultural trend developed in late 18thand 19th-century American mortuary practices. Called “the beautification of death,” this Romantic movement idealized death and heaven through ideological, behavioral, and material transformations. The appearance of mass-produced coffin hardware in archaeological contexts throughout North America may be linked with this popular movement. Archaeologi...

Sketching has been identified as a natural means for human interaction and thus has become commonly incorporated into various user interfaces. Current low-level sketch recognizers have produced good accuracy but recognize only a small set of basic shapes. We propose a low-level sketch recognition and beautification system that uses a hierarchical approach that is capable of recognizing eight pr...