On-line inspection of PCBs requires acquisition and processing of gigabytes of image data in a matter of few seconds, especially when multi-layer and very high-resolution boards are used. To meet the demands for speed and accuracy, our inspection system uses run-length encoding (RLE) for storage and operations and an inspection scheme which exploits the availability of an artwork for comparison...

ARTigo is both, a gaming platform and an artwork search engine: While playing, ARTigo’s users leaves annotations describing artworks; these annotations are automatically processed by a higher-order latent semantic analysis for building, and continuously improving, an artwork search engine. ARTigo’s search engine has been developed for, and with, art historians and covers more that 65,000 artwor...

Historic gardens have the ability to provide several ecosystem services in cities, including provisioning (i.e., food production). The historic Iran (known as “Persian Gardens”) never been considered places that could be used for production. As a result, purpose of this paper is investigate whether Iranian gardens’ spatial and structural layout suitable modern urban gardening. We conducted fiel...

Beyond Manzanar is an interactive 3D virtual reality artwork. It is written in VRML and runs off the hard drive of a fast gaming PC. It is shown as a room installation with the image projected life-sized on a large screen. One user at a time can navigate through the 3D environment in first-person viewpoint using a simple joystick; other can watch and share the experience. The piece explores par...

august of 1941 coincided with the reza shah’s exile and opening of the cultural and political environment in iran. the tudeh party gained more power, albeit it owed its power to the presence of former soviet :union:s troops in iran during world war ii. after withdrawal of soviet troops from iran, members and supporters of the party wondered what would happen to the party and its members and sup...

In this work, we aim to transform handwritten Chinese characters into calligraphy style characters on a stroke-by-stroke basis. We extracted strokes from a set of handwritten characters by identifying the primary orientation of each stroke. We then adopted autoencoder and self-organizing maps to cluster the extracted strokes into 100 different groups. Using the neural networks obtained, we clus...

Although emotions are well-recognized features in affecting human behaviour, little research has been undertaken on the inclusion of emotions in the non-functional requirements of a software system. Recently, interactive art became an exploratory field where artists and software engineers collaborate in the creation of art pieces; thus, through technology and software tools, human body expressi...

We describe an artist’s journey of working with an evolutionary algorithm to create an artwork suitable for exhibition in a gallery. Software based on the evolutionary algorithm produces animations which engage the viewer with a target image slowly emerging from a random collection of greyscale lines. The artwork consists of a grid of movies of eucalyptus tree targets. Each movie resolves with ...