Pictures presented in a rapid sequence are remembered briefly, but most are forgotten within a few seconds (Potter, M. C., Staub, A., Rado, J., & O'Connor, D. H., 2002). The present study investigated the pictorial and conceptual components of this fleeting memory by presenting 5 pictured scenes and immediately testing recognition of verbal titles (e.g., "people at a table") or recognition of t...

Cinema viewed from a location other than a canonical viewing point (CVP) presents distortions to the viewer in both its static and its dynamic aspects. Past works have investigated mainly the static aspect of this problem and attempted to explain why viewers still seem to perceive the scene very well. The dynamic aspect of depth perception, which is known as structure from motion, and its possi...

To represent an approach in video and audio configuration. Two modalities were used i.e., visual and audio tracks. From audio track, rhythms of music were described by segmentation and detection of music beats. From visual track, dancer’s features and trajectories were extracted to estimate rhythm of motion. Then configuration of visual and audio extractions were performed with two more applica...

A formal language is defined as a set of strings of an alphabet which is a non-empty set. In terms of pictures, a set of pictures are called as picture language in the field of formal languages. The study of picture languages was originally prompted by the problems of image processing and pattern recognition. The matrix grammar and tiling systems have been designed to describe the picture langu...

Spatial and spatio-temporal information is often carried by non-textual data such as maps, diagrams, tables, or pictures, both still and moving, either embedded in a text or standalone. The annotation of nontextual data raises the following questions: (i) what are the markables and how should they be coded? (ii) how should relevant information be inferred which is implicit in the data? We answe...

Searching of similar pictures was in the past based mainly on searching of similar picture names. We try to find an effective method how to search pictures by searching of similar information in the picture (histograms, shapes, blocks,). There already are some methods but still not effective enough. In this paper we describe a method where we combine vector quantization (VQ) and fuzzy S-trees. ...

When a brief target picture is followed by another picture (mask), people often report that they are not consciously aware of the target. Thus, visual masking can be used to manipulate perceptual awareness of target pictures. To avoid interference with magnetic resonance imaging, pictures have been presented on liquid crystal device (LCD) and thin film transistor (TFT) projectors that were plac...

Geotagging has become a recent phenomenon that allows users to visualize and manage photo collections in many new and interesting ways. Unfortunately, manual geotagging of a large collection of pictures on the globe is still a time-consuming and laborious task even though geotagging devices are gradually being adopted. At the same time, users often provide tag annotations, which may contain use...

Two accounts explain why studying pictures reduces false memories within the Deese-Roediger-McDermott paradigm (J. Deese, 1959; H. L. Roediger & K. B. McDermott, 1995). The impoverished relational-encoding account suggests that studying pictures interferes with the encoding of relational information, which is the primary basis for false memories in this paradigm. Alternatively, the distinctiven...