Characters Face Research Articles

Face Adaptation on Female Character Faces

Face Adaptation on Female Character Faces

THE AMBIVALENCE OF MAIN CHARACTER IN DIVAKARUNI’S THE MISTRESS OF SPICES

This article analyzed of the ambivalence of the main character in the novel The Mistress of Spices by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni by using post colonial theory from Bhabha concept that ambivalence, mimicry and hybridity. The purposes of this research were describing the cause of ambivalence by the main character and also to describe mimicry and hybridity potrayed by Tilo as the main character in Divakaruni’s The Mistress of Spices. The method of this research was descriptive qualitative methods to described the answer from the problem formulation. The source of the data of this research was the novel The Mistress of Spices by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni which was published in 1997 and consists of 15 chapters and 317 pages. And, the instrument of this research was note taking. The technique of data analysis of this research was linked to the theory, concept and method. The result found that the main character face the ambivalence because of her rules and love. Living in America is greatly influenced her on the new culture of imitating and hybridizing about American culture.

Fast and deep facial deformations

Film-quality characters typically display highly complex and expressive facial deformation. The underlying rigs used to animate the deformations of a character's face are often computationally expensive, requiring high-end hardware to deform the mesh at interactive rates. In this paper, we present a method using convolutional neural networks for approximating the mesh deformations of characters' faces. For the models we tested, our approximation runs up to 17 times faster than the original facial rig while still maintaining a high level of fidelity to the original rig. We also propose an extension to the approximation for handling high-frequency deformations such as fine skin wrinkles. While the implementation of the original animation rig depends on an extensive set of proprietary libraries making it difficult to install outside of an in-house development environment, our fast approximation relies on the widely available and easily deployed TensorFlow libraries. In addition to allowing high frame rate evaluation on modest hardware and in a wide range of computing environments, the large speed increase also enables interactive inverse kinematics on the animation rig. We demonstrate our approach and its applicability through interactive character posing and real-time facial performance capture.

Shot scale matters: The effect of close-up frequency on mental state attribution in film viewers

Mental state attribution, an important aspect of social cognition, refers to the verbalization of mental state references observed in another person. Fictional film narratives can elicit social cognition and mental state attribution specifically, however, little is known about the cinematographic techniques underlying this effect and their link to mental state attribution. The present experiment focuses on the role of close-up shots of the character's face in viewers’ mental state attribution, as well as in their cognitive and affective processing more generally. The online experiment (N = 495) included thirteen versions of an animated film and employed a 6 (different number of close-up shots) × 2 (facial expressions) factorial between-subject design, with an additional zero close-up control condition. Participants were randomly assigned to one version of the film and subsequently asked to describe the story (with and without a prompt for mental state attribution). In these free responses, the study used a quantitative content analytic method (with independent blind-coders) to identify the proportion of spontaneous and prompted mental state attributions (i.e. explicit mental state references to the character), as well as cognitive and affective processing employed by viewers. Additionally, we tested the moderation effect of character facial expression (in the close-up) and participant gender. Confirming our main hypothesis, close-up frequency significantly influenced spontaneous, but not prompted mental state attribution. Results indicate that increasing the number of close-ups may elicit a higher proportion of spontaneous mental state attribution up to a certain point, beyond which it may decrease the proportion of spontaneous mental state attributions. Results suggest that the effect of close-up frequency is specific to mental state attribution rather than some general effect on cognitive and affective processing of narratives.

Man-Woman Relationship in Anita Nair’s Lessons in Forgetting

The research paper aims to explore the relationship between man and woman in the patriarchal society in Anita Nair’s Lessons in Forgetting. The work of Nair in Lessons in Forgetting is an example of feminine writing which portrays the stories of women facing different issues existing in a patriarchal society like gender discrimination, love, betrayal, female feticide, family responsibilities etc. The novel also explains how these women come out of their shells to rebel and live life in their own way. In fact, the works of women writers like Anita Desai, Githa Hariharn, Sashi Deshpande and Anita Nair focus on challenging and rebellious attitude of women against the odds of the patriarchal society. Lessons in Forgetting is a story about grabbing the second chance in life without any hesitation. Meera, the protagonist and other female characters face betrayal from their husband and are bound to think what comes next. The novel is a story of two individuals who manage to overcome their bitter past to start a new life. The writer also talks about another female character in the novel named Kala Chiti who also accepted the challenges of life. Her husband left her because she could not bear a baby and married to another lady. Kala Chiti did not think this as the end of her life rather she opted for a fresh beginning.

Religious Dilemma and Identity Crisis in Saud Alsanousi's The Bamboo Stalk (2015)

The current paper aims to investigate the religious identity crisis in the themes of Alsanousi's The Bamboo Stalk (2015). It also determines to explore the kinds of the identity status depicted in the novel as well as the causes of identity loss. The paper takes the qualitative approach for data interpretation and adopts the descriptive discourse analysis (DDA) method. The analysis is then guided by the intercultural communication theory (ICT). The paper found that the protagonist and some other characters face identity crisis and suffer from religious dilemma due to several reasons the most of which is the dominance of the socio-class norms that prevents religion from playing its role in making its adherents equal. The paper also confirms the negative effect of hybridization on the religious identity formation. It reinforces the validity of the application of ICT on fictive data and contributes new form of IC analysis on fictive data.

Upper Triassic Sequences of the Crimean Mountains: First Results of U–Pb Dating of Detrital Zircons

The first results of U–Pb dating of detrital zircons from two samples that characterize the Tauric and Eski-Orda Series of the Cimmerian structural complex of the Crimean Mountains are presented. The strong similarity between the detrital zircons ages from the Lower Tauric Formation of the Tauric Series and the Salgir sequence of the Eski-Orda Series confirms the facial character of the primary relationships of these series. The studied Upper Triassic sandstones had a common source area and were most likely formed in different parts of the same sedimentary basin. It is most likely that this sedimentary basin was part of the continental margin of Baltica. The presence of a significant number of very ancient detrital zircons (>3.0 Ga, including three oldest detrital zircons grains with ages of ~3.9 Ga) in samples suggests that the crystalline complexes represented in the present-day structure of the Ukrainian Shield had very likely been primary sources of these zircons. Crystalline complexes with such ancient ages are extremely rare over the world, but are widely represented in the Podolian and Azov blocks of the Ukrainian Shield.

Triassic formations of Mountain ous Crimea: the first resust of U–Pb dating of detrital zircons

The first results of U-Pb dating of detrital zircons (dZr) from two samples characterizing the Taurica and Eski-Orda Groups of the Cimmerian structural complex of the Mountainous Crimea are presented. The strong similarity of the sets of ages of dZr from the Lower Taurica Formation of the Taurica Group and the Salgir strata of the Eski-Orda Group confirms the facial character of the primary relationships of these Groups. The studied Upper Triassic sandstones had a common feeding province and were formed, most likely, in different parts of the same sedimentary basin. It is most likely that this sedimentary basin was part of a continental margin of Baltica. The presence in samples of a significant number of dZr with very ancient ages >3.0 Ga (including 3 the oldest dZr grains with ages of ~3.9 Ga) makes the crystalline complexes represented in the present-day structure of the Ukrainian Shield as the very possible primary sources of these zircons. Crystalline complexes with such ancient ages are extremely rare over the world, but are widely represented in the Podolian and Cis-Azov blocks of the Ukrainian shield.

Building a Manga Dataset “Manga109” With Annotations for Multimedia Applications

Manga, or comics, which are a type of multimodal artwork, have been left behind in the recent trend of deep learning applications because of the lack of a proper dataset. Hence, we built Manga109, a dataset consisting of a variety of 109 Japanese comic books (94 authors and 21,142 pages) and made it publicly available by obtaining author permissions for academic use. We carefully annotated the frames, speech texts, character faces, and character bodies; the total number of annotations exceeds 500k. This dataset provides numerous manga images and annotations, which will be beneficial for use in machine learning algorithms and their evaluation. In addition to academic use, we obtained further permission for a subset of the dataset for industrial use. In this article, we describe the details of the dataset and present a few examples of multimedia processing applications (detection, retrieval, and generation) that apply existing deep learning methods and are made possible by the dataset.

Enhanced Unsupervised Image Generation using GAN based Convolutional Nets

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) use deep learning methods like neural nets for generative modeling. Neural style transferring of images and facial character generation of anime images are previously implemented by applying GAN methods but were not successful in giving a promising output. In this work, Image Processing is applied on the datasets in the mode along with the training of GAN system. The problem of applying GAN to generate specific images is addressed by using a clean and problem specific dataset for anime facial character generation. Modeling is done by applying Convolutional Neural Nets, GANs empirically. Neural style transfer, Automatic Anime characters are generated with high-resolution, and this model tackles the limitations by progressively increasing the resolution of both generated images and structural conditions during training. This model can be used to develop unique anime characters or the image generated can be used as inspiration by artists and graphic designers, can be used as filters in famous apps such as snapchat for style transferring. With different evaluations and result analysis, it is observed that this model is a stable and high-quality model.

Siamese Local and Global Networks for Robust Face Tracking.

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved great success in several face-related tasks, such as face detection, alignment and recognition. As a fundamental problem in computer vision, face tracking plays a crucial role in various applications, such as video surveillance, human emotion detection and human-computer interaction. However, few CNN-based approaches are proposed for face (bounding box) tracking. In this paper, we propose a face tracking method based on Siamese CNNs, which takes advantages of powerful representations of hierarchical CNN features learned from massive face images. The proposed method captures discriminative face information at both local and global levels. At the local level, representations for attribute patches (i.e:, eyes, nose and mouth) are learned to distinguish a face from another one, which are robust to pose changes and occlusions. At the global level, representations for each whole face are learned, which take into account the spatial relationships among local patches and facial characters, such as skin color and nevus. In addition, we build a new largescale challenging face tracking dataset to evaluate face tracking methods and to facilitate the research forward in this field. Extensive experiments on the collected dataset demonstrate the effectiveness of our method in comparison to several state-of-theart visual tracking methods.

Universal Face Photo-Sketch Style Transfer via Multiview Domain Translation.

Face photo-sketch style transfer aims to convert a representation of a face from the photo (or sketch) domain to the sketch (respectively, photo) domain while preserving the character of the subject. It has wide-ranging applications in law enforcement, forensic investigation and digital entertainment. However, conventional face photo-sketch synthesis methods usually require training images from both the source domain and the target domain, and are limited in that they cannot be applied to universal conditions where collecting training images in the source domain that match the style of the test image is unpractical. This problem entails two major challenges: 1) designing an effective and robust domain translation model for the universal situation in which images of the source domain needed for training are unavailable, and 2) preserving the facial character while performing a transfer to the style of an entire image collection in the target domain. To this end, we present a novel universal face photo-sketch style transfer method that does not need any image from the source domain for training. The regression relationship between an input test image and the entire training image collection in the target domain is inferred via a deep domain translation framework, in which a domain-wise adaption term and a local consistency adaption term are developed. To improve the robustness of the style transfer process, we propose a multiview domain translation method that flexibly leverages a convolutional neural network representation with hand-crafted features in an optimal way. Qualitative and quantitative comparisons are provided for universal unconstrained conditions of unavailable training images from the source domain, demonstrating the effectiveness and superiority of our method for universal face photo-sketch style transfer.

ПСИХОАНАЛИТИЧЕСКИЙ ДИСКУРС В ЖИЗНИ СОВРЕМЕННОГО ПОДРОСТКА – ПЕРСОНАЖА СЕРИАЛА («SEX EDUCATION», США, ВЕЛИКОБРИТАНИЯ, 2019)

The article discusses the problem of psychoanalytical discourse of teenagersin a foreign youth serial. The main task is to find and study the meaning of psychoanalytical discourse in the life of a modern teenager – a character of « Sex education». The results of purposeful culturological analysis of psychoanalytical discourse is shown as the basis of artistic world of « Sex education»(2019)(USA, Great Britain, Netflix, directors – K. Herron and B. Tailor) on the material of 8 series of the first season. The main attention is given to the study of therapy sessions which the teenagerthe main character – gives to other teenagers. The scientific value of the article is defined both by culturological algorithm of psychoanalytical discourse analysis as the essence of the serial and by the introduction in the scientific use of modern culturalogically new and topical empirical material. A key angle of the research is studying of the psychoanalytical discourse realization as the plot essence of the serial, as for psychotherapy – as a method of teenage problems solving by teenagers themselves. The article also reflects shown in the serial psychoanalysis method, a circle of main problems which teenagers- serial characters face, as well as key meanings of psychoanalytical discourse realization in the serial. The authors give a classification psychotherapy sessions from the viewpoint of their effectiveness: unsuccessful, controversial, successful sessions. The research concludes that some principles of psychoanalysis and age teenage-youth psychology are seen in the artistic world of a serial and a complex of problems shown by the characters has variegated base and hides under the format of sexuality.

Whatdoesfreemean?

whatdoesfreemean? Catherine Filloux (bio) Cast of Characters Mary, a black woman Ann / c.o.1 / c.o.2 / c.o.3 / Air-Duct Voice / Lincoln / Merton / Miss Pierotti / Mom / Mouse / Nick / Parole Board Director / Shanna / The Floater. Roles are divided among five actors. Setting Time is fluid; locales are suggested. one: nick’s dream A silhouette of Lincoln reaches out to sign a paper. mary [emerging from a forest] I tried to run away. lincoln Now therefore I, Abraham Lincoln... mary Hid in the forest . . . lincoln . . . do order and declare... mary . . . in the big pine trees. lincoln ... this proclamation . . . mary At night runnin’ North. lincoln . . . that all persons held as slaves are henceforward . . . mary But my legs gave up. And Massa caught me. lincoln . . . free forever. mary Shackled me, scars on my wrists, and on my back where I can’t see ’em. lincoln In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand. [exits] mary [no longer in the forest] A free moment in the sun . . . ? Emancipation? A video projection reveals that the ground has pennies scattered all over it; the dream is over. [End Page 37] two: general population mary [in the prison library with her friend Ann; c.o.2 watches as Mary reads from a test booklet] “Based on the 1945 map of Colonialism in Africa, the two groups holdin’ the most control at this time were—” ann [coughing intermittently throughout the scene] The White Man and the White Man. mary Ha-ha, no. “A. The Spanish and French. B. French and British. C. British and Portuguese. D. Portuguese and Italians.” ann Okay, the Italians, the Mob. mary The Mob? ann If it’s not the White Man, it’s the Mob. mary But what about the Portuguese? ann Not sure—I suck at this . . . mary They’re clumped together, Ann. Remember our colored map? ann The blue and red had the most sections covered. mary Right! ann Shit, I can’t remember what the blue and red stood for. mary Okay, what makes you think of the French? ann I don’t know, what makes you think of the French? Toast? mary [sketching a map] Here on the map is French Toast. ann I’m toast. mary Come on, what makes you think of the British? ann Fuck. The Queen? mary Here’s the Fuckin’ Queen. [handing her the drawing] Just do whatever you need to remember. ann Okay, now you. “Greek mythology uses characters to teach; and characters face moral dilemmas involving honor. The protagonists face challenges such as temptation—” mary [sketching to help herself remember] Can you slow down? ann “How has mythology evolved with new storytellers? Scholars maintain universal values, while adapting stories to their distinct cultures. It’s up to readers to seek their own truth—learn. According to the author, which is a message from Greek mythology?” mary Oh no. [End Page 38] ann It’s easy. “A. Love lasts if lovers are meant to be together. B. Resisting temptation yields ultimate success. C. Keep track of personal history. D. Not the fastest, but the longest, wins the race.” mary This is CRAZY. ann “Just do whatever you need to remember.” mary I get nervous even thinkin’ about it. ann It’s obvious—want me to read it again? mary JUST GIVE ME A CLUE. ann [singing a song by The Temptations] “I’ve got sunshine on a cloudy day. . .” mary [looking at notes] “Resistin’ temptation yields ultimate success.” ann It’s like a secret code. Teach, moral, honor, they even use the word temptation. This doesn’t have anything to do with the Greeks, has to do with the author—the ones writing the test. And they’re writing it in code—you gotta crack the code. mary Then why can’t YOU crack the code of Colonialism? ann I don’t remember pictures, just words. [they sit in silence; Ann writes] mary [sketching] Wanted to ask for so long . . . didn’t know how. . . Why didn’t you get manslaughter? [they don’t look at each other] ann No, no, no! mary He used you as his punchin’ bag. ann [changing the subject] I’m never going to pass this...

Io and Prometheus: the male and the female in Prometheus Bound

The story of Io, as presented in Prometheus Bound, raises questions about the relations between male and female, power relations, and divine-divine and divine-human interconnections, rendering the use of body and the subject of love and marriage the prime matter of discussion. Io’s character is outlined in such a way so as to either complement or contradict the basic male character of the play, Prometheus; in the same time both appear as victims of the gods. However, the question of what causes divine intervention, the nature of the punishment imposed on each of them, but also the way in which the suffering characters face their punishment is different according to their gendered identity.

The Humiliation Toward Women Asseen in Henrik Ibsen’s Doll’s House

This research is a study of Ibsen's A Doll’s House from the perspective of justice for women. The purpose of this research is to find out and explain the types of women's problems faced by female main characters, to identify and describe the struggles of the main female characters in gaining independence in their lives, and to find out the significant meaning behind the success of the main female leaders' struggles as represented in drama. 
 Implemented to answer the objectives of this study. This study is a qualitative study described by Creswell.The object of this study is Ibsen's Doll House. This research uses Wolffrey, Robbins, and Womack's theories about men totally controlling women, without any women's rights. There is also the theory of Faqih, and Kate Millet. 
 The formulation of the problem in this study are (1) What types of problems are faced by the main female characters in A Ibsen Doll House? (2) How did the main female character face problems for her independence at A Ibsen Doll House? (3) What is the significance behind the success of the struggle of the main female character in gaining independence in her life at A Ibsen Doll House? Here we see the social side of this drama is very distorted. It teaches us as human beings to respect each other against men and women, so that there are no gaps in marriage. In conclusion, this study aims for all people to do justice to fellow human beings, whether male or female, in order to live peacefully.

KETAKSAAN IDENTITAS GENDER DALAM CERPEN "SAYA DI MATA SEBAGIAN ORANG": ANALISIS TEORI QUEER

AbstractThe study of queer is developing rapidly in the world. However in Indonesian context, this study tend to missunderstood. Yet in literture field, there is many object that raise issues that this group face. This study aims to reveal Indonesia writer strategy’s, especially Djenar Maesa Ayu in Saya di Mata Sebagian Orang shortstory in order to discuss queer issues in Indonesia. Method that used is heterosexsuality matriks and Judith Butler’s queer theory as analysis tools. The result shows that SdMSO remove gender nuance in words as a struggle against heteronormativity discourse with another discourse that denaturalized it. This strategi aims to drown out the reader resistence in environment that not conducive yet to discuss queer theory. Related to heterosexsuality matrix, the character in this shortstory be able to overcome psychological pressure that the character face thanks to queer intragroup solidarity. Social punishment like issues instead more empowering the character confidence to his/him gender identity.

Posterior Fossa Arachnoid Cyst in a Pediatric Population is Associated with Social Perception and Rest Cerebral Blood Flow Abnormalities.

Posterior fossa arachnoid cysts (PFAC) may produce not only neurological symptoms but also other symptoms still poorly understood such as behavioral and learning deficits, awkwardness, and difficulties in social interaction. These subtle social impairments have not been formally described and their underlying brain mechanisms remain unknown. In the present case-control study, we aimed to empirically characterize social impairments in a pediatric population with PFAC using eye tracking. In addition, we investigated putative functional cortical abnormalities in these children using arterial spin labeling magnetic resonance imaging. Overall, 15 patients with PFAC (3f, age = 9.4 ± 4 years) and 43 typically developing volunteer children (16f, age = 9.3 ± 3.6 years) were enrolled in this study. Eye tracking was used to record gaze patterns during visualization of social interaction scenes. Viewing times to faces of characters and non-social background were analyzed. A voxel-wise whole-brain analysis was performed to investigate rest cerebral blood flow (CBF) abnormalities. Significantly reduced viewing time to faces was observed in patients compared with controls (p < 0.01). A ROC curve analysis revealed that 30% of PFAC patients presented viewing time to the face lower than the cutoff, while none of the controls did. The whole-brain analysis revealed a significant decrease in rest CBF in PFAC patients compared with controls bilaterally in the superior temporal gyrus and the temporoparietal junction (TPJ) (p < 0.05 FWE). These results suggest that early life PFAC may have an impact on functional activity of the temporal lobe, which could be associated with social perception deficits.

Bouba and Kiki inside objects: Sound-shape correspondence for objects with a hole

Visual holes (cutouts in a surface) have recently intrigued vision scientists as interesting and useful stimuli in the studies of shape perception and as a perceptual conundrum regarding figure/ground organization. Adopting the Bouba/Kiki paradigm, this study addressed a controversial issue of whether the perceived shape of a closed region alters when the region changes from a solid object to an empty hole, in a more direct manner than previous studies did. Observers were presented with two doughnut-like cardboard cutouts, one with a flower-shaped hole and the other with a star-shaped hole, and then matched them with two nonsense words. The curvature profile of the hole boundary was manipulated so that the shape of the interior region (i.e., a hole) and that of the exterior region (i.e., material edges) give rise to opposite shape impressions (i.e., one rounded and the other spiky). The results of Experiment 1 revealed that shape-name matching for holed objects is based on the interior shapes of holes, but not those of materially defined inner edges. The following three experiments replicated the same pattern of results even when holes appeared like oral apertures in animal character faces (Experiments 2–3) and when they were irregular, non-symmetric, and low in semantic association with familiar real-world objects (Experiment 4). Lastly, Experiment 5 showed that shape-name matching for “C”-shaped, negative-part stimuli is also interior-shape-based if the opening of the interior region is relatively small. These findings suggest that the interior shapes of holes are automatically accessible. I conclude with a discussion of my hypothesis that the only global-level, unitary shape representation of a bounded region of a single connected surface is that of the interior region for both objects and holes, imposing an important constraint in visual shape processing.

A Woman With Metamorphopsia and Visual Hallucinations.

Dr. Paul Jansson: Today's case is that of an 87-year-old female who presented to our emergency department (ED) with a chief complaint of visual disturbances, dull headache, and mild confusion. She reported that while watching television the evening before, shapes and colors on the screen suddenly appeared unusual. She described that the faces of familiar characters were replaced by a number of different colors. These symptoms continued with closure of each eye. She then developed a gradual onset, retro-orbital, pressure-like headache that persisted at a moderate level of intensity and was not relieved with acetaminophen.