Image Icons Research Articles

Persona as Key Component in (Cultural) Person Branding

This article examines the elements and processes involved in the visual construction of person brands, and their personas as key components of those brands, in pursuit of the research question: What pictorial design strategies make person brands succeed? Key findings of the empirical investigation of the iconic artist brand Madonna allow a focus on Madonna’s image and her fans’ co-creative image practice through a visual frame analysis and cultural reading of her self-brand. Madonna has created a complex ‘worldview world’ that is governed by a metanarrative and feeds on the diverse acts of referencing cultural image icons. At the same time, central strategies of her image representations are reflected in the fan artefacts investigated. This article thus focuses not only on the role of the visual in person branding and in a modern-day visual brand culture. It also considers the place and form of such cultural person branding within the persona studies field.

To travel is to Look, to Look is to Relate

Generally, analyzes of Otto Nordenskjöld’s trip to the Antarctic (1901-1904) ignore the preparations that required a previous trip to Chilean-Argentine Patagonia (1894-1897). Even more, these analyzes forget the Colonial dimension of this expedition. This paper intends to fill this void considering for the analysis two images present in the Swedish travel story. The concept of iconology is proposed here as a link between the image (icons) and the story (logos). The aim is to analyze the iconology to discuss the meaningful configuration of an identity gaze—the Europeans—and a gaze on the otherness—the indigenous. The results show that in the iconology presented in the story and in the images, appear paradoxical elements that allow questioning the relevance of the identity-alterity dichotomy through the appearance of third spaces.

Instance Segmentation Method of User Interface Component of Games

On the game screen, the UI interface provides key information for game play. A vision deep learning network exploits pure pixel information in the screen. Apart from this, if we separately extract the information provided by the UI interface and use it as an additional input value, we can enhance the learning efficiency of deep learning networks. To this end, by effectively segmenting UI interface components such as buttons, image icons, and gauge bars on the game screen, we should be able to separately analyze only the relevant images. In this paper, we propose a methodology that segments UI components in a game by using synthetic game images created on a game engine. We developed a tool that approximately detected the UI areas of an image in games on the game screen and generated a large amount of synthetic labeling data through this. By training this data on a Pix2Pix, we applied UI segmentation. The network trained in this way can segment the UI areas of the target game regardless of the position of the corresponding UI components. Our methodology can help analyze the game screen without applying data augmentation to the game screen. It can also help vision researchers who should extract semantic information from game image data.

Analisis Puisi Pada Hari Minggu Kucari Ayah ke Kota Karya Hasan Aspahani Ditinjau dari Aspek Semiotik

This study aims to describe the shape of the icons, indexes, and symbols contained in the poem On Sunday I’m Looking For My Father To The City. The method used in this research is a qualitative approach method. Data collection techniques used are library research techniques, reading techniques, note-taking techniques, and semi-structured interview techniques. The data analysis techniques used is to understand the data as a whole, classify the data,make comparisons of data matches, and draw data conclusions. The results of this study include (1) Icons in the poem On Sunday I Look for Father to The City by Hasan Aspahani there two types of icons, namely image icons and diagrammatic icons.(2) The index in the poem On Sunday I’m Looking for My Father to The City by Hasan Aspahani is an index in various findings between texts.(3) Symbols in Hasan Aspahani’s poem On Sunday I Look for Father to the City are signs that do not show a casual relationship between the signifier and the signifier.

Comparison Study of Visual Search on 6 Different Types of Icons

In order to study the similarities and differences of the visual search features on different types of icons in the human-computer interface, using digital icons, English icons, Chinese icons, abstract icons, graphical icons and image icons as experimental materials. Combined with eye tracking devices, a visual search experiment was designed adopting E-Prime programming, and a comparative study was conducted from 3 aspects of reaction time, correct rate, and eye movement characteristics. The results of single factor analysis of variance indicated that: (1) The difference among 6 different types of icons in reaction time of visual search was statistically significant, and the reaction time was ranked as digital icons > English icons > Chinese icons > abstract icons > graphical icons > image icons. (2) In addition to the abstract icons, the other 5 types of icons in the visual search showed no obvious error. (3) As for the eye movement characteristics of 6 different types of icons, there were significant differences in fixation duration, fixation times, saccade amplitude and saccade speed, however, pupil diameter and blink frequency were not significantly different. The research results have reference value for the icon design and usability evaluation in human-computer interface.

Automatic tourist attraction and representative icon determination for tourist map generation

Tourist maps are designed to direct tourists to tourist attractions in unfamiliar areas. A well-designed tourist map can provide tourists with sufficient and intuitive information about places of interest. Thus, providing up-to-date information on places of interest and selecting their representative icons are fundamental and important in automatic generation of tourist maps. In this article, approaches for determining places of interest and for determining their representative icons are introduced. In contrast to general digital tourist maps that use text, simple shapes, or three-dimensional models, we use photos that offer abundant visual features of places of interest as icons in tourist maps. The photos are automatically extracted from a repository of photos downloaded from photo-sharing communities. Tourist attractions and their corresponding image icons are determined by means of photo voting and photo quality assessment. Qualitative analyses, including a user study and experiments in several areas with numerous tourist attractions, indicated that the proposed method can generate visually pleasant and elaborate tourist maps. In addition, the analyses indicated that the map produced by our method is better than maps generated by related methods and is comparable to hand-designed tourist maps.

Comfort, irony, and trivialization: The mediation of torture

This article examines the interrelationship of torture and comfort as a key feature of the United States project of American Empire, examining how the U.S. practice of torture is mediated in American culture, in particular through the distancing strategies of domestication, trivialization, kitschification, and irony. It uses as a framing concept Roger Silverstone’s notion of ‘proper distance’, in particular its formulation of the relationship of mediation to morality, to examine the mechanisms in American culture that enable a level of comfort with the practice of torture. Through an examination of the image icons of the Abu Ghraib prison and the representations of torture at Guantánamo Bay prison, including popular culture representations, trivializing rhetoric, artistic engagements, and kitsch souvenirs, this article analyzes the tensions of proximity and distance that mediate the U.S. practice of torture.

Feature Extraction using Unit-linking Pulse Coupled Neural Network and its Applications

In this paper, we use Unit-linking PCNN (Pulse Coupled Neural Network), the simplified model of PCNN consisting of spiking neurons, to code a 2-dimensional image into a 1-dimensional time sequence called global Unit-linking PCNN image icon or time signature, including features of the original image and having the translation, rotation, and scale invariance. Dividing an image into multiple parts can obtain local Unit-linking PCNN image icons corresponding to the image's local regions, which can reflect the local changes of the image. In the meantime, the global and the local Unit-linking PCNN image icons are used in navigation, object detection, and image authentication. In navigation, global Unit-linking PCNN image icon shows qualified performance especially in non-stationary-video navigation. Object detection using global Unit-linking PCNN image icon, is independent of variances of translation, rotation, and scale, and object segmentation is avoided. In image authentication, using local Unit-linking PCNN image icon can authenticate correctly some juggled images failed to authenticate by using local histogram or local mean intensity, and can locate the juggled positions in the juggled images with some accuracy.

Hypotheses for Image Features, Icons and Textons

We review ideas about the relationship between qualitative description of local image structure and quantitative description based on responses to a family of linear filters. We propose a sequence of three linking hypotheses. The first, the Feature Hypothesis, is that qualitative descriptions arise from a category system on filter-response space. The second, the Icon Hypothesis, is that the partitioning into categories of filter response space is determined by a system of iconic images, one associated with each point of the space. The third, the Texton Hypothesis, is that the correct images to play the role of icons are those that are the most likely explanations of a vector of filter responses. We present results in support of these three hypotheses, including new results on 2-D 1st order structure.

Efficient information access in an on-line image archive

The rapid development of world-wide networking during the last two years, due partly to the simple concept of addressing with uniform resource locators (URLs), has drastically simplified information exchange. This expanding communication media has created new possibilities in the access of large databases, and has therefore found a particular interest in astronomy. The most used means of information transfer is text. If large sets of multi-dimensional data, commonly images, have to be accessed, longer transfer times compared with text urge the data manager to find more efficient solutions. Modern tools are not as efficient at browsing among images through a network compared with browsing text. Either the images being browsed are too large to be transferred quickly, or the image size is reduced so much that the interesting information is lost during the data reduction. In this article, an alternative to the transfer of plain images is investigated, based on the fact that only a part of an image's information content is needed for browsing. Images may therefore be reduced to icons which only symbolically represent the information content. Such image icons are used to browse solar radio spectrograms in the Zurich Radio Astronomy Group archive.